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In South Africa and across the world, food is treated as a disposable commodity. A staggering third of our food produced for human consumption globally is wasted. Locally, this accounts for 10 million tonnes of food a year across the entire value chain, from farm to table with a value of R61.5 billion.

The resources spent on food waste is not just the actual food alone. Water accounts for a large part of food production and the water wasted from this would fill over 600,000 Olympic sized swimming pools, this is particularly concerning coming from a water-scarce country. The equivalent in wasted electricity could power the City of Johannesburg for roughly 16 weeks.

How to use your overripe fruit

Over the past few months of lockdown, we might have fallen into the trap of buying too many perishable foods during trips to the grocery store, leading to that mouldy peach we try to ignore for a bit too long. With more time at home, there has been a worldwide trend in which brown bananas are ending up in a banana bread instead of seeing the inside of a Tuffy’s bag. But surely there is more variety than this!

Soft fruits like peaches, pears and strawberries are regular suspects in the overripe fruit bowl and so I’ve found that a quick and easy way to use them is to put them into a light and flaky galette. Soft, overripe fruit is best for this recipe because of its higher sugar content and just about any fruit would do.

Lockdown has made me discover that a homemade pastry is much easier than I thought, and after making it a few times, I don’t ever want to go to the store-bought version, what’s more, you probably have all the ingredients already!

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