This week, we celebrated National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day – did you? It’s super helpful to have a clean refrigerator in advance of all those Thanksgiving dishes … but it’s also kind of crazy (and sometimes scary) to see what is hiding in those back corners!
Using Use-Ups
Are you a fan of leftovers? Or no way?
We have a designated day (lunch on Friday!) to eat any leftovers from the week. But sometimes when it’s just an ingredient that is leftover, it makes it a little more difficult. Do you have a strategy to help you use leftover ingredients?
Although I try to plan our purchases, inevitably something is always in excess. My go-to for leftover ingredients is usually to make soup – like this delicious leftover carrot/celery/cabbage/bell pepper/ground turkey/orzo pasta soup I made this week.
Plan To Eat
This year in particular, I’ve really focused on reducing the food waste at our house. I’ve become a huge fan of the online food planner Plan To Eat – which has helped me to become much more intentional with planning our weekly meals.
This is what a recent week of ours looked like:
With your own personal recipes uploaded, you can search by a specific ingredient – which is truly my secret weapon to use up random items in the fridge each week. I just type in the ingredient, and it will show all the recipes I’ve uploaded that use that particular ingredient.
(Please note: I don’t have any affiliation … I truly am just a huge fan!!)
Any tips to share?
I also found 5 Recipes to Help Clean Out The Fridge from Lodge Cast Iron – which is actually more like 5 templates instead of 5 recipes.
Do you have a strategy to help reduce food waste in your refrigerator? Please let me know!
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