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Food Waste Friday / Christmas Fayre

December 27, 2013 by SimplyBeingMum

It’s Friday Guys – My turn once more to host Food Waste Friday!

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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 3-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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If you haven’t been over before today – Merry Christmas Everyone!

No Friday Fridge once again this week, purely because there is a myriad of items within it. It would take too long to itemise. However what is contained is headed for a meal, at some point, over the next couple of days.

On the food-waste-front things aren’t looking too bad, considering it’s the holiday season.

4 bread-rolls didn’t make it. Left out overnight they weren’t fit for consumption the day after. There may have been plate-waste also – but that’s to be expected.

Remember I slow-cooked the Christmas Turkey this year? This worked fantastically once again. And by buying a joint rather than a whole turkey, there’s not going to be any waste at all.

This is all that was left of the bird after Christmas day;

turkey

Along with the extra veggies and potatoes that had been left over…

heating up

…a Boxing Day meal was rustled up.

table

The Kids sugar modelling took centre stage.

snowmen

Not perfect on the food-waste-front, but not bad either.

Reducing food-waste is a work in progress. It takes practice. As this is only the 4th Christmas I’ve actively been trying to reduce food-waste. 4 years sounds a lot – 4 actual days doesn’t.

Each year/day I improve a little more.

Later today I’m going to sit and make some notes on how I can improve the Christmas Fayre further next year. Reading this article inspired the idea!

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

Those of you who participate in Food Waste Friday can now grab a fancy-schmancy button to perk up your posts. If you copy and paste the following code into your Food Waste Friday post, this little graphic will appear.”

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Filed Under: food waste friday, No Waste Tastes Great Tagged: food, food waste, food waste friday, Leftover turkey, love food hate waste, No Waste Tastes Great, sugar snowmen, waste, Wasted Food

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  1. Lizzie says

    December 27, 2013 at 2:10 pm

    http://lizzieshomeworld.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/wasteful-christmas.html

    I am joining in 🙂

    Reply
  2. Lizzie says

    December 27, 2013 at 2:10 pm

    http://lizzieshomeworld.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/wasteful-christmas.html

    I am joining in 🙂

    Reply
  3. Claire says

    December 27, 2013 at 7:28 pm

    I’ve just had my second day of bubble and squeak which has used up my leftover cooked veggies, and the pigs in blankets. There is a bit of meat left to eat up which will go tomorrow. A bit of stuffing did go to waste but overall I reckon I did OK!

    Reply
  4. Claire says

    December 27, 2013 at 7:28 pm

    I’ve just had my second day of bubble and squeak which has used up my leftover cooked veggies, and the pigs in blankets. There is a bit of meat left to eat up which will go tomorrow. A bit of stuffing did go to waste but overall I reckon I did OK!

    Reply
  5. myliladventures says

    December 28, 2013 at 3:22 am

    I hit the jackpot with waste this week. I knew my lucky streak would end soon enough. 🙁

    Linking up:
    http://myliladventures.wordpress.com/2013/12/27/food-waste-friday-122713/

    Reply
  6. myliladventures says

    December 28, 2013 at 3:22 am

    I hit the jackpot with waste this week. I knew my lucky streak would end soon enough. 🙁

    Linking up:
    http://myliladventures.wordpress.com/2013/12/27/food-waste-friday-122713/

    Reply
  7. Molly says

    December 30, 2013 at 9:52 am

    I love being creative with leftovers at this time of year. We had a big joint of ham I cooked and a huge turkey crown. I’ve frozen the leftover meat in batches along with roasted veg to make pies and soups. Our cooked meat lasted us through Christmas Day and Boxing Day but we then went away so I ran out of time to make the pies before freezing. Will be a job for the new year!

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  8. Molly says

    December 30, 2013 at 9:52 am

    I love being creative with leftovers at this time of year. We had a big joint of ham I cooked and a huge turkey crown. I’ve frozen the leftover meat in batches along with roasted veg to make pies and soups. Our cooked meat lasted us through Christmas Day and Boxing Day but we then went away so I ran out of time to make the pies before freezing. Will be a job for the new year!

    Reply

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