Pre-Grocery Reset

Nobody likes spending $$$ on groceries and nobody likes throwing away food! Here comes the pre-shop reset. Before you make your grocery list, right when things start feel almost bare and undesirable in the fridge you need to do a reset. The KEY is to do it during the time you plan to cook dinner and do an EASY but delicious dinner because the reset will take time and make lots of dishes so you don’t want dinner to also do that. Take everything out of the fridge that’s looking floppy, sad, and even a bit moldy and put it on the counter. Take stock of what’s salvageable, what’s compost, and what needs a little imagination. Today that was turning sad herbs, and a last couple anchovies and capers into an Italian salsa verde, very pathetic rhubarb into compote, parm that was poorly stored into the food processor to make it crumbled and ready to be used with abandon (rather that the hard and sort of moldy situation it had been), a couple potatoes that were not their best anymore cooked in the instant pot, then a pot of beans! Also prepped celery and carrots and plopped them in water so they perk up and are easy to eat as well as washing and spinning greens so they are salad ready. Tomorrow I will feel like there’s lots of food to eat! And tonight we had an easy zhuzhed up jarred pasta sauce on penne and salad.  The fridge and our minds are ready for making a grocery list and very little had to go into the compost.