Food
Small steps that worked for real people, on food.
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- Skip the shrink-wrap: ask at the butcher counter
- Ask the manager what the shop is throwing out
- Ask who the senior lunch is for, then go
- Calories per dollar — arithmetic for the thinnest weeks
- Check which date it is before you bin the food
- Cook one long afternoon, eat for weeks
- Eat enough in the daytime if you are hungry at night
- One list, one pickup — the aisles never see you
- Sort the pantry bag the day you bring it home
- Thirst is the system working
- Try the deli slicer before you buy your own
- Seventy pounds of ugly produce, split two ways
Or browse another area:
- foodAsk the manager what the shop is throwing outShops bin food that is still good. Ask a manager politely, once; a no is often company policy, not a verdict on you. Only take safe food.
- foodAsk who the senior lunch is for, then goUnsure about a free senior lunch? Ask the program who it is for. If you meet its rule, you may go, and give the suggested amount if you can.
- foodSort the pantry bag the day you bring it homePantry food can be near its date or have sat warm. Sort it the day you get it: eat or freeze the fresh food, bin anything doubtful.
All 61 tips on food
- A dry paper towel in the bag
- A garden costs nothing to start
- An egg and a handful of frozen peas
- Anyone can eat at a gurdwara
- Ask the manager what the shop is throwing out
- Ask the waiter where they eat
- Ask who the senior lunch is for, then go
- Bread belongs in the freezer
- Butter, milk, and one more egg
- Buy the cooked bird and boil the bones
- Buy the pumpkin on the first of November
- Calories per dollar — arithmetic for the thinnest weeks
- Cheap food does not have to be empty
- Check which date it is before you bin the food
- Cook once, eat twice
- Cook one long afternoon, eat for weeks
- Cook the corn in its husk
- Cook the whole bag, then freeze it
- Cut off tomorrow’s butter tonight
- Dimple the patty, then leave it alone
- Eat enough in the daytime if you are hungry at night
- Fill the teen up, then cap the extras
- Flatten the meat before you freeze it
- Flavour is the cheapest ingredient
- Float the egg, then smell it
- Frozen fruit is picked ripe
- Give the leftovers back their steam
- Green onions: pay once, regrow on the windowsill
- Keep the fizz, drop the sugar
- Keep your fingers off the cheese
- Make the groceries last when the money runs thin
- Make the meat a seasoning
- One list, one pickup — the aisles never see you
- Only the boring panel is regulated
- Press the film onto the guacamole
- Push the food into a ring
- Put the pinch of salt in the grounds
- Refill the pickle jar
- Reheat the pizza in a covered pan
- Reheating does not undo the afternoon
- Roll the orange before you peel it
- Salt the meat the night before
- Seventy pounds of ugly produce, split two ways
- Skip the shrink-wrap: ask at the butcher counter
- Smell the pineapple; the leaf tells you nothing
- Sort the pantry bag the day you bring it home
- Stop it when the pops slow down
- Sweat the onion first
- Thaw the turkey all the way through first
- The eggs will disappear first
- The first layer is the glue
- The kettle is a stove
- The pantry is for weeks like this one
- The species is printed on the can
- Thirst is the system working
- Try the deli slicer before you buy your own
- Try the food you hate, cooked another way
- Warm the jar, don’t boil it
- Wet the bread before it goes back in
- Your SNAP card can buy seeds
- Zest before you juice, then freeze it in cubes
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