I write out my meals for the week and only purchase enough groceries to make those meals. I also try to base the menu on leftover products in the fridge before purchasing more items. I also compost any food scraps.
I’d love to try making a vegetable stock using items I would typically compost.
I just began a vermicompost bin at home. I find that this has gotten rid of a ton of both my paper waste as well as my organic material waste.
I want to make a better effort at trying to use my scraps for other uses. I find it so easy to throw away anything that I do not want to use right away instead of trying to strategize another use. The broth example is so easy, but I never thought of it!
I recently started to purchase smaller amounts of food from the grocery store. I would normally purchase in bulk so I wouldn’t have to make multiple trips to the grocery store but it would lead to food going bad because it was too much food. Now I purchase smaller packages and am willing to make multiple trips so that I am only purchasing what I need in the moment.
I would really like enhance my composting abilities, I have a compost bin at home but have only used it occasionally. I would like to be more intentional about composting and find a system that works for me to ensure I am consist about it.
In my home I practice freezing sauces, stocks, fresh fruits and veggies to preserve them for longer periods.
I would like to try the technique presented on organizing your fridge, as this may be a way to better accommodate the specific temperature needs of all my produce.
One way that I currently reduce food waste in my home is to secure proper storage, and freeze items that I know may not be used before they spoil.
One thing Id like to try at home from the curriculum is saving clips for stock.
I try not wasting food and will give leftovers or extra ingredients to food I am making to my family and friends.
I really enjoyed the creative recipes that the preworkshop had us watch and it gave me ideas to try at home with some of the left-over parts of unused produce.
By trying to eat everything before it goes bad and not over buying. I realized the number one item in our fridge that goes bad is leafy greens. I now try to think what meals I will use the greens in before purchasing them.
Composting! I’d love to start composting at home to decrease my waste and help supply soil for my garden.
One way I currently reduce food waste in my home is buying what I actually will cook the week of and reusing empty containers of products that come in plastic containers.
Id love to try composting for gardening, or to learn more and implement gardening in my everyday life and creating my own compost with my compost waste.
I will try to regrow produce like lettuce ends and carrot ends.
I will try a technique I saw in this training on how to grow an avocado seed. I will also implement creating a compost at my home, and using vegetable scraps to make vegetable stock.
1. What is one way that you currently reduce food waste in your home?
one way that i currently do to reduce food in my home, would be to immediately freeze the fruits and vegetables i do not eat quickly.
2. What is one thing you’d like to try at home from the curriculum?
one way id like to try at home is the using the mason jars to preserve herbs, I have not tried that before and it seems to be really great, especially since we use a lot of herbs in our food.
