Throw Out Your Leftovers Day
Let’s face it, there’s a dark dreary backwater to most our refrigerators that are the province of only the most brave. Traveling here is bound to lead us to the mold-ridden graves of food long forgotten, or if you’re in the US, the Thanksgiving Leftover’s that are finally ready to...
Position food storage solutions, meal-prep containers, and food waste reduction products as the antidote to forgotten leftovers and kitchen waste.
- Before & After: Transform Your Fridge Organization (container brands, storage solutions)
- The Leftover Rescue Guide: 5 Ways to Repurpose Last Week's Dinner
- Food Waste Audit: How Much Are You Throwing Away? (sustainability angle)
- Smart Fridge Labels & Dating Systems: Never Forget a Leftover Again
Throughout the year there’s an epidemic, an epidemic of food being stored in the fridge and forgotten as it rots away in its plastic containers and saran wrapped plates.
How it came to pass that leftovers started suffering this fate is multi-leveled and starts with poor shopping and food preparation habits. Preparing the right amount of food for your family or a group of people is a challenge that we’re not often taught to meet, leaving us overcompensating to make sure there’s enough for everyone. When we instead wind up with too much, we store it in the fridge and forget about it.
The next component is the idea that it’s now ‘old food’, and that it is no longer truly good for consumption or at the very least isn’t as good as ‘fresh food’ made that day. This is obviously a fallacy, just take a look at pizza! It’s the best tomorrow food leftover ever! Throw Out Your Leftovers Day is the perfect opportunity to not only get rid of the old food stashed in the back of your refrigerator, and the habits that led to it being there, to begin with!