- Here are three easy ways

you can fight food waste in your own home.

One is use the whole vegetable.

Things like using carrot tops to make pesto

or pickling a carrot if it gets old but too wilty.

Use the whole vegetable help you reduce food waste.

Number two thing you can do is

when you're putting away vegetables in your fridge,

organize it in a first in, first out way,

meaning what you bought most recently, put it on the bottom.

And if you have older product, put it on the top

so you use that first before it goes bad.

The third thing you can do is what I call the sniff test.

And so that means, if you're worried

that the food is going bad,

don't necessarily look at the date

but open it up and sniff if yourself.

If it smells funky, toss it.

But if it smells perfectly good, it's probably safe to eat

and you can go ahead and prevent that from going to waste.

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