Tuesday With Tami #5 - Kitchen Hacks To Reduce Food Waste 

Another excellent presentation, loaded with helpful tips! Thanks Tami and Tom!

When I chop vegetables, I put the ends and scraps that I’m not going to use in a bag in the freezer. When the bag is full I use them to make vegetable broth. It’s wonderful in soups and I even use it to cook my rice in.

I keep a freezer bowl of cherry tomatoes all the time. Since, I’m the only one eating plant based, it takes a while before I make roasted veggies. I save up the tomatoes in my freezer bowl when I don’t use all of them for salads and just add them frozen to my tray of veggies to roast. Works great! I also save my kale stems when they are small and more tender, chop them, freeze them, and add them to my hummus. They don’t add any flavor, but it makes it a pretty green and adds nutrients.

Thanks for all the helpful tips! They help keep me motivated and I’m tired of wasting food. My sister-in-law loves cilantro and she’ll put it in a mason jar and freeze it. When she needs some she’ll take out some and quickly smack it on a cutting board holding onto the stems. It will destem them and shatter the leaves so minimal or no chopping.

So helpful. Really enjoy both of you. Thank you for sharing.

So many great ideas!

Congratulations! You contribute so much and deserve recognition.

My wife and I love your channel. Thank you very much.

I use the large microfiber towels from Sam’s Club to wrap up washed cilantro. After a few days I’ll check to see how their doing and re-wrap them up in a clean dry cloth. I buy 3 bunches at a time and I’ve been able to keep them for a couple of weeks! I use at least a cup of fresh cilantro in Medical Medium’s heavy metal detox smoothie daily. If I buy a container of pre-washed spinach, I’ll line the container with the microfiber towel, put the spinach in and the cover with another towel to keep spinach fresh for weeks!

Hi Folks! So many wonderful tips you shared in this video. Thank you! Thank you!. I love your channel. It's hard to watch them since they are so long. But I'm just one and understand.

Excellent content!

These tips are great

I always freeze onions in a freezer bag, but never thought to freeze cut up bell peppers. I love the two in my burrito bowl, so thanks for the great tip.

Wow, Tami and Tom! How did I miss this video earlier? These tips are fantastic and so helpful to have in one place! Thank you!

Helpful freezing tips. Cutting onions every evening can be a drag. Just popped (organic) red grapes into the freezer. Thanks, guys!

It's so nice that Tom does all the tech for you!

Check out the tomato paste - made in Italy that comes in a metal tube! It is PERFECT for those times when you want just a bit!

That's a great idea for organizing freezers with the greens plastic boxes.

Tami, I've watched many of your videos on RU-vid, and just wanted you to know this was one of my "favorites!" Thank you for all the great tips to freeze and preserve and use up our costly whole food plant based vegetables and fruits, etc. Excellent job!

I chop or dice peppers and freeze on a pan, then add to a freezer bag. Makes it easy to take amount I need for my recipe.

Congrats on your milestone. Thanks to you both for sharing with us!

Great tips. I've done some of them already. But dicing up celery and onions is one I hadn't thought of, but will start doing. I think I'll cut up just one celery stalk and measure it right away in a measuring cup to see what the yield is, and make a note. Because if the recipe calls for 2 stalks, and I diced up all the stalks, it will help to know the yield. Then I'll know how much to scoop out. Same with the onions; I'll dice up a medium onion and measure it out in a cup and see what the yield is, so I know if a medium onion is 1 cup or 1 1/2 cups. Hmmm, maybe someone already did that somewhere on-line; I'll check. Thanks Tami for the great hacks.

Awesome, congrats.

Thank you for all the great tips!

10,000 Congratulations to you Tami & Tom!! You have a very helpful show and so many great ideas! Really enjoy you two!👏🏼👍🏼🎉

Thanks so much for all the great ideas!

Congrats Tami,Tom. I use a cookie scoop ( they come in lots of sizes) when freezing paste and the likes.

I use the containers from Spring Mix to store my salad in the refrigerator. In the Spring, I use them to start garden seedlings.

Congratulations 🎉 Great tip on freezing the aquafaba. I always save mine, but sometimes forget, and it gets pushed to the back of the fridge... BOY does a little container really stink up your fridge if you forget about it 😆I'll freeze it from now on. Thanks

Excellent information! Thank you both. This sight is a great find!

Bravo! Tks for tons of helpful tips!😎

This video was so helpful! I will watch it again. I want to remember these marvelous tips. I had a few "wow" moments as I was amazed at the things I did not know before. Thank you for all you do! You are a joy to watch! Thank you to Tom as well! Your videos and recipes have helped me more than any other! Stay well!

Hi guys, Tip with the coriander is to blend it with a little water and freeze it cubes...A friend does that with spinach too :)

Great video, great tips. Here in the UK we can buy tomato purée (paste) in a tube. This means you only use what you need, and it keeps for ages. Also, if you want, you can mix up a little tomato powder with some water to make an instant tomato paste! That stuff is really useful. I have stopped buying mixed bags of salad leaves because they are expensive, and also I saw something pretty scary on TV about them - you sometimes find a bit of liquid at the bottom of the bag, and they analysed this and found it to be quite contaminated by bacteria! I now buy whole lettuces and a bag of baby spinach, and also a bag of rocket (can’t remember what you call that in the US but it looks a bit like dandelion leaves and has a peppery flavour). That’s the basis for my green salads these days. I have a Veggie Bullet which makes short work of finely shredding cabbage, carrots etc for a finely chopped salad. Today I made 2 huuuuuge bags - far more than I intended - so we will probably be eating salad till it comes out of our ears for the rest of the week!!

Congratulations! I really enjoy your channel. Thank!

You really do such a wonderful job in all your videos! Congratulations on your 10,000 subscribers!

Congratulations! Love all your tips and channel. Thank you.

Love your channel. Your tips and recipes are spot on.

10,000!!! Great job! Think of all the people you are helping get healthy “one meal at a time.”

Congrats on 10K! You both do great on these videos and I thank you for sharing! Keep up the good work...

Great tips!

Thanks for the freezing tips!

You both do a great job and I greatly appreciate the info!

Some good information! Thank you!!♥️

first time watching you guys and learned a ton!

Thank you soooo much Tami and Tom, such great ideas, I'm in the processes of trying to use up peaches in my spare freezer, my husband froze about 25-30 bags of chopped peaches from our peach tree, but, I love bell peppers to such a great idea, thanks for sharing!

Congratulations 🥂

Thank you... Thank you 😊

Congratulations! You deserve it! P. S. I dice my jalapeños before freezing. Even better homegrown. One plant gives me enough for quite awhile!

You can dehydrate the hummus into powder and rehydrate with water. Very TSA friendly.

Congratulations on your 10,000 subscribers (I am one of them), I enjoy your videos.

CONGRATS 🥳

Do you have plans to format your recipes for easy printing? I followed the link to the no oil hummus recipe but it didn’t have a print recipe option.

Aquafaba as an oil substitute!? Aahhh, your a Genius!!! Thank you for this tip. I won't be discarding it anymore after cooking the garbanzos in the pressure cooker!! ❤️ Thank you once again! ❤️

Hi Tammy and Tom, Thanks once again for a wonderful You Tube session....always informative. I was very curious about the snicker doodle humus and where might I find the recipe?

how long do the peppers, onions, etc. last in the freezer?

Congratulations from Australia ☀️☀️

Hi Tammy and Tom My fresh cilantro always goes bad I keep it in water in a mason jar and I put it in the refrigerator it still goes limp i don't use foil i read it is not healthy for you so how would i keep it fresh?

Tami, have you had any experience making basil pesto using aqua faba instead of oil? I have tons of fresh basil.

I kept waiting for what you do with that cilantro...I store mine in a water jar in frig, but it still starts to go bad...how do you preserve...thanks,

Tami they have tubes of tomato paste that is good for that and you can make a sauce or with soups like navy bean soup..💕🌴

me and my boyfriend love your videos! we are both vegan in SoCal; im whole foods plant based and hes a little junk food vegan (:

hi Tami. wash, dry and rap celery in aluminium foil, last longer. i have done this, and they last for weeks/

Another great video - thank you so much! I do have a question - do you store you cilantro in the water on the counter or in the fridge? I put cilantro in water and then inside a plastic bag in the fridge, but I am open to whatever works the best! Debbie in WA Ü

Can you make kale chips in the Breville?

What is the brand of tortilla shells. New to ur channel.

You guys are so cute together, you seem like such a happy couple ☺️

would you please post the height width and depth of the Breville. There seems to be some discrepancy online about the dimensions and I have such a tight space to consider using it in. The other thing I was hoping you could clarify is I noticed that you have the Breville in the corner without much space between the unit and the areas around it have you noticed any problem regarding the airflow. thank you I love your Channel

Funny Chipotle just launched a new drink watermelon and lime I think they copied you 😊