I’ve been living alone this year and for the first time have been cooking for just me. The cooking itself has been fun, but the shopping has been hard. Whenever I go to the store, I buy much more veggies and herbs than I actually need, because my internal calculations for how much I need is out of whack. Fast forward a week or so and I open the fridge to find that the remaining veg has gone bad (rotting or fungus or both). I’ve also found that onions (onions!) go bad after a point. So now for veg that needs to go in the fridge, I buy two or three of each. This has led to much less food wastage, and an actually clean fridge.