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.
First, in case you missed my edit to this post, I took the suggestion some of you offered about my rice, and I made rice pudding with it. I ate it for breakfast on Saturday, so the rice is officially gone. Woo!
Secondly, here is what I wasted:
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Yes indeedy, people! For the first time in what seems like f o r e v e r, I have no waste! Double woo!
However, because we all know that I think a post without a picture is sort of boring, here’s the comprised-of-leftovers salad I had for lunch yesterday.
We’d had tacos the night before, so I had leftover lettuce, tomatoes, and shredded cheese. I combined this with some marinated, grilled chicken from a previous night, and the result was quite delicious, and very unlike taco leftovers.
(hop over to this post if you want to see more ways I used up food this week)
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Wahee! Well done you, Kristen. And I’m so glad you made the rice pudding – did you enjoy it or eat it out of obligation?
I didn’t have any food waste this week either; but I rather had the pressure on with a photographer from one of our largest Sunday papers photographing my kitchen this week!
Morning Kristen! My first Food Waste posting….while it wasn’t wasteless (some leftover green beans getting greener – ick! and a few other odds and ends), I was inspired to be really diligent. For example, leftover broccoli…unappetizing as can be. However, cream of broccoli soup was wonderful and leftover broccoli now has a use! It was enough for just 2 and since it was only my hubby and I that particular night, we added panninis to the menu using the remnants of cheese and meats. My fridge is now sparsely populated, what my grandmother would have call ‘civilized’, unlike its normal ‘uncivlized’ state!
Yay, Mrs. Green! The rice pudding was pretty good…not quite as good as the kind my mom makes from uncooked rice, but more than edible. I’ve eaten much, much worse things in my fight against food waste. lol
Theresa, that’s awesome. Paninis work so well for using up bits of meat and cheese. Love that. And soup is a great leftover disguise too.
Woohoo! I didn’t have any food waste either!
Congratulations! We are as of right now waste free but I need a little help. Last night I was making mint chocolate bark for my parents and was going fine until I got to the white chocolate. I think I stirred too much and now I have a big lump of white chocolate sitting in a bowl in my fridge. Can I remelt it and try again or do something alse with it? Or is all hope lost?!
Congrats! You’ve certainly inspired me…
Mmm . . . that salad looked very yummy. I can picture you remembering to take a photo before tucking in.
Katy Wolk-Stanley
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.”
Congrats on no food waste!! Your salad looks delish!
I finally got my post up, a day and a half late!
Not a great week, but most of it is compostable. I think- is a tablespoon of cream of mushroom soup okay to compost?
I want to thank the crowd for suggesting rice pudding. This is the dreaded Week of Office Parties (3 of them). I had a couple cups of Chinese take-out rice to deal with that was getting too long in the tooth to eat. I added whole milk, cream, and sugar. Yum. I wonder if there’ll be any left for the party?
Angela – that is compostable. But why do you have *one tablespoon* of soup left?!? BTW, I can’t post to your blog anymore. My existing settings, which I need to keep, block my ability to see the captcha text.
Hmmm, left overs. Well, I have a two day rule here. As it is just hubby and I. If we have not had it, (what ever), made into a second or third dish, its history. We have had food handlers cards in the past, and letting things sit around, even in fridge, is a no no.
The bright side here, is that hubby has gotten to where he can cook for two. We raised 4 kids, and its very different for two! I do admire anyone who has put together fun meals with what has been put in fridge after a good meal. Life is an adventure, and I want to be in the middle of it!:)