Waste Watchers

In episode 4, we dispel all the confusion about 'expiration dates' (and spoiler alert: they aren't even expiration dates!). We describe what 'sell by,' 'use by,' and other dates you see on the foods you buy in the grocery store. Finally, we give you simple tips to help you determine whether a food or beverage is still safe to eat or drink.

In this episode, we discuss the very sexy topic of...food storage! We cover the types of containers that work best, how to store different types of food to retain freshness and make them last the longest, and other simple steps to make food storage easy and efficient.

In this episode, we cover some simple but really effective tools to help ensure your grocery shopping experience is well-organized, saves money, and helps to reduce food waste week in and week out. In particular, we discuss some innovations in...duh duh duh!!!...the grocery shopping list!We also cover a few tips that help you think about the ways we use different foods and how that could make it easier to avoid buying things you don't need. And we sum up with a few more ideas that make shopping for food just a little easier on the pocketbook (HINT: Don't shop hungry!).

Welcome to Waste Watchers! On our first of five episodes, your hosts, Chris (an intrepid nutrition professor at Arizona State University and husband to Kelsey) and Kelsey (a pro podcaster, writer, and wife to Chris) chat about the surprisingly fascinating issue of food waste.We offer up great tools to lower your food waste, improve your health, and even be friendlier to your wallet by:using recipes to make good use of foods that might soon go bad.stocking your kitchen with the basic essentials.being smart about food purchases at the grocery store.making strategic use of your freezer to improve shelf-life and make it easier to put dinner on the table throughout the busy week.On the show, we mention a few things:the Waste Watchers web site, which you can find here.a recipe for Leftovers soup.a super-simple roasted broccoli recipe, which you can find here along with a helpful video on prep.a sneaky delicious, veggie-filled pasta sauce recipe.smoothies...lots of smoothies.