Plan Meals to Use Most Perishable Items First

You know you can save money on fruit and vegetable by shopping once a week, but throwing out spoiled food is a waste of food and money.

Plan your meals to use vegetables with a shorter shelf life, like salad items, first. Then use the less perishable items, like root vegetables later in the week.

Put softer fruits like bananas, berries and stone fruits in the fruit bowl straight after purchasing and bring out apples and oranges and the longer lasting fruit later.

By Sharon B. from Sydney, Australia