Food Waste Friday | It wasn't a good week.
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.
See?
I have:
-some brown rice that was stinky
-some cucumber slices that apparently froze. After that, they were gross!
-a bit of pasta salad (that whole bowl isn't full, I promise)
-an awful lot of spinach
The spinach got shoved into a cold part of the fridge and froze. Then it thawed in another part of the fridge and started to smell like stinky feet.
And I don't eat things that smell like stinky feet, thankyouverymuch.
I did use some frozen half and half in my hot cross buns.
I also froze bananas to use in smoothies and ate a lot of leftovers.
Ooh, and I have to tell you too that I bought 4 kiwifruit last week and accidentally put them in the freezer.
(They were in the same bag with the ice cream and I was in a hurry so I tossed the whole thing into my chest freezer.)
I thought they might be totally ruined when they thawed, but they were still sort of edible. I cut them into chunks, froze them, and have been adding them to smoothies.
So, despite what my photo would have you understand, I'm not a total food waste disaster this week. 😉
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How funny haven't even read the post yet just saw title. Mine was No Waste Tastes Great / Not a Good Week... 🙂 off to read post!
I've got slow-cooked ham and salad to dispose of. Not as part of NWTG, they aren't salvageable. Shocking. Really need to get with it... it's getting embarrassing...
p.s. Those hot cross buns look amazing!
Been there, done that. I'm trying to work smarter not harder this week though - come check it out!
Hmmm. I got better this week, but this is only week two of renewed intentional fridge monitoring (R.I.F.M.? Maybe I need a badge or something.)
few hot dogs that were cooked, and I thought dh was going to take them for lunch, but he never did... a few grape tomatoes that were way too shrivaled up for me...
This is my first week participating!! I finally got motivated to do it!
I'm blogging on my iPhone and for some reason it isn't letting me link my blog. So it is http://www.life-as-i-know-it-oceans5.blogspot.com
Those hot crossed buns look amazing. I had a bad time with milk again BUT no cilantro was wasted (for once). C:
Is it the same part of your fridge that's getting frozen? Ours has a cold spot, so we try to be more careful about what we put there (like beans - if they freeze and thaw, no biggie).
Not too bad a week. I had a couple of pancakes,about a cup of breadcrumbs,and a few grapes( that will go in the compost,so ok).I'm doing so much better,I rescued some salmon and some onions and made tacos,they were great and easy.oh I lost a bit of spinach too which I hate to waste because I love spinach.(compost too)
About as good as I get:
- 1 c. cottage cheese.
- 1/2 c. hummus.
Note to self: don't buy roasted red pepper hummus; too hard to tell the difference between roasted red pepper bits that are supposed to be in the container, and tiny red moldy bits that aren't.
Not responsible for:
- mango that was brown inside on the day I got it.
- bad-tasting blueberries that someone gave me.
Note to self: don't buy blueberries till the local season starts. That mouldering-cotton taste isn't my thing.
Not too bad of a week for me. My waste is going to my compost and chickens. I have a cold spot in my refrigerator too. It doesn't freeze right now, but then again I haven't had anything that freezes easily in that area.
I think I will need to make some hot cross buns.
I had a near perfect week, my leftover refried beans grew some mold but I removed it and ate them anyway.
If you don't eat things that smell like "stinky feet" then you obviously never ate "salt rising bread", especially after it has been toasted!!! There is not much better bread for toasting.
Not a great week this week - threw away some old gravy the dregs of a bottle of milk and a tomato.
Must do better!
Waste happens! I had a few things but all in all it wasn't too bad of a week.
Waste happens! I had a few things but all in all it wasn't too bad of a week.
One very sad bit of food waste... A pound of local, organic, pastured ground beef. I set it on the counter in the morning and forgot to put it in the fridge when I left for work. So after a whole day thawing on the counter, it had to hit the compost bin. 🙁
Not a good week in my neck of the woods either. Had some saves and was doing really well and then well, i don't know what happened. Better luck to both of us next week
Oh I HATE it when spinach accidentally freezes in the fridge. And then thaws. Gross. 🙁
Dang it! I just threw away some half and half...never thought of freezing it!
Kristen,
Can you share your recipe for hot cross buns? Or provide a link? Thanks.
Had a bad week for me for food waste. Tossed an apple that when I moved the one on top of it, it was half rotted threw. Ate one apple that inside was brown, ate what tasted okay and tossed the rest. Tossed some strawberries, as I had bought two 1 pd. packages and towards the end of the 2nd package, had to toss a few. Tossed a few grapes, but at least now I am ready to start with the new bunch. Tossed a thing of hummus, as it just looked wrong and I was afraid of it. So not a good week. Hope I do better next week. Did make banana bread today to use up some bananas, have two in the freezer, and I think the fridge is a bit more emptied out. Do have some rice, not more than a 1/4 cup though, so no idea what to do with it.
I had a bad week too! I lost some lettuce, a moldy cucumber, and maybe some wine but maybe I can salvage it in a stew or something.
Hi! I read your Blogelina interview today and decided to drop by! I appreciate your encouragement to post blog pics - even if they aren't great. I write a food and tech blog for moms so pics are a must.
Well, I am pretty new to blogging, and this is my first Food Waste Friday! I don't think we did too bad, some lettuce, and salad leftovers, a slab of leftover turkey meatloaf, some green beans and fruit. I have been following Kristen's blog for a couple months now and have been trying to be better about wasting food.
Btw, our fridge freezes things too! Sooo annoying. We can't put any veggies too far in the back or in the bottom drawer.
Have a good week everyone!
I had about a half cup of bulgur pilaf that had been in the fridge for a long time. We also had a handful of fries left over the other night that I didn't think would be aby good left over. I figured throwing them away was better than eating them when I was full.
You know, I think of you often about the spinach. Because I always buy that same bag of spinach from Aldi, and we NEVER eat it all before it gets slimy. But this past week we came close, and I was spinached out!! I was wondering how you do it??? 🙂