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Keeping Good Food From Going to Waste

The average family of 4 in the U.S. spends $1,600/year on food they never eat!

It’s EASY to save $$$ at home by eating what you buy, with these tools:

Wasted Food Prevention
Tool Box:

SMART STRATEGIES: Planning, Shopping, Prep
Smart Planning: Meal Planner
Smart Shopping: Meals in Mind Shopping List
Smart Prep: Prep Now, Eat Later
D.I.Y. Wasted Food Discovery Week form
(to notice which foods you’re wasting and why)

EN ESPAÑOL
ESTRATEGIAS SAGACES: Planificar, Comprar, Preparar
Mi Plan de las Comidas
Piense en sus Comidas Mientras Compre Alimentos
Sea Sagaz: PREPARE AHORA, DISFRUTE DESPUÉS
Formulario Que Le Indica Qué Tantos Alimentos Desperdicia

SMART STRATEGIES: Storage
A-Z Fruit and Vegetable Storage Guide
Smart Saving: “Eat First” Sign
Freezer Inventory List
FDA’s Refrigerator and Freezer Storage Chart 
Freezing Fruits and Vegetables
Freezing Convenience Foods

EN ESPAÑOL
ESTRATEGIAS SAGACES: Almacenamiento
Guía de cómo Almacenar Frutas y Verduras
Ahorros Sagaces: ¡COMER 1°!
Lista de los Contenidos
Tabla Formulada Para el Propósito

Thanksgiving Leftovers

IN THE NEWS:  NFLB Director, Jeanette Hardison, made a recent appearance on KOIN TV’s AM Extra show, to share useful strategies on avoiding wasted food on Thanksgiving and beyond. Check it out!

Kitchen Confessions Blog

Waste-less cooking for one can be fun!

Greetings, Conscientious Food Consumers! Back in the pre-COVID era when we tabled regularly at the Corvallis winter and downtown Farmers’ Markets, I had interesting encounters…

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Keeping spices spicy with Smart Storage

Greetings, Conscientious Food Consumers! After an unsettling start to this New Year, I’m finding a lot of comfort in the kitchen these days. (Not just…

Keeping spices spicy with Smart StorageRead More

Our Top Takeaways of 2020, for 2021

Happy New Year, Conscientious Food Consumers! We, the staff of Kitchen Confessions, would like to extend to you a virtual pat on the back for…

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Smart shopping and $aving — not just for the holidays!

Happy Holiday Greetings, Conscientious Food Consumers! As we head into the final stretch of this unprecedented year, we hope you are discovering some new and…

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Happy fridges for happy holidays

Greetings, Conscientious Food Consumers! We hope your first (and hopefully last) Pandemic Thanksgiving was safe, enjoyable, and as waste-free as possible! For myself, I’m happy…

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Counting our blessings and $avings this Thanksgiving

Greetings, Conscientious Food Consumers! With Pandemic Thanksgiving 2020 just days away, we here at No Food Left Behind have already started counting our blessings: We’ve…

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Talking Turkey and wasting less

Greetings, Conscientious Food Consumers! Only two weeks until our first Pandemic Thanksgiving! It’s time to “talk turkey” (even for vegans and vegetarians) about less wasted…

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Adventures in Leftover Land

Greetings Conscientious Food Consumers! With Thanksgiving not far off, we figured we’d get ahead of the game and talk leftovers in this installment of Kitchen…

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No more “freeze it and forget it”!

If you were expecting a lurid foodie tale about eager veggies, twisting around each other in the privacy of soil, only to be exposed by…

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Pumpkin guts are good for you!

Greetings, Conscientious Food Consumers! Another pandemic milestone is fast approaching — Halloween without much trick-or-treating. Thank goodness pumpkin carving is still CDC-approved! So is, we…

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How do you like (not waste) them apples?

Greetings, Conscientious Food Consumers! Apples are a quintessential taste of autumn. Whether you enjoy them fresh off the tree or from the market, where would…

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Check before you chuck it

Greetings, Conscientious Food Consumers! As we hurtle toward the holidays and the dark days of winter, so many are planning ahead, stocking up and proactively…

Check before you chuck itRead More

Photo credit: OSU Extension

Zukes & cukes & squash, oh my! It’s Preservation Time.

Greetings, Conscientious Food Consumers! With the colors of fall brightening our dwindling hours of daylight, the harvest scramble is underway, along with a new season…

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Caring and sharing food in a crisis: “It’s On Us Corvallis”

Greetings, Conscientious Food Consumers! Blessed rain has returned to western Oregon during the past week, bringing fresh air to our lungs and progress in the…

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Post-apocalypse produce

Cover photo: squash plant ash accumulation in backyard garden in Corvallis (Staff photo) Ash accumulations on bean plant leaves, lettuce, and tomato plants (Photos courtesy…

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No Questions Left Behind (ok, a few)

Greetings, Conscientious Food Consumers! As autumn approaches, we can all look back on how our lives have changed since March, and the reality of COVID-19.…

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Mind your ‘maters!

Greetings, Conscientious Food Consumers! When was the last time you delighted in the taste experience of a ripe exploding cherry tomato? For many, one of…

Mind your ‘maters!Read More

‘Chillin’ with those summertime fruits and veggies

Greetings, Conscientious Food Consumers! It’s “chillin’ time” — mid-summer — here in the Mid-Willamette Valley. We endured a heat wave in late July with near-triple-digits,…

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No strawberries left behind… And hooray for the harvesters!

Greetings, Conscientious Food Consumers! We Willamette Valley dwellers are so blessed to be living in one of the largest berry-producing regions in the country. Strawberry…

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Hooray for our local “helpers”! And less wasted food.

Greetings, Conscientious Food Consumers! Now that we’ve all had a number of weeks of staying home and doing our part to fight the spread of…

Hooray for our local “helpers”! And less wasted food.Read More

Not just another Earth Day

Happy Quarantine Earth Day, Conscientious Food Consumers! It’s the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, and the theme is Climate Action, as it should be! We…

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Welcome to Kitchen Confessions!

Hello, Conscientious Food Consumers! No Food Left Behind, a project of the Corvallis Sustainability Coalition, welcomes you to our new “Kitchen Confessions” blog for sharing…

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Did you know? In the US, Wasted Food Accounts For...

By making small shifts in how we shop, store, and prepare food, we can keep the valuable resources used to produce and distribute food from going to waste.

Food is typically wasted when we buy more than we need, store it incorrectly, throw away leftovers or just cook too much.  The term “wasted food” is used instead of “food waste” because our program is especially addressing perfectly edible food, not just kitchen scraps.  The average Oregonian throws out 300 lbs. of food per year!  Use our website’s Smart Strategies to help prevent wasted food in YOUR home.

Courtesy of EPA, Sources on Graphics:
USDA Economic Research Service,(ERS) Total and Per Capita Value of Food Loss in the United State (2012); USDA ERS , The Value of Retail- and Consumer- Level Fruit and Vegetable Losses in the United States (2011); Venkat, The Climate Change and Economic Impacts of Food Waste in the United States (2012): Hall et al, The Progressive Increase of Food Waste in America and Its Environmental Impacts (2009)

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