article_snippet: There on the shelves were enough ingredients to feed the five thousand.
article_snippet: In fact, we recently got a fridge.
article_snippet: (Ben is a property developer, so we’ve always had hand-me-down fridges.)
article_snippet: But while most people’s fridges are bursting at the seams, if you open the door to we, it looks as if we haven’t shopped for a month.
article_snippet: We’re a shockingly profligate nation, throwing a third of the fresh food we buy.
article_snippet: I wonder how much of this is due to our groceries getting ‘lost’ at the back of a crammed fridge?
article_snippet: Though I’m not a hoarder when it comes to things like clothes, there’s something reassuring about seeing enough pasta, rice and even medicines on the shelves to know that if the shops all shut tomorrow, and civilisation collapsed, I could feed our family for a while longer.
article_snippet: These awful American monolith fridges use an extortionate amount of energy, while even the average fridge uses two units of electric power per hour — enough to run a small TV for 20 hours.