5 Simple Habits for a Less Wasteful Kitchen
Beyond individual ingredients, these small practices make a big difference across the whole kitchen:
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Plan meals around what needs using first: Before you add anything to your shopping list, do a quick scan of your fridge and pantry. The Search feature is great for this—build the week’s meals around what’s already there.
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Keep a "use it up" container: Dedicate a shelf or container in your fridge for ingredients that need to be used in the next day or two. Out of sight really does mean out of mind.
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Label and date your freezer items: A frozen mystery container is a wasted container. A quick label takes five seconds and saves real money.
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Save vegetable scraps for broth: Onion skins, carrot peels, celery ends, herb stems—keep a bag in the freezer and simmer into a rich homemade stock whenever it fills up.
- Buy in smaller quantities more often: Buying a huge bunch of something you’ll only use half of isn’t a deal if the rest goes in the bin.