avoiding food waste

Peanut Butter and Bananas

December 6, 2009

This combination has saved many a banana from the compost bin. My two youngest are the most dependable banana/peanut butter eaters…they eat this combo for breakfast, for lunch, and for a snack sometimes too.

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Food Waste Friday-Le Sigh.

December 4, 2009

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 [...]

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Miscellany-celery, tea, hot dog buns, and sanding

January 22, 2009

I’ve never done a post like this before, but I have a bunch of things to say that wouldn’t make good stand-alone posts. So, here are several very unrelated things all squeezed into one post. Celery Last September, right before we went on vacation, I mentioned that I was freezing some celery(I had to do [...]

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Answers to some food waste questions

January 6, 2009

I’ve gotten a couple of reader questions via email, and I thought I’d answer them in a post in case some of you were wondering some of these same things. How do you figure how much to cook to avoid waste but still have ‘enough’? My kids’ appetites are all over the place and I [...]

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Freezing Bacon

September 9, 2008

As I mentioned previously, I like to buy bacon when it’s on a buy one, get one free kind of sale. Of course, this is way more bacon than I would normally use all at once, and so I freeze it. I used to throw the whole package in the freezer, but this was a [...]

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I am so pleased with how this worked out.

July 24, 2008

I made some good progress on using up leftovers yesterday…I ate the last little bit of stir-fried vegetables, and the last bit of tortellini salad, and I used up some leftover grilled chicken in last night’s dinner. And instead of throwing out some brown rice that I wasn’t going to get around to eating this [...]

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