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4 Awesome Veggie Side Dishes for your Labor Day Cookout

August 28, 2019

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How to Love Your Leftovers!

August 7, 2019

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Partners in Pasta: Imperfect & Barilla

July 31, 2019

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What August Has In Store for Your Imperfect Box

July 25, 2019

Ciara Bravo’s 6 Sustainability Tips

July 10, 2019

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Summer Produce Preview

June 26, 2019

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Cooking oils can be confusing. What's a "smoke poi

Cooking oils can be confusing. What's a "smoke point," anyway? Here are tips for cooking with 4 of our favorites: ⁠
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✅ Avocado oil has a clean, neutral flavor and extremely high smoke point, which means you can get it hotter than most oils before it starts smoking and tasting bitter. It’s perfect for high heat applications like roasting, sauteéing, or stir fries. ⁠
✅ Extra virgin olive oil has the most complex and interesting flavor of any cooking oil, making it ideal for times when you want a ton of flavor like salad dressings, sauces, or just drizzling on toast. ⁠
✅ Virgin olive oil has a higher smoke point than extra virgin oil, which makes it perfect for roasting and sauteéing veggies and proteins alike. ⁠
✅ Coconut oil is an intensely flavorful oil that adds a lovely richness to rice dishes, curries, and soups alike. ⁠
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Head to the link in our bio for tips and recipes for using each oil. Be sure to save this post for future reference and tag a friend in the comments who'd find it useful! What's your go-to cooking oil?

Knowledge is power! We're here to help you make th

Knowledge is power! We're here to help you make the most of your groceries, fight food waste, and keep your family nourished this fall.

It's never a bad time to get smarter in the kitchen. In the weeks ahead, we'll share tons of tips & tricks, educational videos, and delicious recipes to help you become a better cook. Imperfect U is now in session. 🍎📖 Watch for our first guest lecturer tomorrow!

What recipe, ingredient, or skill would you like to learn more about? Lettuce know in the comments below!

#ImperfectU

Have you heard about the mutual aid community frid

Have you heard about the mutual aid community fridge projects happening across the country? They’re a grassroots network of fridges full of free food for anyone who needs it. Our LA delivery team found out about this initiative and decided to add a fridge location to their delivery route so they could drop off donated food a few days each week.

While community fridges are not a long-term solution to hunger, they are a beautiful example of the power collective action. To quote one of our drivers: "It filled my heart with joy seeing people able to enjoy our donated items." To learn more about the project, follow @lacommunityfridges and help spread the word!

Today is our 5th birthday! In the past 5 years, he $Today is our 5th birthday! In the past 5 years, here's what we've accomplished together: 🥕 Grown our Imperfect community to over 400,000 people 🥕 Collectively saved over 130 million pounds of food, an impactful step toward a less wasteful food system 🥕 Provided good, living-wage jobs to over 1,500 employees 🥕 Given more than 1,200 farmers and producers new outlets for food that they used to throw away, leave in a field, or sell for a fraction of its worth 🥕 Helped improve food access by donating over 5 million pounds of food to date to 100 nonprofits and food banks across the country, along with over 400,000 reduced cost boxes for low-income families Your support proves that compassionate communities can make a difference, together. Thank you for your support and commitment to eliminating food waste and building a better food system for everyone. We're so excited to see what the next 5 years hold for our company and our community! 💚 (Psst: Head to the link in our bio to get a recipe for this carrot cake 🥕)$

(Giveaway closed) Our friends at @dropps are rethi

(Giveaway closed) Our friends at @dropps are rethinking the environmental footprint of doing laundry with their waste-free, dye-free, plant-based laundry pods. They share our vision of a less wasteful world where better options help all of us save plastic, water, and time.

To celebrate their work, we're teaming up to give away one month of free Imperfect groceries ($100 value) plus a Dropps laundry bundle ($127 value) 🧺

To enter just follow @imperfectfoods and @dropps and tag a friend in the comments. We'll pick a winner on 8/11!

In our 5 years as a company we've saved over 130 m

In our 5 years as a company we've saved over 130 million pounds of food – that's more than twice the weight of the Statue of Liberty!

As we mark Imperfect's 5th birthday this week, we want to celebrate YOU for helping make this impact possible. Whoever said one person couldn't make a difference in the fight against food waste obviously never met you!🗽🥕

(Giveaway closed) When we rebranded to Imperfect F

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