British vaste food yearly in value of 10 billion pounds

In 2008 an average British family spends 9% of household's income for food, it was 16% in 1984.

 A Cabinet Office report, Recipe for
Success, showed 4.1 million tons of edible food is wasted every year
in the U.K., costing each household 420 pounds. Supermarkets make it
harder for householders to avoid food waste, while throwing away
large quantities of edible food through poor stock management.

Surging food and fuel prices are
undercutting living standards and pushing the U.K. economy closer to
a recession. Prices for 19 commodities in the Reuters/Jefferies CRB
Index rose 29 percent in the first half, the most since 1973.