Someone else would have bought these plums and treated them right.
This is why I like living close to a grocery store. I make lots of small trips instead of a big one.
This is the way. I just buy what I need every day. Barely ever waste something
That’s what my parents did growing up. They didn’t have a refrigerator and when they got one, it was super small.
when i rode transit every day to work, that’s exactly what i used to do. i’d just stop on the way home, then pick up the next bus going my way.
I shop once a week, and get everything I need for the week. One trip, twenty minutes in and out. No processed packaged foods, mostly fresh and frozen vegetables, fruit, and organic chicken (no antibiotics). Zero food waste, because even fresh vegetables will survive a week in the fridge. On the last day before shopping day, my fridge is virtually empty.
I don’t like shopping, so I made it as efficient as I could.
Yeah that works. Especially because you could do it once a week at a farmer’s market and get the really good stuff. I was doing that for a while.
what movie is this?
I thought “Poltergeist” but I may be wrong.
Poltergeist.
People have said the title, but fun fact those are real skeletons not prop replicas
Poltergeist, maybe…
I feel like the fridge thinks people can’t change
Its your fault for getting those sloppy plums.
Why does this look like Leslie Nielsen doing an impression of the main guy from The A-Team, while cosplaying as Ric Flair?
Let’s be real, if you haven’t watched Eastbound and Down, it’s worth it just for Stevie.
But are there any leftovers of sloppy steaks?
gotta get them REAL sloppy!
They can’t stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water!
The raspberries and avocados play roulette tho’!
You putting it all on red, or black?
Yes.
Fuck avocados and their 15-minute ripeness window.
Me every other week throwing out the food I thought better me would make. No. You ate the easy food like always, numbskull.
I started a compost and freeze all my meat till use. Goodbye, guilt! Those plums are bettering my soil now! I’m stealing south america’s water and nutrients!
I bought these plums for you, past me! The fuck?
Don’t think I have ever really had this problem. I just eat the stuff I buy because it would be a waste of money not to.
Also best before dates are just a suggestion.
I’ll eat leftovers a week later and people act like I’m eating a baby. Sniff test motherfuckers, heard of it? People waste so much food it infuriates me.
Most things I eat don’t even need a sniff test. You can see and feel veg is going off before you can smell it and its safe to eat for longer than I am willing to eat it. Its only once it starts going mouldy or slimy that its unsafe.
Soy sauce, honey, salt, dried herbs are essentially never going off. Worst with herbs is reduced flavour, but I grow my own. Been meaning to make a smoked salt and herb mix sometime. Got to actually smoke some salt though.
I love how my local grocery stores sell steaks at a deep discount when they’re a day or two from expiring. Like, 75% off for aged beef? OK, if you insist.
I miss when heavy discounts like that were common. Much harder to find now. They usually manage to sell it off at much lower discounts instead.
I found a 5 pound slab of skirt steak for about $6 a couple of weeks ago. I thought I was hallucinating.
Before or after eating the expired beef?
I don’t worry about the dates, but sometimes it’s mouldy or smells rotten and I throw it out at that point.
Reminds me of Mitch Hedberg…“I used to be a real piece of shit. I still am, but I used to be too.” /s
yup. here, too.
first thing in my head reading the post title was ‘…still am, but i used to be, too’
- I have eaten
- the plums
- that were in
- the icebox
- and which
- you were probably
- saving
- for breakfast
- Forgive me
- they were delicious
- so sweet
- and so cold
(This Is Just To Say, William Carlos Williams)
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in your regionSo succinct, so poetic.
oops! Sorry. It’s a recent (well, compared to the original) parody/homage/whatever of the poem:
- This is just to say
- I have eaten
- the rich
- that were at
- the golf club
- and which
- you were probably
- saving
- for class war
- Forgive me
- they were delicious
- so white
- and so old
It was posted on Twitter by “your friend Helen” (@hels) many years back. I assume they were the author but I really don’t know.
People can change.
Yeah, but you won’t. Plum genocidist.
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Sorry, I was in the mood for beans
I been so fucking strategic with my food this year that for the 1st time in my life the freezer food gets eaten and I have to go shopping cause we are eating everything in the fridge. I buy small eat everything and repeat and I gotta say it’s a good feeling.
Is it possible to learn such power? Lmao congrats, I’ve always been bad about this.
It was a change in perspective that completely changed the way I think about food.
I used to buy in bulk and throw away far too much. Then I started thinking about the journey behind everything I was wasting. The chicken I was about to throw in the garbage was once a living animal, cared for on a farm, before being processed, packaged, frozen, transported, and stocked in a supermarket all for me to eventually throw it away.
The same applies to everything we eat. Fruit has to be grown, watered by nature, picked, packaged, transported, and stored before it reaches us.
That perspective changed the way I see food. Now, whenever I look at something I’m about to eat or waste, I see the time, resources, people, and life that went into getting it there. It has made me far more conscious of what I buy, what I use, and what I throw away.
