Every week, I post a picture of the food that has gone bad over the last seven days. I started doing this in March of 2008 to help motivate myself to use up my food instead of wasting it and it’s been very effective. Since it helped me so much, I invited other bloggers to join me in posting their food waste photos, and Food Waste Friday was born.
This week, I lost a sweet potato and some chopped up red pepper. I found the mold on the peppers earlier in the week, but I froze them until I could take the picture today (which is why the container is all cloudy looking!).
The sweet potato was in the fridge instead of in the cabinet with the rest of the sweet potatoes, so it didn’t get eaten in time. I was going to try to rescue it and make some sweet potato muffins, but it was just too far gone.
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I lost 4 ears of corn to mould, and discovered a half a loaf of very old, uneaten Persian sweet bread. I had no idea that was even still in the house!
Ooh, sweet potato muffins?! I love sweet potatoes. Would you share that recipe at some point?
We lost a couple of bites of a cereal bar which DD couldn’t eat. I made her write the food waste blog post LOL!
Half a bag of spinach over this way. Which is a pity, because I have about 10 things i’d like to cook with it now. Looks like soup in a bag.. ew!
I second Erika! Sweet Potato muffins sounds fabulous!
This is a great idea. Being new to your blog, I don’t have any waste to report. I’m sure I’ve tossed a bit already this week. I will clean my fridge next Friday with this in mind.( I do it once a week anyway). I’m so excited to share this idea with my husband and girls.
Thanks
momtogirls
Sadly, a celery root I was going to make into soup- waited too long and it got mushy.
Hard to stick with THE PLAN every single day…
I remember when I had a sweet potato go bad, which was a rare occurence, and a lot of people said I should stick it in the ground (plant it).
I’ll be glad to post the sweet potato muffin recipe. I’ll take pictures next time I make them.
MomtoGirls-I’d be thrilled to have you join us!
Angela, I thought about that, but this potato was mushy and had moldy spots on it. I’ve planted potatoes before when they were old and wrinkly and sprouting, but this one didn’t seem like it would grow. Then too, it’s about to freeze here, so I’d have trouble growing it right about now.
So, it’s composting instead.
Too bad the peppers didn’t make it into the freezer before going moldy!
No kidding! Oh well. I did freeze two other peppers yesterday, since they were starting to go soft on me.