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Wherever you are on this journey, wasting less food starts with better understanding about what you throw away and why. For example, one of the reasons you may discard foods is reliance on best-by dates marked on packages. Those dates do relate to peak quality, but they’re not food safety indicators. So, yes, you can still eat many foods past the best-by dates. Find out more about this in ssss1.

Walk over to your kitchen trash bin and take a look.

 Is it filled with vegetable peels and coffee grinds, or whole pieces of rotten fruit or leftover cooked food?

 Do you fill a kitchen garbage bag more than once a week? Or every day?

 Do you find that you habitually throw away certain food items due to expiration (produce, bread, dairy)?

Now peek inside your refrigerator.

 Are you storing food optimally?

 Are there containers shoved to the back?

 Is there fruit or spinach rotting in a drawer?

What about your pantry or wherever you keep dry goods?

 Are there boxes or cans that you’ve had a long time and haven’t used?