Greater Manchester has the winning recipe!

Date published: 22 November 2010

The Greater Manchester Love Food Hate Waste (LFHW) Partnership is pleased to announce the winner of its Love Food Hate Waste leftover recipe competition.

Over the last few months, Greater Manchester residents have been asked to come up with innovative recipe ideas, which include everyday leftovers, as part of Greater Manchester’s Love Food Hate Waste Campaign (LFHW), to help reduce the amount of edible food thrown away.

The LFHW winning recipes have been made into a LFHW calendar which incorporates top tips and advice relating to how residents can reduce their food waste and save up to £50 a month.

The entrants came up with some weird and wonderful ideas including Sunday Roast Risotto and Minted Pea Pod Soup! And the overall winner was a recipe for a yummy Pasta Pie!

Each winning entrant received a LFHW Food Rescue Pack, including a copy of the LFHW calendar. One overall winner, who had submitted the best recipe, also received a meal for two at The Mark Addy restaurant in Salford.

Robert Owen Brown, Head Chef at The Mark Addy, cooked up the winning recipes and said: “It was fantastic to work with the Greater Manchester Love Food Hate Waste on this project. The finalists' recipes were great, resulting in some really diverse and creative ways to use up leftovers. These sort of simple measures can really reduce the amount of food wasted in the home - using up every last bit of food used to be second nature to every household, but with times changed its great that the Love Food Hate Waste campaign is bringing this back up the agenda for everyone.”

Councillor Neil Swannick, Chair of GMWDA said: “Love Food Hate Waste is a great campaign which not only helps people save money, but is also a positive step to the Authority’s aim of zero waste to landfill. The interesting and tasty recipes will hopefully encourage us all to use our leftovers and to help prevent perfectly good food being thrown away.”

Andrea Goldwater, overall winner of the competition said: “I am so pleased to have won the competition and receive a free cookery class and meal at The Mark Addy and a copy of the calendar, along with a LFHW Food Rescue pack, which will continue to help me cook up some more delicious recipes. I hope people realise that you don’t have to be a master chef to cook up tasty delights with your leftover food.”

Andrea Goldwater, the winner of the Love Food Hate Waste Competition is a resident of Manchester. The other recipes selected for the calendar submitted by Greater Manchester residents are listed below:

Vegetable Soup- Leanne Widdall of Oldham
Curried Rice - Amanda Livesley of Salford
Sunday Roast Risotto - Polly Brown of Manchester
Vegetable and Meat Patties - Lucyenne Taylor of Oldham
Minted Pea Pod Soup- Bren Fawcett of Manchester
Cucumber Boat Bake - Kathy Webb of Salford