Why plastic? Now we're creating another problem. Like those individually plastic wrapped bananas and apples. Ugh, wrap it in reusable beeswax wrap then put it in a paper bag to take home.

​@@Cheezitnator how did you manage to miss the entire point lmao. The price of 2 celery sticks = price of bunch Introduce unnecessary plastic wrapping for "convenience" Supermarkets are convinced they "have answered their consumers needs" Of course we fucking know there's better alternatives to plastic, to supermarkets that would cut into their profits though and their stakeholders are more important than the environment.

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I would stab myself but the knife is sold inside this impossible to open plastic casing

@@CheezitnatorI think you just missed the tone because y’know how text just all comes across the same lol but I do believe this comment was satirical. They’re not actually suggesting this is the solution, they’re pointing out how a lot of times stores claim to be solving this problem by creating more waste and then upcharging for a smaller amount.

We all deserve to be able to share a small serving of celery and dip with our mothers!

@@EmersonBrophy CELERY RIGHTS!!!!

It is really stupid that we can't actually buy the amount of food we want and need. Its equally stupid that things like chips and cereal don't have resealable bags

​​@@chelsey8737 For similar reasons, the cost isn't the product, farmers get very little. Loose items get tossed more as people won't pick bad apples and as the tray nears empty people avoid all together as they wonder "what's wrong with those last couple pieces, have you noticed more and more packaging fruits and veggies in plastic. You have to pay more and more often they sell out. As for chips...they want you to finish it. It's just empty calories designed to be consumed like nothing and bought again. Offers no real substance. I agree we should just make them sell things loose, as much as possible if the independent groceries can top. Ban all the little "apple slices of kids individually wrapped" crap

We actually sell celery by the pound at my job; I usually only buy 1-3 celery sticks at a time depending on how much I need!

Sounds like the documentary I watched called sustainable. They took it a step further and made it profitable 😊

That's actually how people lived before money became the thing we need to exchange for products and that still works

Yeah, where I live no one knows their neighbors and hates the neighbors they do know. It's ridiculous. When I was newly divorced I lived in an apartment complex and many of us were friends. I would give my neighbor ½ my celery if I bought it and she would do the same. Same for 5 lbs of potatoes or 3 lbs of onions. We had a block party every summer and football parties every Sunday during season. It was great. When I moved to a house, my neighbors were jerks. I miss the community of the old days.

Yes! I feel like people like to blame how we’ve “lost our sense of community” on technology and screens, when in reality it happened long ago when corporations realized they could make more money by pushing the nuclear family ideal so each family buys their own home, their own car, their own groceries, etc. and we push the narrative that kids who don’t move out after a certain age are “lazy moochers” when in reality it’s far cheaper and more environmentally friendly and way less exhausting to share within your community. Mary makes jam that she shares with her neighbors, and Kevin can mend any holes or tears in your clothes, Ben and Jerry pass their kid’s clothes onto Jen and Linda’s kids who are a year or two behind theirs. The more we share within our communities the less wasteful we are and the more cost effective it is.

That's awesome. We are so isolated in the U.S.

That's genius 😲

Clutch tip - def gonna try this idea, thank you!

Yes!!! I started doing this. I buy three days worth of salad and throw out nothing.

I did this too. Living alone, it's hard to buy quantities of veggies that you will use all of. It sucks.

Yeah I believe that! They’d rather list it at clearance until its best before date to try to make a buck than donate it a few days earlier when they can still legally give it to people in need.

My local woolies sells through weight!

​@@EmersonBrophyAlmost all the food at food banks are donated from Coles and Woolworths. Unfortunately there are food items that cannot be donated by law due to food safety rules.

@@EmersonBrophy Yeaaah. I at least try to be proactive about things- I spend a fair bit of time in our dairy department, and try to pull product ahead of date so it can be donated. And then it stays there for a *week* before anything actually happens, and by that point it can't even be donated anymore. And that's not even talking about the aforementioned bakery product that just gets heaped into a shopping cart and left in front of the compactor to get thrown out. That happens like, two or three times a week!

The vast, vast majority of food waste is from corporations, not individuals

For the price of the entire thing of celery. 😂

Just get yourself a free roaming rabbit. They are balls of happiness AND they happily eat all the celery you can supply

This is a stupid video because that’s actually the only way to keep it going back if it’s one individual stalk. Vegetables attached to the bottom or roots like heads of lettuce stay good for far longer.

Which would cause more waste. Unless you want the half an apple and third of an orange the last guy left?

Well, when you start to take apart a produce product, it starts to go bad fast. I don't know why some people just find MORE recipes for certain products. My Mom before the pandemic, was at a very tight budget and stretched $20 USD/week for food. (Between myself and her) Found the main spices and ingredients that we use the most, and splurged on those and got various things by the pound. And a for CELERY, you could make tuna fish salad, add it to ramen, have it with cream cheese (of which you could have multi use with too), use it as a part of the maripoix, use it in chicken soup, and so much more.😅

@@abbb4460 Celery is easy to freeze too. I chop celery to freeze as long as my disability allows me energy to do so. Sometimes a lot does go to waste though if my disability is giving me problems.

@@frozenraspberries1552 I know! 😊 And I'm glad you're finding ways to help yourself with what you're dealing with. I hope that outside of saving food, that YOU ARE doing well. And also, if you could mince the celery before you freeze it, add it to tuna with onions and mayo/dressing, it makes it really chilled for a quick lunch in the hot summer. Maybe this would be a good sandwich for you on any of days you may have. 🤷🏽‍♀️🤗😁

I think it's the harmony, it sounds great

The tune there sounded _a little_ like "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny" (the tune, meter and rhyming scheme of the general verse was similar to that single line). Or at least it reminded me of that, even if it was just a _very vague_ similarity. 🙃

My favorite part as well! And the bass line there slapped so hard too

Ever buy pre chopped frozen veggies? It's a whole lot cheaper to freeze it yourself and get a lot more for it

I love how I was just at the store yesterday for celery to try out a recipe, but I could only get a big bunch😂

​@EmeraldsFire not in my country, we only have fresh celery in a big bunch, otherwise I'd buy everything frozen😅

Or at least don't actively go after homeless people who dumpster dive to get this perfectly fine food

@@doimanator9999 the problem with dumpster diving is that a tiny minority often destroy it for everybody by messing up the space. If that can be avoided without costing the stores too much then it would be a nice solution in some places. But lots of stores are also in places that people wouldn't do dumpster diving, so it would still be thrown away in those places.

i know my store, among some others, do 50% for anything that's a day before sell by date. we donate whatever doesn't sell when it actually does go out of date if it didn't become a moldy mess.

@@avaskaracitta THANK YOU!!!

I don't think they sell expired because of fear of getting sued if a person becomes sick (despite knowing it was past the date when buying). Granted, most things last past the expiration date.

same, i buying only food that didnt spoil in few days or freeze everything. I can buy whole cabage or salad but no way i eat that alone before its spoiled

I mean, frozen is usually fresher because they don't have to worry about it being "overripe" before hitting the shelf so they pick it when it's ready. There are a few things, like berries, that don't thaw well but I like them frozen or I'm adding them to something anyway.

Pretty much same here except for meats, which I freeze in plastic wrap, which also incidentally is not good for the environment. It’s definitely not good for me from a health standpoint, but I cannot stand eating the same thing 7 days a week because I have to buy a whole bundle of celery rather than just one celery.

Agree but I do sometimes want that texture of fresh and by the time I get to the bottom I’m so tired of eating it before it’s gone bad. There’s only so many grapes a woman can eat in a week!

​@@DeGriztbh, I eat whole cabbages by myself... Chop into round "patties," drizzle with olive oil (both sides), top with your favorite spices, and bake until tender. Fabulous, and I have leftovers for 2 or 3 meals.

Its not lmao

@@DarkwearGT how is it not similar? It’s sold in a bunch, like multiple apples on a branch, would be inconvenient and unnecessary to buy when you only want one.. obviously they aren’t the same that’s why I said ‘like’ but they _are_ similar

​@@LezmGrocery stores see it more like bananas bunches, but one can buy just one Banana (if one so wishes).

When you guys grow up and actually shop for more, than one day at a time, let me know.

@@skotnica93 Bruh, we’re not saying you can’t buy more than one, but _having_ to buy a bunch when you don’t need a lot of it is the point. Are you seriously trying to gatekeep buying celery? 💀

All of his songs are

Reminds me a bit of Tom cardy

Here in Australia we have like 8 or so in a bag, and it's always more expensive to buy than the full celery bunch.

​@EmersonBrophy yo, chop it up into sticks and put it in a jar of water, put on a lid and put in the fridge. Lasts until your next bolognese.

Yeah because when they do a small portion they’re acting like they’re doing us a favor by chopping it up and wrapping it in extra plastic

Onions and garlic do well in the freezer but celery does not. The crunch is lost. Though stock only relies on flavor, it takes hours. That is a lot of time and power/gas. It costs less to buy premade and unless you are doing it in the winter, you also have to increase the energy usage for the air conditioner. I'd rather make healthy dog food with the scraps

​@hoshireed77 simmering a pot on the stove doesn't take a ton of energy or create a ton of heat. Leave the lid on your stock pot, and you can keep the burner lower to allow less heat to escape. It also costs almost nothing if you're using food scraps rather than buying ingredients specifically for stock. Make whatever you want but I think you've been making stock wrong.

@@hoshireed77 I never said stove. You could use a slow cooker. Or even a rice cooker if you're only making a small amount. If you wanna make dog food with your leftover celery I'm not going to pick at every reason why I wouldn't. It's your prerogative to do with your food scraps as you please. As it is mine. I have an electric stove. No gas. Put the lid on my pot. No steam waste. I don't have an air-con. I open doors in the summer and love the extra warmth and hearty smell in the winter. In some places it doesn't cost less to buy pre-made when you think about the cost of waste. I homestead. I live as self sufficiently as I can. If I can't make something with the scraps they go to my chickens or compost. I don't like throwing food out. I was just offering an idea. It wasn't an order.

@@Sandyyyyyyyyyy I live in Brazil. The extra heat does matter. And power is R$1.15/KW ($0.23).

@hoshireed77 it's hard to do a 1:1 comparison because different things cost more or less depending on where you live. FWIW, I live in the southern US and my electricity is about R$0.84/kWh and it's, on average, hotter here than in Brazil. Veggie broth made at home would cost nothing in food because I'd be using scraps vs. almost R$10 for a liter at the store. Even including the cost of water and electricity, it's way cheaper here to make veggie broth at home.

Hard disagree The majority of food waste is not caused by individual consumers but rather it’s caused by large corporations that throw out large quantities of perfectly edible food simply because it doesn’t look aesthetically pleasing (and therefore is less marketable) this is a small example of one of the many deficiencies and outright failures of capitalism Stop blaming the individual for systemic problems caused by large corporations and the faulty economic system they perpetuate

*personal* food waste. A *lot* of food waste happens at the store when still edible food no longer looks good and no longer meets selling standards. It's still usable, but gets binned because "we don't wanna be known as the ppl who sell bad looking produce"

​@@zorimanar2247 which tbf does come back to people's perception on what is fresh and "normal". And the supermarket he went to (Woolworths) does "The Odd Bunch" - it's basically imperfect fruit sold for less. Completely fine but it doesn't look like the way society expects it to. It's been a resounding success and maybe one of the best things that's been done here.

More songs coming to Spotify soon 👀

Yes this is the big ethereal “soon” that every artist always uses

Until they offer half loaves, you can freeze half. It takes a couple hours to defrost, but I've never noticed a difference in defrosted bread vs. bread straight from the store. My only caveat is that my bread is only frozen for max a week, I can't speak for freezing bread longer than that.

Keep on demanding half a loaf until supply reacts. In the meantime: Slice up the exess of the oversized loaf immediately and freeze the slices. Thaw on demand in the toaster. Virtually no difference to the fresh loaf, even weeks past the purchase. Bonus option: If a baker won't let you buy the half loaf for bogus reasons like "maybe no-one takes the other half", offer a bet saying it is just as likely that no-one might pick up the whole darn thing at all today just like you won't. And in case you are right, they may pack it tonight and put aside to your name at 50% off because you will return tomorrow and inquire how it went. Baker now Had options. Odds are: 1) sell as demanded: 50% loaf now leaving 50% in stock, = 50% conversion +chance to complete the sale with another customer. 2) no sale to you, undeternined risk of wasted conversion. Option to cut their possible loss by your generous covering for 50% of today's loaf value in future options on the full loaf they currently want to stupidly hang on to. ...food for thought! And worth a try. As long as we're not actually starving, competitors are around and food prices are mainly artificially overrated, that means there's a buyer"s market underneath, after all.

The fuck YOU mean?? Soffritto! 😂

I think it’s an Aussie thing, my mum has always done it with bolognese.

Recipes aren't meant to be untouched, even if it's indeed not the "original". I make my tiramisu with Speculoos because I like it. You won't change my mind, neither will the entirety of Italians.

CAZZO MIO DIO YOURE PUTTING SOFRITO IN BOLOGNESE? ​@@EmersonBrophy

​@@B1akTang1dH4rt I'm sorry but you don't put SOFRITO in bolognese 😭

Yes! This argument makes a lot more sense for cilantro