It’s Friday Guys – My turn once more to host Food Waste Friday!
Each week since March 2008, in order to motivate her to waste less food, Kristen The Frugal Girl, has posted a picture of any food that has gone bad over the last seven days. She found this embarrassing practice so helpful, to her, that she invited other bloggers to post their own photos, and Food Waste Friday was born.
I started participating in October 2010 and have found, that 2-years on, the amount of food I waste is minimal. In fact every Friday, as part of my No Waste Tastes Great routine, I account (and devise a plan) for all my potential food waste as well as confessing to any items that I failed to save.
Kristen has kindly asked me to host Food Waste Friday, alternate weeks (when she doesn’t post herself), and her initial invite for everyone to join in is cordially extended here!
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No Friday Fridge today. It’s currently being loaded up. There’s a birthday weekend coming up.
It did get cleared and cleaned earlier, and there is waste. 🙁
Not good, but expected after the chaotic week I’ve had.
I know that’s not an excuse.
Rather than end of such a sour note, maybe an image of yet another birthday cake will sweeten the post up?
The lesson taken from this week’s fridge is that regardless of what life throws at me it’s no excuse for wasting food, especially outdoor-reared-pork! Must try harder!
As always I’ll leave the last word to Kristen…
“How did you do this week? If you blogged about your food waste, link us up by entering your info into the widget below. You’ll save money, reduce your trash output, and get a little publicity for your blog! And if you don’t blog, you can still share about your food waste by leaving a comment.
**I’ve decided not to include the LINKY for the foreseeable. My blog doesn’t allow links on the actual post, and being redirected to another page isn’t ideal. Please drop your link in the comments section.** Jo
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http://roadnotchosen.blogspot.com/2013/04/me-4-leftovers-1.html I am the Vanquisher of leftovers!
Need to pop over and check it out!
http://roadnotchosen.blogspot.com/2013/04/me-4-leftovers-1.html I am the Vanquisher of leftovers!
Need to pop over and check it out!
Too bad about the sausages 🙁 I had some salad that I was meaning to freeze but didn’t get around to, and some rice crackers:
http://www.economiesofkale.net/food-waste-friday-good-intentions/
Freezing salad – now that’s one I’ve not tried!
Too bad about the sausages 🙁 I had some salad that I was meaning to freeze but didn’t get around to, and some rice crackers:
http://www.economiesofkale.net/food-waste-friday-good-intentions/
Freezing salad – now that’s one I’ve not tried!
We’ve had visitors so it’s been a bit muddly here, but they’ve been such lovely visitors it doesn’t really matter!
Change of routine does get muddly – but very often it’s worth it!
We’ve had visitors so it’s been a bit muddly here, but they’ve been such lovely visitors it doesn’t really matter!
Change of routine does get muddly – but very often it’s worth it!
Got to be honest I would have eaten the sausages!
I’ve eaten pork/dairy whatever more than 3 days past it’s use by date. What with all the fat and salt they should last longer than the stingy dates used by supermarkets to protect their own skin. (Unless they smell exceptionally bad, then I would have chucked them. haha)
/end rant
Hi Jo… yep it’s a tough one with meat. I agree the stuff is loaded with preservatives. I actually didn’t buy these (although that’s not an excuse) they arrived in the house as an emergency meal – and just half the packet got consumed. As I don’t eat sausage, but the kids do I decided not to risk it. A good ole bout of food-poisoning in the house would probably finish me off here ;-)…
ps – there was a report of BB dates etc very interesting… a lot of it is marketing!
Got to be honest I would have eaten the sausages!
I’ve eaten pork/dairy whatever more than 3 days past it’s use by date. What with all the fat and salt they should last longer than the stingy dates used by supermarkets to protect their own skin. (Unless they smell exceptionally bad, then I would have chucked them. haha)
/end rant
Hi Jo… yep it’s a tough one with meat. I agree the stuff is loaded with preservatives. I actually didn’t buy these (although that’s not an excuse) they arrived in the house as an emergency meal – and just half the packet got consumed. As I don’t eat sausage, but the kids do I decided not to risk it. A good ole bout of food-poisoning in the house would probably finish me off here ;-)…
ps – there was a report of BB dates etc very interesting… a lot of it is marketing!
It’s always easier to see what we could have done – afterwards! I think someone even coined a phrase for that (hindsight is 20/20) 🙂 But life gets in the way, there are only so many hours in a day and days in a week, and before you know it, it’s too late.
Better luck next week.
I had to discard about three cups of a meat/veg/tomato sauce mixture leftover from making a lasagna last week. Was going to make another smaller one, but the ground beef was several days old going into the sauce, and the days slipped by … good intentions, like I said 🙂
There’s no doubt hindsight is perfect vision! haha!
It’s always easier to see what we could have done – afterwards! I think someone even coined a phrase for that (hindsight is 20/20) 🙂 But life gets in the way, there are only so many hours in a day and days in a week, and before you know it, it’s too late.
Better luck next week.
I had to discard about three cups of a meat/veg/tomato sauce mixture leftover from making a lasagna last week. Was going to make another smaller one, but the ground beef was several days old going into the sauce, and the days slipped by … good intentions, like I said 🙂
There’s no doubt hindsight is perfect vision! haha!
Aww, sorry to hear about the wasted sausage but if it were me, I’d use the sniff test. It’s only a few days off from the date…I’d prob cook it up then freeze it to be used somehow somewhere later on PROVIDING that you’ve kept it properly stored in the fridge. Afterall, its not like its 3 weeks off from the date BUT thats just me. I do agree that its better to be safe then sorry though.
No food waste here 🙂 Linking up!
http://myliladventures.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/food-waste-friday-4513/
Hurrah for no food waste!
Aww, sorry to hear about the wasted sausage but if it were me, I’d use the sniff test. It’s only a few days off from the date…I’d prob cook it up then freeze it to be used somehow somewhere later on PROVIDING that you’ve kept it properly stored in the fridge. Afterall, its not like its 3 weeks off from the date BUT thats just me. I do agree that its better to be safe then sorry though.
No food waste here 🙂 Linking up!
http://myliladventures.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/food-waste-friday-4513/
Hurrah for no food waste!
None here, hurrah. No great saves to credit. I just didn’t buy enough produce and I ran out. I guess that’s one way not to waste.
Sure is…works for me every time! (good for the waistline too – once in a while of course not great long-term)
None here, hurrah. No great saves to credit. I just didn’t buy enough produce and I ran out. I guess that’s one way not to waste.
Sure is…works for me every time! (good for the waistline too – once in a while of course not great long-term)