Did you know that the majority of garden fruit goes to waste and millions of apples are thrown away everyday in the UK? Food waste is already a big issue in this country with households wasting 4.5m tonnes of food each year, therefore more needs to be done.

Here are just a few of the great ways you can use up your apples:

1. Make some lovely sweet and savoury dishes with your apples (see recipes below)
2. Toffee apples are very difficult to make so we just make a caramel sauce to dip apple slices into. It’s called ‘the silencer’ in our house as the dining table goes very quiet as people tuck in.
3. If you have a juicer at home, apple, carrot (and ginger) juice is deee-licious. And keeps well in the freezer.
4. If you are feeling ambitious you can try to make your own cider.
5. Compost your unripe or damaged windfalls. 
6. Donate your spare apples for juice for food bank clients. My Apple Juice will take your apples to be juiced and pasteurised and given to the West Berkshire food bank to support local people in food crisis. See more information below.
7. Put boxes of apples on the street and invite neighbours to help themselves.
8. Proper storage is crucial so your harvest doesn’t rot before you have a chance to use it.
9. If you have wrinkly or damaged apples that you don’t fancy eating, the birds and insects in your garden will be glad of them.