. 2022 Mar 21;25(9):2601–2613. doi: 10.1017/S1368980022000660

Table 4.

Food waste reduction techniques reported in interviews (n 11)

Theme	Illustrative quote
Food resource management	I try to always go in the fridge and see what needs to be used up … what can we make with what we’ve got here … My wife, we’ll get something new and she’ll wanna use it and I’m like, “No, we should use the older stuff [first]” … I know, I want [to eat the new food] too, but we’ve got other stuff that we don’t wanna throw away. – PAE Participant 5, Male, Family of 2 (no children) I love that vegetable soup we made [in class] … because before the vegetables expire in the refrigerator, you can cook [that recipe] to use them up. – PAE Participant 10, Female, Family of 3 (1 child) I always thought … “I gotta put [all vegetables] in the refrigerator to keep them [from going bad].” But you don’t … We learned about not putting everything in the refrigerator [in M2MP]. – PAE Participant 8, Female, Family of 2 (1 child)
Food placement	I try to put my vegetables in the front and center of my refrigerator, so I know you gotta cook them. They’re like right there. So, I try not to waste stuff … We have a snack basket at home now, so we have more options I guess because I’ll cut up like the carrots and the celery and stuff like that or whatever and then that will be more of an obvious option. – PAE Participant 10, Female, Family of 3 (1 child) I think it was probably the fruits that, it’s like if they’re not on the counter where [my kids] can see them, if I have to stick them in the refrigerator, then they don’t seem to get eaten … And so as soon as I put em in the refrigerator, it was almost like, out of sight, out of mind type of deal … Cause like anything that we get fresh that it can stay out, so that they can access and see it. – EO Participant 1, Female, Family of 3 (2 children)

Theme

Illustrative quote

Food resource management

I try to always go in the fridge and see what needs to be used up … what can we make with what we’ve got here … My wife, we’ll get something new and she’ll wanna use it and I’m like, “No, we should use the older stuff [first]” … I know, I want [to eat the new food] too, but we’ve got other stuff that we don’t wanna throw away. – PAE Participant 5, Male, Family of 2 (no children)
I love that vegetable soup we made [in class] … because before the vegetables expire in the refrigerator, you can cook [that recipe] to use them up. – PAE Participant 10, Female, Family of 3 (1 child)
I always thought … “I gotta put [all vegetables] in the refrigerator to keep them [from going bad].” But you don’t … We learned about not putting everything in the refrigerator [in M2MP]. – PAE Participant 8, Female, Family of 2 (1 child)

Food placement

I try to put my vegetables in the front and center of my refrigerator, so I know you gotta cook them. They’re like right there. So, I try not to waste stuff … We have a snack basket at home now, so we have more options I guess because I’ll cut up like the carrots and the celery and stuff like that or whatever and then that will be more of an obvious option. – PAE Participant 10, Female, Family of 3 (1 child)
I think it was probably the fruits that, it’s like if they’re not on the counter where [my kids] can see them, if I have to stick them in the refrigerator, then they don’t seem to get eaten … And so as soon as I put em in the refrigerator, it was almost like, out of sight, out of mind type of deal … Cause like anything that we get fresh that it can stay out, so that they can access and see it. – EO Participant 1, Female, Family of 3 (2 children)