Home & Kitchen

Guides, working tools, and checklists for running a kitchen that wastes less food and less money. Ten sections, all usable today.

A reading path, in order

The five guides below build on each other. Read them top to bottom, then use the tools in the other tabs — the calculator, the unit price tool, and the checklists — to put each one into practice the same week.

  1. 1
    Shop Your Kitchen First: The Five-Minute Check That Shrinks Every List

    Begin at home: the five-minute check that shortens every list.

  2. 2
    First In, First Out: The Restaurant Habit That Ends Cupboard Archaeology

    Set up the shelf so older food gets used before newer food.

  3. 3
    The One-Week Food Waste Audit: Find the Money You Are Throwing Away

    Measure a week of waste and put a dollar figure on it.

  4. 4
    Batch Cooking Basics: Cook Once, Eat All Week

    Turn one relaxed session into a week of ten-minute dinners.

  5. 5
    Stocking a First Kitchen: The Short List That Cooks a Hundred Dinners

    The short staple list that keeps recombining into food.