Cost, waste and taste...the Frozen Food way

The Bristish Frozen Food Federation have teamed up with the Manchester Food Research Centre, which is part of Manchester Metropolitan University, to create a comparison on the cost, waste and taste of Frozen Food versus Fresh Food. Nine families were selected to take part in the comparison spending one week cooking with fresh food and one week cooking using frozen food. The comparison found that cooking with frozen food is 33% better value with the cost of frozen food being £27.60 for the week and fresh food being £41.29 per week on average.
There is also less waste with frozen food with an average of 519 grams of fresh frozen food being thrown away a week compared to only 328 grams of frozen food. The families tested also commented on the fact that there were some frozen meals that tasted “better than home made” or “as good as”.
However overall one family stated “I would actually buy the frozen which I would not have done in the past. I think the value for money came through, it was actually an eye opener, because you don’t analyse what it actually cost you for a meal do you?” which reinforces the findings as to “value for money” in frozen food.
A full copy of the report came be found HERE.

Wednesday 21st July 2010