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Melbourne Craft Diaries - Love Food, Hate Waste

This is the name of a UK website dedicated to helping consumers stop throwing away one third of what they buy. I can't quite believe the statistics. I wonder what it would be in Australia. I think I am very good, I try to buy only what we eat and always freeze lots of leftovers in portions to use later.

Their aim is to get you to shop smarter and think about what you are buying and cooking. There are top tips on food storage. There is a whole section devoted to leftover food recipes. There is even a two week menu planner

and if you really want to see whether you are throwing away food you can start your own food diary

  

1. Fight Food Waste in the Home

Kikki K has a great meal planner , family calendar and magnetic shopping list to help you get organised.

If you are in need of some more storage containers Howard'Storage World can help

Sharon 

Melbourne Craft Diaries - Walking, Week One Wrap

So I got my Km and miles mixed up......42Km for a marathon or 26 miles. If you remember last week I committed to walking 26 Km a week

So how has my walking been going? 

Pretty good the first week

Monday 7.2K walk around the Tan

Tuesday 7.2K walk

Wed - day off and busy organising New Year

Thursday bad weather kept me at the gym (an hour on the eliptical trainer) plus 15 mins weights

Friday 7.2K walk

Saturday 9.2k walk along the Yarra River down to como and back again

Sunday 1 lap of the Tan 3.8K and a leisurely swim

So all up a total of over 34 kms plus other activity and my time has gone from 1.10 - 1.06 on my tan walk(so my aim is to be under an hour by end of January)

How has your walking been going?

Sharon

Walk a Marathon a Week with Me

While I am in Melbourne I am planning to do alot of walking . I want to increase my intensity and frequency. So I am planning to walk a marathon a week. Now that sounds a lot, some 26Km but I usually walk over 7Km on my walk ..........so I am committing to do this 4 times a week over 4 weeks. I will step up the intensity by doing some running along the way, not too much enough to get the heart pumping. I am going to measure the time it takes and then try and beat this time each day so that by the end I have reduced the time, which will push me to walk faster or do some extra running.

If you would like to start your own walking or running programme check out Map My Walk/Run. It has great tools to help you get started including a training log and can also link to your facebook page.  

If you register then we can connect up and have our own virtual group, check each others workout/training schedule and help motivate each other through January.

 

And I might look for some other walks around Albert Park and along South Melbourne Beach.

Are you going to join in with your own goals? Or join me in a marathon a week?

Sharon