10 Japanese Fridge Habits That Eliminate Food Waste (Copy Them)

📕 The Home Savings Manual — 79 ways to stop overpaying for your own house: https://brendacarver.com/ Open your fridge right now, don't tidy it first, and look in the bottom drawer: a bag of spinach going to slime, half a cucumber, a carton you used two tablespoons of. The average person throws out about seven hundred dollars of food a year. My neighbor Keiko fed a family of five out of a fridge half the size of mine for twenty years, and I never once saw her scrape a drawer of rotten vegetables into the trash. Our grandmothers would have understood her completely. In this one I'll walk you through 10 Japanese fridge habits that eliminate food waste: 🥬 Standing your vegetables up, and toothpicks in the core of a cabbage 🍚 Freezing rice hot, freezing mushrooms raw, and chopping ginger and green onions before they die 🥒 The salt bag for the last bits in the drawer, and burying meat and eggs in miso 🗂️ The eat-first tray, clear containers, and the scrap bag that becomes Sunday's pot …and number one, the rule about how full your fridge should be, which changes how you shop. Food doesn't get thrown out because it was bad food. It gets thrown out because it got forgotten. Put the three things closest to dying on a tray tonight, and keep your money right where it belongs. If saving money and a waste-free kitchen sound good to you, subscribe and stick around — that's what we do here every week. 💛 What's the one thing you throw out most? Tell me down in the comments. #frugalliving #savemoney #foodwaste #fridgeorganization #japanesehabits #mottainai #moneysavingtips #homemaking #householdtips