100 WAYS TO REDUCE FOOD WASTE YOU HAVE TO TRY
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- Here are 100 ways to reduce your food waste that you must try.
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I have a "reverse" tip of n°52: if you see fruit growing on your neighbours' trees that they are not bothered about picking, ask them kindly if they'd be happy to let you take it if they don't want it. My neighbours had apple and plum trees that had been planted by people before them, and they had no interest in them, so they encouraged me to take what I wanted! Countless free plums and apples 💚😍🍏
I wanted to thank you for including disabled people in the conversation about food waste, I'm chronically ill and my joints are wonky so I won't always have the energy or strength to use or cut all my food I think I will. I'm trying my best and always looking for other ways to help reduce my food waste and eat better. And thanks for including that it's not just on us, it's on our governments and businesses to help with the majority of plastic banning/reduction and with education of how we can do better. Really tired of seeing the argument that it's the individuals faults for things we have no control over and not billion dollar business for waste and plastic production.
Hi I'm disabled too, I usually buy the smallest vegetables I find and boil them without chopping, or cook them whole on the oven. I find it really helpful and easy.
you have OUT DONE yourself Immy. This is incredible, I know the work that had to have gone into this and it did not go unnoticed. Thank you 💕
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I always say to everyone: "I do not believe in best before dates." Drives me nuts to see them on fruit and veg! Love this list!! 💚
agree agree agree!!!
Birthe Luckas but when the can starts to bulge out. Lol
@@xxzombiexxpsychoxx what doesn't kill you makes you stronger lol
Agreed, but even more so people refusing to understand difference between ‘best before’ and ‘use by’. There are many products where ‘use by’ is absolutely essential, not least because people cook a lot less and/or are scared of it/have not been taught about ingredients, only been told what they need for recipes and do not look beyond. If they do not have the understanding and cannot tell good produce/meat/dairy from bad, they could easily end up ill or worse. Like you said, plant produce is the least risky category here, though imagine not having sense of smell or taste.. Tricky... So I think they have their place, but able people should be far more willing to learn more - because convenience of 21st century is such and ‘amazing’ [debilitating] thing! We somehow forgot even the most basic our ancestors in not so distant past did with their food or that what they did was even possible! My grandparents have naturally so little waste! Granted they have a larger garden they always planted everything on, plus a root cellar, cool stock room for canned goods etc and a large chest freezer, but they were low waste household before waste was even a known issue (they’ve lived like this for over 55 years), let alone low/zero waste coming about! Cannot wait to be able to do it just like them - so inspiring :)
Oh and definitely - fab video Immy! The work you put into it is greatly appreciated!!! ;)
amaryl23 absolutely agree with you on al you said. There is a place for use by dates for perishable fresh foods that could cause food poisoning. But best before are really more a quality and not a health concern. I used to train people on food safety in retail. Unfortunately the understanding and the education around these are just lacking in this and many other western countries. An awful lot of that is driven by the need of our economy to keep us consumers consuming. But it sure is heart breaking (and I have lodged in households where this is common) to see people throwing away a perfectly good package of produce based on the date without as much as checking the contents. What we need is not more labelling but better food education and house economics in schools and at home. Teach kids how to cook from scratch get them to plant vegetables in the school yard take them to farms and food factories to give them an understanding and appreciation of the amount of work, money and resources it takes to raise the food in our supermarket. Take them to our household waste dumps to let them see the scale of the problem. We need mindset shifts starting at a young age. Then tackle the big guys, the companies and supermarkets that impose arbitrary expiry dates. I am lucky enough to be able to grow some of my own food now, but for most people that isn’t the case unfortunately. I still could do more to reduce the waste I produce but it’s a steep learning curve.
Just found this and wanted to say it's great that you're not shaming or downright forgetting that some people need precut foods.
I love that you always include disable people, a lot of people wouldn’t even think to mention it, and it’s really sweet!
My granny also puts fruit into jars, it's called "kompot" in my country. It's made with water, fruit (not citrus) and sugar. You put these ingredients in the jars and boil the jars so they can vacuum-seal. This can be stored for over a year in cool places and it's sooo delicious!
yuuuum sounds so delicious
my granny does the same (Kompott) but they are still good from 1980s
omg are you from czechia?
I am from Romania and we have the same thing here but it’s literally called “compot” haha my favorite one is with cherries usually
Will last a lot longer than a year.
im actually impressed how useful are those tips. some are easy and clear (or even obvious) but they wouldn't come to my mind by myself! thank you
woop woop i'm glad x
Thank you for mentioning Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Indigenous peoples are the original zero wasters and continue to be stewards and keepers of the lands and animals.
Yes SYSTEM is everything. Different things work for everyone. I'm disabled and try to reduce waste where I can.
I like to meal prep for lunch and then have the rest of the food ready to cook with dinner. I save my plastic containers for the times when I can cut fruit since I have an episodic condition.
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Another wonderful video! Here’s another tip, blend veg like carrots or cauliflower that’s about to go off with water, and use it to replace the water when making bread. The carrots make a gorgeous orange loaf, and add a nice sweetness too.
Thanks for sharing!!
I love this idea.
What a great idea. Thank you.
Hi Immy, great tips, thank you :D
One of my additional trick is - learn about other traditionals cuisines all around the world and try to include these ideas into your daily cooking. People were so creative over centuries to use just anything that was growing around.
In example in my country, beetroot stems and leaves are treated as a summer treat! Just chop them, cook with a bit of water, cool down and combine with yoghurt, garlic, chopped cucumber and some dill. Put to the fridge for 2-3 hours and voila! It makes lovely pink-ish cold soup called "chłodnik". Absolutely perfect lunch combination with freshly boiled potatos!
It constantly makes me dream of hot summer afternoon :D
I give my dog our empty peanut butter jars. He’ll work on one for hours and leave it licked clean. 💜 🌎 💜
The “clearance” section in the fruit and veggie section is always a good place to check. I just got a small package of perfectly fine organic cherry tomatoes for $1 (normally $3-4) because they came partially out of their package. They didn’t need it to begin with so I of course didn’t care. I also eat ACTUALLY ripe bananas, and they toss bananas in the clearance section for getting a single (ripe) brown spot, where they’re half off per pound. I also shop tags in the refrigerated section, because a lot of pre cut veggies will have a really short selling time, and with the weirder ones like sweet potato or baby cauliflower, they don’t really sell. You can easily get 1/2 off older veg looking for tags or other bits your store uses to let you know it’s on sale. I get things like stir fry mix, veg mixes, kale mixes, etc, then freeze them if I don’t need them now. Things like sweet potatoes can be a much better deal this way.
Yes! We love eating cauliflower leaves; it's honestly one of the best tasting kinds of greens I've tried. And ever since we discovered that we like them so much, cauliflower has become my husband's favourite vegetable because "it's two for one!"😂
haha that's so great! I love it too now that i've found a great way to make it taste just how I like it!
I like beet, radish and turnip greens, but cauliflower leaves are not to my taste
I take stale bread add few drops of water all over it and put it in the oven to warm it up. You than have soft bread. Broccoli and cauliflower stems I put in a food processor to grate them up to make coleslaw or stir fry. Thanks for the episode......I took some notes.
Great idea!!
I do that with bread, goes like fresh.
I just cook the stems as I would the rest of it.
Stale bread and wonky apples make a great "Ofenschlupfer" and if non-watery veggies (not like tomatoes, but carrots for instance) develop mold one can cut a larger part off and still use the rest.
Housewives did this for centuries to not waste an entire vegetable cause the tip has gone off and nobody ever died because of an old carrot.
Thank you for this video, it's a sustainability and financial hack as well to use as much of the food we buy as humanly possible. 💚😽
please dont eat foods that have gone off. spores are invisible and still harmful even when you think u've chopped off the bad part. that said, i still wholeheartedly agree with zero waste 😊
It drives me crazy when brocolli stems are cut off! They are so delicious.
Love your video, as always! ♡
agree! thank you so much I appreciate you watching xx
ejbruks To me, they are the best part!
@@MNeathway I agree!
I feed them to our guinea pig🥰.
But I definitely want to try to save some scraps for a soup / sauce in the future
They’re the only part of broccoli I like!
Wet stale bread in the sink and put it in the oven for about 10 minutes and it turns fresh again. Crispy on the outside, soft and warm on the inside
thank youuu so much for this tip, definitely going to try it out!! xx
@@SustainablyVegan perks of growing up in a greek village and having grandparents who lived through ww2 with very limited resources. No food goes to waste!
I’ve been freezing my veggie scraps so that I can use that to make vegetable broth!
Amazing!! hope it turns out delicious x
great idea!
Me too!! Just started doing this and I'm excited to make some yummy broth!
I've been doing this for over a year now and they are always amazing. But I found there are 3 veggies that vegetable broth absolutely needs: carrots, onions and celery. And it doesn't matter if they are spring onion, porree, red onion, rainbow colored carrots, turnips, celery stalk or root etc, just something of the family. Also nutmeg really helps to bring out the flavour. Potato skin and tomato is to be used in moderation. Pro tip: freeze in ice cube trays and relocate to a bag for easy access.
Me too
I’m at uni currently in my accommodation during this quarantine and have so much stuff in the cupboards and freezer. So I’m challenging myself to only eat the stuff I have in. So far I’ve made lasagne sauce out of cauliflower and it wasn’t too bad!
That is awesome!
One thing idk if people know about cause my friends didnt. When you go to walmart, safeway, and some other big grocery stores in the USA you can grab the bakers fresh made bread that is not cut and ask them to cut it for you. It's nice because they are usually wrapped in paper and have little to no plastic and when they cut it they are the same size as the bread off the shelves.
Thanks for sharing! Great tip for our Americans on here x
And they taste so much better then the bagged white bread lmao
I do that at Asda
THANK YOU for always making your approach to sustainability accepting & accesible!!
I try!
Something I’ve been doing recently after being frustrated with throwing away leftovers I forgot about is keep a little notepad or paper on the fridge and whenever I have leftovers I write them on there so I know what I need to eat I also have a section for stuff that’s going to go bad soon so I remember to use it up (:
GREAAAT idea!!
That's really cool of you!
This was such a great one. Most of these are still a bit too overwhelming for me to try, but there’s a couple I’m gonna go for! I’m getting there, slowly but surely!
IMMY! You're so incredible... I love these 100 idea videos. You've clearly put SO much effort into them. Your voice is also so calming... I feel very chilled now 😴 Also you're in the curly haired club like me... Which is awesome!! 💃✨
ah you're too kind
I've just discovered your channel, and I already love it! No useless blabla, really good tips never seen on another channel or videos about zero waste! Love from France!
Love this so much. I watched this while going through my fridge. Also I’ve gathered all my post it’s and strips of paper with recipes and found an empty journal - I’m gonna write them all in and recycle all that loose paper. I’ll be more likely to use these recipes now.
I can't believe how much time and editing goes into these incredible videos - you have a separate shot or two for ALL 100 points! THAT'S SO MUCH EFFORT ;_; AND THEY'RE ALL GOOD POINTS THAT KEEP VARIOUS LEVELS OF PRIVILEGE IN MIND. SUBBED.
Thank you soooo much ❤️❤️❤️ so happy to have you here
I love watching videos like this! My mother and I have been trying to lower the plastic waste that we produce, and your videos have been very helpful to us on our mission
reducing/eliminating my food waste has been the hardest low-waste transition for me. this is incredibly informative and i'm grateful for the work you do. ♡
These are a lot of great tips! Thank you so much for putting this together!
I am determined to never let the crispers in my fridge become a graveyard for produce. After every grocery shopping trip, we take the time and effort to cut up veggies and store them in ready-to-eat or ready-to-cook format... always in the proper containers or cotton bags. This makes it so handy when you can ‘grab & go’ or ‘grab & cook’. Also, tomatoes will last longer and taste better when stored on the counter (not in the fridge). Thanks Immy, as always I learned some really awesome and inspiring tips from this video (gonna use those herb stalks and cauliflower leaves from now on). I cannot wait to experiment with citrus peel candles. Love it!!! Veggies are life!!!! 🥦🍅🌿🍎
haha veggies are indeed life! thanks for sharing all your tips x
So glad that I already do most of these, and loved learning a few new tricks! Nothing better than reducing waste and saving a few bucks at the same time.
Wow! Thank you so much for all of the tips!
I absolutely love your channel! So happy you made it to the us! Whenever I watch one of your videos it makes me happy! 😊
I love this series! Thank you
Thank you, there are some really practical ideas here . I will certainly start using some of them like emtying out the fridge every week to see whsat is hiding away.
thank you so much for including disabled people! I am not disabled, but had to spend a couple of months in a wheelchair after an accident, then crutches, then many months of physical rehab. I always respected disabled folks, just as any human being should be respected, but after that period I understood in my skin how incredibly hard the smallest thing turns into, from putting a sock on to boiling an egg. I haven't cried of frustration so much in my life, and felt really guilty because I was using so much plastic and waste, from daily heparin injections to prepared foods. Disabled folks aren't inspiring superheroes, but normal people with life on extra hard mode. All my admiration to anyone trying to make positive changes in the world, no matter how big or small
Great video and thank you so much for having the links in the description box !
Awesome. I do a lot of these things, but got some new inspiration as well! Thanks!
Thank you very much. I will be getting that book.
Wow, thanks for putting in all that work!
This video is so informative and important! Great job!
So much value in these videos, thank you.
What a legend, beautiful series xx
Thanks for the tips! Loving this!!
This video was awesome! Thanks for being here.
I love this series and all your videos.
Thank you so much for your great tips and ideas, and your work to rebalance the earth. Your voice is so soothing also!
So amazing and inspiring! Thank you for this amazing video Immy!!!
thanks for your work ! I love all of your videos 💙
Thank you. A comprehensive video to reducing food waste. It is greatly appreciated.
Thank you so much for all of the work that you do. I truly appreciate the way you approach people, and your commitment to inclusivity. I believe your kindness and understanding regarding accessibility will reach the ears of far more people. I am glad that I found your channel.
What a wonderful video and how much work you put in. Thank you!
Loved this! Thanks for sharing your ideas.
This is great! Learned lots. Love the compact info! Not a single second wasted!
This video is absolutely amazing!!! Thank you Immy ❤️
This is going to help soooooo much!!!! Thank you for making this video!!
Best tips ever! Thank you!!
Your videos are extremely helpful, thank you so much!!!
This was a GREAT video. Such a healthy positive vibe. Blessings to you.
This was such a great list, thank you!
This series is INCREDIBLY helpful Immy! The effort that you put into these videos really shows! So many ideas that are simple, but have never occurred to me! And what a perfect time to try out all of these ideas while we’re at home and not going grocery shopping as often! 💕
thank you so much for your lovely and such positive feedback!!! Makes all the effort totally worth it xx
This video is so well done! Thank you for all of these great tips, I love your content 👍🏼
Thank you for your brilliant ideas/tips.🥰🌷
What a fabulous, inspirational round up. You packed so much in.
Thank you. This is so helpful!
Thank you for this!!
this is lifechanging, thank you.
Thank you so much !
I think all ripe fruit ripens other fruit nearby. And I don’t find basil freezes well, but haven’t tried it in oil. I love the coconut milk idea.
This series is killer. Thanks Immie!
You’re wonderful! Thank you for sharing such inspiring tips
This vid is amazing & so helpful! I’m going to clean out my fridge and find recipes today. Thanks!! 😊
This video is so packed with information I have to watch it a couple of times to get everything in❤
I always love your videos, thank you for all you do. This format is amazing, loved the one on swaps!
Glad you like it !
I love how thoughtful you are. ): Thank you for this, subscribed!
I really love your down-to-earthness and your videos for so many years now. Thank you for educating and inspiring us ❤️
ah thank you for being here and watching! I appreciate you
Thanks for acknowledging challenges faced by people with disabilities. Rare to see outside of videos specifically about disabilites.
What a brilliant video, thank you so much.
sooo good!!! so many i never hear of!!
Incredible advice thank you so much 💕
Wow--really detailed video--clearly, a LOT of work went into making it--thank you!
Thanks so much for this video! I'm beyond excited that I've found your channel, can't wait to watch other videos😁💗✌
This was so good! I've made a whole page of notes on this x
Amazing Video! I'll definitely try to do more of them (I'm currently doing some). Nothing better than a quarantine to learn and reduce our waste
The right storing method is so important. I switched to airtight jars about five years ago, because we had several bug invasions and had to throw away almost all of our staples (some munch their way not only through cardboard and foil but also plastic containers! No kidding!). Found an online store that sells jars for canning and storing with up to 4,5 litre capacity. Pretty perfect for my little family of four, we use linnen bags at our local bulk store and refill everything later at home into the jars.
thanks awesome, thanks for sharing xx
love your series. You have inspired me to appreciate what Ive got/bought. I have been working on cutting down throwing out overripe produce. Found out you can make a kiwi bread from mushy kiwis! saved 5 kiwis from a family pack from going bad and the skins went into the compost. There's always a sense of joy knowing the food the earth blessed me with went into a good place and not the trash.
Super helpful!!! I like that you get right to the video. TY!!
This is awesome! Something I do is keep my receipt from the grocery store and pin it to the fridge with a magnet. I then cross things off as I eat them. Helps me remember what I have so I don't let things go bad. It's also useful because I live with a lot of roommates, so it's hard to see what's mine in our crowded fridge if I don't have a list.
I love that you remind us that all we can do is our best, and there's no need to feel guilty if we aren't able to meet impossible standards. My tip is to freeze lemon and lime juice in ice cube trays (once frozen these can be emptied into freezer bags to save space), so next time you only need a teaspoon of it you can just grab a cube instead of having to buy a lemon/lime you'll barely use.
This was wonderful! Also use you your veg and fruit washing water for your garden and houseplants.
Incredibly informative. Gives me and so many others a lot to think about, consider and change into my eating and shopping routine.
Truly appreciative of your video. Thank you for your hard work, preparation and awareness to the life you lead and through it advising others to try and better theirs.
My favourite part of only eating vegan food is having a deeper understanding now of the life of my food and when it is best to eat my veggies and fruit and how long they last. Thank you so much for this incredibly comprehensive list! 💕💕 i feel like I have learned new things here and have new goals!
This was jam-packed with savvy AND achievable tips - thank you, from a new subscriber!
Thanks for all of the great tips Immy! ❤️
thank you x
Fantastic video, thank you❤🌹😊
You are wonderful, really! I've been trying to lead an eco-friendly life for a long time but the quarantine inspired me to take it to the next level. Your videos are really helpful and informative. Also, you seem to be such a kind person! All best for you xx
I actually liked how honest you were in your intro.
Thanks for this great video. I also save the water from making my beans, chickpeas, and lentils, and use it as stock to cook quinoa, etc.