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Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared on Living on the Cheap. When we live alone or with just one other person, it can be hard to scale down portion sizes so that you don’t waste a lot of food or end up throwing your grocery money in the trash. It’s not only a poor financial investment, it’s just wrong to waste that much food! So how do we avoid tossing out as much food as we consume?