Food waste reduction tips
- Plan ahead and meal prep for this week. Click here to learn how to start meal prepping.
- Use your freezer! Freezing is a great way of storing food until you are ready to eat it.
- Set aside an “EAT ME FIRST” location for food that will spoil soon. Print this PDF from SaveTheFood.com to get started.
- Plan, Plan, Plan. Label your meals — assign each meal to the day and meal in which you will eat it.
- Take stock of the items in your pantry before you go grocery shopping. Click here to see more smart shopping tips.
- Donate food if you have more than you can eat – if someone eats it, it’s not wasted! Take a look at our Food Donation Toolkit to answer any of your questions.
- Label your food with the date you bought it, so that you can more easily keep track of how long it will last.
- Reduce your serving size, you can always get seconds and you risk less food waste. To help you plan for the right amount of food, visit Save The Food’s Guestimator to see how much food you’ll need.
- Stick to your grocery list! Try to avoid unplanned food purchases. Download the mobile app AnyList here to help you to customize your shopping list.
- Try one of the storage tips from our blog, “Save Money & Waste Less with These 6 Food Storage Tips.”
- Plant your vegetable scraps in water jars or glasses instead of throwing them away. Click here to see 10 vegetables that you can grow from kitchen scraps.
- Use your food scraps to feed animals! Look into what foods are healthy to feed your household pets, or find a local farmer that accepts food scraps to use as feed.