How does everyone deal with this dilemma?
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I solved this by planning out all my dinners for the week and then buying only what I needed for those plus topping up any thing I need for breakfast, lunch and snacks. Any perishables get used because i mostly only have what I've planned for that week. I can recommend Recipe Tin Eats as a good resource for easy to cook meals.
yeah i don't go as hard as this but this is essentially my method too
buy food by the meal, then make those meals
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yeah i don't go as hard as this but this is essentially my method too
buy food by the meal, then make those meals
When I find recipes I like I make an ingredients list so I can easily add it to my shopping list when I want to make it again. My lists are setup so I can just copy the whole meal with ingredients over to the day I want to cook it then copy the ingredients list straight from there and work it into my shopping list. I include all the herbs, spices, oils etc so I can check whether I have enough of everything while I'm refining the list.
I used to just wing it in the shops and during the week but I found it hard to make new things and ended up wasting so much food. This takes a bit more time planning but everything is fresh/defrosted when I need it, theres no stress with working out what I'm making each day, and I waste significantly less.
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When I find recipes I like I make an ingredients list so I can easily add it to my shopping list when I want to make it again. My lists are setup so I can just copy the whole meal with ingredients over to the day I want to cook it then copy the ingredients list straight from there and work it into my shopping list. I include all the herbs, spices, oils etc so I can check whether I have enough of everything while I'm refining the list.
I used to just wing it in the shops and during the week but I found it hard to make new things and ended up wasting so much food. This takes a bit more time planning but everything is fresh/defrosted when I need it, theres no stress with working out what I'm making each day, and I waste significantly less.
yes shopping list is necessity, people are not capable of hide-and-seeking a 20+ item list without at least pen and paper
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I got a chest freezer for $200. I freeze everything before or on its expiration date.
Sometimes if its mushy veggies I make a stock and freeze it for the next meal.
If its too far gone i have a compost jar in the kitchen and a bin outside.I started a garden and an edible native hedge this year. I have tea herbs and squash for free now and working on a seed propagation.
I started a coop mushroom grow with my neighbors since he felled some hardwood and I had the plan. The leftover mushrooms we dont eat will be either sold at market or made into liquid cultures.
Were talking about going in on a local half cow or pig. He says if my garden keeps growing we can buy the plot behind us together and start a farm. Would cut grocery costs a lot.
My wife and I have pantry weeks where we dont go grocery shopping, we eat whats in reserve, soak dry beans, thaw last weeks on sale chicken breast and pressure Cook em, make a flatbread and have some curry.
Instant pot helps too. Thinking about getting coturnix quail to feed good scraps to and get eggs out of. I can plant cover crops for em on the last strip of lawn I have.
It doesn't have to be wasteful forever.
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But then they have nothing to eat.
They're not eating it either way.
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A freezer and a pantry full of canned and dried foods.
Only buy fresh meats and veggies when you are actually gonna cook.
Freeze leftovers in single portion sizes.
Eventually you’ll have a bunch of homemade frozen dinners to choose from.
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I cook the food
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I cook the food
Then eat the food
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Then eat the food
Then poop the shit
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I plan on escaping the cycle by ceasing existence tbh
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No. I wait until the fridge is absolutely fucking empty and I eat every goddamn thing. You ain't gonna find no expired food in my household. And I don't buy things for the hell of it, and I don't buy shit in boxes. Cook in a pan. Buy whole food. Prioritize which expires or rots the quickest. I used a cast iron that I found in the trash. I don't understand how or why people have this issue. But I guess I've been poor for all of my adult life, so. If they drafted me, I'd say take me to prison bitch, because I ain't gonna fucking die for this place. I kinda wish I was never born. People throwing away food. Gawd I hate this country.
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Be organized, have a weekly menu. I'm sorry this is the solution. My bad.
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I only wish I could buy half loaves of the breads I like.
I can't get through a whole loaf alone to save my life unless I eat the same thing for 3 meals a day and I'd prefer not to.
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Then poop the shit
Then recycle the.... Wait... I think we better stop at that.
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My SO has ADHD and used to do this. I just cook for the both of us now so it's less food waste. The only issue is sometimes he doesn't like what I make
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I only wish I could buy half loaves of the breads I like.
I can't get through a whole loaf alone to save my life unless I eat the same thing for 3 meals a day and I'd prefer not to.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Do you store it in the fridge, btw? And also you can additionally place bread paper bag (with bread inside, of course) into a plastic bag after a couple of days.
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I sought an ADHD diagnosis.
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I only wish I could buy half loaves of the breads I like.
I can't get through a whole loaf alone to save my life unless I eat the same thing for 3 meals a day and I'd prefer not to.
I had enough nice bread go bad to come up with a strategy.
Freeze half the loaf if you can. With a Toaster you can defreeze and toast at the same time. For my toaster i vary between full blast for whole grain like spelt or rye and mid/high for softer types like multigrain with more wheat, may even go lower on those soulless wheat loafs that don't taste like anything except empty calories. Leave the rest out and it will be ready to eat the other day or next meal. I mean, the bread is stale by day 2-3 anyway so toasting it is kind of a no brainer for me.
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I sought an ADHD diagnosis.
instructions unclear, my prescription erased my appetite and now all my food goes bad
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Be organized, have a weekly menu. I'm sorry this is the solution. My bad.
"the only solution is being responsible" well fuck guess I'm SOL
