You all may have noticed that up to this point, I haven’t had a blogroll in my sidebar. I’ve avoided this mainly because I would have a hard time deciding what blogs to include and leave out.
I’ve decided that the time has come for a blogroll, though, and you all will be in charge of my who’s-in/who’s-out decision! I’d love for more people to conquer the food waste problem that is so prevalent in our homes, so I’m offering some motivation for you. If you come and participate in Food Waste Friday by leaving a link to your post about food waste, I’ll put you on my blogroll for a week. Each week, I’ll edit my blogroll to reflect that week’s Food Waste Friday participants.
My blog isn’t the largest one in the blogosphere by any stretch, but if you’d been on my blogroll last week, your blog link would have been viewed over 6500 times. So, participating in Food Waste Friday could bring you some new readers(not to mention that it will help you reduce your waste, thereby saving you money and reducing your trash output!).
In case you’re embarrassed about your waste output, let me show you an old food waste picture of mine(and keep in mind that this was after I’d already been working on the problem for a while! I was a slow learner).
So, come participate! You KNOW you want more traffic for your blog…every blogger worth their salt wants more eyeballs reading their content. Brace yourself, take a picture of your waste, write a post about it, and I’ll add you. I know this is late notice for this week, but I hope to see some new food waste posting next week!
Now, on to me. I did actually waste something this week, but it was early in the week so I didn’t get a picture. I’ve had some bread cubes in my above-the-fridge freezer for a while, and I decided I’d use them to make some stuff to go with our roast chicken. Unfortunately, the stuffing seasonings weren’t enough to mask the been-in-the-freezer-too-long flavor the bread cubes had picked up, and I didn’t have the heart to serve it to my family or to eat it myself.
On a happier note, I’ve actually made some progress in cleaning out both my regular freezer and my chest freezer(by eating the food, not by throwing it away!), so I’m hopeful that I’ll be able to avoid more freezer-burnt food waste in the future.
At the moment, I’m also very on top of the contents of my fridge…I’m not behind on leftovers, and everything in there is nice and fresh. Sooo, maybe a no-waste post will be up next week.
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How did you do? If you blogged about your food waste this week, use the Mr. Linky widget below to share your post with us! Don’t forget to leave a direct link to your food waste post, so we won’t have to spend time poking around your blog searching for the right post.
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No food waste photo or discussion for me this week (the first in months!) because I am in NYC to celebrate my parents’ 45th wedding anniversary. Back next week!
Hey, I linked to you a white back about this…let me go find it… http://faithacrefarm.blogspot.com/2009/03/using-it-upbananas-caramel.html
But you weren’t offering any get-famous-quick-schemes then. So does that count for somethin now? LOL!
No food waste yet since I wrote that post on 3/16. So far so good!
Hi Kristen- I’ve been reading your blog for the past couple of months and it’s inspired me to bake my own bread and to think a lot more about wasting less food. I know you saw my post about labeling one section of the refrigerator “Eat Me!” because you left a comment, and it’s worked quite well because my husband goes straight to that spot when he makes himself something to eat. I don’t have any waste to photograph this week because I clean out the refrigerator on Wednesdays, but I’ll post a photo next Wednesday if I have anything. Thanks for the incentive to continue to waste less food.
Kristen, yesterday I cleaned out my pantry and fridge and the food waste probably would have made you cry. DH decided he was going to eat healthy for the two weeks Her Majesty and I were gone. So we went grocery shopping before I left and bought salads, fruit, etc… He didn’t eat any of it so most of it went in the trash.
With my focus on food waste this month, I was planning on participating in this! But I don’t have any waste this week
An exerciase in frugality. I wrote a blog this week about eating what you already have – not grocery shopping for a week: http://becheap.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/skip-grocery-shopping-for-a-week/
I need to clean out my fridge and take a picture of the waste. Scary as it may be.
I cleaned out my fridge last week. The food waste would have made you cry. I’m doing a better job with meal planning so we have less wasted food. Next week, I won’t need any leftovers so I need to do a meal plan that won’t have any. Should be interesting. I’ll see how I do at the end of the week.
Your post inspired me to clean out my fridge yesterday. I found a grapefruit and an orange that were not in prime shape. I read somewhere that you can juice produce that is a little past prime, so I decided to give it a try. The juice was great and I saved two items from the compost pile. Thanks for the inspiration!
Yay! I’m so glad to see some new participants. I think I’ve added everybody to the blogroll. Don’t forget to take another picture next week to stay on there.
Love, love, love your blog and wanted to let you know that I have awarded you a Lemonade Award on my blog!
WOOT? What is Woot, Kristen?
Food waste, can’t remember the last time I “wasted” any food! When you are into gardening and also keep chickens as we do, nothing gets wasted! If it can’t be eaten by the chickens then it goes on to the compost (But not any kind of meat or dairy products) Actually I could use any amount of waste, sometimes I wish I had a McDonalds restaurant. There are the chickens, the compost, the wild birds and The Lake – we live on a Lake and I like to feed the ducks, geese and the fish. So, no I have no waste to report. Can we include paper towels? We use less of those because I tear them in half, half usually provides enough paper towel to do whatever I want to do. But we use a rag to do a lot of what we used to do with paper towels – just like you do Kristen, thank you for that posting, we are going to go and get a bunch of those facecloths at Costco to use. When we have guests over to dinner we usually use paper napkins, often they get used very little, if at all and I put the ‘clean’ ones aside to use for floor clean up – spills, cat throw up (we have an old cat), mud etc.
David
Um, woot is another way of saying “woohoo” or “yay!”(or since you’re British, how about “hooray!”? lol). I think the term originated in some sort of video game.
No waste here, if anything is “not quite right” it goes to the chickens!
I recently found your website and blog. So much wisdom for a young lady!
As for food waste, I have little to none. I pack left overs for work lunches or take to share with coworkers. Any veges or meats are frozen for a soup or a later meal. I use vaccum bags and separate meats into servings for 2 people or 1 lb bags. I do not have compose, but living in the country I take outside for Mother Nature’s pets to consume or to feed the earth. I would rather give back to Mother Earth, that dispose to the garbage, less guilt.