These 5 tips will give you a new approach to cutting down on food waste

Cutting down on food waste helps the environment in a number of key ways. Most obviously, it saves the resources and energy that go into producing unneeded food at every step of the supply chain, from farming to packaging to shipping. Plus, food that winds up rotting in landfills produces methane, one of the most potent greenhouses gasses.

Need some tips on how to cut food waste in your kitchen? Here are 5 clever ones.

First tip: Buy only what you need. Think critically about what you buy, avoid buying on impulse, and don’t buy too much fresh food that will go bad before you have time to eat it. If you need to buy in bulk, go for frozen or canned produce, which can be stored much longer and is often just as nutritious as fresh fruits and veggies.

Second tip: Get your pantry and refrigerator organized. Put the more perishable foods up front, so that you’re reminded of what needs to be eaten first. And don’t forget to store perishable items in a place where they won’t spoil quickly.

Third tip: Learn what labels really mean. A study published earlier this year found that the majority of Americans sometimes toss packaged food when it gets close to its “sell by” and “use by” date, even though these labels are not federally regulated. A better strategy, the USDA says, is to look for changes in color, flavor, texture or smell, which may indicate that a food has gone bad.

Fourth tip: Consider a meal kit, which comes with pre-portioned ingredients needed to make home-cooked dishes. Although extra packaging is involved with this, it will make sure you don’t waste food.

Fifth tip: Keep portions moderate. Overeating is also a “form of food waste”- with excess body weight corresponding to 140 billion pounds of food waste globally. READ MORE

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Why you shouldn’t throw away the pineapple core and other great food parts

Reducing food waste is one of the greatest ways for people to help reverse climate change, and at the same time save money, feed more people, and help preserve threatened ecosystems. Most people likely don’t want to throw out perfectly good food – but there are just a lot of things we don’t realize are, in fact, perfectly good food.

Take chickpea water, for example. Typically you would open the can, drain the water, and use the chickpeas as you please. But the reality is that’s a total waste. As it turns out, chickpea water, which is also known as aquafaba, is kind of a miracle ingredient. It mimics eggs in baking, so much so that one can make vegan meringues with it! When you consider that meringues are made of just egg whites and sugar, you realize what a feat this is.

The story is similar when it comes to pineapples. Although the skin and the spiky top aren’t exactly edible, the core totally is. It may not have the exact same succulent texture of the rest of the fruit, but it is still delicious and better yet, it’s where some of pineapple’s most impressive nutrients are hiding. Pineapple is the source of bromelain, a proteolytic enzyme (one that breaks down protein), that is a great boon for digestion. And you know where you find bromelain in a pineapple? It’s core.

The point is there are a lot of perfectly good food parts that most people just throw away. To see more great examples, have a look right here. READ MORE

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