Food Waste Friday-May 22nd
I very nearly had a zero-waste week this time...just a few pesky leftover carrots. I didn't actually forget about these. I just never felt like eating them, unfortunately. And now they're old enough that I feel a bit nervous about eating them.
Had they been plain cooked carrots or sweet cooked carrots, I'd have just mashed them up and thrown them into some muffin batter, but these carrots had horseradish on them, and I didn't think that would work very well in muffins. Yuck.
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I had no waste this week, but the thing I'm most proud of is getting over my aversion to kohlrabi - always plentiful in my week CSA box and a source of persistent waste in the past. The Kohlrabi Curse is O-V-E-R - Hooray!
I can't think of anything good to do with the carrots either. I often wondered, do you compost? I noticed much of your waste isn't processed foods and could be composted.
Sorry I abused your Mister Linky. My first post was to last week's waste thread. Oops.
Well done, Kristen. My food waste week is shameful this week, but it goes to show what can happen when you're laid up and unable to be in the kitchen for a few days. I learned a lot and am looking forward to a zero waste food week next week' that's for sure!
I would probably have made the carrots into horseradish and carrot soup or mashed them into some sort of pie - perhaps with beef? But I'm really not one to be giving advise, if you read all about my catastrophe this week!
Hmmm... I have to say I don't think I recommend eating something you don't really want to eat and is probably past the point of being healthy. So I guess this challenge we're all doing should include trying to eat fresh produce while it's still fresh. I have a friend who says leftovers lose all their nutrients. I'm going to research that for a future post, because leftovers are the basis of eating economically and reducing waste.
Seriously? Leftovers lose all their nutrients? You'll have to keep me updated on that.
I think I'm eating a lot more fresh produce since I started this challenge, because I'm always rifling through the fridge looking for fruits or veggies that are about to go bad.
That's what my friend claims, but I hope he's wrong. I'm sure they lose SOME of their nutrients, the key is how much. I'm going to research and write about this withing the next couple of weeks.
Plain old Soup! Yeah, Hubby and I buy chicken broth, in paper cartons, not canned. It is more health and less salt. But, we throw whats in the fridge into our soups! You can throw any veggie, or left over meat. We even have a soup, we call, pizza soup. With that one, you have tomato base, you can throw old catsup, salsas of any kind, too. You cut up any left over pizza, or bread product, i,e, corn bread, biscuits, anything. Plug in crock pot, and simmer until dinner time. 30mins to half a day, what ever your happy with for the flavors to mix.