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Use Fresh Food

Use ingredients up quickly or toss them out to make room for fresh ingredients. Batali explains, "Spend more time in the grocery store and less time in the kitchen. Clean out your kitchen and get rid of those old spices that you once used to make chicken tikka masala. Make room for fresh clean food."

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