Do you know you can actually reduce food waste by just making use of these tips to retain and preserve food for future use? In this article, BEBE AFRIKANA presents to you some of these recommendations for reserving food.
STORE THE FOOD PROPERLY
You can prevent food waste by storing or refrigerating properly. For instance, foods or fruits like lettuce, cabbage, apples, oranges, cucumbers etc should be refrigerated; foods like potatoes, onions, garlic etc should be kept in a cool dark place; food or fruits like whole watermelon, plantains, tomatoes, avocados etc should be left out on the kitchen counter.
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KEEP IT IN VISIBLE SIGHT
For food that go rancid quickly like dairy products, put them at the door of your fridge or on the kitchen counter so you are more likely to reach out for and eat more often. Most times, food goes rancid not because we intend to waste it, but because we actually forgot we had them in the first place. Keeping these foods that goes rancid quickly in visible sight will help to reduce food waste.
USE THEM FOR HOMEMADE BEAUTY RECIPES
You can turn your food ingredient into a homemade beauty recipe. For instance, rather than allowing that ‘over-ripe’ banana go to waste, you can actually use to make a face scrub that will soften your skin? You can also use foods like old yoghurt and leftover nuts to make a foot scrub to soften the skin of your feet. These are just some of the many ways food can be used as ‘beauty ingredients’ instead of being wasted.
CREATE DIFFERENT USES FOR YOUR FOOD ITEMS
Foods are highly adaptable and many-sided. One food item can be converted to different forms; you can get ideas from recipe books or online food websites. You can easily modify your food components by using it in another form; this will definitely prevent food waste.
SWAP FOOD SMARTLY
If a cooking procedure request for a certain ingredient , instead of going out to the store to get it, consider if you have anything at home that will make a nice swap for the ingredient. This way you’re less likely to have food going to waste because you were not able to use them on time.