Margaret Lee

I can't eat this.

I just stick it into the freezer.

this banana is too brown.

I can't eat this.

I stick it into the freezer.

And then eventually I just put it all in a blender with some yogurt and some juice and I make a smoothie.

And then the smoothie is delicious for all ages, even if it's made up of all the things that have been rejected in the past.

For example, you want a lemon for your cocktail and you cut open a lemon and then you open your fridge and you realize you already had a lemon open.

And I will often find like three more lemons in the back of my fridge.

I feel like you're looking in my fridge right now.

I'm staring at your fridge and finding all your secrets.

Maybe instead you could swap it for collards and daikon radish or something.

That allows you to try something new.

If you got something from a CSA box that you haven't used before or something that's kind of hiding in the back of your crisper drawer and you didn't know what to do with it, then all of a sudden you have these opportunities to swap one thing out for another.

We've evolved with the senses to help us make this decision.

So like smelling things, the smell test is actually really pretty solid.

You can sort of change the texture totally.

So you could make a lettuce soup.

You could make stir-fried lettuce.

This is takeaway four.