LCCC Residents' Magazine : Spring 2026

Love food, hate waste

The average family in the UK could save around £1000 per year by preventing good food from going to waste. 

Alderman Owen Gawith, Chair of our Environment and Sustainability Committee.

By planning your meals, buying only what you need, getting creative with leftovers and storing food correctly, you can make the most of every bite while saving money and cutting down on waste.

For helpful tips and tasty ways to use up leftovers go to https://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com 

Here’s a fun simple recipe you can do with the kids, using leftover fruit.

Strawberry and blueberry lollies

Makes: 6 lollies

Ingredients: 
40g strawberries
100g vanilla yoghurt
20g blueberries

  1. Thinly slice the strawberries, lengthwise.
  2. Line the moulds with the strawberry slices.
  3. Mix the yoghurt and blueberries together.
  4. Spoon the yoghurt mixture into the centre of the moulds.
  5. Place a lolly pop stick in each mould.
  6. Freeze for at least 8 hours.

Storage instructions: store in the moulds for up to 2 months.

Feed your brown bin

Please recycle your unavoidable food waste in your brown bin so it can be composted along with your garden waste. You might be surprised to know that you can also put takeaway pizza boxes, kitchen roll, napkins and even shredded paper in the brown bin too! 

To find out how to get a kitchen caddy, or check what can go in your brown bin, go to https://www.lisburncastlereagh.gov.uk/binformation