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, 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!
Back to the tried and tested formula today Guys it’s a fridge photo! (my videoing skills seriously need work – see last week)
Simply Being Mum’s Friday Fridge
There is some waste. Right at the bottom there’s a small container of leftover chicken casserole. It’s been there quite a few days, and I am fanatical about food hygiene when it comes to poultry. It will be disposed of.
At the bottom of the fridge there are more leftovers. A slow cooker half full of Chicken stew left over from last night. This time I’m going to ensure the free-range poultry doesn’t go to waste. I’m just about to portion it up and freeze for a meal next week.
Not technically waste, but this pile of goodies is surplus to requirement.
I know I’m not making Christmas pudding this year. But I’m thinking this little lot might make a lovely Christmas themed bread and butter pudding. What do you think? Maybe with some brandy cream?
Don’t forget I’m running a Christmas pudding giveaway!
That may be this weekends festive bake! I’m looking for lots of lovely festive things to do with the Kids and this sounds super simple also.
Talking about using up bread. Susan shared this over on my Facebook page. It look A-Mazing. Has anyone tried this kind of dish? any tips to share, or any other ideas on using up bread?
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Leftover bread: on the reasonable assumption that crutons, bread pudding (both sweet and savory), and french toast are covered, I offer up several others. Italian cuisine has numerous bread soups, including a version of gazpacho and Pappa al Pomodoro. The same cuisine has numerous bread salads, where soft bread is used as an ingredient. I like Panzanella but there ae others.
Food Waste: it was UGLY Chez WilliamB. I had about 20% fewer Thanksgiving guests and almost no one took leftovers home. Leaving out the veggies from the dressing (= stuffing made in a pan rather than in the bird) couldn’t’ve helped either. Rather than eat unhealthy food, I composted it. Since I made everything scratch, including the bread for the dressing, the financial hit wasn’t big but it was a painful experience nonetheless.
– 5-6 c. dressing.
– 1/2 c. mustard sauce (for the braised, browned pork belly).
– 1 c. cranberry-horseradish sauce went I-don’t-know-where. Unless I want to freeze it for next year, it’s gonna end up in the compost.
I have a lot of leftover turducken, mashed potatoes, and gravy, but the first I will freeze and the last two will be eaten by my roommate. There’s a bit of pork belly and hoisin sauce, which I will eat or freeze – it’s tasty but very rich.
Leftover bread: on the reasonable assumption that crutons, bread pudding (both sweet and savory), and french toast are covered, I offer up several others. Italian cuisine has numerous bread soups, including a version of gazpacho and Pappa al Pomodoro. The same cuisine has numerous bread salads, where soft bread is used as an ingredient. I like Panzanella but there ae others.
Food Waste: it was UGLY Chez WilliamB. I had about 20% fewer Thanksgiving guests and almost no one took leftovers home. Leaving out the veggies from the dressing (= stuffing made in a pan rather than in the bird) couldn’t’ve helped either. Rather than eat unhealthy food, I composted it. Since I made everything scratch, including the bread for the dressing, the financial hit wasn’t big but it was a painful experience nonetheless.
– 5-6 c. dressing.
– 1/2 c. mustard sauce (for the braised, browned pork belly).
– 1 c. cranberry-horseradish sauce went I-don’t-know-where. Unless I want to freeze it for next year, it’s gonna end up in the compost.
I have a lot of leftover turducken, mashed potatoes, and gravy, but the first I will freeze and the last two will be eaten by my roommate. There’s a bit of pork belly and hoisin sauce, which I will eat or freeze – it’s tasty but very rich.
I’ve got to start doing fridge photos too!
Here is how we did this week. We wasted some soup that wasn’t too good. http://wp.me/p4yT07-12f
I’ve got to start doing fridge photos too!
Here is how we did this week. We wasted some soup that wasn’t too good. http://wp.me/p4yT07-12f