造成食物浪费的“宾馆父母”.

　　一项调查显示，很多英国父母在孩子成年或离家后，每天做饭时还是会做孩子那份儿，以免孩子突然回家时没有饭吃。这种行为被指是造成大量食物浪费的重要原因，而这些父母则被称为hotel parents，因为他们的孩子其实只是把家当旅馆而已。

　　Parents who continue to cook for children who have grown up or lt home have been blamed for fuelling Britain&aposs food waste crisis.

　　孩子成年或离家后，英国父母在做饭时仍然做孩子的那份儿，这一行为被指是引发英国食物浪费危机的原因。

　　Dubbed ‘hotel parents’, mothers and fathers, whose children treat their home ‘like a hotel’ and seldom eat at home, routinely cook dinner for them only for it to end up in the bin.

　　这些父母被称为“宾馆父母”，因为他们的孩子只是把家当作“宾馆”而且很少在家吃饭，而他们却依然习惯性的给孩子做饭，结果这些饭最终都进了垃圾桶。

　　Every year families in the UK throw away 7.2million tons of food, including spending £12billion on food which could have been eaten but ends up in the bin. Households are responsible for half of all the food waste every year, according to official figures.(Source: Daily Mail)

　　英国家庭每年扔掉的食物达720万吨，其中包括价值120亿英镑、原本可以吃掉却被扔进垃圾桶的食物。据官方数据显示，家庭浪费占到每年食物浪费的一半。