Hi guys, welcome back to Lister Love. This video is part of our, I guess, food efficiency playlist, which is all about helping you get as much value for money out of your food and nutrition. So the other day, Leela and I were talking about, you know, how much money we waste on food and how much food we waste. And Leela had some really interesting sort of, I guess, facts and figures about like, per household, what this amount really is. Well yeah, a statistic in Australia is that we waste 345 kilos per household per year on food, which is an extraordinary amount. So if you think about bananas, you know, that cost however much a kilo, we're wasting 345 kilos, that doesn't sound that much, but if you think about meat being, you know, 20 or 30 dollars a kilo, that is a lot of money over the whole year. So essentially, the wastage could be up to like a 10,000 dollars with the food just basically literally into the bin. And we were talking about how some people think they can't afford certain foods and we had a good playlist for you about what foods you should definitely invest in, which is called foods worth your investing. So if you think about how it stopped wasting food, saved some money on wasting food and then you can put that into the food that you really need to invest in for your health. So increasing the quality of the food so there's less wastage. So this video, we've come up with five tips and tricks as to how to reduce your wastage and later you're going to start it off. So my top tip for people is to make sure that your kitchen and your pantry and your fridge are clean and organised. So we all hate walking into an unnamed organised space. If you walk in and the kitchen's just a mess, I just go, I can't either of the cooking, to cover, I'll get tape away, I'll eat crap or whatever that's just the exact same thing. Yeah, tape away is so expensive. The other thing is you don't know what's in your fridge or your pantry if you can't see it. So by getting organised, you're all dozed. Yeah, I make sure that I keep everything in glass containers or the leftovers, everything so I can see exactly what's in there and I know that I have to use it. I also have a system, probably your video later, I'll show you what's in my fridge. You're hard at organising your pantry. Yeah. Okay, my tip is I guess cook once, eat twice. So especially for say single people couples or families, just when you cook make a larger serving so that you can divide that and that can be your dinner for tonight and then your lunch for tomorrow. So and also, I mean, you eat a little bit less, which is obviously always good for our wastelands as well as our wallets, but you have cook once, eat twice and make the most of your top-of-the-wire containers. You know, when you're serving your plate, whatever is left over, put straight into the top-of-the-wire container so that you can put into the fridge after it's cooled down and there is your lunch for tomorrow. Absolutely. Yeah. So when we cook twice, sometimes it's good, it just gets for our fair tip is about freezing meals. So again, I have all glass containers so when I make a food, I can put that straight in the freezer, I can pull it straight out to frost it, put it in the oven. So always, sometimes I will cook for four. The other thing is to freeze leftovers. So quite often people will do anything in time. They'll just throw it in the bin. Well, I give it to the dogs. Yes. So yes. Which is why Giseby is on a diet. So it's really important that we take that food. I remember when I was a kid, my mum used to do this thing every week, we would have left overnight so she would take everything out of the fridge, reheat it and we would just eat all of it, a whole nish mash of stuff. So that could be half a steak from one night or a lift over the stairs to get your bowl of nish. Whatever it is, we would just eat it all up. And you can take things like that bit of meat and turn into a steak salad. There's so many things you can maximize the usage of that food. Okay, the next one is my tip and this is one I picked up from doing my frugal February or financial fastest I like to call it is planning your meals. So, you know, looking at your diary sound like Sunday night and going all right for the minute for Monday night, I'm going to eat this for Tuesday night, I'm going to eat that. Wednesday night, I plan your foods and obviously match them against your activity so you know when you're going to be working late or when you're going to be eating it with friends you don't buy food for that night. And when you go to the supermarket, only buy what is on that food plan. Don't deviate, don't start adding all these like high sugar, fatty snack, eat meat, snacky meals in there. Stick to what is just on your food plan. Don't deviate and I know for myself I'm such a sucker of this I see things in the checkout and there's a little things on special. I think I'll grab that for rock or my and I look at eating it myself but stick strictly to your food plan for the week. Absolutely. And the other thing is to pay attention to what you don't use. So I don't go for an I'd go to her house for coffee every week and every week she'd sit there and empty her fridge from all the food that they had eaten. And after a few weeks I started thinking she keeps throwing out the same food every week. Maybe no one in her house likes broccoli, how about we stop buying broccoli. So be conscious about what you're throwing out, be conscious of how much you're using. If you get to the end of the week and you still got a fridge left of groceries maybe you don't need to buy so much. Exactly. And it's amazing how quickly those things can add up and also it's it doesn't when you look in your fridge and you see food that's going off you just don't feel inspired to cook and you know you can kind of get you down a bit when you think oh what's the point I just waste all this money on food. Okay so there are my top five tips on how to stop wasting food. We hope you've liked it. If you haven't already you should definitely check out Leela's channel momentum for life and we will be doing some more videos. We promise we'll make you that video on how to organize your pantry and I think we should also do one on how to organize your fridge because mine is a disgrace. Okay so we'll see you next time on lifestyle love as part of the food efficiency playlist. Bye!