24 EASY WAYS TO REDUCE YOUR FOOD WASTE | My Top Tips & Hacks for Beginners

Here are 24 easy ways to reduce your food waste! Many of these are simple and easy zero waste swaps that will help you on your low impact journey. They run from beginner to advanced sustainable tips so there is something for everyone.

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[sophiebrichards]

instead of juicing lemons and limes, i'd recommend just peeling them and blending them! get extra fiber & nutrients while reducing food waste

[HelloDeborahUK]

That was really helpful. I put all my veg peelings into a bag in my freezer and then when it’s full I use it to make a vegetable stock for dishes like risotto or a base for soup.

[clarissas.]

What I started doing is to keep a little food waste "journal" just in the notes app of my phone. Actively confronting myself with my behavior and typing out why I wasted something helps me to reflect on it and to become more aware of the reasons I throw out certain things, so I can avoid it in the future - usually I don't use up things fast enough, so when I become aware of what these things are, I know to buy smaller quantities of them, or to come up with ways to use them up quicker or preserve them when planning my meals.

[eden]

I just found an app called Plant Jammer that creates recipes based on what you have in your pantry. That's always the hard part for me. I buy one thing for a recipe and have a hard time figuring out what to do with the rest. The app also helps you learn how to balance flavors so you can get better at improvising meals. Highly recommend

[LifeguardOutofWater]

If I’ve accidentally left some celery in my fridge too long and it’s gone all limp and soft I’ll cut off the bottom like I would normally if I was going to eat them and then I stick them in a mug of water. Give them a couple of hours in there and they perk right back up!

[almavogler]

the bananas! they ripened all my peaches, and I had to make an emergency peach crumble. not complaining though ... ;)

[andreabowersox]

I love this! One thing I do quite often in the summer is make fruit salad for picnics. My kids don't like to eat the leftovers after being in the refrigerator for a couple days. They say it gets "too juicy". So, we blend it in the blender and freeze it to make homemade whole fruit popsicles.

[carolinarnquist]

I saw how your cupboard was neat with mason jars, and I paused the video to clean mine. It shows how inspiring having a neat environment can be for other people :)

[ukulelelena]

Store cilantro in water as well! Keeps like flowers, if you keep changing the water they keep for almost two weeks.

[laurenpring]

I hope you get your herb garden! Everyone will benefit and it will smell amazing

[emeliasoderlund]

You are so talented !! xx My favourite tip was freezing the coconut milk. I've had problems with it going off in the fridge since I usually just use one half of a can. Didn't know you could freeze it, thanks!

[johannaholmberg]

A tip is, when you want to buy bread, to visit your local bakery and check if they have and are willing to sell you "yesterdays bread". It´s a great way for you as a customer to save money and a great way for the bakery to make a few extra bucks on something they would have just thrown away as trash! :)

[multcoloured]

Very helpful video!! I unintentionally waste so much food because I often buy something on a whim and then never eat it or forget about it and it's so disappointing

[lgrbarnard]

Love the tips. Now I know about storing carrots.

[hannahfountain]

When vegetables and fruit start to turn bad, or when I'm left with small pieces I don't need to use, I chop and freeze it to either use later as stir fry or for the food I make for my parrot. Also, all my vegetable ends, peels, and cores are saved to make vegetable broth.

[mountainfolkfiberarts]

Soaking banana peels in water for at least 48 hrs makes a good fertilizer spray for gardens

[annamariaballerina]

So so helpful! I’m a student but love to cook and I find myself wasting a lot of food when I get overexcited at the market and then have such a busy week I forget about it all and just eat cereal. The shopping list seems so simple but has rly revolutionized my kitchen organizaron !! Thanks girl :)

[Ethendirhil]

Dunno if there's the equivalent in other countries, but in France, we have an app called "Too good to go" which enables the bakery shops, grocery stores and other shops to tell and sell for cheaper everything that was not sold on that day. I.e bread, sandwiches, pastries, etc.
Never used it yet because I haven't been needing it but I think it's a great thing !

[ENVIELILLY]

A stale loaf of bread can be revived. Moisten the outside of loaf with water and pop in a preheated oven for a few minutes.

[Sarahlenea]

I have a "vegetable brush" to scrub veggies, so I don't need to peel most of them. It really saves time and reduces food waste! I also cook a lot of things that ppl usually throw away (green part of a leek, carrot tops, radish leaves and turnip greens -they have much more nutrients than the root) =>I add them in a soup for instance, or cut them finely to use them like I would use herbs.
I sometimes freeze orange and lemon rinds to reuse them in a cake. If you have a garden, you can cut banana peels into small pieces and place them near the roots of your plants (great and natural fertilizer).
Thanks, you always good very good advice. I never tried to pickle sth, I'll try that, and to freeze coconut milk :-)