#i got some sort of gross sugar free flavored water there once…..i think it was near a macy’s…..hmmmm

[lesbianlenas]

love this reality tv show i’m watching it’s so dumb it’s just like. we made these ppl roommates watch as they slowly begin to hate each other it’s like yeah it really do be like that 😭😭😭

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What Really Happens After You Detox ? (Shocking Truth)

Scrubs and detoxes are stylish, mainstream, and guarantee to get out terrible poisons from your body and make you more advantageous. It's a tall guarantee, particularly since they can't for the most part point to a particular poisons that they're attempting to free you of.

In the course of recent years, the importance of "detox" has moved from a convention intended to free you of poisons to, regularly, only an eating regimen implied as an impermanent reset. It either guarantees quick weight reduction, or means to get you into the propensity for good dieting, with remaining impacts that will keep going throughout the entire year.

An issue with this way to deal with counting calories, however, is that an eating regimen that is intended to be impermanent is continually going to be too extraordinary to even think about lasting. For instance, perhaps you're removing sugar for ten days. That is pointless, yet a few people think that its a supportive advance toward bringing down their general sugar admission.

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The more old fashioned style of purges make this a stride further. You're frequently fasting, or just eating modest quantities of a particular nourishment or drink (like juice) in a routine intended to be transitory and uncommon.

What Cleanses and Detoxes Promise

Generally, a wash down and a detox are something very similar. They're regularly utilized reciprocally and have a similar fundamental objectives: to evacuate "hurtful" things from your body. Now and again, they intend to focus on a particular organ like the liver or colon, and as far as anyone knows, detoxing causes you to feel better.

Both frequently include constraining your nourishment admission to squeezed juice, dodging explicit kinds of nourishment, or drinking a creation of juices that as far as anyone knows frees your collection of poisons. These alleged poisons are once in a while portrayed by chemicals in detail, yet by and large alluded to as "toxic substances" or "contaminations." In the clinical field, poisons can allude to pretty much anything, from liquor, to nourishments, to meds, to asbestos. "Detoxing" can likewise allude to treatment for illicit drug use, however that is totally different—here, we're explicitly talking about these nourishment and-drink rinses.

There are very a considerable lot of these rinses and detoxes to burrow through, however here are 10 that Shape Magazine regarded mainstream in 2014, maybe the pinnacle of in vogue purges. For instance, how about we investigate the Master Cleanse, one of the most longstanding and famous scrubs out there. Here's an extract from the book that portrays precisely how the Master Cleanse functions:

The purify begins with a home grown purgative tea both morning and night. On the off chance that this isn't adequate to wipe out the intestinal tract, he exhorts a salt-water wash. These stops are important to evacuate the poisons released by the lemon juice wash down.

I was then to drink somewhere in the range of six and twelve glasses of lemonade, which comprised of lemon and maple syrup in appropriate extents, with a limited quantity of cayenne added to clean out the bodily fluid relaxed by the purge.

Sounds gross, isn't that so? All things considered, it may be justified, despite all the trouble for you on the off chance that you accept the guarantees indicated by Master Cleanse maker Stanley Burroughs:

For the beginner and the propelled understudy the same, purging is reason for end of each sort of infection. The motivation behind this book is to rearrange the reason and the adjustment everything being equal, paying little mind to the name or names. As we wipe out and right one ailment, we right them all, for each infection is revised by a similar procedure of purifying and building positive great wellbeing.

The metaphor goes on from that point, however you get the thought. Nourishment analyst Kamal Patel totals most scrubs up like so:

What integrates these eating regimens is a double point: weight reduction in addition to a thought that we have developed poisons in the body which are easing back us down and potentially executing us. So a normal scrub, suppose of juices just, is intended to move your digestive organs from assimilation and retention and towards "freeing the assortment of poisons". That is the place the advantages are professed to lie, yet they may really lie somewhere else.

Most rinses have comparable guarantees, asserting that going on a type of juice quick (or other purge) can free your group of destructive poisons.

What Happens in Your Body When You're On a Cleanse

We're all mindful that products of the soil are beneficial for us, so following that rationale recommends that an eating routine of simply foods grown from the ground must be very solid, correct? Right??

Not so much. On the off chance that you don't drink anything yet squeeze for seven days, you'll get more fit, however this is on the grounds that you're not eating, not on the grounds that your body is "detoxing". Water is put away in your muscles with glycogen. At the point when you eat a low calorie diet, you go through those glycogen stores, and lose the water weight with it. You'll put on that water weight directly back when you come back to your ordinary eating regimen. You're additionally passing up every one of those other imperative supplements like fat, fiber, and protein. Indeed, some rinses recommend that you keep away from practice when you're on them in light of the fact that your caloric admission is so low—which prompts weakness and wooziness.

Following a couple of days, your body is fundamentally barely getting by, and without protein your body may begin to separate muscle tissue. In like manner, the absence of fiber in your eating routine will in general effect the capacity of your digestive organ, which may disclose why individuals will in general depict their premonitions on a juice rinse as like the stomach influenza.

Above all, a juice rinse doesn't do whatever your body doesn't as of now do all alone. Dietitian Andy Bellatti advises us that our bodies are as of now truly great at expelling poisons. In the event that they weren't, and you required a yearly detox, we'd all presumably be dead:

Will drinking only squeeze for three or five days land you in the medical clinic or result in irreversible supplement inadequacies? No, yet it is likewise superfluous. Our bodies evacuate poisons regularly on account of the kidneys, lungs, and liver. The general purpose of heading off to the restroom is to flush out poisons!

While a large portion of these washes down and detoxes aren't risky, they can mess some up. Since juices do exclude a lot of fiber, the body winds up retaining more fructose sugar, which—as we as a whole know—isn't extraordinary for you in huge amounts.

The uplifting news about denying yourself is that it takes a long time to get any genuine nutrient inadequacies. The greater part of these purifies are most likely dumb yet not genuinely destructive, if everything you're doing is limiting nourishment for a couple of days.

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With respect to the cases of disposing of poisons, most business detoxes don't list what a poison is. What's more, in any event, when they do, they don't give a proof that they work. In the event that they did, we could test the adequacy of their cases. A 2009 examination by Sense about Science checked 15 business detox items and found that none could name poisons, concur on a meaning of detox, or supply any proof for their cases.

The entirety of this is to state: the main thing a detox or squeeze purge really does to your body is make you ravenous and supplement denied for a couple of days.

Better Alternatives to Cleanses

Along these lines, washes down don't generally do anything profitable and a unique juice blend won't expel poisons from your framework. That doesn't mean you can't do different things to recover your wellbeing on target.

Truth be told, the possibility of a rinse is essentially only a reboot of your eating regimen, which Bellatti concurs with:

There is something to be said for doing "nourishment resets." That is, returning to the fundamental principles of energizing eating (for the most part eating entire, insignificantly prepared, to a great extent plant-based food sources) to reaccustom the taste buds to progressively unobtrusive flavors. That, be that as it may, ought not be mistaken for a wash down.

Be that as it may, he adds:

Sustenance and wellbeing is about the 10,000 foot view. What you accomplish for five or seven days out of the year is quite irrelevant.

Instead of stress over 'detoxing,' individuals would be in an ideal situation contemplating eating nutritious, wellbeing advancing nourishments consistently. Think verdant greens, beans, entire organic product, nuts, and seeds. The possibility that a half year of undesirable eating can by one way or another be helped by drinking only green juice for 72 hours is wrong.

In like manner, a genuine quick, as in, simply drinking water, has some exploration indicating that it's helpful. Patel clarifies:

Washes down some of the time include fasting or close fasting, and that can really have benefits, except if you have ailments or do it for a really long time. There is sufficient research showing the impact of fasting on life span; how fasting advances autophagy, diminishes mitochondrial oxidative pressure, general decline in signals related with maturing, and the possibility to forestall and treat incessant sickness, at any rate in some way or another. "Discontinuous fasting" might be a feasible choice for those in any case seeing explicit purify abstains from food. You essentially limit eating to a couple of hours daily (commonly around 8). That is a straightforward and reasonable method for eating, and doesn't include purchasing purify items.

Wellbeing and nourishment may appear to be a befuddling mess, however a sound eating routine is actually all you need. Not a contrivance, not seven days in length purge, not a detox. You'll require a full reboot of your eating regimen.

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cute tag!

pretty long post coming up!! Thanks to @cafedetude for tagging me!! im tagging: @hermiionegrcnger​ @studying-frenzy​ @belledoe​ @tiny-notes​ @theteadesk​ !! You don’t have to do this if you don’t want to ofc and if u want to do it and i haven’t tagged you go ahead!! 

1: when you have cereal, do you have more milk than cereal or more cereal than milk? there must always be more milk than cereal, but that amount must not exceed a certain amount do you get me? when i scoop my cereal there has to be proportionate amounts of milk in each scoop, consistently, until i have finished my bowl. my mind is a strange and lonely place. 

2: do you like the feeling of cold air on your cheeks on a wintery day? yes! its so refreshing and i feel like all your lethargy just evaporates... i love taking walks in the winter around my neighborhood in the evenings.

3: what random objects do you use to bookmark your books? spoons, lipsticks, i once used another book to bookmark a book, hair elastic, my contact lenses case, compact mirror....im a mess, i know 

4: how do you take your coffee/tea? tea: scalding hot with lots of sugar and some milk. coffee: lots of milk, so much sugar 

5: are you self-conscious of your smile? no? i just want my braces off!!

6: do you keep plants? yess

7: do you name your plants? yes! i am currently growing two wild roses and I’ve named them Calliope and Polymnia. 

8: what artistic medium do you use to express your feelings? journaling, writing, reenacting musicals and dramatic renditions of songs? 

9: do you like singing/humming to yourself? yeah ofccc it keeps me sane 

10: do you sleep on your back, side, or stomach? back and side 

11: what’s an inner joke you have with your friends? CAROL THE LESBIAN LIBRARIAN // mary walks by // too many to list here tbh 

12: what’s your favorite planet? mars! and also venus 

13: what’s something that made you smile today? my friends 

14: if you were to live with your best friend in an old flat in a big city, what would it look like? a hurricane flew thru the entire place, empty wine bottles on the ground, beanbag chairs, stacks of books and movies, maybe a cat and a dog lazing around on the couch 

15: go google a weird space fact and tell us what it is! there’s a gigantic cloud of alcohol wayyyyy out in outer space that could produce over 450 trillion pints of beer 

16: what’s your favorite pasta dish? give me all the pasta. i love all pastas. 

17: what color do you really want to dye your hair? im ok with my hair color now 

18: tell us about something dumb/funny you did that has since gone down in history between you and your friends and is always brought up. GETTING A CAPUCHIN MONKEY AS MY PATRONUS ON POTTERMORE

19: do you keep a journal? what do you write/draw/ in it? yes! i rant a lot and i sort of write down reflections? on my day and things. its really emo and angsty lmao im 16 pls 

20: what’s your favorite eye color? brown eyes. so gentle. so sharp. so kind but so cruel. so ambiguous! 

21: talk about your favorite bag, the one that’s been to hell and back with you and that you love to pieces. my tote bag from myanmar! the straps are falling off but i love it so much 

22: are you a morning person? depends on if i slept early enough 

23: what’s your favorite thing to do on lazy days where you have 0 obligations? sleep, watch a movie, watch youtube, read 

24: is there someone out there you would trust with every single one of your secrets? absolutely not. it always pisses me off when people are like ohhh you can tell me anything??? no i can’t???? 

25: what’s the weirdest place you’ve ever broken into? my friend’s house lmao 

26: what are the shoes you’ve had for forever and wear with every single outfit? my peach converse! they’re so pastel and they seem weird but converse generally go well with a lot of things 

27: what’s your favorite bubblegum flavor? i don’t like gum tbh 

28: sunrise or sunset? both 

29: what’s something really cute that one of your friends does and is totally endearing? sticks his tongue out when he’s concentrating and its so cute i die everytime 

30: think of it: have you ever been truly scared? yes but i will never ever go into detail with anyone about this lmao 

31: what is your opinion of socks? do you like wearing weird socks? do you sleep with socks? do you confine yourself to white sock hell? really, just talk about socks. i love socks, i like wearing weird socks except for toe socks, people who sleep with socks on are Immune to Heat and Not Afraid Of Dying?? no white socks get nasty real quick and they’re so bland, i love socks i have this grey pair with french bulldog faces allllll over it and i wear them all the time and even though people can’t see them i still get happy and tell people about my dog socks. 

32: tell us a story of something that happened to you after 3AM when you were with friends. HA LMAO we had just watched a scary movie so obviously we turned on my little pony and watched that for two hours 

33: what’s your fave pastry? cupcakes! anything tbh i have an enormous sweet tooth 

34: tell us about the stuffed animal you kept as a kid. what is it called? what does it look like? do you still keep it? my dad used to go on a lot of business trips and he came back once with a huge stuffed bear from switzerland and its so fuzzy its still on my bed. it’s name is Fred and it wears overalls and it has brown fur! 

35: do you like stationary and pretty pens and so on? do you use them often? yes to all!!

36: which band’s sound would fit your mood right now? paul anka lmao he’s not a band but ya know 

37: do you like keeping your room messy or clean? clean

38: tell us about your pet peeves! wHEN UR JAMMING OUT TO MUSIC AND THEN SPOTIFY JUST STOPS WORKING?? people asking me if im mad when im just being quiet and then making me mad by continually questionning me, people who will ask dumb questions (yes, there are always dumb questions. google is free and im not going to tell u the homework, it’s written on the board quite clearly u moron), racist/homophobic/ableist/ generally offensive and disrespectful people 

39: what color do you wear the most? grey and navy 

40: think of a piece of jewelry you own: what’s it’s story? does it have any meaning to you? I have mismatching earrings that my grandmother got me for my birthday! 

41: what’s the last book you remember really, really loving? Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis! 

42: do you have a favorite coffee shop? describe it! the starbucks on center street it’s very Starbucks, exactly what you would expect, but I always sit in the corner spot near the windows 

43: who was the last person you gazed at the stars with? My family! 

44: when was the last time you remember feeling completely serene and at peace with everything? sitting in the sand in shell key, florida. my feet are in the water and i am watching my family swimming. I am very sunburnt but my mind is completely blank in a good way 

45: do you trust your instincts a lot? absolutely 

46: tell us the worst pun you can think of. ofc they used a baby lion as their mascot. it’s simba-lic. 

47: what food do you think should be banned from the universe? there’s this food in korea that’s just stir fried rice with soybean sprouts and the sprouts..... aw god....they refuse to be bitten in half and it’s so gross i hate it sm 

48: what was your biggest fear as a kid? is it the same today? darkness! and no it is different today!

49: do you like buying CDs and records? what was the last one you bought? there are scarce places to buy CD’s now but the last one I bought was Micheal Jackson’s Bad 

50: what’s an odd thing you collect? bottle caps and paperclips and also pens i pick off the ground 

51: think of a person. what song do you associate with them? my dad. any aretha franklin song 

52: what are your favorite memes of the year so far? the spongebob one and the gif of the white man who blinks a lot....u know the one 

53: have you ever watched the rocky horror picture show? heathers? beetlejuice? pulp fiction? what do you think of them? i loved all of them and i want to be able to quote them in all of my speech but i dont think people have watched all of them 

54: who’s the last person you saw with a true look of sadness on their face?  i was working on homework last night and when i was turning on my laptop to work on my project i met my reflection in the screen 

55: what’s the most dramatic thing you’ve ever done to prove a point? been incredibly bitchy like damn.....i surprise myself and i really hate it 

56: what are some things you find endearing in people? when people use weird shit as bookmarks, when they laugh with their eyes shut, laugh lines near their eyes, dimples, kindness, when they aren’t afraid of making eye contact with me bc i have weirdly intense eyes  

57: go listen to bohemian rhapsody. how did it make you feel? did you dramatically reenact the lyrics? it did not fit the mood of my day but yes i did reenact the lyrics 

58: who’s the wine mom and who’s the vodka aunt in your group of friends? why? my friend diana is the wine mom but i am the vodka aunt. why?? she is infinitely more caring and kind and sophisticated and also wine gets u lowkey, calm drunk, while i, the vodka aunt, am caring, but i have a bit of a laissez faire attitude and go with the flow and ‘damn what the hell fuck it’ kinda vibe and vodka gets u sloppy shitfaced drunk with none of the sophistication that comes with wine. 

59: what’s your favorite myth? icarus

60: do you like poetry? what are some of your faves? i dont LOVE poetry but i like haikus they’re like clever one liners ha 

61: what’s the stupidest gift you’ve ever given? the stupidest one you’ve ever received? I gave my friend a notebook that i’d hastily made the night before and I have received a box of pads which in retrospect is not even a stupid present bc pads are expensive 

62: do you drink juice in the morning? which kind? i drink oj when i can 

63: are you fussy about your books and music? do you keep them meticulously organized or kinda leave them be? i organize them every month bc i am ridiculous and i can’t function if my bookshelf is weirdly organized 

64: what color is the sky where you are right now? pale grey almost white.

65: is there anyone you haven’t seen in a long time who you’d love to hang out with? my oldest group of friends (TNT lmaoooo) OR YOU KNOW callixtus from volunteering holyyy. you know those people who u meet and u immediately click with?? he’s on of them magical people and he was hella funny too i miss that guy to all hell 

66: what would your ideal flower crown look like? small roses! peach blossoms and cherry blossoms too. one huge ass hibiscus or lotus flower as a statement piece 

67: how do gloomy days where the sky is dark and the world is misty make you feel? cozy and sheltered. valid excuse for not going out 

68: what’s winter like where you live? terrible but i love it kinda 

69: what are your favorite board games? monopoly 

70: have you ever used a ouija board? NO WHAT 

71: what’s your favorite kind of tea? barley, green or reallllyyyy black tea with loootss of sugar so that it makes your teeth ache 

72: are you a person who needs to note everything down or else you’ll forget it? yeah how’d you know 

73: what are some of your worst habits? expecting everyone to be on the same page 

74: describe a good friend of yours without using their name or gendered pronouns. dedicated and brash, loud and hilarious, soft, amazing, i love them a lot 

75: tell us about your pets! i dont have pets!! T-T  

76: is there anything you should be doing right now but aren’t? studying BUT DONT CALL ME OUT LIKE THIS OK

77: pink or yellow lemonade? pink 

78: are you in the minion hateclub or fanclub? hateclub sorry 

79: what’s one of the cutest things someone has ever done for you? done my makeup for me while gossiping with me

80: what color are your bedroom walls? did you choose that color? if so, why? pale green and yeah i did. i chose it bc i love green! and the old color was boring and i didn’t like it  

81: describe one of your friend’s eyes using the most abstract imagery you can think of. no edges at all, soft bovine eyes , shaking leaves, crocodile tears 

82: are/were you good in school? yes! it’s a source of a lot of pride for me! 

83: what’s some of your favorite album art? amsterdam by nothing but thieves omg 

84: are you planning on getting tattoos? which ones? oohh nahh im not planning on getting tattoos im scared of needles 

85: do you read comics? what are your faves? through the woods? i used to read a lot of them but you know i grew out of them 

86: do you like concept albums? which ones? not especially no 

87: what are some movies you think everyone should watch at least once in their lives? the drop, double indemnity, back to the future, idk there’s a lot 

88: are there any artistic movements you particularly enjoy? the rennaissance! it was so extra and i loved it a lot 

89: are you close to your parents? yeah

90: talk about your one of you favorite cities. TORONTO-soaring skyline from the highways at night near the lakeshore, the lights from the condos are like stars and its ridiculous but i also loooooveee dubrovnik in croatia and hanoi in vietnam and kaunas in lithuania and kyoto in japan.....in dubrovnik the wind blows in from the shore and at night when the lights are on in the walled city the stone glows amber. In Hanoi in the old quarter, motorbikes flash by and there’s yelling and the smell of pork skewers and there’s old buildings and new ones, huge stalks of bamboo leaning up against the walls. In Kaunas the wind is so cold and sharp and the buildings are so clean and there’s that old fortress and the tower! it’s so beautiful. and Kyoto is old and archaic but so modern it hurts and the streets are too uniform and the houses creep me out a bit bc they’re so quiet. 

91: where do you plan on traveling this year? i dont think so 

92: are you a person who drowns their pasta in cheese or a person who barely sprinkles a pinch? i will bury my pasta in cheese just you watch 

93: what’s the hairstyle you wear the most? my hair is one style fits all bc its short 

94: who was the last person you know to have a birthday? my friend!

95: what are your plans for this weekend? study and work on projects and homework and stress and nap and have dinner with a guest 

96: do you install your computer updates really quickly or do you procrastinate on them a lot? no updates. we die like men. 

97: myer briggs type, zodiac sign, and hogwarts house? isfj-t, aries, ravenclaw 

98: when’s the last time you went hiking? did you enjoy it? sometime in september? it was nice! 

99: list some songs that resonate to your soul whenever you hear them. put your head on my shoulder by paul anka....there’s a lot and im really lazy sorry 

100: if you were presented with two buttons, one that allows you to go 5 years into the past, the other 5 years into the future, which one would you press? why? 5 years in the future, just to see where I end up 

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Your guide to a Thanksgiving dinner without food waste

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Your guide to a Thanksgiving dinner without food waste

Even if you’ve spent the entire year cutting down on plastic, eating less red meat, and conserving water, you’re probably poised to have a wasteful Thanksgiving. It’s the nature of the holiday. We eat a lot, and that means we create a lot of garbage—and throw away a lot of food.

This year can be different. Here’s a step-by-step guide to minimizing your turkey day trash.

Step one: The planning phase

This should not come as a shock. As with most things, planning is key. But what should you prioritize when plotting a no-waste feast?

Know who’s coming, what they want, and how much they’ll eat

Unfortunately, having an open-house-style party isn’t the best option for cutting down on waste. Kick off your eco-conscious holiday by pinning down a guest list, stat. Then text or call everyone to ask what three or four foods they most want to eat. The dishes that get a shout out from more than three-quarters of your expected guests are the ones you should make. (Obviously, whoever is cooking gets veto power. But if no one else is interested in eating all five of your favorite foods, maybe you should just pick one or two of them.)

A firm guest count allows you to plan portions, which is where most Thanksgiving dinners really go off the rails. We want to create the perfect picture of a table veritably buckling with the bounty of this year’s harvest, but that often means making more food than we need.

Celebrity chef Jet Tila uses the following guidelines, per person per serving:

Proteins 4-8 oz (1/2 cup to 1 cup)

Starches 4-8 oz

Vegetables 4-6 oz

This is per serving, he noted in an email, so “big eaters” should be counted twice or three times in each dish.

If you want a quick and easy way to plot out the proper number of servings for each of your dishes, check out the Natural Resources Defence Council’s “Guest-imator” tool. This widget lets you enter the number of guests you expect (divided into appetite categories for added precision) and the types and number of dishes you hope to make, then spits out recommended servings for each recipe.

This might sound crazy, but consider ditching the turkey

Most chefs recommend a pound of turkey per guest. But you’d be hard-pressed to find a bird smaller than 10 pounds or so in your local grocery store, so smaller family gatherings are bound to end up with way too much meat. If you’re expecting fewer than a dozen people, consider some alternatives to a whole bird. You could make a stuffed turkey breast, spatchcock and roast a chicken instead, go with another sort of meat entirely, or go totally meat free—the sides are the best part, anyway!

Assuming you don’t swap the turkey for a giant piece of red meat, you’re almost certainly going to make your meal more environmentally friendly if you don’t gobble a gobbler.

Step two: Pick your recipes with care

It’s easy to open a hundred tabs’ worth of recipes and use Thanksgiving as an excuse to make them all. But being choosier with your menu can go a long way.

No one-off ingredients

One of the biggest tricks for minimizing waste is to make sure you don’t buy any ingredients that won’t factor into another dish. This doesn’t mean you can’t make a recipe with specialized components, but it does mean you should stop and ask yourself whether it’s possible to buy that ingredient in a small enough serving as to avoid shoving some into the back of your fridge. In a pinch, at least Google how best to preserve that food item for as long as possible. It’s possible you can store it in the freezer until another holiday.

Whole-food recipes

No, not those Whole Foods. Try to pick some recipes that use parts of the vegetable or bird that you’d usually toss. You can use turkey giblets to make delicious gravy, or make your mashed potatoes “dirty” (keep the skins on when you mash them). Various carrot soups will taste just as scrumptious with the tops in. The ends of cheeses used in other dishes can be combined to make an indulgent hors d’oeuvre spread. Make desserts with the bruised apples and bananas already knocking around your fridge. Cook and eat your beet greens. If a recipe requires that you throw away something edible, either find another use for that would-be trash or pick a different dish.

When in doubt, avoid meat

No one is asking you to have a vegan Thanksgiving (unless that’s what you’re into). But while butter and heavy cream may feel inevitable, meat doesn’t have to be. Whether you put out a showstopping protein main like turkey or chicken or stick to sides only, try to limit use of animal products to dishes where those flavors will have a real impact. In other words, don’t put sausage and cheese in everything just because it’s easy. You’ll cut down on the water and carbon emissions related to your meal if you make sure there’s more green than cream.

Step three: the grocery store is a battlefield

All your planning will be for naught if you don’t properly execute your shopping trip. Here are some guidelines:

Don’t grocery shop the week before

This will minimize the classic pile-up of leftovers once the meal is done. Your fridge should be as close to empty as possible when you make your Thanksgiving shopping trip. This will minimize headaches while you’re cooking and give you a shot at having well-organized leftovers. You don’t want your turkey day spoils to hide spoiling milk as November turns into December.

Shop in your fridge first

Now that your fridge and pantry is spic-and-span, open everything up and take a good hard look at the food that’s left. Definitely run through your recipe-related shopping lists to make sure you don’t already have ingredients you need. And if you’ve got a big heap of some food item or another left wilting in your crisper drawer, consider making a last-minute menu alteration in order to incorporate it. Remember: you’re probably going to end up ignoring whatever foods are in your fridge in favor of Thanksgiving leftovers. It’s worth it to find a way to mix them in. Check out these tips for reviving produce that’s past its prime.

Be less picky than usual (at least about the silly stuff)

A waste-free Thanksgiving isn’t just about cutting down on the stuff you throw away. A lot of the food America sends to landfills never even makes it into a fridge or cupboard. We like our produce to look pretty, which means shoppers tend to ignore bruised or soon-to-turn produce, and our fairly arbitrary system of sell-by and best-by dates means that stores often dump “bad” food out en masse.

Since you’re probably doing your Thanksgiving shopping pretty shortly before the holiday itself, go out of your way to pick items that have fast-approaching expiration dates. If a fruit or veggie is going to be sliced and diced or mashed and boiled, look for produce that looks a little funny. You don’t need the sweet potatoes you’re about to cover with marshmallows and brown sugar to be pretty. Aim to purchase all the Charlie Brown Christmas trees of the produce aisle.

For goodness sake, bring a shopping list

You are not as good at shopping on the fly as you think you are. If you make it this far only to wander around the crowded store without a perfectly-planned list, we can’t help you. If you want to go the extra mile, pick a store that allows you to use bulk containers. That way you can cut down on paper and plastic waste.

Step four: Cook consciously

Before you start your cooking extravaganza, set out containers for trash, recycling, and compostable waste. Ready, set, go.

Bones and veggie scraps are your friends

If you have a pressure cooker, now is its time to shine. Do your vegetable prepping first, and set aside any scraps you don’t plan on using elsewhere. Cover those bad boys with water and make some delicious veggie broth to use in … well, anything you’re making that calls for broth. Gravy is the obvious choice.

Bag up any veggie waste that shows up later in the game along with small turkey bones, then throw them into a pressure or slow cooker to make even more broth. This will come in handy when it’s time to deal with leftovers, which even the most meticulous chef is bound to have.

Compost, compost, compost!

If you don’t usually compost, now is a good time to start. All non-meat trash should end up in a container for composting. You can keep it all in the freezer if you don’t have your own composting operation. After the holiday, look up your nearest composting center and drop it all off. If you compost everything you can and take care to recycle as much of the other waste as possible, you’ll be miles ahead of most households in terms of eco-friendliness.

Use real dishes, but don’t hand-wash them

You might think you’re saving water, but you’re not. Just use the dang dishwasher. And it goes without saying that you’ll be more wasteful if you serve things on paper plates.

Step five: when it comes to the eating, pace yourself

On the one hand, food is only truly wasted if it ends up in the garbage. On the other hand, you’re probably eating more food than you need—or even actually want. I mean, how often do you not get a belly ache on Thanksgiving?

Americans tend to pack on a pound or two (at least) each holiday season, and it takes an entire year to get back down to your lowest weight. Cut down on food waste and weight gain in one fell swoop by starting off with smaller portions. You can always eat more later.

Step six: You’re gonna have leftovers

No matter how carefully you plan your feast, the fact that you’ll want to avoid the faux-pas of serving too little food means you’re going to have at least a few leftovers. Don’t let them sit in the fridge getting gross.

Make sure you’ve got a game plan

Check your larders for storage containers in a variety of shapes and sizes. If you’ve planned your cooking carefully—and minimized non-holiday food in the fridge—you should have plenty of room to stack up organized, labeled leftovers. Avoiding a jumble of tin-foil and half-eaten pies will make you more likely to notice and eat these second- and third-day treats. Put foods that will go bad more quickly in front. If you have a vacuum sealer, use it.

Get creative, then get even more creative

If you tend to throw away most of your leftovers, boredom is probably to blame. Take a look at your bounty on Thursday night and write down a few recipes that remix the most plentiful items, and commit to making them on Friday or Saturday.

The internet is bursting with ideas about this, but here are a few from us. Chef Jet Tila says he loves to use cranberry sauce to replace jam or jelly on everything—try it in oatmeal or on toast! PopSci Editor in Chief Joe Brown recommends Boxing Day Pie. Turkey soup is a given (just use the carcass as a base for stock, then add in some of the leftover meat), and Tila suggests amping the flavor up with a ham bone if you’ve got one. He also likes to use stuffing in place of breadcrumbs when making meatloaf, which frankly sounds obscenely delicious. You can also toast stuffing in the oven to make croutons, and fry up some pancakes with your leftover mashed potatoes. Desserts can be the hardest to remix, but here’s an amazing recipe for turning your pumpkin pie into turkey curry.

Thanksgiving is, at its core, a gluttonous holiday. But if you follow these steps—or even just follow one or two of them—you can enjoy your pie and give thanks for the planet’s bounty in a way that doesn’t help destroy it.

Written By Rachel Feltman