Instructions: Shop from the salad bar to get just the amount of fruits and vegetable you can use before they go bad..

Chopped vegetables: Just heat and eat, or use them in stir fry.

Fruit salad: Great for a snack or dessert.

Taco-salad fixings: Look for shredded lettuce, chopped tomatoes, grated cheese and diced olives.

Frozen veggies: buy a 1-pound bags and pour out what you need, seal the bag with a twist-tie and toss it back into the freezer.

Buy small packages: Snack packs of fruits and puddings, the eight-pack of small boxes of cereal, single pouches of quick-cooking grains

Have the butcher make up a package of meat with one or two serving or buy he big packs and divide and freeze in single or double servings.

Buy yogurt, sour cream and cottage chess in the smallest sizes. Once youve opened the container, store it in the fridge upside-side down......with the lid on tightly. Because theres no air between the dairy product and the lid, mold wont be able to grow.

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