Open the Fridge Before You Open the Delivery App

The instinct to order food usually shows up before you have actually checked what is at home. Make it a rule: open the fridge first, the app second. Nine times out of ten there is something workable — eggs, a half onion, leftover rice, a can of something.

This is not about self-denial, it is about breaking a reflex. Reaching for the phone is faster than looking in the fridge, so make looking the automatic first move. Over a month, this small pause saves real money and food that would have gone unused and thrown out.