EatOrToss

19/12/2024

How fun to hang out with Stephanie Miller and talk fighting food waste on the Al Travis Show this morning!

05/12/2024

Just a little round up of some EatOrToss adventures last month!

➡️New posts on the site:
🥒 Yellow cucumbers
🥑 Avocado with a dark spot and hole near the pit
🥚 White patch on top of an egg

Get the scoop on each image at the top of the Food Index of EatOrToss.com - start with the Link in bio! And always send me your images of weird fruits, vegetables and other foods!

https://www.eatortoss.com/foods/

Also featuring:
➡️ 🍌 “Trash muffins.” These are a riff on flour-free Banana Muffins in Perfectly Good Food by Margaret Li and Irene Li of . They’re mostly peanut butter (an added sugar kind we accidentally acquired and didn’t like), egg and overripe bananas from the depths of the freezer. I tossed a lot of random things in these (cookie crumbs, m&ms, the salt from the bottom of a bag of nuts) and they turned out like little banana souffles. Love them! Get the cookbook via the EatOrToss Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/eatortoss
➡️🥧 That time I took an awkwardly shaped slice of pie and retaliated. We picked this delicious pumpkin pie up at in

28/11/2024

🥁In honor of Thanksgiving, presenting the Peculiar Potato Parade! Plus one sweet potato that muscled its way in 😎

🥁Get the stories on these spuds at the EatOrToss Potato Index, via the link in bio (and navigate to the Sweet Potato Index for the story on our muscular friend). In the meantime wishing you an amazing holiday in which all your mashed potato dreams come true. I’m grateful for you and thanks for being here!

25/11/2024

It was so fun to chat with Melissa Pflugh Prescott, co-director of the new Center for Food Conservation and Waste Reduction , about helping kids eat well while minimizing food waste at Thanksgiving. Swipe for her tips! And find more at the link in bio.

Melissa is also an assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University, where she studies human behavior around food waste and nutrition, including as it relates to kids. Our conversation centered around little ones, but I think these are great tips for grown-ups too!

22/11/2024

Back in with tips on subtle and life-simplifying ways you can cook less and waste less on Thanksgiving. Get them at the link in bio and a nice preview over ’s insta! Meanwhile, I’m always here to help with any mashed potatoes at risk of going to waste 😋.

With thanks to and others for sharing their insights. And 🙏 to editors and . 🤩 illustration by

https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2024/11/21/thanksgiving-food-waste-tips/

12/11/2024

🥗 Is it too late to do a month in review post? Hopefully not because here we are with a roundup of October, plus a silly pic from September at the end 😊

🥗 Last month EatOrToss published posts about:
✅ Black spots on kale (with thanks to )

✅ Hollow heart watermelons (with thanks to for the image and help with the post)

✅ Little, crater-like spots on avocado peels

✅ Yellow cucumbers (with thanks to )

Full posts are at the top of the Food Index at eatortoss.com/foods Link in bio!

I also had so much fun touring the at . Big thanks to Macarena Farcuh and her team for having me. More on that soon! And my family loved the Mid Atlantic Grain Fair from . If you live in the DC area and didn’t go this year, definitely check it out next year.

Plus, swipe to the end for one of my favorite pics from the awards at the end of September. Marry the one who sees a silly photo op and knows EXACTLY what to do.

06/11/2024

🧡 This pig wants your pumpkins! And so do her goat and chicken friends! If you have (not moldy, not painted) pumpkins that are ready to move on, drop them off at a farm. (Composting is great, but feeding animals is an even better use!). has a national database of farms, sanctuaries and other locations that are eager for your pumpkins.

🧡 Check out our profile of them at the link in bio. Save the pumpkins! Feed the piggies!

🧡 Photos courtesy of Pumpkins for Pigs and their partners! Including

31/10/2024

👻 Happy Halloween! We’ve rounded up some of our spookiest foods…

👻 What do you think? Would you eat them? Find out which are OK and which aren’t by searching the name of the food at EatOrToss.com.

27/09/2024

EatOrToss won! Digital Media award in the blog category 🤩🤩🤩

So grateful to the IACP judges, EatOrToss readers and every scientist who has ever responded to my queries! And of course to Ben Moss for all his support always 💕. When I first started the site, I had no idea it would one day lead me to an awards stage in Brooklyn, but I’m now more determined than ever to keep helping people reduce food waste while making safe decisions about what’s ok to eat. Also wacky food facts. Always here to talk about the crazy science of what we eat 🤓.

Before the awards ceremony I attended the IACP Summit. It was awesome and I met so many kind, food media folks—totally recommend it to anyone who writes about food! Congrats to the IACP team on putting together a fantastic event and to all the other finalists and winners for their outstanding work in an industry that’s ever changing.

Now pumped for the next chapter of EatOrToss!

16/08/2024

Exciting news! EatOrToss is a finalist in the 2024 Digital Media awards 🤩😁🤩😁🤩.

I’m so thrilled! And honored to be named alongside some folks whose work I really admire. Next stop: the awards ceremony in Brooklyn next month.

https://www.iacp.com/awards/2024-iacp-awards-finalists/

31/07/2024

In again to debunk some questionable jar storage hacks that keep popping up on social media.

Link in bio!

Just, please be wary of advice to put your fresh produce (which is alive and breathing!) in tightly sealed jars to extend its life. Same goes for leaving anything in water for weeks on end (though a short term stint in water to keep veggies crisp is fine).

And thanks to for expert editing and scientists at and and for sharing insights and helping me parse the science for this story!

18/07/2024

In this piece for post my hope was to highlight (without guilt tripping!) the spectrum of ways parents can green up children’s birthday parties. Some require more effort, but some can actually help simplify parents’ lives.

I hope you’ll read (link in bio) and I’d love to hear about your own low-waste party wins!

With thanks to for ideas and insights!

11/07/2024

♻️Thanks to Nycci Safier Nellis for including EatOrToss in this excellent conversation about fighting food waste for her Industry Night podcast!

♻️, and Claudia Fabiano with and I talked about everything from national action to composting to the consumers’ power on this issue. Hope you can listen!

♻️Link in bio! Also: https://thelistareyouonit.com/industry-night/when-in-doubt-dont-throw-it-out-industry-night-july-3-2024

11/07/2024

Thanks to Nycci Safier Nellis for including EatOrToss in this excellent conversation about fighting food waste! We talked about everything from national action to composting to the consumers’ power on this issue. Hope you can listen!

And welcome back to another episode of Industry Night. If you join me on YouTube, you will see I am in a new location this wee, and for the next four weeks, and a little excited about it. Back in September, I was here at the Capital Jewish Museum for a sit down with the team to talk exhibits, archit...

07/06/2024

🌎 Rachael Jackson of and Stephanie Miller of are excited to team up on a new sustainability workshop series tailored to your organization’s audience. Together, we will take your group out of its routine and delve into the individual power we have to tackle the plastic and food waste crises.

🌏 See link in bio for more details. If you’re looking for unique, empowering and customized programming please get in touch! We’d love to come to your organization and talk sustainability!

https://www.eatortoss.com/finding-your-impact/
https://www.zerowasteindc.com/finding-your-impact

01/05/2024

and I are going live on Insta Thursday (that's tomorrow)! We'll be recapping the amazing submissions to the first ever Food Waste Prevention Week Cooking Challenge. Every entry was inspiring, and five of them will be named winners.

Join us at 1 p.m. ET/ 10 a.m. PT! BYO brilliantly upcycled snacks!

18/04/2024

I'd be thrilled if you took some time to read my piece in
this week. It's about the delicious, waste-fighting and money-saving things that happen when you eat what you have and only buy what you need.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2024/04/15/food-waste-shop-less-cook-what-you-have/

Thanks for reading and for anything you do to minimize your food waste today and always 💚

With shoutouts to , and Tamar Adler, whose insights were perfect for this story, and thanks to editors and for going for this piece and seeing things through! Awesome illustration by !

As an Earth Month challenge, take a look in your fridge, freezer and pantry to come up with meals and do your part to cut down on food waste.

09/04/2024

Today’s the last day to enter the ! It has been so inspiring to see waste-preventing meals, treats and drinks submitted from across the country. Thanks to everyone who has participated so far! You all have so many great ideas!

Winners will be announced at a live event on Friday, April 26. In the meantime, you can search and scroll through this post for a peak at some of the 🤩 😋 entries we've gotten so far.

You can still enter at: https://www.foodwastepreventionweek.com/recipe. You don't need a recipe -- just a quick description of what you made and how it prevented waste.

One of these is from , whose book, No Scrap Left Behind, will be coming out soon. We can't wait to check it out!