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The Wirecutter Show

Creative Ways to Waste Less Food

The Wirecutter Show

The New York Times

Wirecutter, Education, Life Hacks, Product Testing, Products, Product Recommendations, Society & Culture, Advice, How To, Leisure, New York Times, Home & Garden, Testing, Recommendations

4.4894 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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0:00.0

From the New York Times, you're listening to The Wirecutter Show.

0:06.4

Hey, everyone, it's The Wirecutter Show.

0:08.9

I'm Cairo Blackwell.

0:10.3

I'm Christine Sirclicette.

0:11.8

And I'm Rosie Garron, and we work at Wirecutter, the product recommendation site from the New York Times.

0:17.9

Each week, we bring you expert advice from our newsroom of 140 journalists who review everyday products that will make your life better.

0:26.1

This episode of The Wirecutter Show is called Creative Ways to Waste Less Food.

0:37.3

Christine, Kaira, I want to talk this week about food waste.

0:41.5

Oh, that's a good.

0:42.3

Very good topic.

0:43.2

You know, I have two toddlers.

0:44.4

You both know that, which means, you know, a diet of soggy toast and cold scrambled eggs.

0:49.7

Yum.

0:50.4

I know.

0:51.1

Jelly.

0:51.6

Delicious.

0:52.4

No, but what it actually means, I mean, among many other things, is that we waste food.

0:57.9

Yeah, those little toddlers, they're terrible about eating everything on their plates. I've noticed this.

1:02.0

I did not anticipate this part of parenting. And honestly, I want to curb it. I want to get better.

1:07.1

Yeah. I had the same issue when my kids were little. I felt like a garbage disposal, like I would just eat everything on their plate or throw it out. That like can't be the technique.

1:14.4

No, it can't. There has to be a better way. This is a big issue for the environment and for people's

1:20.5

budgets. We have a piece on the site about how to reduce food waste. And in that piece, we cite a couple of

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