When it comes to organizing the fridge, it can be hard to know how to put all the different food in the right places without getting cross contamination. Wouldn’t it just be easier if all food could live in the cupboard without the worry? With raw meats having to be kept away from vegetables, and milk now apparently being best stored at the back of the fridge rather than the door it begins to get somewhat complicated as to where things are meant to go. Plus with nearly 40,000 supermarket stores in the U.S., and more than $5 trillion being spent a year there is a huge market for selling food for the home in America.
Unfortunately, with all the food that gets sold comes a lot of food waste. This includes over 38 million tons of produce that gets thrown in the garbage (the equivalent to a football stadium of waste in one day) which costs the U.S. over $165 billion a year to deal with the issue. The waste doesn’t just come from supermarkets binning perfectly good food either. The collection is added to daily by households that have too much food or food that has gone past its expiry date and ends up heading straight for the bin. To change this many stores have started to adopt an eco-friendly lifestyle to avoid having to throw so much of their produce away.
However, they can’t do this alone and need our help at home to combat the growing problem. One way in which we can help to tackle the issue of waste is to store our food correctly at home. A lot of us unknowingly store our food in the wrong places meaning we end up wasting perfectly good produce with it not being good enough for consumption anymore. We are here to help combat the issue though with some surprising and unexpected foods that you can very easily keep out of the refrigerator. Not only does this free up room for anything that needs to be in there, but it also helps give you space to organize the food safely, as well as prevent destroying produce you have bought. Win-win all round!
[post_page_title]Eggs[/post_page_title]
No one would think any less of you if you admit to keeping your eggs in the fridge as the debate has been ongoing to find the best place to store them. The answer has finally been discovered though, and the answer is at room temperature. Some studies have proven how keeping eggs cool alters their natural flavor that won’t be affected if they are kept outside. A countertop away from direct heat is the answer after all to where they need to be stored.
