FoodBozo.com

Did the strawberries you bought on sale go bad (again) before you could use them all? And the party package of chicken breasts you remembered to freeze before its use-by date: Is it now covered with undesirable ice crystals?

Despite our best efforts to ‘waste not, want not’, we still throw out a lot of food. In fact, a typical North American family throws out up to a third of the food they buy at the grocery store, costing consumers thousands of dollars each year.

Read more here: 10 food storage mistakes — and how to fix them

Peanut butter, perhaps one of the best creations ever to pair with jelly, or chocolate, or ice cream, or practically anything, is getting a makeover. Babble writer Melissa Roberts says it’s a national emergency when her household runs out of the sticky lunch staple – a favorite of her little boy, Henry, who as she says, never seems to tire of eating it in a sandwich. So she decided to mix it up, and mix it in, with a few new recipes to experiment with it beyond the lunch box. He was delighted, she says, when presented with “chicken on a stick with peanut butter sauce” (a.k.a satay-style chicken) at the dinner table. The sauce is so easy to make, and keeps (well covered) in the fridge, for a week.

Read more here: Easy Peanut Sauce Recipe for 6 Family Meals