Shop less

If you’ve made a weekly meal plan and your pantry is well stocked, you should need to shop only a couple of times a week for highly perishable ingredients, such as fresh produce, meat, poultry, or seafood. If you know that you’ll be really pressed for time during the week, purchase your meat and poultry on the weekend along with your pantry staples, and wrap and freeze what you won’t be using within the next couple of days.