Food Waste Friday-It's back!!
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 join me in posting their food waste photos, and Food Waste Friday was born.
I don't actually have any food waste from my fridge this week. That's because we came home from vacation and got by until yesterday without really grocery shopping (we picked up milk and that's about it). So, my fridge was pretty empty until I went shopping yesterday.
I did waste some food on vacation, though, so don't be too impressed! We just didn't manage to eat up every refrigerated/frozen thing we bought, and there wasn't room in the cooler to bring it all home with us.
I think I have some freezer burnt food waste waiting to be discovered in my above-the-fridge freezer, unfortunately. I haphazardly threw a bunch of stuff in there before we went on vacation, and I think some of it didn't fare too well. I haven't had time to go through it all yet, but I hopefully will this coming week.
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I goofed: I forgot which veggies I bought last weekend and which ones I bought the weekend before. Half lb. of mushrooms gone; I managed to rescue most of the lb of green beans by cutting off the slimy ends and keeping the healthy middles.
I'm a little afraid to look at last week's chard harvest. I don't like this variety of chard very much so it's hard to finish. I plan to sautee with garlic, simmer, puree, and use as soup base. You can eat almost anything sauteed in butter with garlic.
About 1/2 pint of blackberries went moldy but since that was less than 2 days after I bought them I consider that to be the store's fault. At least if they're wasted in my kitchen they go to the compost pile.
I had a similar problem with two packs of raspberries I bought on sale. I used only half a pack and brought them back out 3 days later only to find extreme fuzziness on the remaining pack and the unopened pack. I was ticked to say the least. There was also some rice that has gotten way too dry for my husband or me to force down.
I haven't blogged about it this week because I've had a week of guest bloggers, but we didn't create much - just a couple of tablesppons of rice which I never take a chance with.
Great to see food waste friday back again!
My little guy has taken to using fruit as toys, so we lost quite a few apples and one banana before I started putting it all in the fridge.
The moths got into the Quaker oatmeal! So irritating. I am usually very disciplined about changing the moth traps, but forgot this time.
Freezer burn isn't always resurrectable but at least a couple of times lately I have shaved off the outside layer of chicken breasts which were burned. They ate fine.
Freezer burnt meat makes good soup! If the burn is terrible then shave it off but most burns don't taste bad and it being soup masks the dryness.