Since meal prepping is easily my favorite form of food waste prevention, I wanted to bring you inside my own kitchen to demonstrate how it’s done! But what is meal prepping and why is it so effective? Meal prepping is simply cooking your favorite weekly meals but with a plan – for shopping, cooking, and […]
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“When in doubt, throw it out.” For me, this phrase was a commonplace theme in my childhood home. As a kid, it was one of my designated chores to go through the fridge or pantry closet. Every couple of months, I would throw away items that were past their “expiration food date.” This practice is […]
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According to the LSU Agricultural Center, the average American family of four throws out $1,600 a year in produce. By wasting all of this produce, we also waste the money that we spent on the produce, the resources that went into producing and transporting that food, and finally a waste of space in already overflowing […]
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For those of us that do not have the luxury of harvesting our own food, the first step in getting food to the table is often going to the grocery store. For this reason, it only makes sense that the grocery store is the first place that we can start to reduce food waste. […]
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