Every week, I post a picture of the food that has gone bad over the last seven days. Why do I do this? Because in March of 2008, I finally got fed up with the amount of food I was wasting, and I thought that showing my waste to other people would motivate me to use up my food instead of wasting it. Because this often embarrassing practice was so helpful for me, I invited other bloggers to join me in posting their food waste photos, and Food Waste Friday was born. You should join in!
I think I just might have broken my exclamation point button with that title.
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Nope, it still works.
Ok. So, the first marvy-fab thing for today is that those of you who participate in Food Waste Friday can now grab a fancy-schmancy button to perk up your posts. If you copy and paste the following code into your Food Waste Friday post, this little graphic will appear.
If you blog on WordPress, just make sure you’re in html mode when you copy and paste the code, or it won’t work properly.
A thousand thanks to reader Jen from Dear Mommy Brain for gently nudging me to get this done and for sending me the code pattern.
The second newsy bit I have for you is that Lisey and I have been working on a baking blog. It’s called Baking With Lisey because Lisey loves to bake/cook and I’m a disaster at making time to help her with it. So, I’m taking an approach similar to the one I’m using with my crafting negligence, except Lisey and I started a whole new blog, and we’ll be posting recipes once a week.
Hopefully this will help me make time to bake/cook with Lisey, and hopefully you’ll have fun watching us! Since we’ll only be posting once a week or so, I highly recommend subscribing via email…that way you’ll always know when we’ve got something new up. Go on over and check it all out!
Alrighty! On to food waste.
I have some grape tomatoes that went bad (not dry, just bad…you know the way they get thin-skinned and really mushy?), and part of a lemon that got moldy.
And I think I might have a few spinach leaves that are slimy, but I’m feeling too lazy to go check right now.
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Katie
Monday 30th of January 2012
All right, this week's weird food-gone-bad: From the freezer, a bag of okra (I don't even remember buying this! I have never cooked with okra in my life!), and some cheese pieces I put in there after the 4th of July. In the fridge, a few rubbery apples I missed last week, some slimy red pepper slices, and a few slimy salad greens. While cleaning out a box of assorted junk and papers from college (um, graduated in 2004), I also found a packet of instant oatmeal and a packet of takeout duck sauce.
On the other hand, I did eat up: baked beans, some cucumber and tomato, and the vast majority of my salad greens. I think to keep motivated, I need to remind myself of the things I MIGHT have wasted if I were being less vigilant!
Susan@Emperorp
Monday 30th of January 2012
Finally linked up. I was all ready to link up on Friday with some fabulous news and then made a heartbreaking discovery in my fridge.
I love the new button. I got that up straight away. A little bit of the Frugal Girl on my blog. I feel like a real groupie now :)
Becca S.
Saturday 28th of January 2012
I didn't do a blog post this week as I was busy cleaning like mad to get our house ready to meet with a home management company (we're trying to move out of state and are going to rent our house). But the only thing I wasted were some dough balls that were meant to be made into tortillas. Instead, they sat in my fridge for three weeks and molded. :( I love the button and am looking forward to using it for next week!
Young and Thrifty
Saturday 28th of January 2012
I hate to see my food go to waste in the fridge. Its like watching the dollar bills rotting in front your eyes.
Susan@Emperorp
Monday 30th of January 2012
Wow, great visual!
Sue
Friday 27th of January 2012
Kristen,
Thanks for this great site, promoting other bloggers and helping us to spend our money wisely! I don't have our camera...it's been in another city for over three months and I refuse to buy another one until I make one good solid attempt to retrieve the one I have (even though it is all but totally broken). So that means I don't have pics for food waste Friday BUT I can tell you that I have cleaned out my freezer. Do I have to talk about the mass quantity of freezer-burnt food? Well, anyway, hopefully I don't waste food again because we probably lost over $50 in food. Ugh... But if I do and I have a camera, I'll join the party! Our blog is about being a God-loving, frugal, simple family in Louisiana! Check us out!