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, 3-years on, the amount of food I waste is minimal. Every Friday, as part of my No Waste Tastes Great routine, I account for all my potential food waste as well as confessing to any items that I failed to save.
Kristen kindly asked me to host Food Waste Friday, alternate weeks and her initial invite for everyone to join in is cordially extended here!
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I turned 40 yesterday, and had a truly amazing day.
(fantastic camper-van cake made for me by a dear friend – want a great birthday cake recipe? click here)
But what this means is I am still putting my house back together after entertaining. I’m also prepping for another party. I share my birthday with my Son, and we have another party planned to celebrate with those who could not make it on a school day.
It’s the second Friday that my No Waste Tastes Great routine has been abandoned.
It’s also the second week that I have failed to post on the blog as planned.
Who’d have thought turning 40 would cause such chaos?
I do have waste this Food Waste Friday. It’s birthday leftovers. A handful of cheese sandwiches were disposed of. The UK is lucky enough to have amazing weather at the moment, so after an hour on the patio table the last few sandwiches dried up so much they were inedible. Fortunately the rest of the fayre got eaten. They did get photographed. On my new macro lens no less. But I have not yet uploaded the photos from my Canon DSLR.
Did I mention my birthday? 😉 oh yes I may have…
We’re having beautiful sunny skies, so what did I do on my birthday?
Ski-ing of course.
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 blog link into the comments section 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 without a link.
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.”
If you blog on WordPress, just make sure you’re in html mode when you copy and paste the code, or it won’t work
Happy birthdayJo, and happy birthday to your son! x
Thank you 🙂
Happy birthdayJo, and happy birthday to your son! x
Thank you 🙂
Happy birthday to both of you. I love the camper van cake. Enjoy your party!
Thank you Paula
Happy birthday to both of you. I love the camper van cake. Enjoy your party!
Thank you Paula
When I saw the camper cake, I thought you had made it for yourself. However, apparently, you have friends who are talented too. 🙂 Happy Birthday to you and your son.
Nope not my creation! This time…
When I saw the camper cake, I thought you had made it for yourself. However, apparently, you have friends who are talented too. 🙂 Happy Birthday to you and your son.
Nope not my creation! This time…
Happy Birthday Jo, glad the weather was kind to you!
Thank you Karen – the weather was great
Happy Birthday Jo, glad the weather was kind to you!
Thank you Karen – the weather was great
Belated Happy Birthday to you and your son, Jo! How nice to share the same birth date! Love the cake. Nice that you got to go skiing! I remember you mentioning how you went skiing on a trip to Canada; you must really enjoy it!
Love ski-ing. And love Canada!
Belated Happy Birthday to you and your son, Jo! How nice to share the same birth date! Love the cake. Nice that you got to go skiing! I remember you mentioning how you went skiing on a trip to Canada; you must really enjoy it!
Love ski-ing. And love Canada!
Happy happy Birthday Jo and your son. Gemini hey, like me and my hubby who also share a birthday 🙂
Here is the food waste in our fridge this week outlined on my blog.Not too bad.
http://www.veeseasyvegan.com/easy-stir-fry-vegan-recipes-from-other-blogs-gratitude-do-less-no-waste-friday/:
Thanks I will pop across…
Happy happy Birthday Jo and your son. Gemini hey, like me and my hubby who also share a birthday 🙂
Here is the food waste in our fridge this week outlined on my blog.Not too bad.
http://www.veeseasyvegan.com/easy-stir-fry-vegan-recipes-from-other-blogs-gratitude-do-less-no-waste-friday/:
Thanks I will pop across…
Happy Birthday!
I lost an usually large amount of stuff this week. None of which I’m counting because the cause was my fridge going on the fritz. I wasn’t able to find/fix the problem myself (I tried and thank god for the internet), but I figured some lost food would be cheaper than a Sunday repair visit. So lost food it was.
(It wasn’t a total loss. The fridge was 5-10 F too warm rather than totally broken, and I have a small cube fridge that I put to use.)
Saved the day once again William B 😉
Happy Birthday!
I lost an usually large amount of stuff this week. None of which I’m counting because the cause was my fridge going on the fritz. I wasn’t able to find/fix the problem myself (I tried and thank god for the internet), but I figured some lost food would be cheaper than a Sunday repair visit. So lost food it was.
(It wasn’t a total loss. The fridge was 5-10 F too warm rather than totally broken, and I have a small cube fridge that I put to use.)
Saved the day once again William B 😉
Happy Birthday Jo!!
Love Sharron x
Thank you Sharron!
Happy Birthday Jo!!
Love Sharron x
Thank you Sharron!