I (this is just for me) want to participate in this thread as a way of keeping myself accountable and reducing food, not so much waste, but figuring out alternative uses for things so I can buy less.
For ex, I'm going to make meatballs tonight, but I don't have any bread crumbs. I do have oats though that I use to make granola and can turn those into flour because I only need 1/3 cup. This way I don't have to buy another container of something I rarely use.
I did buy some groceries earlier this week so I'm going to try to make it the rest of the month w/out buying anything other than vegetables, maybe fruit.
I buy pasture raised chicken and it was 50% off, so I stocked up.
8 lbs chicken, 2 lbs of ground beef, and 15 eggs.
2 lbs of green beans, 1.5 lbs carrots, 1.5 lbs broccoli, 24 oz frozen strawberries and bananas (3 8 oz packs), and 2 lemons.
1 lb flour, 2 lbs pasta, 3 lbs oats, 2 cups rice (uncooked).
1.9 lbs honey, 7 oz coconut oil, 1.8 lbs sugar.
8 oz chocolate chips, 4 oz dried cherries, 3.75 candy bars (3 oz), 2 bags of chips (6.5 oz), 2 ginger ales (7.5 ozs).
*theses weights are estimates, I don't own a food scale*.
So, looking at that, I could live off chocolate and flour/oats for a little while. I go through phases where I try to quit ginger ale so this is the last of a 6 pk. I primarily drink water.
Tonight, I used one pack of the chicken (barbecued chicken), half a bag of spinach, and 3 old potatoes + 2 eggs (turned into potato salad). That will last me a couple more meals.
The strawberries and bananas, I thought I'd eat with granola, but the texture of the bananas is gross to me. Those are going to have to be smoothies even though I'm not really a smoothie person. I forgot about the thing (10 oz can) of collagen(powdered) I bought last year, about 8 oz left. Will add that to the smoothies.