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THE SCOOP: TIPS AND NEWS TO HELP REDUCE FOOD WASTE
Wasted Food Stops With Us aims to shed light on the food waste problem and provide practical tips to participate in solutions. Hope you are hungry for change.
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- Jul 27, 2022
- 3 min
Salsa Dancing
Peppers are the key ingredient in a fresh, summer salsa. Originally grown in Central America, there are more than 50,000 types of...
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- Mar 30, 2022
- 3 min
How Do I Stop Wasting Chocolate
Not all food waste is vegetables, meat, or dairy. Sometimes it’s chocolate! Practicing shopping, cooking, and food waste management...
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- Mar 24, 2022
- 3 min
How Do I Reduce School Food Waste
Anyone who spends time in a school cafeteria during mealtime can see that an enormous amount of food ends up in the trash. In fact, here...
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- Mar 2, 2022
- 2 min
How Do I Make Refrigerator Pickles?
One in six people in Hamilton County, Ohio struggle with food insecurity. Leaders like Jenan Rabi are working to solve this problem while...
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- Jan 24, 2022
- 2 min
How do I preserve fresh eggs?
Scrambled or fried, over easy or hard boiled, eggs are one of the most popular foods consumed around the world. On average, Americans eat...
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- Dec 20, 2021
- 2 min
Reducing Wasted Food through Successful Substitutions
Reducing Food Waste through Substitutions: Pumpkin Puree After the dust settled on a successful holiday party, I found myself with an...
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- Nov 23, 2021
- 1 min
National Leftovers Day
In the US, more than $132 billion was spent on food in November of 2020.[1] For many Americans, the Thanksgiving feast is only half of...
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- May 18, 2021
- 1 min
Tasteless Fruit?
It’s inevitable, the strawberries were red and the melon looked great, but with that first bite- disappointment, they just didn’t have...
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- May 18, 2021
- 1 min
Neglect Your Produce? Tips to Revive So They Survive.
Yip, we planned to eat the recommended daily intake of veggies but somehow, we forgot about a few and now they’re wilted, shriveled, or...
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- May 18, 2021
- 1 min
Sneaking Veggies into your Family’s Meals
I love to add shredded carrots, cabbage (of all sorts), zucchini and broccoli stems into wraps, casseroles, and soups even though recipes...
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- May 18, 2021
- 1 min
C.O.R.N. for Dinner? Clean Out the Refrigerator!
Maybe you call it something else, but in my house it’s Clean Out the Refrigerator Night (CORN). Designating one night a week before you...
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