Food Waste Friday | Zippo for me!
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.
Thank you, thank you!
I did have some sour milk to use up since last Food Waste Friday, and if you read my 365 blog, you already know that I made some cinnamon bread with it, much to my children's delight.
Oh, and Lisey and I have a Baking With Lisey post up...this time it's about how to make homemade frosting.
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Today's 365 post: Someone's grown a bit
Well done on NO waste! No waste for me also...it was touch and go but I'm going to eat the grapes that I was unsure about. I've even managed a No Waste Tastes Great post with photos this week hurrah - I've given up on Google Chrome for the time being!
Looking forward to Lisey's post as this week I posted a Simple Birthday Cake recipe on my blog (after explaining a week or so back that I make Birthday Cakes). The conversation began about the difference in the UK to the US. Over here (UK) Birthday cakes tend to be covered with what you might call Sugarpaste, Fondant Icing or Regalice? rather than frosting. Oh I love talking about cake - almost as good as eating it!
I also had NO waste this week. the last of my homemade pina-colada yogurt had a fizzy quality to it so that was one I pulled back from the brink.
I hope everyone else did as well this week.
I love this post and your blog! I am sharing on my blog that I just started a couple days ago after I went on my first couponing trip...I had so many people ask me how I saved so much, so the idea for starting the blog came up!
This week was not so good. Perhaps next week will be better??
Yay! Me too! And we ate at home all week so super win! Let's keep up the good work! 🙂
Not a great week for me. Had an unfortunate item go to waste.
It was a sad, sad, sad week.
Sad once because I had a lot of waste.
Sad twice because it was meat.
Sad thrice because it was happy meat - 1.5 chicken breasts.
I wish I could blame it on the power going out but I don't think I can. I didn't open the fridge after the power went out and nothing else went bad, not even the milk (although the milk was freshly bought). At most the warmer fridge pushed the already elderly chicken over the edge to spoiled. But I was going to use it that very night! I planned to make nasi goreng (Indonesian fried rice, very tasty): leftover rice, various bits o' veggies, fresh duck eggs given to me by a friend, and the chix. Boo.
Definition of 'happy meat' please? Is it a WilliamB thing? or is it because I'm a Brit "no comprendo"?;-)
Not quite unique to me but not common on this side of the pond, either. Roughly speaking, it's meat from animals raised as nature intended. So a happy chicken was raised outside, scratching in soil and manure and grass, running around. Supplemental food is allowable, as long as it's food the animal would eat in nature: supplemental food for cows means hay but not maize. My personal definition of happy meat doesn't require organic inputs, others likely disagree.
Okay got it, makes sense - made me remember these are sold in UK
Way to go!
You are having an influence on me...I made muffins earlier this week, and I told my husband, "I'm so excited that these muffins use yogurt." I'd had a container of it in the fridge for a little while and didn't know how I was going to use it up until the muffins!
Had no leftovers this week. BUT, I did have a good idea: picnics.
Got excess food? Why not have a picnic and enjoy whatever it is you have leftover?
Bring back the picnic. Best thing to do in town. And it's free!
Yay! After weeks I'm finally food waste free too C:
Hi Kristen,
I really like the Food Waste Friday reoccurring post and it's resonating with me. I also challenge myself to limit food waste and hold my family accountable when it does occur. Heck, I'm so passionate about it I wrote a blog post a while back called "The War on Food: Self Inflicted Casualties".
Way to not have any food waste this week.
I had quite a bit of food waste this week including almost 2 pounds of strawberries!
I'm sooo impressed 😉
Have you ever considered doing a post on your top ten favourite frugal main dishes/recipes?
Cheers,
Rae
Because I would love to read a post on that for sure!
I had a horrible waste last night, I'd made a big pot of pasta sauce with fresh peppers, leftover sausages and chorizo and was just adding the final seasoning when the glass pepper grinder shattered - filling the pot with tiny shards of glass 🙁 .... Supper last night was cheese on toast!
I think I would just cry if that happened to me. But that kind of waste is unavoidable as I have no idea how one can pull the glass out.
Just wanted to say thanks for your Food Waste Friday post every week. It's so inspiring to me. I have really been focusing this year on decreasing the amount of food we eat and I can tell it's really making a difference! Just last week I had 1/4 gallon of milk that was going sour. I used to pour it out and just start on the other carton when that happened, but this time I used the milk to make a peach oven pancake, some chocolate pudding, and then I froze the remaining small amount to use in my baking some other time. I was so proud of myself!! Thanks for the weekly encouragement of your post.
I had a bad week, but knew it was coming, just hadn't faced up to it. Alright, I have been enjoying cooking for my family as I was staying home a bit more, but now I will be heading back to a two day a week job. But in staying home, I always keep cold cuts around for when there are no left overs, but with my staying home and cooking more, we had lots of left overs to choose from. I have been avoiding looking at the cold cuts, but then came our Easter ham and there was no way anyone was touching the cold cuts while the easter ham was in the fridge. Then we had to drive to Ohio for a funeral at the last moment. After we came back I looked through the fridge and had to throw some honey ham away and a small piece of a chunk of ham. Have some cold cut turkey that if we don't use it soon, it will have to be tossed. Would prefer to cook it somehow to use it. Not sure what to do it with it, but may hear about it going to waste next week. I need to be better about planning more fend for self nights I think! We eat left overs at lunch, but usually that is the day befores left overs and the older stuff gets ignored. I also have celery that if I don't use soon, it will have to go by by too. The easter ham is almost gone, so need to boil the bone, etc.
Can you make creamed turkey to make open faced sandwiches ...??
You can saute or boil chopped celery then freeze it for future use in soup or casseroles.
This doesn't have anything to do with food waste Friday, but I found this on Pinterest & thought you might me interested in it. Turtle Bread - I remember reading one of your daughter's is fond of turtle's.
http://www.cakestudent.com/turtle-bread/
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I've missed you. Hope things are OK.