{"id":223,"date":"2020-04-12T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revivingsimple.com\/?p=223"},"modified":"2020-12-21T19:20:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T19:20:46","slug":"how-to-reduce-food-waste-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revivingsimple.com\/how-to-reduce-food-waste-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Reduce Food Waste At Home: 8 Changes You Can Make"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Wondering How To Reduce Your Food Waste At Home? Here Are Our Tips!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s no secret that there are benefits to reducing food waste – from the financial benefits for you to the environmental impacts that can be felt locally and globally. Whatever the motivations, reducing food scraps is an important step when it comes to taking responsibility for our future to promote a more sustainable food system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, until these shifts in food policy can happen, there are loads of great ways we (as individuals) can have a significant impact on food wastage. These steps to reducing food waste can start at home, continue at the grocery store, move to the kitchen, and end at the waste\/compost bin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To be honest, none of the tips mentioned in this article are ground-breaking ideas – it’s the part of implementing them that makes a difference. This is where we usually lose people: forming commitment to a new task so that it becomes habit! Don’t worry, you are not alone. We aren’t perfect either (as you will read) but we try to be conscious about how we buy and use food – and make sure it goes as far as it possibly can!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Go Shopping With A Grocery List<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Have you ever gone to the grocery store without having a plan in mind for what to buy? In the past, we have done that more than once – and honestly, it wasn’t really an enjoyable experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Walking around the store aimlessly and being unsure what to put in the shopping cart can actually be kind of stressful. And often it resulted in us buying things that we then didn’t really use – and had to throw out a few days or weeks later. This food waste could have easily been avoided!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Luckily, we have learned over time and now (pretty much always) go shopping with a grocery list. Not only does it reduce the actual amount of time we spend at the store, but it also makes us feel more confident about the products we put in our cart since we have thought this through beforehand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nowadays we barely ever buy something we don’t at least have a recipe or use in mind. Reducing the amount of “unaccounted” items we bring into our home is an important first step in decreasing our food waste. <\/p>\n\n\n\n