The brocco-leaf? All smoothified.

I have lots of lovely food-waste news to share with you, but let’s get the waste-errific part out of the way first:

A small bit of lettuce got wilty, so I composted it.

Yup, that’s the extent of my waste.

Yay me!

Remember the big bunch of brocco-leaf I mentioned in my last Food Waste Friday post?   Well, I’m pleased to say that I blended every last leaf up into smoothies.

My produce box also happened to bless me with beets in the same week, so the brocco-leaf smoothies weren’t exactly green smoothies.

I thought the brocco-leaf would be very broccoli-like in taste, but it was surprisingly mild.

(Some of you have asked about beets in smoothies.   I peel them, cut them into chunks, and throw them right into my Vitamix, which handles them beautifully.   A bit of OJ concentrate and fresh ginger really helps to mask the beet taste, by the way.)

Also, remember the dried-up lemon I asked you guys about last time?   You encouraged me to slice off the dry part, and lo and behold, it was quite juicy.

I was making a dish of Shrimp Viennese, and remembered that the sauce calls for a bit of lemon juice.

Perfect.

So, I didn’t waste the lemon after all.

Let’s see, what else….

I had a about a half container of canned, seasoned tomatoes leftover, so I blended them up, stirred in a bit of cream, and called it soup.

In other smoothie news, I got some baby bok choy in my produce box, and was a little unsure of what to do with it.

So, I tried my fallback, which is smoothie-making.

Surprisingly, it was even milder than spinach in a smoothie.

I only have this little bunch left, so I am very sure I will not have baby bok choy waste.

This is a big reason I love my produce box-I wouldn’t normally think to buy baby bok choy or brocco-leaf, so the produce box stretches me a bit.

In keeping with the smoothie theme, yesterday I did a fridge inventory and found some random odds and ends to freeze for future smoothie use.

By the way, here’s a post about why I bought my Vitamix and why I love it, in case all this smoothie talk has you intrigued.

And to wrap things up, here’s the current state of my fridge, because I know some of you are fridge voyeurs.   ;).

It’s been a good two weeks food-waste-wise at my house and I feel like I was really in my no-waste groove.

You guys are an integral part of that…knowing I’ll be baring my waste (and wins) to you is super motivating.   So, thank you muchly for faithfully reading my food waste happenings and cheering me on.

How are things going in your household?   Any thrilling wins or devastating losses you want to share? 😉