Food Waste Friday | Plus, a new something from Joshua!
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. If you're not a blogger but still want some food waste accountability, feel free to participate by leaving a comment.
I seem to be having a hard time getting into the food waste groove this month. Boo.
The picture contains a bit of cilantro that I didn't manage to use in time, but that's not the sum total of my waste.
I let half a peeled cucumber get slimy, and I also have two pieces of chicken in my fridge that I think are probably bad. It's very sad that they might be wasted, but they were from a new recipe I tried that didn't work out so well.
I also lost a few clementines, but I don't hold myself responsible for those. They were in the bottom of our new clementine box and given that we discovered them the day after bringing the box home, I'm thinking they were bad when I bought them.
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On to the new something from Joshua! This year, he's working on a 365 project of his own. Though he's my unofficial staff photographer here at The Frugal Girl, we thought this would be a fun way to help him practice taking pictures on a more regular basis.
He's using my old Olympus point and shoot camera, and I'm having fun seeing what he's coming up with for his posts. I think you might enjoy seeing our lives through his eyes, so if you'd like to follow his project, just click on over to his blog.
And if you'd like to get his posts in your inbox each day, just enter your email address in the subscription box on the right side of his blog.
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Today's 365 post: Juxtaposition
Joshua's writing style sounds *exactly* like you! He's clearly been absorbing the lessons of your blog!
That's so funny! He does subscribe to my blogs, so I'm sure there will be some similarities. And he's used to me pulling out my camera to document something for a 365 post, so he's somewhat accustomed to looking at life through blogging eyes. 😉
I was thinking the same thing! He is a very talented young man, looking forward to viewing more of his perspective. Great idea Kristen, I think I may have to get my kiddo involved in this type of project, he loves to take pictures.
I was going to comment about the writing style, too. He's got a good head on his shoulders AND a good eye--definitely his momma's son!
Hi there, loving the blog and I can't wait to make cherry danish this weekend!
I had one brownie wasted because, it required butter instead of oil and it burnt in the microwave. Boo hoo
I too am only just back in the groove! Once again the 'free day' - i.e lack of a meal planned saves the day. As I only plan 6 days worth of meals it allows a bit of contingency. Missed a meal I had scheduled in earlier in the week, so have a meal to prep tonight (not quite the same thing - but as my ingredients easily multi-task - no problem). It feels great to be back and organised instead of the choc-fest - sorry I mean Christmas Hols - Jo (simplybeingmum - family life simply done)
Thanks for the inspiration! Just did my first "Food Waste Friday" post.
Very bad food waste week here. But this was my first week living in my new house (!!) so I'm still adjusting to being on my own and cooking and eating for one.
What a great project for Joshua! I'm looking forward to seeing his pictures!
I really should work on my photographic skills again. I haven't touched my camera in a month since Kodachrome is gone. If Joshua is serious at getting into photography I'd definitely recommend a few books from the library on art technique (rule of thirds, selective focus and other stuff) but in the meantime it looks like he's having fun and being a generally cool kid.
Just hope he doesn't grow up like me with cameras everywhere or be the nut going around with the 1930s folding camera.
Yep...I've been helping him think about where to find good lighting when he's taking his pictures, and I need to tell him about the rule of thirds (which I'm not so great at remembering myself!).
Your son's blog looks great! My son loves taking pictures, and I am sure he would love to have his own blog someday (but he is only 6 now!). I'll have to show him the blog. He'll love it.
I posted two weeks worth of food waste, it was accumulation that I knew we were going to have to let go at some point. Most went in the composter, and the plastic wrap got washed in case we need some at some point. * I bought one roll of plastic wrap 6 years ago and used it up last May. I can't stand the stuff!*
We received off Freecycle a whole wack of Vegertarian Times magazines, and we are going to try to do 3 vegetarian dinners a week.
What a talented and eloquent son you have!
Feels like the new year is really started to be back to Food Waste Friday! An avocado, an orange, some cilantro and some parsely here. We're still eating fruit from the holiday visitors. Haven't really done a major shop since the holidays--just milk and some produce so the fridge is finally looking nice and empty. Ready to start with a clean slate this weekend and dive into some winter recipes.
Pretty cool! Joshua seems really talented and he's got some great shots already!
I've got some waste to report this time around!
Off topic, but thanks for telling us about the Williams and Sonoma gold bread pans. On your say so, I bought two of them and they are miraculous---no sticking, perfect browning. I am really pleased with them.
They do rock! I love my bread pans so much.
This is a bad food waste week maiy due to receiving some bloodwork results back. So I wasted ice cream,a case of soda,pretzels,tortilla chips and some ritz like crackers I got at Aldi that were just nasty.
This is my first Friday ever posting on food waste. Thank you for the inspiration. I actually cleaned my pantry as a kick-off event.
I love your waste posts. They really make me think about my own waste. My waste this week was awful. I hardly did any shopping this week, so I am pretty sure that some of it was from last week too. I had old chocolate rice pudding, something in a pot I didn't look at b/c DH cleaned it out, some frozen sour cream (why does my sour cream keep freezing???), some cream cheese that I bought too much of at Christmas, and some Velveeta which I normally don't use, but bought too much of at Christmas.