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11/21/2025

Mashed potatoes: an investigation. Get the full report at the link in bio.

How many do you really need? How many have you used in the past and how has it gone? If you had extra in the past, is there a reason why you didn’t send them to me? These are all real and serious questions!

If you’ve found an ideal person-to-potato ratio, I’d love to hear about it!

eatortoss.com/how-many-potatoes-do-you-need-to-make-mashed-potatoes-for-a-crowd/

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11/19/2025

BLUE grapefruit peel? Yellow broccoli? Mysterious blueberry something or other? Oh my!

Check out the latest on EatOrToss at eatortoss.com/foods or via 🔗 in bio

Would you eat or toss? Get the story and the science behind each scenario on EatOrToss.

10/06/2025

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🍌Can bananas be too overripe, even for banana bread?
🥦What if your broccoli looks yellow?
🥭What are those sunken black spots on mangos?
🍌Why do some bananas have brown drippy stains?

Would you eat or toss? Get the story and the science behind each scenario on EatOrToss.

09/29/2025

Which recipes do you reach for when you want to use up a bunch of ingredients? For inspiration, I rounded up a bunch from around the world for . They’re all flexible and adaptable, many with stories and names that speak to their food-waste-preventing powers. Oh, and they’re delicious crowd pleasers too 😋.

🔗 in bio

I’d love to hear about which resonate as well as your own tried and true go-tos! Especially today as it’s the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste 🥗♻️🥗

Thanks to and for help with low-waste ideas, tips and recipes. And 🙏 and .krystal for guidance, editing, bringing this story to readers.

08/28/2025

🥗Check out these new posts on EatOrToss.com! (link in bio takes you to the EOT Food Index, where you’ll find an image that will link to the full story on each).

🥗Find something else in your kitchen you’re unsure about? Search EatOrToss.com/foods. There are hundreds of entries, but if you don’t see your issue covered, submit a question at eatortoss.com/questions!

06/18/2025

🥗Recent posts on EatOrToss.com!

🥗Go to EatOrToss.com/foods or go to the link in bio to find the full story on each.

🥗Find something in your own kitchen that you’re not sure about? Search EatOrToss’s Food Index (eatortoss.com/foods)! If you don’t see your issue covered, you can submit a question at eatortoss.com/questions

06/13/2025

🌱So fun to spend yesterday morning weeding, harvesting and learning at Lederer Gardens with . Beautiful weather, great company and an amazing cause. like this grew and distributed more than 14,000 pounds of food during the growing season in 2024!

🌱More information on the farms, veggie giveaways and volunteering: dpr.dc.gov/page/communal-farms-and-partner-urban-farms

06/09/2025

😋Have you checked out 👀the winners of the Food Waste Prevention Week Cooking Challenge? Head to the link in ’s bio for the full listing!

😋 They shared creative, inspired, delicious dishes, which all used ingredients, from nearly discarded pumpkins to garnishes left on a restaurant plate, that would have been easy to toss. Congrats to:

😋 And thank you to everyone who entered from across the country and as far away as South Africa! We loved reading every entry and settling on the winners was tough. All entries were slam dunks on our mission to normalize and celebrate low-waste cooking. Stay tuned for next year’s challenge!

05/30/2025

Great to be back in to debunk some food date label myths. I hope you’ll check it out, via the link in bio. It’s crazy out there in date label land!

Hat tip to for capturing the overwhelm in that illustration. And thanks to the always supportive for editing and seeing this story through!

05/01/2025

🍽️Thanks to everyone who entered the 2025 Food Waste Prevention Week Cooking Challenge!

🍽️Whether you entered or not, we hope you’ll join us as we announce the winners on Friday, May 2 at 11:30 a.m. Please register via the link in bio on .

🍽️We’ll be keeping things short, informal and full of inspiration for meals and recipes that will help you avoid waste.

🍽️We’ve nearly finished judging and it is so challenging! The entries are creative, ingenious and incredibly resourceful. Please join us to congratulate all who entered and to pat yourself on the back if you participated yourself. See you soon!

04/23/2025

How will you score on this quiz I put together for 🤔

Check it out via the link in bio (or in print today!) and let me know how you do. Some carefully selected and tricky scenarios here 🧐🤓😏

Thanks to for guidance and making it shine! And I’m loving the clay illustrations by .

04/20/2025

Ok, so it’s not terribly well hidden, but what’s up with one of these eggs? Was the chicken doing some abstract egg decorating? Swipe to learn what’s going on!

For more about weird eggshells and eggs, head to the link in bio or eatortoss.com/foods/eggs/

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