iVillage Chat Schedule - July

A Love Food Hate Waste representative (tba) will answer your questions on our Community Cookbook message board.
Date: Friday July 24th
Time: tba

40% of the food which gets thrown away is made up of healthy fruit & veg.

In total, we throw away 6.7 tonnes of food each year in the UK, when most of this food could have been eaten. (It's not just peelings and bones, it's good food.) That's equivalent to filling Wembley Stadium with food waste 8 times over!

Since LFHW launched, 2 million more households are making an extra effort to cut back the food they waste, and making a saving of £300 million per annum. This works out at £164 per home saved off the £420 worth of food wasted from the average home. This represents a 40% reduction in the food they now throw out

The impact of the Love Food Hate Waste Campaign to date, in carbon terms, is that 600,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent has been prevented from being emitted. Or the same as taking 100,000 return flights to Australia out of the skies

The campaign shows that by making some simple and easy changes to the way we buy, store, prepare and cook our food, we can waste less, save money and help the environment.

A folder will be open a week before the chat for you to post questions.

Janet Pearce from the Marie Stopes charity, will be answering your questions on the Periods & Sexual Health message board.
Date: Tuesday 28th July
Time: 2-3 pm

Janet currently works for Marie Stopes International, the leading sexual and reproductive healthcare charity in the UK, where her work involves discussing and advising on all contraceptive methods and counselling women about a wide range of concerns including sexual health and unplanned pregnancy..

Janet looks forward to answering your questions on iVillage.Please ask anything about unplanned pregnancy, contraception including long acting methods and sexual health.

A folder for your qeustions will be open one week before the chat.

Claire Hegarty, life coach, will answer your questions on our Overcoming Stress message board.
Date: Thursday July 30th
Time: 2-4 pm

Claire is a qualified Life Coach and Hypnotherapist and has worked with individuals and businesses to unlock potential and turn personal possibilities into realities.

Claire is available for consultations and will offer the first session free, so if you are interested in booking one-to-one coaching, call her on 0151 678 3358.

You can also find out more about Claire, HERE

A folder for your questions will be open a week before the chat.