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Stop food waste

This was posted recently on social media Cutting food waste by a quarter would mean enough for everyone. It just makes me so sad that people are suffering from hunger and we are wasting food.  I found that menu planning has really helped in our household with controlling the grocery bills and also with food waste.  We still buy things not on the shopping list, but our food waste is minimal.  If something is not salvageable it goes into the compost.  I think we all have ideas though that might help others to budget, plan meals and use up leftovers.  I am going to post our weekly menu, shopping list, some recipes and costs and then do a re-cap to see how we fared.  Are you willing to join me in this? For now I will just post mine and follow along with anyone who wants to join in - then if there are enough people interested we could do a regular linky. I normally shop over the weekend so start my menu from Monday - this was an example of last weeks sho...