On a related note, don’t throw away hard bread. Cut it into cubes, roast it in a pan with some butter, and serve as croutons with soup or salad.
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Yes they’re typically silly expensive and way more than fresh strawberries hence my surprise.
My local store had this specific product: https://www.volupta.com/freeze-dried-strawberries
If you use the Costco app there’s a button on it that pulls up local warehouse inventory & in-store prices (bypasses the costco website entirely, which can’t be used for in-store product lookups or pricing). Because Costco’s vary widely on brand & offerings based on regional availabilities the app is indispensable just for verifying they have something and double-checking prices ahead of time.
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I usually freeze anything I’m not cooking right away and keep everything else in the fridge. I also think meal planning really helps prevent waste.
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To that point; vacuum sealing makes your food last roughly 50% longer while frozen, but there’s still a time limit for quality & “freshness” and also it will vary from freezer to freezer given all the variables (model, settings, ambient temps & humidity).
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As some of you know, I cook and meal prep on Saturdays. What you do not see off stream, depending on how long the actual stream was, is that I portion things and vacuum seal them. If I can put a whole cooked meal in a bag, I will. If not, then I put the separate ingredients in their own bags and then I write the weight of one portion on there.
Meal in a bag works well with a Sous Vide or a conventional/convection oven if you have one. A microwave oven is okay but not ideal for proteins.
Lastly having a little subsistence garden helps. Not only can you cook with fresh ingredients, but if you do have food waste, then you can compost and then add that stuff back into the garden.
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In my opinion, meal planning is the best option. It takes some time but the results are worth it.
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The only thing that goes bad in my house is bread. I think it’s because most of the stores in my area put the bread near freezers. So it molds within a week.
You know you can freeze bread too?
Like if you buy a loaf, can freeze a quarter and a second quarter, and as you near the end of the fresh half, can bring the first quarter out to start defrosting?
Obviously the energy used to freeze the bread, is probably as much as the bread you freeze, but it will reduce waste.
It’s a shame the chemicals make it mould before it goes stale, as stale bread can be used in cooking/breadcrumbing better than mouldy bread
Unless home made… Then it will start going stale, before it goes mouldy, as you won’t put the preservatives in it.
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I’ve heard before that most bread sold in American stores is around 50% fat by weight. I have no idea how we ended up with that, but it sure is weird compared to the rest of the world.
Quick check of my sliced bread bag says one 43 gram slice of bread has 1 gram of fat.
So maybe if a Twinkie is being considered bread?
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I think it was a video talking about generic sliced white bread like Wonder brand and knock-offs. I remember having some as a kid that would make me sick from all of the oil in it.
Twinkies are in a completely different universe. They shouldn’t even count as made for human consumption 
EDIT: I found the video I was thinking of:
The type of white bread that most americans use for sandwiches is sometimes called “Toasting Bread” in other parts of the world. Unfortunately something went wrong with our version, and it’s transformed into a vaguely bread-like substance.
I may have gotten the sugar and fat mixed up. Maybe it was abnormally high sugar content instead of fat.
I do know that there is a wide variation between different brands, so while yours is pretty low-fat, not all are. Even the loaf shown in the video was fairly low-fat compared to cheaper brands that I’ve seen in the stores around here.
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It’s probably not very green or economical but I just buy in very small quantities such that the food isn’t around long enough to spoil.
This depends heavily on the availability of inexpensive produce in the immediate area, which not everyone is blessed with. Otherwise you spend all your time running to and from the store.
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I usually plan my meals a few days in advance, and I never grocery shop when I’m hungry.
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I just grab groceries for a few days at a time, I don’t stock up and I pretty much always end up using everything
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I have to store my 3D printer filament in special heavy-duty double Ziplock bags to keep humidity out.
Those bags work great at storing foods and for keeping humidity in.
Stuff like breads, croissants, donuts, muffins. etc will keep for a long time in 3D printing bags.
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