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Challenge - confess your waste here
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Bogof_Babe
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I don't mean your jeans size, lol, but I've been thinking that one challenge we haven't had on here is to cut down on what we throw away. Perhaps we could have one each month, which might help us to identify where we are over-buying. Just the act of writing in on here might make us think twice before either over-stocking or chucking out rather than finding a way to use it up.
I threw away yesterday a chicken in white wine sauce ready meal, that I'd had in the freezer since September, and realised it was meant to be used within one month if frozen at home. I also have about a quarter of a pint of longlife milk about to hit the drain tomorrow, left over from my attempts to use up the emergency carton.
Anyone else want to confess anything?
I threw away yesterday a chicken in white wine sauce ready meal, that I'd had in the freezer since September, and realised it was meant to be used within one month if frozen at home. I also have about a quarter of a pint of longlife milk about to hit the drain tomorrow, left over from my attempts to use up the emergency carton.
Anyone else want to confess anything?



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Where to start? I'm forever finding cheese that's truly "gone home" hidden at the back of the fridge..yoghurts that I fancied in the shop but then forgot to take to school...I'm ashamed to say that last week I nearly filled a small carrier back with fridge disasters. I hate to think of how much money that represents.
Well, they say confession's good for the soul - but so far it just makes me feel even worse!Resolution:
Think twice before spending anything!0 -
Bogof_Babe wrote:I also have about a quarter of a pint of longlife milk about to hit the drain tomorrow, left over from my attempts to use up the emergency carton.
Anyone else want to confess anything?
Don't throw it use it for delicious scones or even in a cake ! Doesn't matter if it is sour.
My confession - 2 carrots left from those bought for Christmas found lurking in the bottom of the veg rack. Too wizened to do anything with except compost heap. I suppose that really wasn't waste was it?0 -
my biggest waste this year was giving up on the UFO (Unidentified Frozen Objects) challenge after coming home late and finding that all I had defrosted was veg stock. Chucked anything that i couldn't figure out.I'm going to feed our children non-organic food and with the money saved take them to the zoo - half man half biscuit 20080
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Since I've been cooking from scratch a bit more I have found that I throw away less because I have more emotionally invested in it. I have a pack of garlic bread in the fridge which came up from the freezer last week in a vain attempt to cater for some hordes of ravenous teenagers. That is going to have to go to the compost sometime unless I cook it and then grate it for breadcrumbs. Wont' buy them again.
I can't get through jam or marmalade quickly enough to avoid layers of mould growing but just scrape it off and start again. Is that wrong? We're still all alive to tell the tale.
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I am finding it's more about what I amn't throwing away (why can't I find the little angel with the halo thingamigig when I need it - which isn't often!!!). Now that I make my own yoghurts and choc mousses, I've no carton to throw out. Same goes with bread - no wrappings to throw out. Same with baking. I sometimes think, though, I should be throwing out more to save my expanding waistline! I did have to throw out some longlife milk recently which I had got as a freebie - because it was months out-of-date. If only I had noticed earlier I could have made yoghurt out of it.0
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Yogurt today, about a litre. I think I killed the starter culture accidently because it looked nasty this morning and hadn't set so I don't think I'll risk it. I work with microbes all day and I'm scared of unidentified cultures in the kitchen...:staradmin:starmod: beware of geeks bearing .gifs...:starmod::staradmin:starmod: Whoever said "nothing is impossible" obviously never tried to nail jelly to a tree :starmod:0
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half a punnet of cherry toms and a bag of organic carrots that went yacky v v quickly :mad:- prior planning prevents poor performance!
May Grocery challenge £150 136/1500 -
Some bruised apples and some rotten clemantines - but they went into the compost, not the bin.
Half a tub of cream went into the bin tho.0 -
an orange that i was given after the harvest festival last october went last week, and a couple of clementines that had gone dry! i'm much better now i make my own yoghurt and meal plan. i used to get a veg box and ended up chucking far too much of it. i also threw the dregs of last week's home made soup yesterday, but it wasn't much.Mum to gorgeous baby boy born Sept 2010:j0
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I threw away 4 clementines yesterday. I had not thrown away anything for ages so I will allow myself that one. I was away for a few days and overbought before I went, should have taken them with me really.
I work at M&S and in the last 6 months or so I have been doing more of my shopping there and my total food spend has actually come down believe it or not. I did used to get a lot of ready meals/takeaways though.
I haven't been to Lidl for ages as I was always finding that the fruit and veg I got from there would only last a day or so and I very rarely bulk cook the same day I go shopping as its too late in the day.
I was throwing far too much away (fruit and veg) due to the shoddy quality, not sure if its the shops fault or the people that shop there that are treating the fruit and veg badly.
The tinned tomatoes and the passata are still my faves from all the places that sell it though. Pretty much anything that is tinned really.
Now I do most of my shopping at M&S and Sainsburys, my food bills have gone down as I bulk cook rather than getting ready meals/takeaways like I used to.0
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