Food Waste Friday | yay for me!
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've got nothin' to report today. And that's happy news on a Friday.
Because that would be exceedingly boring, here's a picture from the other night (it was the TBD night from the menu plan...we ended up going to Chili's).
Because we are insane, my sister and I took all 8 of our children out (including the birthday boy, who is the blonde one there), and mercifully, it went quite well (we even got a compliment on the kids' behavior).
Please know that we did not use the Beer and Wine menu on the table. 😉
Here's a gratuitous picture of Annalise, a.k.a. Angel Baby, a.k.a. lowest-maintenance-baby-on-the-planet.
She's amazing!
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Today's 365 post: I let Sonia use my camera
Yay for no waste! I wish I had the same report!
Many congratulations Kristen! Unfortunately it certainly is Friday the 13th over at Chez Wright. I had so much potential food waste that I have two slow cookers to load to get it all used up, I've had to freeze some stuff and also eat some stuff. Way off the mark for me this week. The only true casualty (disposed off) was some slow cooked tomato and lentil soup that after 9 days had no life left in it at all. Proving that when I skipped FWF and NWTG last Friday I was setting myself up for failure big time this week. Oh well near disaster narrowly averted... Jo
Last week I saved a few pieces of chopped tomatoes and made homemade salsa. We didn't eat all the salsa; I guess those tomatoes didn't want to be saved after all!
She is a beautiful baby! Also, hope you went to Chili's on Tuesday night. They had FREE kids' night here. Two free meals per adult entree. Our family of 7 can eat there on that night for about $25.00 and Happy Birthday to your nephew!
The past few weeks we have had horrible amounts of food waste. I try to use it all up but somehow there is a lemon, stale homemade cookies, pieces of bread. At least nothing came with packaging and it went directly into the compost
I'm getting there! At least, I'm getting better at knowing what I'm not going to finish on time. I had some vegetable waste that's going to go right into the compost bin.
Not such waste free, week here in sunny, hot Ottawa (those are three words you don't get to see often). I will post my entry as soon as blogger comes alive again.
Is there a way to clone that beautiful baby? I wasn't planning on a second child but I would get on the waiting list for her.
Blogger is back. Now I can report just how badly I did, and how much I wish I was at Chili's right now.
Mrs., you still rock. Three words "root beer pork".
So not good--a few spoonfuls of cream cheese & smoked salmon spread, a small cooked butternut squash, leftover homemade Pad Thai sauce, leftover mango sauce for coconut chicken (chicken was great, sauce was not!), and the odd bits on the bottom of a bag of lettuce. The cilantro will get used (for once) at tonight's taco party. I was extra ruthless since we will be gone next week, and I hate coming home from a trip to find modly stuff in the fridge.
unfortunately, it was a shameful week here. I haven't been home for dinner in about 3 weeks due to a family medical situation and then I got sick on top of it... so we had a lot of wasted produce and such, which makes me really sad. I hope to turn that around this week, but we'll see how life plays out. That said, I cut my grocery buying by 2/3 and am sort of buying on the fly this week to avoid waste. That way if we don't make it home for dinner, we aren't eating out AND wasting food at home.
Im new to your blog, love it! But I just wanted to remind folks that it good manners to tip on the amount the restaurant bill would have been before any discount or free stuff!
When we have gift cards or a Groupon, we always tip on the amount we'd have paid before the gift cards.
I'm a little more iffy on paying a pre-discount price if the restaurant is offering the discount price. For instance, if a meal usually costs $15 but the restaurant is offering it for $10 as a special, I'd tip on $10, not $15.
I understand your point if its a restaurant deal like you mentioned. But for like kids eat free, I think you should tip on those, it wasn't the servers idea to discount it, it was the boss' , who is likely on salary themselves and not affected by it. Just my opinion though, I waited tables for a long time so I obviously would think so!
Do the servers benefit from kids eat free nights, though? I'm just thinking that the restaurant does it because it brings in more business on a usually slow night, and so the waiters are less likely to be sitting there with empty tables.
FWIW, I tip on the nondiscounted price under almost every circumstance, including a dish being comp'ed. The only time I won't is if the server really messed up. There was one time when the server obviously had had a hit of coke between taking our order and putting it in...
I had to waste some old margarine that upset me and some cheese.I hate to waste anything so it has been a bad week. What gorgeous children. Enjoy your weekend.
Almost no waste this week - about 1/2 commercial yogurt.
But I have the dreaded cilantro. I've lost track of all my cilantro recipes - post some and help me out?
I've been visiting your blog since August I think, and I absolutely love it!! It's one of the places I go to for an uplifting minute. I've started baking bread weekly and my husband does the yogurt every other week. But I've got a question, why no wine or beer? Is it a frugality thing or a religious thing?
Oh, I just said that because we had so many children with us...so many, my sister and I both had to drive.
And since we're both awful lightweights, drinking was certainly not appropriate that evening. lol
Plus, I thought it was funny to see the beer and wine menu sitting in front of all those children.
Anyhow, I'm not opposed to alcohol consumption in moderation. 😉