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Food Waste Impacts: Consumer Food Waste
Learn more about the impact of consumer food waste, tips to reduce food waste, and ways to support food waste reduction.
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Easy Steps to Prevent Food Waste
Check out these four simple steps to conserve food, save money, and help the environment. Available in Spanish and Chinese.
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USDA Tips to Reduce Food Waste at Home
Watch this video for 4 easy steps to reduce food waste (1 minute)
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The Guest-imator
Planning a dinner party? Use this tool to help estimate how much food to buy.
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Meal Prep Mate
This resource helps you plan meals based on the number of people eating and then creates a shopping list and a “waste-less” guide.
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More Easy Steps to Reduce Food Waste
This resource provides four simple steps to conserve food, save money, and help the environment. Available in Spanish.
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Store It
Use this interactive guide to learn how to store food safely and keep it fresh for as long as possible.
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Eat or Toss
Not sure if a food is safe to eat? This website provides pictures to help you make the eat-or-toss decision.
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The Refrigerator Demystified
This infographic describes how to store food in the refrigerator and freezer to keep it safe and fresh.
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FoodKeeper App
This handy resource can be used as a smartphone app or on a computer. It provides food storage times for a wide variety of foods – it even has a feature to send you calendar reminders. Food and beverages can be searched in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
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Confused About What the Date Labels on Food Packages Mean?
This infographic explains what the dates on food labels mean, how to avoid food waste, and how to extend the shelf life of your food.
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Tips to Reduce Food Waste – Storage & Prep
This infographic describes actions you can take to reduce food waste when storing and preparing food at home.
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Use-It-Up Recipes
Leave no food behind! Get inspired with recipes to use past-its-prime (but still safe) food & food scraps.
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Cooking with Food Scraps
Save those food scraps and use these recipes to prevent them from ending up in landfill. Recipes to use foods that are past-their-prime (like mushy bananas) but are still safe to eat are also included.
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The Scraps Book: A Waste-Less Cookbook
Start scrapcooking! Find new uses for food we typically toss, like banana peels, broccoli stems, wilted greens, coffee grounds, and more.
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Is This Still Good To Eat?
What does that date on the food label mean? Use this resource to help you figure it out. Available in Spanish.
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Alexa, Open Save the Food
Learn how Alexa can help provide answers to your food storage questions
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Stop Food Waste Day Campaign Toolkit
Get downloadable materials to raise awareness about food waste on Stop Food Waste Day, an annual event in April.
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NRDC Food Waste Reduction
Learn about the Natural Resource Defense Council’s policy work at the federal, state, and local levels to address food waste in the United States.
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Don’t Waste Uneaten Food – Compost It!
Food scraps have value. Learn how to turn food that is not safe to eat or is inedible into compost. Available in English and Spanish.
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Budget Bytes
Find tested recipes and meal plans to help cook delicious food and minimize food waste. Use the ingredient index to find recipes featuring foods you currently have on hand.
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Pack It. Stack It. Chill It.
Find tips about food storage to maximize the life of your food.
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StopFoodWaste Seasonal Produce Postcards
Get tips on how to store, cook, and preserve produce to maximize freshness and nutrition. Available in English and Spanish.
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10-Minute Fridge Reality Check
Use this handy “reality check” and watch a short video that will help guide you to reduce wasting food stored in your fridge. Available in English and Spanish.
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Fruit and Vegetable Storage Guide
Should I store tomatoes in the refrigerator? Get the answer to that question and storage questions about other fruits and veggies here. Available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Farsi)
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Shopping List
Do you buy what you don’t need and don’t buy what you need? If you answered yes, this shopping list template can help solve this problem.
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Food Shift Kitchen Guide
This handy resource provides tips about storage, reducing waste, and recipes for 12 produce foods – 1 per month!
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Deciphering Dates on Products
Confused by those dates on foods? This resource can help you sort it out. Available in English and Spanish.
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The Refrigerator Demystified
Proper storage in the refrigerator can make a big difference in food conservation vs. food waste. Learn best practices here.
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Eat This First Sign
Print this sign to label foods in storage as a reminder to eat them first. Available in English and Spanish.
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Is Food Going to Waste in Your Fridge?
This video guides you on how to conduced a Fridge Reality Check to learn how much food is going to waste in your fridge (4:12 minutes).
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What’s the Best Way to Store Fresh Herbs?
Increase the life of your fresh herbs with these tips (15 seconds).
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What’s the Best Way to Store Berries?
| Berries are the best when stored the right way. Check out this video to learn how (15 seconds). |
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How to Store Your Potatoes
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Love Your Leftovers – Zesty Fried Rice
Leftover rice? Add a few ingredients to make this flavorful, zesty fried rice (54 seconds)
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Keep Leafy Greens Crisp
Keep those leafy greens looking fresh with these tips (24 seconds).
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Reviving Wilted Greens
Are your leafy greens looking a little droopy? Perk them up with this tip (15 seconds).
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Long Lasting Avocados
| Can’t use all that avocado now? Watch this video to see how to store a cut avocado to keep it fresh (45 seconds). |
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Prevent Spoiled Food
Labeling your leftovers and other foods to “eat first” can help you be a food conserver (22 seconds).
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The Fresh Egg Test
| Eggs may still be fine past the date on the label. Check out how you can test for “freshness” (28 seconds). |
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Too Much of a Good Thing
| Need to do a better job with food shopping? Watch this inspirational video (34 seconds). |
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Food and Climate
Did you know wasting food can have a big negative environmental impact? Learn the facts here.
Note: New research estimates the annual cost of food waste for a family of four is now $3,000, instead of $1,600 as described in this resource.
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Food portion calculator: Your guide to perfect portion sizes
Not sure about how much to cook to get the correct number of portions and the correct portion size? This calculator takes away the guesswork!
NOTE: This resource is from the UK and results are in grams. To convert to ounces, divide by grams by 28.35 (i.e., 100 grams / 28.35 = 3.5 ounces)
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Love Food Hate Waste – Food and Recipes
Use this interactive resource from the UK to learn more about the foods we eat (i.e., buying tips, storage, leftover uses, and more!). Plus, search for yummy recipes to cook this week!
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Good Food Habits
This UK resource provides simple strategies for meal planning, food shopping, food storage, and using all edible parts of produce.
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Our Planet, Your Food
Learn more about how the food journey from farm to fork to trash bin impacts the planet (from the UK).
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How Do I Create Simple and Flexible Meal Plans?
This resource from the UK provides an easy-to-follow 3-step process to meal planning.
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How Do I Write Shopping Lists that Work For Me?
This resource from the UK provides an easy-to-follow 4-step process for making food shopping lists.
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Food for Thought STEM Challenge Kit
This “kit” has 3 activities that make learning about the food supply chain and food waste fun. Ideal for ages 8 to 14, these activities can be used at home, in clubs, and in the classroom.
FYI – there is a fee associated with this resource.
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Chef Will Coleman’s 6 to 1 Shopping and Meal Guide
Chef Will provides a handy e-book based on his viral 6 to 1 shopping and food preparation system. The e-book includes original recipes and meal inspirations. $10
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Food Waste Prevention Week
Get ideas for getting involved with food waste reduction during Food Waste Prevention Week (held annually in April) and throughout the year!
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Conduct a Food Waste Audit
The first step to becoming a food conserver is to see what you’re wasting. Find a food waste audit log here.
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What’s in My Fridge Recipe Finder
Need recipe ideas for what’s in your fridge? This resource allows you to type in a food name and be linked to recipes that feature that item.
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Tips to Reduce Food Waste
Check out this list of easy-to-implement tips to reduce your household food waste.
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Meal Plans
Struggle with meal planning? Chef Alison does the work for you. Get her weekly meal plans with fast & easy recipes plus a ready-to-shop grocery list!
FYI – there is a fee associated with this resource.
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Don’t Let Good Food Go Bad: Sprouted Potatoes
Sprouts on potatoes? No thank you! Check out this video to learn best practices for storing potatoes (29 seconds)
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Don’t Let Good Food Go Bad: Peppers
Keep your peppers crisp and fresh – learn how in this video (30 seconds)
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Don’t Let Good Food Go Bad: Broccoli
Keep your peppers crisp and fresh – learn how in this video (30 seconds)
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Composting for Community Map
Use this interactive map to find composting initiatives in your area.
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Homemade Cooking
Homemade’s motto is “cook for life.” Here you can take an online cooking class — they offer live & on-demand classes to help you learn the basics and to upskill your cooking game.
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Help Others, Reduce Food Waste. Donate!
Find the basic do’s and don’ts for donating food on this website.
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Rethinking Food Waste: The Journey of Food
Learn about the food supply chain and waste occurs by following the ingredients in a pizza from production to consumption.
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Rethinking Food Waste: A Guide to Prevention Waste Before, During, and After Meals
Improve your food management practice with the tips and tricks resources in this resource.
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Don’t Let Good Food Go Bad: Start Saving Today
Check out tips about how to store food properly to make it last longer and save money.
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Preventing Wasted Food Community: A Social Marketing Toolkit
Take action to decrease food waste in your community with guidelines and customizable materials from the EPA.
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Preventing Food Waste at Home
Get tips on how to prevent wasted food at home and how to divert unusable food from landfills.
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Composting At Home
For food that is not safe to eat or is inedible, learn how to turn it into compost to avoid putting it in the landfill.
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Don’t Let Good Food Go Bad: Onions & Garlic
Keep your onions and garlic happy with proper storage. Learn more from this video (30 seconds).
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Don’t Let Good Food Go Bad: Avocados
Learn best practices for storing avocados ing his short video (30 seconds)
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National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste & Recycling Organics
This document describes the collaborative efforts among the EPA, FDA, and USDA to reduce U.S. food loss and waste.
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Food Waste and Methane: What’s the Connection
Review this quick read to learn the connection between food waste and methane and why it is important.
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Meal Prep Guide
Use this worksheet to help make meal planning a breeze.
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Shop Smart Guide: Save & Reduce Waste
This guide provides 4 steps to help you conserve food by becoming a better food shopper
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Use What You Have
Check out these recipes to use up tomatoes, potatoes, apples, and bananas before they go bad.
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Food Storage Guide: Keep It Fresh
What’s the best way to store apples? Tomatoes? Butter? Find the answers about these foods and more from this resource.
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A User’s Guide To Compost
Have questions about compost? This resource has the answers!
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Food Donations Basics
Learn about where and how to safely donate food.
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Social Medial Toolkit for Food Loss and Waste
Find ready-to-use videos, images, infographics and more to share with your social media to inform others about food conservation and waste reduction
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Food Product Date Labeling
Confused by what that date on the label means? This USDA guide provides information about what the dates mean and what date information is required on food labels.
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EPA Wasted Food Scale
The EPA Wasted Food Scale shows different ways to handle food waste, with the best options like preventing waste and donating and the least desirable option of food ending up in the landfill. (Available in Arabic, Chinese-Simplified, Chinese-Traditional, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese)
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Stop Food Waste Cookbook
This cookbook is filled with chef-created recipes from across the world that utilize kitchen scraps and leftovers to make scrumptious food.
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Who Cares About Reducing Food Waste?
Watch this video to learn why it is important to care about food waste (1:40 minutes).
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Reducing Food Waste In the Kitchen
Make your kitchen a zero-waste kitchen with tips in this article.
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15 quick tips for reducing food waste and becoming a Food Hero
Learn how to be a food hero and do your part in saving food from the landfill.
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Love Your Leftovers
Check out this video to learn how to best store and use your leftovers (1:11 minutes). Available in Spanish (1:20 minutes).
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Serve Smart to Reduce Food Waste
Portion size matters! Watch this video to understand how serving and eating the right portion size can help reduce food waste (0:59 minutes). Available in Spanish (1:08 minutes)
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Plan Ahead to Reduce Food Waste
This video describes the importance of planning ahead for meals and parties to reduce food waste (1:09 minutes). Available in Spanish (1:17 minutes).
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Don’t Let Good Food Go Bad: Storage
Watch this short video to learn how proper food storage can save you $’s (30 seconds).
Note: New research estimates the annual cost of food waste for a family of four is now $3,000, instead of $1,600 as described in this resource.
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Don’t Let Good Food Go Bad: Strawberries
Save your strawberries! Learn best practices for strawberry storage from this short video (28 seconds).
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Reducing Food Waste at Home: Easy Every-Day Tips
Learn tips on how to make small changes to your everyday food management practices to reduce food waste.
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Food Waste 101: Understanding the Basics
Learn about food waste and the U.S. goals and initiatives related to reducing it.
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Food Waste Facts
This short video shows the cost of wasted food to people and the planet (1:11 minutes).
Note: New research estimates the annual cost of food waste for a family of four is now $3,000, instead of $1,500 as described in this resource.
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Food Saving Tips
Not sure what to do with that food in your pantry, cabinets, or refrigerator? Search for the food on this website to get tips to create a plan, extend storage, prepare, and compost.
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Imperfect Produce
Befriend ugly produce! Watch this video to how to use imperfect produce (1:55 minutes).
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Understanding Date Labels on Food Packages
What does the date on the food label mean? Watch this video to get answers (4:09 minutes)
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Tips for Reducing Food Waste
Watch this video for tips to improve how food management practices and reduce waste (2:22 minutes).
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Tips to Reduce Food Waste
This fact sheet provides a comprehensive list of food waste reduction tips at the grocery store, when eating out, in the kitchen, and when serving food.
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Food Facts: How to Cut Food Waste and Maintain Food Safety
Get tips to reduce food waste while minimizing your risk of getting sick. This resource also has a handy refrigerator & freezer storage chart.
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Food Matters Action Kit
Get kids involved in understanding food waste and becoming food conservers. Resources include an Action Kit and Activity Guide.
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Smart Prep: Prep Now, Eat Later
Tips to use perishable foods before they go bad.
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Smart Storage: Fruits & Vegetables Storage Tips
Tips for storing fresh fruits and vegetables to keep them fresh as long as possible
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Food: Too Good to Waste Challenge
Take on this challenge to see how much food you waste at home and what you can do to change.
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Fact Sheet: Consider the Tomato
Learn about the negative effects of food waste by examining a single food – the tomato!
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Composting Yard and Food Waste at Home
Not sure how to start composting at home? Turn to this comprehensive how-to guide.
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Waste-Free Kitchen Handbook
This cookbook is available for purchase on Amazon. Much more than a cookbook — it also includes checklists and practical strategies to reduce food waste at home.
FYI – there is a fee associated with this resource.
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Let’s Talk Trash
Use these simple shopping, storage, & cooking practice to conserve food and reduce waste.
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Why Compost?
New to composting? This resource gives you the “why” and the “how” of composting.
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Smart Savings: Eat First
Print this sign to label foods in storage as a reminder to them first.
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Compost to Reduce Food Waste
Learn about how to take foods that are no longer safe to eat or are inedible and make them into something useful – compost! (English = 1:30 minutes; Spanish = 2:00 minutes).
Note: New research estimates the annual cost of food waste for a family of four is now $3,000, instead of $1,500 as described in this resource.
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EPA Excess Food Opportunities Map
Use this interactive map to identify food banks, composting facilities, and anaerobic digestion facilities throughout the U.S.
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Flexi Meal Plan
Find tips to make meal planning easier and reduce food waste
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Leftovers Revolution
Get tips of how to change common leftovers into new dishes.
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First In, First Out
Get tips of how to change common leftovers into new dishes.
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Stick to Your List
Get tips of how to change common leftovers into new dishes.
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Cook Just Right
Get tips of how to change common leftovers into new dishes.
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Save Room for Seconds
Get tips of how to change common leftovers into new dishes.
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Is Dinner Hiding in Your Fridge?
| Get inspired to love your leftovers with this short video (1:16 minutes). |
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