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Why Our Thinking About Weekly Meal Planning Needs Rethinking

Vassilissa IvanovaApr 04, 2019 Blog

Why Our Thinking About Weekly Meal Planning Needs Rethinking

If you are into healthy eating, nutrition or a waste-free lifestyle, you have inevitably come across meal planning advice. It is generously prescribed as a panacea to all our kitchen ills. Yes, that boring and incongruous act of planning 3 meals per day, for 7 days ahead, for n household members. We...

Eliminate Food Expiration Date Confusion With CozZo Shelf Life Advisor

Vassilissa IvanovaMar 16, 2019 Blog

Eliminate Food Expiration Date Confusion With CozZo Shelf Life Advisor

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A study by NRDC and Harvard Law School found that 90% of Americans bin food prematurely. A staggering fact! Largely the result of the uncertainty in reading expiration dates, confusion between the different types of labelling, and the misconception that the ‘best by’ is a safety warning....

An Unexpected New Year Resolution that Will Make You Waste Less

Vassilissa IvanovaJan 02, 2019 Blog

An Unexpected New Year Resolution that Will Make You Waste Less

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It is this time of the year when your news feed is full of ideas and insights on setting your best new year resolutions. And there is a good reason for this, as the time around New Year is all about reconnecting with ourselves and reevaluating the things that are important to us. We are […]

Get in Control With a Simple Way of Making your Complete Fridge and Pantry Inventory

Nadya ZdravkovaDec 17, 2018 Blog

Get in Control With a Simple Way of Making your Complete Fridge and Pantry Inventory

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What’s in your pantry? Rice, beans, canned tuna, muesli, a jar of mixed nuts, a marmalade for sure. But not sure if it’s strawberry or blueberry and definitely not sure if it has been there since last spring or since 2015. Truthfully, no one can be sure what is stocked at home. Keeping...

From Christmore to Christless – How to Avoid Food Coma and Other Useful Tricks

Nadya ZdravkovaDec 17, 2018 Blog

From Christmore to Christless – How to Avoid Food Coma and Other Useful Tricks

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So it’s here. Those few days we’ve been waiting for all year or at least since the first week after summer vacation. Christmas has arrived and NY eve is coming, but in just a few hours after the holidays have officially started, it turns into Christmore. We are having too much of it and immediately...

Don’t Be A Pagan About Manifesting Food Abundance this Christmas

Vassilissa IvanovaDec 11, 2018 Blog

Don’t Be A Pagan About Manifesting Food Abundance this Christmas

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Prepare Less to Eat More. It is this time of the year when we are actively thinking about Christmas preparation. A major part of it is focused on food provision. We take the tradition of laying our tables with plenitude and abundance for granted. Yet we hardly ever stop to think why we feel compelled...

No, Really, Why is Food Waste a Problem?

Vassilissa IvanovaNov 20, 2018 Blog

No, Really, Why is Food Waste a Problem?

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When faced with this question, why food waste is a problem, we are spontaneously prompt to answer, “because there are so many hungry people in the World!”. This answer is certainly correct, as approximately 870 million people are going hungry every day, and the number is not dropping. ...

5 Ways in which CozZo Can Improve Your Food Planning During the School Year

Vassilissa IvanovaNov 05, 2018 Blog

5 Ways in which CozZo Can Improve Your Food Planning During the School Year

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The school year is all about hassle, organization, logistics and stress that goes hand in hand with synchronizing everybody’s busy schedule. Organizing a healthy weekly eating plan and daily lunch box planning can sometimes throw us completely off track. But this needn’t happen,...

7 Cool Food Habits that Will Dramatically Reduce Your Food Waste at Home

Vassilissa IvanovaSep 28, 2018 Blog

7 Cool Food Habits that Will Dramatically Reduce Your Food Waste at Home

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Let’s face it, food keeping is not a skill most of us intentionally took the time to pursue. When we had the opportunity to learn from our parents and our grandmothers, we never paid much attention. Perhaps we had other more compelling interests to attend to. We would just add a food...

5 Amazing Apple Stories and 1 Reason Why We Have an Apple in Our Logo

Vassilissa IvanovaSep 10, 2018 Blog, News

5 Amazing Apple Stories and 1 Reason Why We Have an Apple in Our Logo

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Apples as the most common and mundane household fruit or so we have come to see them. Used to having them in our lives, we hardly see them sitting on our countertops. We bring apples home to add the beauty and taste of nature to our surroundings, but then forget about them. When we finally […]