How does everyone deal with this dilemma?
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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
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Honestly services like Blue Apron help with this. It’s more expensive than buying your own groceries, but still cheaper than eating out. It also helps you learn meal planning to eventually be able to buy the right amount of food on your own.
(It is easier to do if you have more people to feed though, like ideally at least one friend/partner/roommate to share the subscription with you. You can do a 2-3x a week meals for 2 subscription for one person, but it’s a bit much.)
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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.
Buy the loaf, slice it, freeze the excess. Take out only what you need. You can microwave it to unfreeze it quickly (but it does take some practice to not overdo it and ruin it) or just leave it out and be able to eat in like 30 mins. Comes out fresh and you don't waste it ever really.
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Be organized, have a weekly menu. I'm sorry this is the solution. My bad.
This isn't "THE" solution though. Plenty of other options. My favourite is meal prepping - spend three hours cooking for the entire week, put it in the fridge. Instead of an hour / hour and a half each day. You only have to clean up after yourself once too.
Issues are you need to prepare things that reheat well, or that you can quickly "cook up" each day without it taking too long. I.e. "just add the sauce to the salad" type of deal.
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Buy more fruit in summer and cereals in winter.
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My problem isn't that I don't use what I buy, the problem is that I buy too much. Like the recipe I need calls for one stalk of celery, but I can only buy an entire celery plant, like 11 stalks in a bundle because that's all the store offers. What do I do with the remaining 10 stalks?
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Please don't waste food.
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only buy stuff for what you want to eat? like if you plan on making burgers, buy the stuff. you don't need to plan for every day, because you're going to have left overs for the last two or so days.
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Please don't waste food.
fun fact: we grow enough food to feed 15B people. It's just that we feed it to the animals, then eat the animals.
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with pen and paper
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Then eat the food
don't mind if i do!
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Meal plan. Write what you're cooking for the week, buy only ingredients for that.
Anything uncooked goes in the freezer, you can defrost and cook/reheat a lot of food, stop throwing stuff away.
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My problem isn't that I don't use what I buy, the problem is that I buy too much. Like the recipe I need calls for one stalk of celery, but I can only buy an entire celery plant, like 11 stalks in a bundle because that's all the store offers. What do I do with the remaining 10 stalks?
Keep them in the fridge. Find other recipes that use celery. It’s quite versatile and keeps for quite a long time in the fridge! A lot of French recipes call for mirepoix (celery, carrots, onions; all diced) and Italian dishes call for soffritto which is the same thing. A ton of soups and pastas use mirepoix/soffritto as a base.
Now get out there and cook some celery, carrots, and onions!
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My problem isn't that I don't use what I buy, the problem is that I buy too much. Like the recipe I need calls for one stalk of celery, but I can only buy an entire celery plant, like 11 stalks in a bundle because that's all the store offers. What do I do with the remaining 10 stalks?
That’s your Mel planning, although I’d eat celery by itself.
For example I just bought a bunch of fresh dill because I needs it for one recipe. However I found a side dish that also used dill. Then the next morning I made bagels and lox with fresh dill, and successfully used it up.
I have a harder time with spices and sauces: so many sitting on my counter because they don’t fit in the spice cupboard. However at least they last a bit, giving me more chances to finish them
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fun fact: we grow enough food to feed 15B people. It's just that we feed it to the animals, then eat the animals.
But do we really want 15B people?
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But do we really want 15B people?
it's probably gonna happen eventually. We really can't sustain too many more people on an animal based diet
