Extra Food in Refrigerator

llbrixon
llbrixon Posts: 964 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Now, that my food is limited amd I have portion control, I have too much extra food!

Any suggestions?

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  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,549 Member
    Freezer?
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    Plan meals. Buy less, just what you have planned for. And say "yay me" every time you get home with everything on your list, and nothing that wasn't on your list. (It's not easy to forgo a "good deal".)
  • Sira125
    Sira125 Posts: 152 Member
    Invite friends over for dinner? Donate shelf-stable items to a food pantry? Find a local friend to trade meals with so you can eat favorites without then eating them four days straight?
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    Depends on what it is. Are we talking raw ingredients or prepared meals? Dairy products?
    1. Store it and use it in future. You can freeze quite a few foods. Divide it into proper portion sizes, label contents and date. http://www.stilltasty.com http://food.unl.edu/freezing
    2. Feed it to other people. If these are raw ingredients you could prepare a meal/baked goods and invite others to share.
    3. Throw it away and buy/cook less in future. If these are meal leftovers they are only good in the refrigerator about 4-5 days.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    Buy less. And buy less at once. I go to the grocery store every day, at least once.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    edited October 2016
    kommodevaran wrote: »
    Plan meals. Buy less, just what you have planned for. And say "yay me" every time you get home with everything on your list, and nothing that wasn't on your list. (It's not easy to forgo a "good deal".)

    This and, as a corollary, plan meals based on what you have in your refrigerator. I pretty much always buy based on what my usual meals are, what's available and in season, so on. (I get meat from a farm and have it frozen until I pick out what I'm eating in the next few days, and I get a lot of vegetables and fruits in season from farms too, so have to tailor my cooking to what's on hand.)
  • Gisel2015
    Gisel2015 Posts: 4,206 Member
    Make soups and stews and freeze them.
  • TreyTnt9
    TreyTnt9 Posts: 104 Member
    Go to Yellowstone and feed the bears.
  • YvetteK2015
    YvetteK2015 Posts: 654 Member
    get a food saver system. Anything you don't eat this week, you can eat anytime in the future.
  • ValerieMartini2Olives
    ValerieMartini2Olives Posts: 3,024 Member
    Creatively usr leftovers and make and freeze your ideas.
    Make a pot roast and shred. Eat a few portions over a few days then use the rest to make breakfast burritos and freeze.
    I'm a single mother whose daughter doesn't really eat my food yet. I stopped buying an type of fast food and limiting my shopping to once a month.
  • llbrixon
    llbrixon Posts: 964 Member
    I made the mistake of making tuna fish with 2 large tuna cards. I bought imitation crab meat I bought for big meal salads. I started eating tunafish salad on bread then I was not eating the greens for my salad.

    Leftover bowls (3) thrown away. Tunafish (1) put small container. Watermelon put into smaller bowl. I want to make a salad of the crab, then I can eat with my salads. I need to check the salad greens. Your right! Better planning. I need to know what I have available in the refrigerator.
  • llbrixon
    llbrixon Posts: 964 Member
    cmriverside wrote: »
    Freezer?

    The only thing we will freeze is a good 2 serving size of food. All other small servings usually get eaten, but not now.

    I had leftover noodle soup, leftover sauted squash, and a tomato rice mixture. I would of eaten the squash if I had planned better. The other two I would not eat.

    Just found a small bowl of chicken salad....ughhhh.....Hubby made it last week. This one may end up getting trashed also. 1/2 fresh cabbage is in there too. Lots of salad stuff that I am afraid to look at.

    I need to keep a list of the food and use it up or throw it away.
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