STOP WASTING FOOD – AND SAVE MONEY!

OH THE GUILT OF LITERALLY THROWING MONEY IN THE GARBAGE… (I KNOW I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS STRUGGLED TO STOP WASTING FOOD)

Before we can have an honest conversation about how to stop wasting food, we need to look at some statistics. Did you know that just one quarter of all wasted food could feed the 795 million undernourished people around the world who suffer from hunger (source)?? What about the fact that In the USA, 30-40% of the food supply is wasted(source)?

I used to tell myself I should try to eat yogurt and melons. Both are pretty icky as far as I’m concerned. So really what I did was buy, store, and throw away yogurt and melons. Madness.

Don’t buy food you won’t eat.

This (usually) means – for me – no more fresh produce from Costco. Saving a couple of bucks isn’t really saving if you’re throwing half of what you buy away. Big giant bags of salad aren’t allowed into my house. We can’t eat a giant bag of salad before it dies. Big tubs of mushrooms on the other hand? No problem. (I put mushrooms in everything.)

Buy what you know you can use.

If you wanna plan every meal, that’s awesome! I only do supper, and I don’t stick to the meal plan religiously (here’s a great way to start meal planning!) But before I go shopping, I always scribble out a list of the meals we’ll be having in the upcoming weeks.

Meal plan – very loosely even.

Ever notice that where you touch a block of cheese that’s the first place that it gets moldy? Bacteria on your fingers can cause spoilage… Same goes for meats and breads. Don’t drink out of the milk jug. Besides being icky, that will absolutely cause it to go bad faster.

Follow good sense anti-spoilage rules:

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