Go to store every day and only buy what I will start using that day.
Eventually, I extended the time, but I had to learn what I will actually use.
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I'm fortunate, but I have time in the morning to drop my kids off at school and then hit the grocery store. School is a mile east from my house, ShopRite a mile west. I grab fresh veggies for whatever I'm making tonight, throw it in fridge, then shower and get to work. I was tired of having a plan for a dinner later in the week, but then life gets in the way.
I try to get meats in bulk and freeze, but veggies I usually buy and eat that day, save for the bags of carrots and peppers and cucumbers that we snack on. We do admittedly lose a cucumber every so often.
Alternately: I can cook 4 iems at once and have a weeks worth of food!
Day 2 update: I ate it all.
Buy exactly what you need for the next N meals, easy
Buy more fruit in summer and cereals in winter.
Use a software/app to meal plane. (Mealie/Tandoor) You pick the recipes you fancy for the days/week/whatever period. It generates a grocery list containing exactly what is needed for the meals you chose, nothing else.
I haven't thrown away anything in a couple years now. Oh and freeze leftovers if needed.
Try going in with a recipe that you plan on making as soon as you get home, then the other stuff you buy should only be the stuff you know you'll actually eat or stuff that won't go bad. Of course there's the issue of having to buy more of a product than you need for the recipe, but that's hard to avoid.
If you need advice on how to better motivate yourself to make the choices you know you should make, I'm afraid I'm wholly unqualified to help.
Yeah, either swing by the store on your way home before cooking, or just buy shelf-stable foods that won’t spoil quickly. I have a 25 pound bag of rice in my cabinet. My wife and I have been eating on it for weeks now, and it doesn’t seem to be any smaller than when I bought it. And it’s never going to go bad.
Clean-up is what stops many people. Get a good titanium no-stick pan - I like "Our Place" pans. Get individual portion meats or frozen meats or buy bulk and freeze in portions. Do the same with vegetables. Heat your seasoned pan up then put some oil in just before you put meat in. Cook meat until almost done, then add vegetables to same pan - heat them up. Serve. Let pan cool while you eat. Refrigerate left-overs. Rinse and wipe pan down. Wash dish. DONE.
I'll only buy something perishable when I need it. I tend to cook for 3-4 days in one go in order to make cooking for only myself somewhat economical. I tend to visit the supermarket every other day so I don't really have to plan too much.
Buy freezer or shelf-stable microwave meals? You have food that way but it shouldn't really just "go bad". At least, not quickly.
Buy stuff you don't have to cook. It's crap nutritionally, but at least it isn't wasted!
i dont, my family always buys too much food regardkess to how many times i tell them to not
Meal planning is number 1.
Being strict with what you buy then so you don't buy something you have no plan for.
Learn a couple of meals that you can throw anything into so you can use up veg that are just about to go off. Eg ratatouille, stew, curry, etc.
Buy a recipe book with easy one pot meals for inspiration. I find the Internet just has too much and you need to know what you're doing, plus there's just too much distraction. Sitting with a recipe book and a pen and paper to plan is way more relaxing, IME.
I had this issue with produce. I stopped buying it because it would just go bad before I used it.
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.