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Can’t use all your produce? The good news that you can freeze almost every fruit and veggie for future use. Helping you save seasonal goodness, while persevering precious nutrients in the process. So make friends with your freezer with these waste-free ideas.
When it comes to the fight against food waste, one of the easiest things we can do in the kitchen is to make sure we are making good use of the whole ingredient. Root-to-stem cooking is a form of intentional cooking where every part of the plant plays an important role in the dishes we create. Plus, it’s a tasty solution that can help reduce your environmental impact and your grocery bill by up to 25%! This eco-friendly, culinary trend has quickly gained momentum to become a staple in home cooking, try it for yourself by following a few of these simple ideas.
Wilting lettuce in the crisper drawer, uneaten leftovers in the back of the fridge, broccoli stalks tossed in the trash - all of it really adds up. Households in the U.S. waste a staggering 76 billion pounds of food per year. About 68% of that trashed food could have been eaten. If that’s not enough, the average person in the U.S. wastes about 21% of the food they buy, costing them approximately $1800 per year!
According to the UN Food & Agriculture Organization, about 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted worldwide every year, and of this, fruit and vegetables have the highest wastage rates of any food type. While much of this occurs on the farm or at retail, a lot happens right in your kitchen. The biggest offenders? Lettuce, tomatoes, bananas and grapes. Check out our top produce saving tips for the ones that get tossed the most.
Round up of favorite recipe ideas to help you reimagine your random remnants, to help ensure that no leftover gets left behind and make this holiday season truly zero waste,
Recently, we were contacted by our old friend, Pastor Ben at Christian Life Center. Pastor Ben was a positive force in helping support our business from the very start. We’re thrilled to make a special donation to his hunger-solving program.
A Hungry Harvest grocery delivery does so much more than just bring fresh food to your door. Every purchase makes a difference in our communities and beyond.
We’re ready to redefine the traditional cookout by moving veggies to the main course and giving them a more of that flame-broiled love.
Can you support farmers markets & Hungry Harvest at the same time? If you’re a fruit & veggie fan like us, nothing says summertime like a trip to the farmers market. Locally grown, seasonal finds, community oriented...we totally get it. We asked some of our coworkers how a trip to a farmers market & Hungry Harvest coexist in their lives.
A whole lot of produce goes to waste before it even gets close to our homes - on farms, at wholesalers, at grocery. We love fighting this kind of waste with every single delivery. But food waste doesn’t stop there. Here are some tips on making sure we all use our whole Harvest and fight all the food waste!
On 5/5 Hungry Harvest is turning 5! So in honor of our Golden Birthday, we asked our founder and CEO, Evan, to tell us his favorite golden moments of the past 5 years.
We’ve all talked about freezing obvious things like fruits for smoothies and blanched veggies for later use. We’ve even talked about freezing our scraps for stock. But did you know there are loads of unexpected fruits and veggies that you can freeze in the fight against food waste in your home?
According to the EPA, the average American throws away about 4 pounds of trash per day! Surely we can do better than that. So for day Day 6 of our Hungry Harvest 30 Day Challenge, we’re asking you to make note of how much or how little you’re actually tossing in a day by performing a Home Waste Audit.
It has been estimated that 20% of fruits & veggies are lost or wasted at the farm level nationwide. Now we know it could be double that.
There are lots of way to give produce that is past its prime a new life. So before you consider tossing anything into the compost bin, shed those guilty feelings and check out our top 10 ideas to use up all the little leftover pieces of produce that you don’t want to see go to waste, even if it is not ready to star as the main attraction.
20 billion pounds of produce goes to waste every year and with so many articles covering the problem in the news lately, we decided to pose some of the biggest questions out there to one of our suppliers for an honest perspective on food waste.
Before embracing a healthy lifestyle, I had a bad relationship with food. Food was my comfort when I didn’t have another way of coping with the curveballs life can often throw our way. Years later, I discovered the benefits of a plant-based diet, and it changed my life.
A few essential tools and tips for embracing a positive mindset shift in your food and life choices.
2019 is off to a great start and I’m grateful for the opportunity to lead the team of Hungry Harvesters on a mission to build a better food system by taking the time to invest in and care about the wellbeing of our communities. Thank you for helping us make this all a reality.
This New Year we’re welcoming 2019 like we welcome all our rescued produce - with hearts full of compassion & radical acceptance. At a time when there is a heightened sense of presenting your best self for all of the world to critique and comment, far too often, we are our own worst critic, rarely taking the time to acknowledge that for the most part, we’re pretty good already.