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Here's an unpopular one that will have people huffing and puffing with righteous indignation.
Go vegan.
Your food will keep three times as long and you will not even need a refrigerator. I speak with 20 years of experience of living mostly solo in small apartments. Not having to deal with highly perishable and pathogenic food at home is a major convenience.
Veggies are not immune to spoiling nor pathogens. What is your diet made of besides legumes and beans?
Grainy things, quinoa, oats, nuts of varied types, dried fruits. Things in jars. Sometimes prepared salads that I buy the same day.
Eggs. Because I am not actually vegan! But it's the only exception at home. And I also eat out a bit, and sometimes even eat meat!
None of this invalidates my point: domestic veganism is a way to simplify one's life, ethical issues completely apart.
And it's cheaper. I'm not full vegan nor vegetarian, but pared way down on red meat especially due to cost.
This is an awesome reason to go vegetarian holy shit.
All the reasons I've heard have mostly been issues of morality and some ecology.
Do you have any tips for keeping lettuce and other leaves such as spinach form spoiling too quick ?
Lettuce is hard admittedly. Personally I don't eat it. It's mostly water, not very nutritious, and also a pretty good vector for pesticides given the edible surface area.
Spinach should keep for 2 or 3 days. Do as they did before refrigeration: put it in a dark, dry, cool (low) place. Shop regularly in small quantities - people alone in apartments tend to be in big cities where this is possible.
If you're buying packaged stuff, buy it in the hard plastic containers, not the soft plastic bags. The hard plastic protects it much better during transit, and can easily last a week for me before getting soggy and gross.