What food have you thrown out this week?

madmalteaser

I am absolutely terrible for wasting food I'm afraid....

Just yesterday I threw out:
An entire punnet of raspberries
4 slices of bread
A bunch of spring onions
New potatoes
3 slices of ham
2 slices of cheese
An egg
A tub of prawn cocktail

I've been on nights so this always happens just after my night shifts. I guess I need to learn how to shop for night shifts a bit better!

gallygirl

tesuhoha wrote:

I've thrown out uneaten too runny rice pudding, most of the chilli i made for dinner last night, apples past their best, pears also, bananas blackened, milk shake powder several years old, uneaten pasta, uneaten rice, vegetables left over from roast, half a loaf gone too solid for bread & butter pudding, a tub of plain yoghurt (large) past its useby date, a two week old pack of peaches in the fridge, half a bowl of tuna, two mildewed rolls from my sons lunchbox, thats just for starters.

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: Shame on you tes, that would have bought some paint for your new house!!!!

Just yesterday I threw out:
An entire punnet of raspberries
4 slices of bread
A bunch of spring onions
New potatoes
3 slices of ham
2 slices of cheese
An egg
A tub of prawn cocktail

AND YOU TOO MADMALTEASER!!!!!!! There's a whole meal there!!!!

willow_girl

One use for blackened bananas are muffins. They are so easy to make and taste fab too!

GreyPilgrim

Haha. This is another one of those "things that I thought only I did". I'm ashamed of the stuff we buy then just leave to go manky in the cupboard or fridge, but always assumed the rest of the world was too organised to do it and it was only my family that did it. I always got a "oh my god there's people starving in the world" everytime I found a potato that had started to sprout and had taken root in the panty...

We've started to do more regular, smaller shops now, so it doesn't happen as much

It's good to know that everyone does it though and that we're not the only wastrels

domesticgoddess

fab thread, we in this house waster far too much food. I struggle with this daily.

half a lettuce
WW ready meal past by use by date
rotten tomato
3 x over ripe peaches
1 glass of homemade smoothie that one of the kids didn't like

hope this helps me not to waste

Mrs(no)money

GreyPilgrim wrote:

I found a potato that had started to sprout and had taken root in the panty...

panty?!!! hmmm.....sounds a bit dodgy to me!!!:rotfl:

Mrs(no)money

I've been very good this week - can honestly say i have thrown away no food - mind you, that doesnt happen much in this house - not with three teenage boys around!

Thriftylady

I was in hospital for a week unexpectedly, and came home to find things living in my fridge.......so threw out a mouldy fruit salad that I had made the night before I went in, a carton of cream and one of creme fraiche.

What I can't understand is that my OH is the tidiest man alive, to the point of being obsessive. He tidies the kitchen at the same time as cooking in it, he folds the towels immediately after using them, he plumps up the cushions on the sofa every day. But for some reason, once something is hidden behind the fridge door....well, it could stay there for a year and it wouldn't occur to him to throw it out!

mandyc

Milk is my problem. I have milk delivered - one pint a day. I know it is cheaper in the Supermarket but I would not like to see the milkman out of a job and also there a lot of older people who use the milkman for other supplies besides milk.

I throw at least two pints a week away ( sometimes more). I only drink black coffee and rarely have cereal. DH and I both work full time and DD2 (the only one who still lives at home) hates milk!!!

I treat this as my charity!!!

Thriftylady

mandyc wrote:

I throw at least two pints a week away ( sometimes more).

I see the throwing away of two pints of milk and I hear in my head the magic words....'make rice pudding with it instead'.....before it goes off, obviously...