Here are some tips and tricks for reducing food waste.
The best way to reduce food waste and save money is to be mindful of how much food you are buying. An example is if you are shopping for bananas is only buy what you can eat before they go brown. Now here are the rest of the tips and ideas for reducing food waste.
Tips for reducing food waste
- Meal Plan
- Use your freezer
- Organize your fridge so it’s easy to see your feed
- Eat those leftovers
- Create a eat me now bin: You place food that’s about to expire or go bad soon. Then you know what food you need to use up next.
- Only buy what you can eat: The less food that you buy means a lower carbon footprint and less wasting money on food that you will not eat.
- Put a rubber band around a sliced apple: This will prevent browning for a few hours.
Ideas for using up food
- Use your vegetable scraps to make a stock or broth
- Regrow your produce: To learn more go to 20 Vegetables You Can Re-Grow From Scraps (ruralsprout.com)
- Make banana bread with bruised or brown bananas
- Make a smoothie with mushy fruit
- Put a piece of white bread in a cookie container to keep cookies fresh longer
- Freeze bananas that starting to brown to make smoothies or banana bread.
How do you reduce food waste?
