The potato, lettuce, and banana situations have been resolved.

Well, mostly.

Last time I did a Food Waste Friday post, I had an abundance of potatoes, lettuce, and overripe bananas.

Here’s my potato collection from that post.   After making clam chowder, mashed potatoes, potato bread, and potato wedges, though…

this is what I have left.   And the three sweet potatoes just came in this week’s produce box, so they barely even count.   😉

Oh, and to use up the older dry sweet potatoes, I peeled, boiled, and mashed them and subbed them for the pumpkin in these pumpkin chocolate chip muffins.

I made 24 and they are all gone as of this morning.

So, the potato situation is resolved.

The banana problem didn’t have quite such a happy ending.

I used up almost all of my pile of ripe bananas, but these ones languished until they were really unusable.   I should have frozen them, but I kept thinking I would get to them and I did not.

I know overripe bananas are good for baking, but I felt that these had gone past even that point.

On the lettuce front, I have a mixed report.

I had SO much lettuce to deal with, thanks to a mistakenly delivered extra produce box + sick people who weren’t eating anything.

But I am happy to say that I only wasted this much:

And as of yesterday afternoon, I had only this left:

But.

I actually used that to make a salad for Mr. FG’s lunch today, so I have officially made it through all of that lettuce.

Phew.

And thank heavens Romaine lettuce keeps so well!

In other news, someone cut up a lime, used a little bit of it, and then left the rest to go bad.   I suspect one of my children is the culprit.

And these beans are more my fault.   We had a few left over when I made sauteed green beans, and I was so busy eating other leftovers, these got ignored.

I don’t know why I didn’t just eat those at the time…usually I just serve myself whatever is left because I know no one really is a huge fan of leftover green beans.

Other random saves that I did not photograph: I sauteed some mushy apples in butter for breakfast and I used a few other mushy apples to make some Apple Pfannekuchen.

Here’s what my fridge currently looks like.

By the way, all the greens in there are new arrivals!   I really did use up all of my original lettuce.   😉

And here’s the door, which is mostly condiments.

So, I had a few losses, but overall I’m pleased with how well I managed to get through my abundance of produce, and I’m super pleased that everything in my fridge is pretty darn current and fresh.

Things are looking promising for this week, I think.

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How did food waste go at your house this week?   Share in the comments! And if you need ideas for using up something in particular, feel free to leave a question.   Readers here are super helpful.

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P.S. I’ll be back at noon to post a giveaway for the cute felted wool kits I showed you yesterday on Facebook, so check back in!