Comments on: Food Waste Friday

By: Renee

Renee — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:24:58 +0000

Still not a no waste week But like others have said I am more conscious of what we waste. I have found this really helps me when I am at the grocery store and feel the urge to get things that are not on my list.

By: Franci

Franci — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:41:51 +0000

I had a super sad week. While I’m not doing the whole no-food-waste challenge, I have become a lot more conscious of what I throw out (or not!).

But here lies my problem. When I have nice stuff around, I want to savour it and make it last as long as possible – I go all stingy about it and ration people and stuff. So last Thursday (a week and a bit ago) a friend and I made this *divine* grape juice with grapes from her vine. And I bring some home and seriously ration it out. A whole 3 liters of it. Only to open it one morning and to discover that instead of grape juice, I had about a liter of fizzy grape vinegar in the fridge. I was so gutted after all the hard work of making it, and then trying to ‘save’ it! I looked online, but where was I going to find a recipe that has an ingredient like fermented home-made grape juice? hehe

I often do this – special cheeses, nice baking, etc. Do I just need to live in the moment a bit more and eat good things quickly?!

By: Julia

Julia — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:11:20 +0000

It’s going to be “every man for himself” night tonight for dinner because we have 2 taco shells, some leftover “pretend” hamburger (soy) taco filling, and rice/veggie stir fry leftovers. We just splurged on a sushi lunch so those leftovers need to be consumed! And they will be.
Darn it, why is there never a problem such as leftover chocolate cake???

By: Kristin @ klingtocash

Kristin @ klingtocash — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:04:17 +0000

Grats on no food waste two weeks in a row. I had some lettuce that was about to come alive that I threw out and some leftovers from a steak dinner we had at a restaurant that we brought home to feed the cats. They got some of the steak and then we forgot about the rest.

By: Mrs Green

Mrs Green — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 05:28:35 +0000

Well done on another great week, Kristen. My food waste wasn’t too bad – but the birds did well out of the cake and bread leftovers! Salad is one of our most challenging items.

So glad you made pie, Stacey – we have a tiny bit of minced beef left over and I know I’ll be able to bulk it out with oats, lentils and tomatoes and make a type of mousakka dish for lunch today.

Angela, it’s really interesting about the use-by vs best-before dates as many people think they mean the same. Good luck for next week’s challenge!

By: Angela

Angela — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:29:59 +0000

Hey Kristen-
Congratulations on no food waste this week. I’m inspired by you and Stacey to make sure I’ve got nothing next week! I didn’t do so well…

I also wanted to mention that I’ve linked to a really useful article called “The Truth Behind Sell-By Dates on Food” that tells how long you can keep perishables past their “sell by” date. The info. comes from a food editor at Prevention magazine, so I think it can be trusted.

By: Stacey

Stacey — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:19:14 +0000

I wrote at my blog today about how I am so grateful for this challenge. In the past I would have wasted a cup of cream and today I made pie!