Comments on: Food Waste Friday | I almost made it…

By: kari

kari — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:34:46 +0000

I always save bread crusts and misc bread products in a bag in the freezer and then when I have collected enought I make bread pudding. It is very easy and my children love it for dessert. Just a thought.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:25:17 +0000

I had an accident at work today and it caused some food waste . Otherwise it would have been a no waste week.

By: Magdalena

Magdalena — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:52:39 +0000

I had a major and unexpected food waste – four year old protein supplements, found in the back of the pantry. (Note that they were not mine, but I felt bad about throwing them out.) Other than that,about a half cup of lettuce that was in rough shape when I bought it, and didn’t last the week.

By: Erin

Erin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:44:10 +0000

Totally disgusted with the fact I had to dump a whole pound of ground beef. I used half on Monday and just wasn’t thinking and stuck the rest in the fridge instead of the freezer. So I went to use it today to make lasagna and of course it was bad. I should have known better. Other than that I composted 2 pieces of bread and a few leaves of lettuce that got frozen in my fridge.

By: Sabrina

Sabrina — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:41:55 +0000

Don’t waste it…feed it to the birds! Whenever I have old bread and don’t feel like creating something with it, I toss it outside and the birds go bonkers for it…fun to watch.

By: Alea

Alea — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:05:01 +0000

Sour dough isn’t my favorite either. We usually turn it into garlic bread by slathering it with butter and sprinkliong it with garlic powder. We do this even witht the presliced bread right after toasting it.

I found a very old bottle of walnut oil. Ugh, after working so hard not to have waste this week.

By: Mrs Green at myzerowaste

Mrs Green at myzerowaste — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:14:10 +0000

Oh I absolutely LOVE sourdough bread; far more than any other sort of bread. I tried to make it once, but ended up with mould.

This week we had the tiniest piece of banana, apple and pear, but our bokashi bunny made light work of it all, so I hesitate to call it waste after all ..

By: WilliamB

WilliamB — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:13:01 +0000

An entire spaghetti squash I forgot about in storage. There just wasn’t much left after I cut away the bad parts.

On the plus side I remembered a recipe that would use up both the too-hard-to-eat orange and the lemon juce in the freezer that I’ve been trying to get rid of: Robert E. Lee Cake. It’s a fancy four layer lemon cake with lemon curd filling and lemon-orange buttercream icing. I also used the long-in-the-tooth fancy mushrooms to make CI’s Mushroom Pasta recipe. Both are for the weekend’s potluck.

PS: my store has all Gold Medal varieties of flour on sale for $1.25/5 lbs, instead of the usual $2.35. Any other stores have it on sale?

By: Megg

Megg — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:53:26 +0000

This week I made my own bread crumbs with the heals of the bread that I made. Maybe you could do that with leftover bread next time!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:51:37 +0000

Our waste this week was a few stems in a stalk of celery. It had black stuff on the inner stalks that I hadn’t seen the day or two before. It didn’t feel grainy like dirt so I assumed it was mold. I have pretty bad mold allergies so I decided it was best to let it go.