I Was Throwing Away Half My Fridge Each Week

Okay, real talk: I used to open my fridge on garbage day and play a little game I called "what died this week." The half-bag of spinach gone slimy. The strawberries wearing tiny fuzzy sweaters. The chicken I swore I'd cook, now hiding a grey, freezer-burned corner.

Every single week I was scraping real money into the trash.

And I'd tried things. Expensive tupperware, cling wrap wrestled around a bowl at 11pm, writing dates on masking tape like a very organized person (I am not a very organized person). As you know, that doesn't work... the problem wasn't me. Air is what turns your groceries into science experiments.

Here's the slightly embarrassing part: I actually discovered SealPro a year ago but not for myself. Last Christmas I was hunting for a gift that wasn't another candle, read about these little cordless vacuum sealers, and bought a handful for my mom. I figured it was a fun, useful stocking-stuffer and moved on.

Five seconds. That's the whole thing.

She used it immediately, Christmas Day. To pack up the Christmas leftovers for us all to take with us home.

Then something funny happened... At every get-together: potlucks, birthdays, the Easter thing at my aunt's, a summer barbecue — most of our family had ordered their own bags and would bring them over.

No more sending people home with Tupperware you'll never see again. No more the great annual "whose lid is this?" negotiation. Everyone seals their portion, tosses it in a bag, done.

I ate my leftovers nearly two weeks later and it was still good!

Now everyone brings their own bags to the potluck.

So this year I did what I always do — researched it to death — and finally bought SealPro for my own kitchen. It's cordless, charges over USB, and lives in my drawer instead of hogging the counter. And now I get why my family went feral for these things.

The freezer was the big one. I buy chicken and ground beef in bulk because it's cheaper, and I always paid for it later in grey, freezer-burned edges. Sealed and frozen? No freezer burn. None. My leftovers stopped turning into a science experiment — no more wasted produce, no more slimy spinach a week later.

And I can marinate chicken in fifteen minutes, because pulling the air out basically forces the marinade in. Not to mention you can cook it directly in the bag, sous-vide style.

No freezer burn. You can thaw and even cook it in the bag.

What is SealPro?

It's not magic, it's just that air is the enemy and this thing removes it. A precision micro-pump pulls the air out through a one-way valve and auto-stops the second it's airtight. A few things I didn't expect:

How much is it?

I'll be honest the way I'd tell a friend: I gave these as gifts at full price and never blinked. Watching my family stop wasting food was worth every penny.

So when I went to finally order my own, I fully expected to pay full price again. Instead they're running it at 50% off right now. The starter bundle (the sealer plus 10 reusable bags) dropped from $119.99 to just $59.99 and free shipping.

I even bought an extra set for my girl friends.

The math that sold me

I was throwing out easily $30–40 of groceries a week — so the starter bundle basically costs one bad grocery week and then pays me back every week after.

Every bundle comes with the sealer plus a stack of reusable bags, so you're not hunting for refills.

Less space than tupperware (and more effective), no freezer burn, longer-lasting leftovers and produce.

Claim my 50% off SealPro

And if you don't find yourself using it?

You send it back. There's a 30-day money-back guarantee and a 2-year warranty, so the whole thing is basically risk-free. I'm confident you won't — but I'd rather you know.

I don't write about stuff I don't actually use. This one earned its spot in my drawer. If it saves you even a couple of sad fridge-cleanouts on garbage day, it's done its job.

— Amanda