Food Waste Friday / ‘Mum You Are So Embarrassing!’

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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Simply Being Mum’s Friday Fridge

I was watching this video on YouTube, to check it, before sharing on this post and Second-Born walked in. Standing behind me he just looked at my with a wry smile, shook his head and walked out the room.

I’m guessing he may have been thinking ‘Mum, you are so embarrassing!’. Co-incidentally only 2 days ago he asked what ’embarrassing’ meant.  It’s probably been on his mind for a while.

There’s no waste this week. Yay!

The No Waste Tastes Great plan (based on the contents of my Friday fridge) is to rustle this up once more.

Find Jamie Oliver’s recipe here.

I also have 4 cooking apples (not shown) that were given to me by my Mom.

I’ll be making this.

Find my recipe here.

Short and sweet today. And a little embarrassing 😉

We are still on summer break and have a lot to get through.

This chart is looking a lot less cluttered now. It was a picnic in Beacon Park Lichfield yesterday (photos on Twitter and Instagram – see sidebar for links), and Blists Hill Victorian Town Ironbridge today.

I love it when school’s out!

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