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Plan your meals ahead

Life is busy for many people and often our best laid plans to use up our food falls by the wayside. Plans change and often that means the food we have in gets wasted.


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Planning your meals in advance is the best way to start reducing your food waste and saving money.

Making regular meal plans - maybe even weekly - will help you to avoid buying things you won't use and give you a clear idea of what to cook, saving time and money.

It's also a good idea to check what food you already have in the kitchen before going shopping. Those kidney beans you need for a delicious chilli may already be hiding at the back your cupboard.

The benefits of planning include:

  • not buying things you already have
  • making cooking less stressful - there's no need to try and think of the things to eat on that day
  • saving money by using up what's left
  • cooking double and freezing half for later
  • getting others involved in meal planning and preparation
  • eating more nutritionally balanced meals
  • using up freezer meals