Food Waste Friday | Two things
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.
Yesterday Lisey and I were using up some excess apples by making applesauce, and we came across a bad apple. 😉
And a single slice of whole wheat bread (it's homemade...it's just stored in a re-used bun bag from Weis!) grew some mold before I got to it.
This is a slice from my ugly loaves, by the way!
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No food waste, yet...but my fridge is a scatter...given my birthday, which was this week...and Rosh Hashanah. Lots of this and that. Not exactly a week that had a clear cut food consumption plan. Maybe we'll "this and that" for dinner tonight. Does birthday cake count as a protein? 😉
We also had a few apples go to waste while making applesauce. It was my fault, I bought the huge box two weeks ago at the farmers market and then let it sit until yesterday. So I had about 10 apples go to the compost bin.
On the upside, I had some cornbread that was starting to sprout the teeniest tiniest spots of mold, which I just scraped off. I feel like all I ate yesterday is cornbread, but none of it went to waste!! I also saved some yogurt by making a smoothie this morning and I think we'll be able to finish off the chili before it goes bad as well! Hopefully next week I don't have as much "saving" to do! 🙂
More volume than usual went into the compost pile and I consider most of it Not My Fault.
Most of a box of pudding which the nieces used for play not for food. I'm not sure boxed pudding is really food anyway.
Lo these many moons ago my friend was moving away and gave me a bag of frozen peas and a bag of frozen green beans. I keep hearing that frozen veg can be better than fresh because fresh can take so long to reach your table, so I tried a couple of dishes with these. FAIL! The peas in cream sauce with cheese and crunchies on top was barely touched at the neighborhood picnic; the green beans too sad-looking to be worth making anything from. My friend would have thrown them out, now they went into the compost pile.
I'm behind on eating CSA eggs. I still have most of last fortnight's dozen and now all of this fortnight's as well. I also have four yolks I haven't used. If I recover from laryngitis I may make Creme Anglaise with it.
Speaking of CSAs - mine had a sale on large happy chickens, at $3/lb. I bought TEN. Some are now stashed in my non-cooking friend's freezer. The CSA guy said anytime I want to buy ten again, he'll cut them into parts *and* deliver. Whoo-hoo!
I don't think your bad apple counts as food waste, not unless it was weeks and weeks old and had been forgotten in the back of your refrigerator. Sometimes apples go bad, just because. And they can be composted.
Another no-waste week here. Everyone is pitching in to make sure everything gets finished. And I didn't have to remind the girls this week that after school, they have to finish whatever's left in their lunch sacks before they get another snack. They do it on their own now.
I am not sure what is going on at the farmers market but I ended up wasting a whole watermelon. When we cut into it it smelled awful and was all slimy.
Other than that no waste.
ugh. i swear i only posted my link once, i have no idea why it showed up twice. i have the worst luck with the link widget. i'm sorry...i didn't want you to think i was being ridiculously self-promoting or something.
and as a side note, i don't think that apple counts because you couldn't control it.
about a cup of pineapple curry quinoa salad and also some plain quinoa. We like quinoa, but my husband cooked this and started with the amount raw that was listed as the end cooked amount in the recipe, Mountains of quinoa! We got through most of it but burned out at the last bit.
Jenny - I would love your recipe for Pineapple Curry Quinoa Salad. I love quinoa, but as of now I only have one recipe for it!
I love making homemade applesauce. Doesn't matter whether the apples are fresh off the tree or getting a little soft, it always tastes great! I think this week was my worst food waste week ever.
That's a pretty good week, Kristen well done and an awesome interview you gave too - really well done on spreading your message about frugality 🙂
I cringes when I saw that apple peeler photo. That is how I used to make applesauce too until I found this AWESOME tool!
http://www.amazon.com/Velox-Tomato-Press-Strainer-Italy/dp/B00127T8UI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1284153600&sr=8-1
It says it's for tomatoes (which it works wonderfully for) but for applesauce it was truly miraculous - and I am not kidding. All you do is wash apples, quarter (DO NOT PEEL or core) simmer in a pot with a little water or apple juice until soft and crank them through this baby and WAL -LAH - perfect applesauce!
Mine was a little cheaper than this as it did not come with that little container pictured. But soooo worth it!
Erika~
I'm not at home this weekend, but the recipe is from the blog Poor Girl Eats Well. If you search her recipes it should pop up. We liked it, but I thought it need more add-ins like craisins or raisins, and sunflower seeds, and maybe some celery.