Food Waste Friday-Ahhh, sweet victory!

ByKristen
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For the first time in what seems like forever, I have no food waste. Yay! So, this is a boring post but I'm thrilled about it!

A mandarin chicken salad on a white plate.
Just so that this post has a picture! This is Mandarin Chicken Salad.

How did you do? If you blogged about your food waste, leave a link to that post in the comments. If you do, you'll get a spot on my food waste blogroll for the coming week. And of course, blogging about your food waste will help you stop wasting food, which will save you some cold, hard cash. As if that wasn't motivating enough, reducing your food waste is good for the planet.

So, come join us...public humiliation is a very effective motivator. 😉

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  5. All I can say is, if you don't want to waste food, be sure to sick the day before you go shopping and NOT the day after.

    [ponders]

    On second thought, I can say more.

    Food waste-wise, it's been a terrible fortnight. As luck would have it, I went shopping the day before I got sick, leaving the fridge was full of tasty, healthy food that I couldn't possibly eat - sore throat + dry hacking cough = hot lemon-honey tea for dinner. Lather, rinse, repeat for two weeks. I composted:
    - 2/3 a loaf of double chocolate banana bread that was sticky-moldy and had spider-web like strands throughout the loaf (I hate wasting all the chocolate and not just because it costs more than the rest of the ingredients combined);
    - the dregs of a can of peaches;
    - 2-3 c. romaine salad with parmesano reggiano (ie, the good stuff, sob);
    - 3 c. smoky bean soup that was getting long in the tooth before I got sick;
    - 2 ears of farmers' market corn that I'd tried to rescue by cutting off the cob for proper New England Chowda but didn't have the energy to make;
    - the last 1/8 of a tasteless canteloupe.

    There's other foods that will need immediate attention to avoid suffering the same ignominious fate:
    - the 2 cucumbers and bunch of cilantro I got to make EngineerMom's tadziki;
    - 6 c. broccoli that's starting to bloom;
    - the lentil-tomato sauce that ended up as twice the volume I expected; need to freeze half and give the other half to an eldery neighbor who had a bad fall recently.

    On the plus side, the Chinese Tea-Smoked Chicken is still excellent. And the bones and skin will make equally excellent stock.

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  8. @WilliamB
    I hope you are feeling better now, William. I've done the honey-tea thing for dinner too. Your comment reminded me of something my son said the other day: our power always went off the day after we just went to the store and stocked up in the fridge and freezer! (We lived in a place that gets a lot of windstorms in the winter.) And having to throw out things so recently fresh and delicious is so painful. We will be moving back to that town before this coming fall/winter, and I'm thinking a generator would be a prudent purchase!

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  9. Julia,

    I am feeling better, thank you. Today I started a Big Cook so I'd have tasty, healthy food that's readily eatable. It's just too easy to eat chips instead of turning frozen chicken and mushrooms into dinner. I made or prepped:
    - Red Cooked Tofu (this version simmers the tofu in oyster sauce as well as soy sauce);
    - Teriyaki Beef & Veggies (home-made teriyaki sauce!);
    - Chinese Beef & Broccoli;
    - Jazzed-up Brown Rice (based on brown rice & black beans) (I'm thinking about calling this moros y mulattos); and
    - Chinese Tofu Omlet (tofu, eggs, mushroom, bacon).

    The best part is ... I didn't buy A SINGLE THING to make all of this. It doesn't redeem me from the Friday Waste Fiasco but now I feel a little better.

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