Comments on: Food Waste Friday-It’s back!!

By: WilliamB

WilliamB — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:35:03 +0000

Freezer burnt meat makes good soup! If the burn is terrible then shave it off but most burns don’t taste bad and it being soup masks the dryness.

By: Carla

Carla — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:59:19 +0000

Freezer burn isn’t always resurrectable but at least a couple of times lately I have shaved off the outside layer of chicken breasts which were burned. They ate fine.

By: Angela

Angela — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:51:04 +0000

The moths got into the Quaker oatmeal! So irritating. I am usually very disciplined about changing the moth traps, but forgot this time.

By: Alea

Alea — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:07:40 +0000

My little guy has taken to using fruit as toys, so we lost quite a few apples and one banana before I started putting it all in the fridge.

By: Mrs Green

Mrs Green — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:59:58 +0000

I haven’t blogged about it this week because I’ve had a week of guest bloggers, but we didn’t create much – just a couple of tablesppons of rice which I never take a chance with.
Great to see food waste friday back again!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:36:30 +0000

I had a similar problem with two packs of raspberries I bought on sale. I used only half a pack and brought them back out 3 days later only to find extreme fuzziness on the remaining pack and the unopened pack. I was ticked to say the least. There was also some rice that has gotten way too dry for my husband or me to force down.

By: WilliamB

WilliamB — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:52:44 +0000

I goofed: I forgot which veggies I bought last weekend and which ones I bought the weekend before. Half lb. of mushrooms gone; I managed to rescue most of the lb of green beans by cutting off the slimy ends and keeping the healthy middles.

I’m a little afraid to look at last week’s chard harvest. I don’t like this variety of chard very much so it’s hard to finish. I plan to sautee with garlic, simmer, puree, and use as soup base. You can eat almost anything sauteed in butter with garlic.

About 1/2 pint of blackberries went moldy but since that was less than 2 days after I bought them I consider that to be the store’s fault. At least if they’re wasted in my kitchen they go to the compost pile.