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Food waste in the UK is a huge issue. Photo: Adobe

Going Green: Food waste in the UK is a huge issue

A sculpture shows the enormity of food waste collected over the summer

Here are 15 foods you can eat past their expiration date, saving money and reducing food waste.

15 foods you can eat way past their expiration date

Aldi (logo pictured) and Lidl have some great offers

Aldi making huge change to milk bottles in stores

Another major UK supermarket is introducing new vacuum packaging for its beef mince products - despite complaints against Sainsbury’s who became the first chain to make the controversial switch earlier this year.

Another supermarket makes controversial switch to vac-pack mince

Tesco to scrap use by dates on range of own brand dairy products - full list of items

Tesco to scrap use by dates on range of own brand dairy products

Camilla, Queen Consort has been forced to cancel events after testing positive for coronavirus. (Credit: Getty Images)

Queen Consort Camilla pulls out of another engagement due to Covid

The ‘Taste Me, Don’t Waste Me’ boxes, which contain an assortment of surplus fresh fruits and vegetables, are now available across 200 Sainsbury’s stores nationwide beginning this week.

Sainsbury’s launches £2 fruit and vegetable boxes

Co-op to remove best before date from 150 fruit & veg products

Iceland has teamed up with Currys and Birds Eye to hand out free freezers to low income families

Iceland to giveaway free freezers to low income families

Aldi will be offering customers discount "magic bags" of food almost about to expire.

Aldi announces ‘magic bags’ filled with £10 worth of food for £3.30

Aldi has launched ‘magic bags’ filled with £10 worth of food for just £3.30 in a bid to tackle food waste and help customers save money during the cost of living crisis.

Tesco extend Plant Chef range during Veganuary

British households look set to throw out nearly 200,000 tonnes of food this Chri...