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How does everyone deal with this dilemma?
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Strategies against this include cooking for several people (well, that ain't happening), doing meal prep several days in advance / cooking larger portions that you can eat over a couple of days, and buying frozen ingredients (still better than buying entire frozen meals). Some non-frozen ingredients keep for a long time, too, e.g. dried rice or noodles, onions, pickled vegetables.
Something that worked for me is always shopping for a specific meal. Instead of buying ground beef because I might want burgers or tacos or chili, I instead buy everything for a chili. It’s lead to less “oh I forgot I had this beef in here” and more “I better use this nice, fresh beef to make chili because otherwise I’ll go hungry.
It’s not a perfect system, and seems really obvious in hindsight, but has been a paradigm shift for me.
I do a mix of this with food prep. I'll buy a bunch of ground beef and make a bunch of burger patties, and freeze the ones that I'm not using right away since I can pull them individually out of the freezer and throw them straight onto the grill or into a pan. Or I'll buy the stuff for a big stir fry and then have leftovers for like 3 other meals.