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Food Waste Friday | Nadda for me (at least for this 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.

Happily, I have not experienced any food waste in the past 7 days. However, on my off week, when FWF was hosted at Simply Being Mum, I did have some produce waste.

I’m sitting here trying to remember what it was that I threw into the compost bin, but I’m coming up totally dry.

Well, anyway. It was not a perfect week, that one.

I did thoroughly clean my fridge though, in the take-out-the-drawers-and-shelves kind of way.

There was some serious disgusting-ness in that fridge, especially on the very bottom. Fortunately for you, that went unphotographed.

Something sort of obvious dawned on my when I put my cheese drawer back in. When I have a partially-used block of cheese, I usually store it in a glass container (since that’s less disposable than a plastic bag.) However, the lid is opaque, which means I sometimes forget what I’ve stored in the drawer.

Fortunately, I finally realized that hey, I could just turn the containers upside down and fix that problem right up.

Duh.

So, my cheese should not ever be forgotten from here on out.
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Kelly

Friday 28th of March 2014

I hate wasting food but I'm inclinded to be leanient towards things that can be composted. They may not be eaten but they are still useful!

sarah@everydaylifeonashoestring

Monday 17th of December 2012

I blogged about it eventually...more runny stuff here.

WilliamB

Sunday 16th of December 2012

Nothing to signify, if I remember correctly. So the usual bits of berries, maybe the last clementine of batch, and suchlike. I also helped prevent waste at the company's holiday party by properly wrapping up and labeling leftovers, so the weekend crew can eat it.

Sarah

Friday 14th of December 2012

Well done Kristen on your no waste and clean fridge. I wish I could say the same for my food waste.. I did very poorly this week.

http://sarahannemarrie.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/food-waste-friday-2/

Helen @ my lil adventures

Friday 14th of December 2012

No waste here - we're on a roll!

BTW: both cheese & gravy are items NEVER wasted in this house.

http://myliladventures.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/food-waste-friday-121412/

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