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One Dozen Ways to Eliminate Your Food Waste
The average consumer wastes 61 percent of the food he or she purchases. You can drastically reduce this with the tools and strategies suggested below. Please also refer to our previous article about proper food storage and
how to keep your food items fresher.
| 1 | Shop Wisely | Plan meals, use shopping lists, and avoid impulse buys and “buy one, get one free” deals, unless you’re certain you’ll eat it. |
| 2 | Buy Local | Locally produced foods are fresher and keep longer, as well as having a smaller ecological footprint. |
| 3 | Buy Funny-Looking Fruits and Veggies | Buying the “ugly ducklings” of the produce section makes use of food that might otherwise go to waste. |
| 4 | Learn When Food Goes Bad | Use-by and best-by dates are only manufacturer suggestions and may cause you to discard food when it is still safe and consumable. Many foods are safe and consumable well after their use-by date. |
| 5 | Use Your Freezer | Freeze fresh produce and leftovers if you won’t have a chance to eat them before they go bad. |
| 6 | Vacuum Pack | One of my all-time favorite tricks, which works for most produce, is to create a “vacuum pack” to help protect food from oxygen and airborne microbes that will accelerate its decay. Leave the produce in the bag it came in from the grocery store, place it against your chest, and use your arm to squeeze the excess air out of the bag. Then seal it with a twist tie. Or use an automatic vacuum sealer like the FoodSaver. |
| 7 | Start Juicing | Juicing is an excellent way to use up aging produce while improving your health at the same time. Vegetable juicing also helps with weight management and is a great adjunct to home gardening. You can also compost the pulp. |
| 8 | Request Smaller Portions | Restaurants will often provide half-portions upon request at reduced prices. |
| 9 | Eat Leftovers | Only about half of Americans take leftovers home from restaurants and actually eat them. Avoid this kind of waste. |
| 10 | Compost Food Scraps | Composting food scraps recycles their nutrients and can reduce their ecological impact. It benefits soil, plants, and the greater environment. Composting is not as difficult as you might think. Read all aboutcomposting here. |
| 11 | Grow Your Own Food | Start your own vegetable garden! With the square foot gardening technique, even apartment dwellers can learn a simple technique for growing veggies on a small patio.8 |
| 12 | Donate Food | Donate excess food and garden produce to food banks, soup kitchens, pantries, shelters—and your friends and neighbors. |
How to Be Part of the Solution
Food waste has become an enormous problem worldwide, as the latest statistics suggest. You can do a number of things to reduce your own food waste, but the rest of the problem must be dealt with system-wide, with an overhaul of our inefficient, unhealthy and extremely wasteful food system.
