Buy food that you can cook in advance and reheat. Make a list of meals for the week, cook it all, then freeze it. Too tired to cook later in the week? Take it out of the freezer and reheat it.

Also, try to do recipes you can do in sequences that don't require too much dishwashing, then clean everything up at the end.

Stop buying so much food then.

Do y'all need some recipes for simple and quick homemade meals? These are for one person or 2 meals.

• Potato - get the gold/yellow kind. Nuke for 5 minutes and top with whatever. If you want to spend 5 more minutes, put butter in a pan, smash it and cook on upper low for 4 or 5 more minutes with scallions, cheese, or whatever. If it's too dry, add milk.
• Frozen hamburger-put it in a large skillet with cut veggies over butter. Add herbs and/or onion flakes to taste. Let cook on medium heat with the lid on for 20 minutes. Add water and break up the meat, let cook for 10 more minutes with the lid off.
• Fresh or frozen chicken in the air fryer. Take a cup of flour and add some salt, garlic and/or any other herbs that sound good. Sometimes I add oregano or basil. Shake the 4 pieces in the flour. Air fry for 30 minutes (fresh) and 40 minutes (frozen). Take out and brush on butter. If there is flour left over, sprinkle on if necessary. Cook another 20 minutes (fresh) or 30 minutes frozen. This one is more easy than quick.

There are tons more, but I'm hungry and need to eat now.

I solved this by planning out all my dinners for the week and then buying only what I needed for those plus topping up any thing I need for breakfast, lunch and snacks. Any perishables get used because i mostly only have what I've planned for that week. I can recommend Recipe Tin Eats as a good resource for easy to cook meals.

Don't buy any perishables unless you're going to use them immediately, i.e. the same day that you buy them. If you buy them, take them home and eat them. Keep lots of non-perishables on hand so you'll be able to cook something without going to the store when you want to do that.

Clean-up is what stops many people. Get a good titanium no-stick pan - I like "Our Place" pans. Get individual portion meats or frozen meats or buy bulk and freeze in portions. Do the same with vegetables. Heat your seasoned pan up then put some oil in just before you put meat in. Cook meat until almost done, then add vegetables to same pan - heat them up. Serve. Let pan cool while you eat. Refrigerate left-overs. Rinse and wipe pan down. Wash dish. DONE.

Accept that you won't make the food and just buy fast food instead of both. It isn't as good as cooking yourself, but it will cost less overall.

I only wish I could buy half loaves of the breads I like.

I can't get through a whole loaf alone to save my life unless I eat the same thing for 3 meals a day and I'd prefer not to.

I plan on escaping the cycle by ceasing existence tbh

Go to store every day and only buy what I will start using that day.

Eventually, I extended the time, but I had to learn what I will actually use.

Why are you buying perishable food items in bulk? Are you an inarticulate fopdoodle?

Start with just one recipe. When I first was getting into cooking I was buying too much making it overwhelming to open the fridge and decide what to cook. As someone else mention shoot for having leftovers. One recipe scaled for 3-4 meals that you can split into containers and throw in the microwave when you are hungry.

We waste less by often making small trips to a local market to get just what we intend to cook for one day or evening. That may not work for everyone, but it works for us.

I had this issue with produce. I stopped buying it because it would just go bad before I used it.

i dont, my family always buys too much food regardkess to how many times i tell them to not

Don't mourn, organise!

I'll only buy something perishable when I need it. I tend to cook for 3-4 days in one go in order to make cooking for only myself somewhat economical. I tend to visit the supermarket every other day so I don't really have to plan too much.