Use It Up Tape
We’ve created the Use It Up tape™ to help remind you what food needs using up, making it easy to waste less food at home!
Use It Up Tape
We’ve created the Use It Up tape™ to help remind you what food needs using up, making it easy to waste less food at home!
What is the Tape?
The Use It Up tape can be used in your fridge, freezer, or pantry to mark a shelf for food that needs using up, or it can also be stuck on individual items.
Once you can see what needs to be used, you’re more likely to Use It Up™! The tape is made from paper, it can be recycled or reused, it’s also dishwasher-proof.
Make Your Own Tape
Grab your tape and markers and get colouring!
Across the tape, write ‘USE ME UP", "EAT ME", PICK ME.
Add some colour and design. We love drawing fruit icons and happy faces.
It can be used in your fridge, freezer, or pantry to mark where to place food that needs using up, or as stickers on containers or food that needs using up on individual items.
Tell your household so everyone can get on board. Now you’re ready to Use It Up!
It can be used in your fridge, freezer, or pantry to mark where to place food that needs using up, or as stickers on containers or food that needs using up on individual items.
Tell your household so everyone can get on board. Now you’re ready to Use It Up!
Grab your tape and markers and get colouring!
Across the tape, write ‘USE ME UP", "EAT ME", PICK ME.
Add some colour and design. We love drawing fruit icons and happy faces.
It can be used in your fridge, freezer, or pantry to mark where to place food that needs using up, or as stickers on containers or food that needs using up on individual items.
Tell your household so everyone can get on board. Now you’re ready to Use It Up!
The Use It Up Tape in action
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I used to just buy whatever ingredients I needed to make this dinner, since using the tape I am more in the habit of checking my fridge to see what things I can use, and then I only buy the extra things that I need.
Sonia
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In the past we would get a take-away if we were rushed off our feet, but now we’re more aware of the food in the fridge, so we eat that up instead. It’s saved us quite a bit a bit of money.
Olivia and Miguel
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To simplify decision making when it came to cooking or eating, I checked the marked out shelves as “eat first” zones. I also used it as stickers on things I had for ages, like nuts or dressings and did an audit once a week. I used up a lot of stuff and made some great muesli balls with all the nuts and seeds!
Steve
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I labelled containers with the tape, which I was able to use repeatedly as they were dishwasher proof! I found it was easy to access food that needed using with a dedicated shelf in the fridge. I started using up things that would usually have thrown out, like half a tomato or overripe bananas. The stickers were very easy to see when I opened the fridge, so there were no excuses!
Neeta
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I divided the fridge – everything on the second shelf was for using up and had the tape on – it made it very easy to see what food to use first. I saw I had chicken and spinach that needed to be used, so I googled a recipe. I don’t normally do that!
Lucy
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Now we bring items to the front of the fridge - things that would previously been forgotten. It helped me reduce waste – I saw that I was throwing away much less food.
Evan
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