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Roughly 1/3 of the food produced in the world for human consumption, gets lost or wasted every year, that’s approximately 1.3BILLION TONNES!!
I’m sure all of us have thrown away rotten vegetables, expired products or leftovers. Reducing food waste does not only save the environment but it also helps you to save lots of money and time in the long run. How can we play our part? I’m going to share with you 10 really simple food hacks to REDUCE FOOD WASTE and SAVE MONEY.
Joanna is a certified Personal Trainer (ACE), Women’s Fitness Specialist (NASM) and Nutrition Coach, with over 8 years of experience.
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10 TIPS TO REDUCE FOOD WASTE
1) Freeze riped fruits
Frozen fruits can be blended to make fruit smoothies, nice-cream and they can even be added into baked goods to make healthier cakes and muffins.
2) Save the Bones & Leftover Vegetables
Instead of throwing away bones or forgetting your leftover vegetables, cook them! You can use them and make a really tasteful bowl of soup without any added stocks or preservatives.
3) Turn extra veggies into vegetable soup
Another thing you can you do with the leftover vegetables is to mix them all together and make creamy vegetable soup puree. Now if you hate eating your vegetables, this is also a really great way to meet your 5-a-day.
4) Pickle Your Vegetables
Fermented vegetables make nutrients more readily available, they promote a healthy gut and contains probiotics.
5) Turn Stale Bread into Croutons
Instead of throwing them out, why not slice them into small cubes, brush with a little bit of butter, sprinkle with garlic salt and bake them to make yourself some croutons.
6) Freeze Extra Herbs in Ice Cubes
Chop them up, place into ice cube trays, add some water or oil and freeze them to make herb cubes.
7) Use Lemon Peels to Make Infused Water
Save the peels because that’s where most of the essential vitamins, minerals and enzymes are. Simple infuse into your water or tea and gain to gain the benefits.
8) Egg Shells
I like to save my eggshells and let them dry out. Then simple use a grinder and grind the shells into fine powder. Should one of my dogs get diarrhea, I’ll just sprinkle a couple teaspoons of the eggshell powder on their food and the diarrhea goes away.
9) Turn leftovers into a One-Pot Dish
Turn those little bits of leftovers into a one-pot dish by mixing everything together and take it to work for lunch!
10) Use a Spray Bottle for Your Oil
Using a spray bottle will help you to reduce on your calorie intake, as you’ll tend to use a lesser amount. This will make your food less greasy, reducing the fat intake in your diet, which can help you to lose weight.
What other food hacks to do you practice? Let me know in the comments below.
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Omg that egg shell hack!! Def will have to share!!
This is a great video. Tfs
Great advice! 😊
Epic video!
Great advice!!!!!!
This video was timed perfectly for me. I just bought some ziplock bags for homemade frozen burritos and now I can use the bags to freeze my veggies too👌I always feel horrible wasting fresh produce. I especially ikr the tip about freezing ripe fruit because I always end up with overly ripe bananas before I have a chance to eat them. Great video 😊
Could u pls show us how to make sauerkraut ☺️
Wonderful ideas! Thank you so much.
Raw egg shells can give dogs salmonella. Learned about that from the recent dogs holding raw eggs in their mouth "challenge".
Very informative! Thanks!
Good stuff. Thanks.
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ive got new ideas here, great! Thanks Jo!
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Make a video for healthy lettuce wraps ❤️
If I see in my fridge something that needs to be eaten otherwise it will go bad, I search for recipes with it as an ingredient. Meal plan helps not buying random stuff which we don't have idea how to use later on. P.S. lemon peel is good to put in the dishwasher too, helps to freshen everything up.
@Joanna Soh For the tip on saving lemon peels, would you advise to get organic lemons then?
HI Joanna, I've been watching your videos and they are so informative and helpful! I just wanted to know, is my weight goal unhealthy for me? I am 12 and 5,4", I am 135 pounds. My goal is to be 110 pounds. Would this be unhealthy?
is whole grain bread and brown bread good? which brand's whole grain bread should we buy?
Egg shells are also a great source of calcium for human consumption.
Thanks
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I've been doing most of these for a while now. Really saved tonnes of money! I used to spend more than rm1000 to try and eat healthy; buying organic products for instance but after switching ways of buying and making sure to keep food waste to a minimal, now the grocery cost for me went down to rm200 per month! I'm still able to enjoy all those usually expensive imported fruits like strawberries, cherries, etc. Some of the food can also be turned into organic compost for my garden. Even my weekly espresso granules aren't wasted. I turn it into an invigorating skin scrub and then the remaining granules will go to the garden. Really makes the soil fertile. So, in conclusion, all it takes is some effort from our part mostly. If we keep on saying we don't have time, then nothing is going to change. In order to save time, try doing weekly food prep.nit probably could help most of us.
REALLY REALLY interesting video. Thank you for this! you're such a great YouTuber.
Blown away by some of those hacks! Very helpful!!!
You can save the eggshells and use them in plant soil too
Thank you for playing an important part in this
I feel hungry just from watching this video
some people say that put bananas into the fridge with grow your cancer cell, is that true?
Wonderful tip on infusing ice cubes with fruit! Thanks!
Awesome and beautiful! Happy World Food Day and thanks for the video
thank you so much
I like to cook a big roast and make a lot of different things with it. Say I made pork, we would have carnita's with a salad, I could make tamales, and also I could even stretch it further into BBQ pork and place it over a baked potato! Great tips, thank you!
I use egg shells for gardening by basically adding dirt and seeds in the eggshell and till the the plant sprouts I put the egg and plant into a pot or ground
Also if you don't want frozen herbs, bake them and use them as powdered herbs like the ones you would buy from the store.
Thanks Joanna. I also try to use vegetables and fruits as much possible. Like I try to cook vegetables without peeling off. Or try to use the skin of vegetables making another type of dish.
Interesting idea
This is a really good video, We tracked down an article about How To Reduce Food Waste Using Your Freezer let's see https://www.girlandpower.com/how-to-reduce-food-waste-using-your-freezer/
I use lemon and orange peel and toss them in my flower area outside the house to keel the neighbor's cat's away not no use my small garden as a WC. It works. Now the cats just walk around the flowers 🤣🤣🤣
Luar biasa, wonderful 😍😍👍
I would love to save the bones and leftover vegetables to increase my bone strength so that I can dance well by splitting my legs open.
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I will do Salad