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Food Waste Friday / Fail & Save

November 7, 2014 by SimplyBeingMum

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.

FoodWasteFriday I started participating in October 2010 and have found, 4-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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In yesterdays post I talked about how I need to slow down.

I’m making errors daily. And missing things.

(I even missed that Kristen had posted Food Waste Friday on Tuesday – I rarely miss her posts!)

This week I’m also producing food waste:

SatsumaMould

When satsumas start going mouldy, I need to try harder.

My food waste increases when I am busy. I take my eye of the ball. Or in this case, the satsuma.

So, addressing this need to reduce the pace, and the need to reduce opportunities for food waste, I blended the  parsnip, sweet potato and pumpkin I slow cooked.

Pumpkin Soup

We’re on a tight schedule today, but we’ll have to delay things by 10 minutes to make the save.

(The pumpkin was from the jack’o’lanterns we carved last Friday and some munchkins I’d purchased)

Chopping Munchkins

It may be another busy day, and weekend, ahead, but by slowing down and taking the time to batch freeze a handful of home-made soup we have lunches ready to go next week.

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, food waste friday Tagged: food, food waste, food waste friday, mouldy food, pumpkin soup, slow cooker recipes, the frugal girl

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  1. Molly says

    November 7, 2014 at 1:10 pm

    Oh, my husband would be SO SAD if citrus got moldy before he could eat it. I haven’t been able to find oranges for the past month or so, so I got 2 bags this week when I saw them at Aldi. Nom nom nom.

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  2. Molly says

    November 7, 2014 at 1:10 pm

    Oh, my husband would be SO SAD if citrus got moldy before he could eat it. I haven’t been able to find oranges for the past month or so, so I got 2 bags this week when I saw them at Aldi. Nom nom nom.

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  3. Vicki says

    November 7, 2014 at 7:03 pm

    Hi Jo,

    When I start to see waste regularly I definitely take it as a sign to pay more attention.
    Mouldy citrus, that is something I have experienced in my fridge and had some this week in fact. Have an awesome weekend 🙂
    http://www.veeseasyvegan.com/raw-avocado-balls-and-food-waste-friday/:

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  4. Vicki says

    November 7, 2014 at 7:03 pm

    Hi Jo,

    When I start to see waste regularly I definitely take it as a sign to pay more attention.
    Mouldy citrus, that is something I have experienced in my fridge and had some this week in fact. Have an awesome weekend 🙂
    http://www.veeseasyvegan.com/raw-avocado-balls-and-food-waste-friday/:

    Reply

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