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Our (Almost) Fall Produce Guide
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Use up that last bit of strawberry jam in the fridge (we all have it) the classi...
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Learn all about our reduced-cost box and the work we’re doing to make fresh prod...
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Healthy Maven AKA Davida Leder...
"I’m realizing that the most sustainable decision I can make is to say no.”
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Veggie Side Dishes to Impress ...

Labor Day is coming up and we want to show you how awesome your vegetable sid...

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Recipes
Avocado Brownies
We all love avocados in guacamole, but have you ever tried adding them to a dess...
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Recipes
Homemade Mango Rose Lemonade
This delightfully light and happy drink is sure to put a smile on your face. Per...
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Tips & Guides
Your Top 5 Cooking Questions, ...
We answer your 5 most burning cooking questions!
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Tips & Guides
How to Pick The Right Hot Pepp...
We share everything you need to know about 4 of the most common hot peppers out ...
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Recipes
Crispy Brussels Sprouts with P...
This deliciously crispy Brussels sprout recipe brings the right balance of nutty...
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Recipes
Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread
I’ve found that cleaning out my fridge is very therapeutic because it gives me a...
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Tips & Guides
What To Do With Leftovers
We share tips and tricks for having a more loving and less wasteful relationship...
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Tips & Guides
Everything You Ever Wanted to ...
We answer 10 of your most burning questions about recycling.
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Recipes
Cherry Cobbler with Biscuit To...
Buttery, crisp biscuits top a fresh and sweet cherry filling in this easy, class...
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Tips & Guides
Everything You Ever Wanted to ...
We answer your most burning questions about how to shop for and cook with spicy ...
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Tips & Guides
Ciara Bravo’s 6 Sustaina...
Actress Ciara Bravo shares some of her favorite ways to live more sustainably.
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Food Waste Movement
What Makes Produce “Ugly...
Learn what makes produce “ugly” and what we’re doing to make sure that fruits &a...
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Tips & Guides
What to do With Leftover Condi...
Whether you’re planning to grill everything in your box this summer or just gear...
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Recipes
Grilled Eggplant with Tahini S...
Grilled eggplant can have a reputation for being bitter or hard to cook, but whe...
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Recipes
Roasted Vegetable Potato Salad
This Roasted Veggie Potato Salad is the perfect flavor-packed side dish for all ...
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Tips & Guides
Summer Produce Preview
Learn what surprises summer has in store for Imperfect boxes across the country!
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Tips & Guides
What to Do With Too Many Veget...
Tips, tricks, and recipes for using up 5 of the most common vegetables that that...
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Recipes
Roasted Cauliflower and Meatba...
Roasted cauliflower that’s tender and caramelized is my favorite way to pr...
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Recipes
Fresh Corn Salad
Fresh, in-season corn doesn’t need much accompaniment, but this bright salad mak...
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Recipes
Spring Fennel and Zucchini Salad
Note: This spring salad recipe is one of many featured in “Whole Fridge Cooking,...
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Carrot Cake Cookies with Cream...
Looking for a fun, new way to use up the carrots in your Imperfect box? These ca...
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Quinoa with Spring Vegetables
With its nutty flavor, fluffy texture, and abundance of vitamins and minerals, i...
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Recipes
Cherry Tomato Bruschetta Toasts
This recipe just screams tomato season to us- with cherry tomatoes, a fresh leaf...
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Food Waste Movement
Where Do Ugly Tomatoes Come From?
Learn the inspiring story of Wholesum Harvest, one of the tomato growers that we...
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Recipes
Simple and Fresh Strawberry Tart
Making a dessert doesn’t have to involve a ton of work or a ton of ingredients. ...
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Food Waste Movement
4 Reasons Why Food Goes To Waste
Learn 4 common reasons why perfectly good packaged foods go to waste in our food...
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Recipes
Blueberry Crisp
We’ve partnered with Homegrown Organics to find a home for the adorably small bl...
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Tips & Guides
3 Composting Tips From a Compo...
Learn 3 tips for composting from zero waste expert Kathryn Kellogg of Read more
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Small Blueberries, Big Impact:...

Learn about how we’ve partnered with H...

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Tips & Guides
10 Ways You Can Support Bees t...
Learn about 10 ways that you can help support the bees that are the unsung heroe...
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How to Clean Out Your Fridge: ...
10 steps for a perfect fridge clean out that will leave your kitchen feeling cle...
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Food Waste Movement
Feeding Change: Skid Row Coffee
Learn how we’re supporting food accessibility in Los Angeles through our partner...
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Tips & Guides
Getting to the Root of Root Ve...
We team up with a chef to answer our community’s top questions about cooking wit...
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Food Waste Movement
Feeding Change: Second Servings
Learn about the food recovery work that we’re helping support in Houston Texas a...
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Vegetable Wisdom Straight from...
Chef Abra Berens shares some useful kitchen wisdom on how to cook with root vege...
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Cooking Tips for Busy People: ...
Learn some tips for saving time in the kitchen so can fit delicious meals into y...
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Featured Food
When Are Avocados in Season?
Learn when avocados are in season so you can know where your current batch is li...
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Flavors That Love Each Other: ...
We spill the sweet secrets of pairing spices with all of your favorite fruits an...
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How Buying Ugly Citrus Helps a...

Learn how buying ugly produce helps make family...

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Food Waste Movement
Feeding Change: FareStart
We share the wonderful work that FareStart is doing in Seattle, and let you know...
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Tips & Guides
How to Cook More: Cooking Oil 101

We break down everything you need to know abou...

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How to Buy Less: Understanding...
Ever wondered about the difference between “best by,” “use by,” and “sell by” da...
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Tips & Guides
What the Fork: Citrus Peels
Learn why citrus peels are a delicious and underrated ingredient that we can all...
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Tips & Guides
Citrus 101
Get the lowdown on all of the delicious varieties of citrus that winter has in s...
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About Imperfect
2018 in Review: A Letter from ...
Our co-founders share some highlights from this past year and a look at what we’...
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What is Surplus Produce?
Surplus Produce It goes without saying that farming is an incredibly tough job, ...
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Our Top Tips to Help Food Bank...
Learn how you can help support food banks during the holidays and year round.
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Imperfect x Renewal Mill
Imperfect partners with Renewal Mill in the Bay Area to bring okara flour t...
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Tips & Guides
Everything You Ever Wanted to ...
We share our top tips for taking better care of your knives so you can stay shar...
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Tips & Guides
Baking Fats 101 – The Bi...
Our big fat overview of cooking fats!
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Food Waste Movement
Food Banks and the Holidays
Food Banks and the Holidays One of the best things about the holidays is how the...
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Tips & Guides
4 Steps To Use Up Your Thanksg...
How to navigate the sea of Thanksgiving leftovers like a pro.
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Tips & Guides
How to Turn Holiday Leftovers ...
Learn how you can turn your Thanksgiving leftovers into an amazing brunch or three!
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Food Waste Movement
Feeding Change: Chicago Refuge...
Learn about our work with the Chicago Refugee Coalition and what you can do to h...
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Recipes
Cranberry Crumb Bars
Recipe and photo by Katie Olsen of Katiebird Bakes! With a buttery, holiday...
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Tips & Guides
What the Fork: Fresh vs. Dry H...
Learn which herbs you should buy fresh vs dried and get some practical tips for ...
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Tips & Guides
Root Vegetable 101
We demystify all of the many root vegetables that fall and winter bring our way.
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Tips & Guides
What To Do With Your Old Hallo...
Learn what to do with your Halloween pumpkin after the big night so you don’t cr...
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Tips & Guides
Your Squash Cheat Sheet
Eating seasonally during the colder months means learning to love squash. Here i...
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About Imperfect
A Special Addition to the Impe...
Kevin Durant joins the Imperfect team to help us grow roots on the East coast!
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Tips & Guides
Everything You Ever Wanted To ...
We share our top tips for using a knife like a pro in the kitchen and de-mystify...
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How to Make the Most of Soup S...
We’re dishing out all of the soup knowledge that you need to make the most of th...
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What The Fork: Broiling and Br...
We set the record straight on broiling vs brûléeing and outline why you should a...
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What The Fork Do I Do With Pom...
We demystify the regal pomegranate, teach you how to open it quickly without sta...
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Level Up Your Lunchbox!

Guest author Elaine Westcott shares her tips f...

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How To Make the Most of End of...
Learn our top tricks for preserving the last of your summer fruit for the delici...
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Tips & Guides
How to Make Jam at Home
Everything that you wanted to know about making jam at home.
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Tips & Guides
Kale Yeah: How to Love Kale Again
We teach you how (and why) to massage, season, and love your kale!
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Food Waste Movement
Feeding Change: Fight2Feed
Learn about the awesome work that Fight2Feed does in Chicago and how you can get...
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Food Waste Movement
Feeding Change: Lunch on Me
Learn how you can help LA’s largest block party feed the homeless and help child...
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Feeding Change: Second Helping...
Learn more about the awesome work that Second Helpings is doing in Indianapolis ...
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Food Waste Movement
Feeding Change: Arts @ Large i...
Learn more about how you can nourish the next generation in Milwaukee by support...
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Food Waste Movement
Feeding Change: Seed to Sky wi...
Learn how you can help us and our friends at LA Kitchen support food justice in ...
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Tips & Guides
How To Turn Your Corn Cobs Int...
Learn how to turn your corn cobs into a sweet and delicious broth!
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Food Waste Movement
Feeding Change: Farming Hope i...
Learn how you can support the fight to end hunger and unemployment here in the B...
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Food Waste Movement
Feeding Change: Emergency Food...
Learn about one of our food bank partners in Washington State and how you can ge...
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Tips & Guides
How to Cook Radishes
Learn 4 tips for cooking delicious radishes at home!
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Recipes
A Delicious Breakfast Menu Tha...
Today, Christiann is sharing her tips on how to make a delicious, savory breakfa...
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Tips & Guides
How to Use Stone Fruit Like a ...
Learn some kitchen secrets for turning your stone fruit into delicious desserts ...
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12 Easy Ways to Get Your Famil...
Follow these tips and your family will be eating more healthy fruits and veggies...
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Food Waste Movement
Where do Brussels Sprouts Come...
Come with us on a fun and eye-opening tour of one of our Brussels sprouts farms ...
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Tips & Guides
Cooking Ugly With Chef Anna Po...
We sat down with Anna Posey of Elske in Chicago to chat about how she thinks abo...
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Tips & Guides
Cooking Ugly With Chef Tom Car...
We sat down with Chef Tom Carlin of Dove’s Luncheonette in Chicago to learn abou...
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Tips & Guides
4 Tips for Cooking Excellent E...
4 tips for making more delicious eggplant dishes at home!
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About Imperfect
Where Does Our Midwestern Prod...
Ever wonder where our produce comes from? Here’s the story of one of our biggest...
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The Story of Our Sightglass Co...
Learn why amazing Colombian coffee can be dismissed as “ugly” and how you can ge...
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About Imperfect
Imperfect Celebrates Pride Month!
How Imperfect celebrates Pride, this month and always.
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Tips & Guides
How to get the most out of you...
Our handy cheat sheet for making the most of your fresh herbs this summer!
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How to Build a Dinner Tablescape
Learn how to use Imperfect produce to decorate a table from our friend Christian...
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Tips & Guides
4 Tips For Going Zero Waste
Practical advice from zero waste superstar, Kathryn Kellogg of Going Zero Waste.
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Recipes
Homemade Berry Jam
One of our favorite ways to make your favorite fruits last is to turn your surpl...
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Food Waste Movement
The Face of Packaged Food Wast...
Learn why expiration dates are so confusing and cause so much waste, plus what y...
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Tips & Guides
How to Practice Mindful Eating...
teaches us to how to practice mindful eating and why it matters more than ever i...
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Tips & Guides
Tips for Cooking With Kids!
Tips on how to get kids excited about cooking from Chef Andi Davis, aka “The Sal...
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Tips & Guides
3 Tips on How to Cook Artichokes
3 tips for turning this bizarre-looking, prickly flowers in to the stuff of Medi...
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Food Waste Movement
Too Curvy For Stores?
Learn why curvy vegetables get under-valued and get some useful tips and recipes...
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Tips & Guides
How to cook like a Zero-Waste ...
6 ways to apply chef tricks in your kitchen to waste less food and cook more del...
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Tips & Guides
How to Dry Your Leftover Lemon...
Learn how to get more out of your lemons and waste less by drying the peels!
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About Imperfect
Imperfect & Oregon Food Bank
We spent an afternoon at the Oregon Food Bank and learned a lot about hunger, pe...
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Food Waste Movement
5 Things We Learned on Earth Day
5 things we learned about how to build a better food system this Earth Day!
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Tips & Guides
How (and Why!) To Freeze Your ...
Learn how to keep your extra onions from going to waste by freezing them!
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Food Waste Movement
Imperfect in the Community: Ra...
We teamed up with a talented Bay Area chef to create a wholesome dinner, support...
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Tips & Guides
Dress to Impress: Why You Shou...
How to ditch the plastic bottles of sugary dressing from the store, and whip up ...
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Food Waste Movement
Cooking Ugly Produce With Chef...
Learn how one of LA's best chefs uses Imperfect produce, tricks she uses to wast...
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Featured Food
Help! I’ve Got Too Many ...
Some weeks we just end up with too many onions. Here's how to  handle it wi...
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Why We’re Frond of Fennel!
Fennel: It's fun, functional, and phenomenally aromatic!
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Let’s Hear It For Asian ...
The look of an apple, the taste of a pear, and all of the quirk and charm you'd ...
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Hot for Habaneros: How and Why...
Here's what you need to know to fully enjoy the next batch of hot peppers that s...
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Where Did All the Carrot Tops ...
Ever wonder why some carrots have their green tops on and some don't? Wonder no ...
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4 Common Leafy Greens and What...
Looking to demystify the trendy, healthy, and overwhelming world of leafy greens...
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Tips & Guides
Composting 101
An overview of how to turn your fruit and veggie scraps, peels, and cores into h...
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Tips & Guides
5 Tips for Waste-Free Meal Pla...
Less waste starts with a smarter meal plan!
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Tips & Guides
How to Cook with 5 Lesser-Know...
When it comes to fruits and veggies, there are no strangers, just friends that y...
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Turn Your Citrus Peels Into a ...
Citrus peels don't have to go to waste and cleaning your kitchen doesn't have to...
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Tips & Guides
Everything You Wanted to Know ...
Learn the answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about fermentation!
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Tips & Guides
Waste Less, Save More! Why You...
The easiest way to waste less food, save money on groceries, and become a better...
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About Imperfect
Imperfect in 2017: A Year in R...
We're not crying-- we've just been cutting onions while reviewing our favorite m...
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A Love Letter to Watermelon Ra...
We're crazy in love with these rad roots and need you to know why.
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Bye Bye Bland Bowls: 5 Easy Ti...
Farewell obligatory, bland brown rice! Up your brown rice game with these easy k...
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Food Waste Movement
The Wasteful Cost of Seasonal ...
While everyone wants pumpkins at Halloween, squashes at Thanksgiving, and Mandar...
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Tips & Guides
3 Ways to Give Less Wasteful G...
3 ways to give thoughtful holiday gifts without wasting rolls of wrapping paper ...
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Everything You Need to Know Ab...
We're taking the expensive and stressful guesswork out of buying a knife this ho...
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Imperfect’s Guide to Coo...
Fresh herbs are essential to cooking delicious meals with seasonal produce. Here...
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A Pre-Thanksgiving Fall Feast!

Cook your way through the flavors of fall with this mini-feast that's a perfe...

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Roasted Beet and Garlic Soup t...
Just in time for Halloween, one of our Imperfect community members taught us how...
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Stock Tips: How to Turn All Yo...
Make an investment in more flavor and less waste with these market-tested, kitch...
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“Help! I’ve got to...
Whether you mistook 2 pounds of chiles for 2 chiles during customization or just...
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Recipe of the Week: Mega Green...

Get your great, green glow on with the Mega Green Juice Read more

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Cook With Your Coffee!
In addition to being a delicious beverage in your cup, your Imperfect Sightglass...
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Recipe of the Week: Pickled Ca...
You won't get bored of carrots or cauliflower ever again with this versatile pic...
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How to Pickle Everything in yo...
Pickling is a quick and easy way to give new life to your produce, use up excess...
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3 Fun Drinks to Make with your...

Fun fact: ugly produce makes beautiful and refreshing summer drinks! 

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Flower Power! A summer love st...
Why nothing says "I love you but dislike food waste" quite like a bouquet of flo...
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What do I cook with THAT?
So you got an unfamiliar vegetable in your Imperfect box...Now what?
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Food Waste Movement
It’s Getting Hot in Here...
Summer is here so we're counting down 4 surprising effects that warm weather can...
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10 Essential Kitchen Tools for...
There are a ton of kitchen gadgets and gizmos on the market so we thought we'd w...
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Our Top 5 Must-Have Ingredients!
Get these 5 ingredients in your pantry and enjoy delicious, versatile meals no m...
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About Imperfect
Mind the gap! aka When is spri...
This week we explore "gapping," one of the biggest factors impacting produce pri...
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Tips & Guides
In Search of the Perfect Sunda...
We reveal some of our kitchen-tested tips for turning the straggler veggies from...
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Food Waste Movement
How Much Water Does Your Produ...
We round up the "water cost" of some of your favorite fruits and vegetables and ...
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5 Tips for Better Roasted Brus...
Our definitive guide to making the best roasted Brussels Sprouts on the planet.
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Food Waste Movement
It’s Raining, Veggies! W...
We take a closer look about what the heavy winter rains have meant for produce i...
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5 Tips for an Imperfect Valent...
Valentine's Day is around the corner so we're sharing our top tips to make a rom...
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Food Waste Movement
How is that ugly?
We finally answer your burning questions about those fruits and vegetables that ...
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Food Waste Movement
Imperfect Goes Tropical!
This week we answer your burning questions about how and why we source ugly prod...
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5 Tricks To Avoid The Winter C...
Free yourself from repetitive winter meals with this helpful guide from your fri...
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What the Fork: Persimmons
We finally clear up the difference between Fuyus and Hachiyas, because let's fac...
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Food Waste Movement
The Scary Face of Food Waste

We dive deep into the scary true story of food waste happening in the US and ...

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Restoring The Love For Pasta: ...
Baia Pasta will whisk you away to Piemonte, Northern Italy, where “food is passi...
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Eat Your Beer, Too: A Q&A...
ReGrained cofounders Dan Kurzrock and Jordan Schwartz started turning waste into...
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Fall In Love With Beets
The Beets of Today look quite different from the Beets of the Past. In the Middl...
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A Theoretical Courtyard for Im...

While visiting a friend living in Hip House, a UC Berkeley housing cooperativ...

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What’s With the Nubby Ca...
One season of growing vegetables will introduce any amateur gardener to the fasc...
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Guest Blog from Team Resurge: ...

We are Team Resurge, four 8th graders from Dublin, California participating i...

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