How can someone reduce food waste when cooking?

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Rosanne Rust,MS,RDN · Answer

How can someone reduce food waste when cooking? Okay, I have a couple of tips here. First off, when you are cooking, you usually know how many people are you cooking for. Are you cooking for one, two, four? So that is gonna determine how much you need to cook. You wanna consider the portion size, whether it's a protein or a grain, how much about is everyone going to eat? But on the other hand, you can also do some batch cooking in some cases, and that can help reduce food waste. So let's say you're going to cook some rice to make some salmon rice bowls tonight. Maybe you'll double batch that rice because you're gonna cook it now, and then you can use that rice as sort of a food waste hero through the week because rice and pasta are great bases for other leftovers or other little bits of fresh vegetables that might need to be used up through the week. You can make a quick lunch. Another tip is looking at that fresh produce when you're cooking. If you have a large bag of spinach and maybe you're cooking for two people, you're not gonna eat it all, it sometimes pays to just cook it because if it's cooked, it's gonna last a few more days in the fridge than if it's just sitting in there, half a bag of spinach raw, you might forget about it. So that's just a couple of tips. I have lots more.

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