Do you spend £10.00 per month on food you don't eat

Rebekah24

I only keep what is needed in the house, very close to nothing at most times...so no waste at all!

Anything fresh like bread goes straight in the freezer.... only buy hardy fruit/veg - root vegs. citrus and in a tiny quantity..buy a bag and split it with OH so none gets to waste.

Deffinately food for thought

alec_eiffel

Frugal wrote: »

Guilty Possibly more... Actually probably more :o:o

However, I am doing my best to STOP wasting food. Its frightening how much it adds up to :eek:

Thanks for your honesty, I think it's quite easy to get sucked into a "frugaler than thou" kind of a thing so it's good to see a bit of "I'm only human" from time to time.

I also agree about waste coming in the form of buying junk instead of using what you have, serving slightly larger than necessary portions or whatever. That's very much something we're trying to watch here. I pretty much just sling everything in the freezer if I think I'm not going to eat it, it's a long way from when we threw away probably... £150 or more worth of food every single month.

We have some waste but not too much, but when you break it down to 30p a day it's not out of the realms of possibility for lots of folks to chuck away a tenner a month without realising.

vickiem30

Vibrant wrote: »

I caught one of my neighbours throwing out tins a few years ago, now she gives me any out of date stuff. As I haven't died, you would think she would eat it herself, lol.
The date on tins is only advisory anyway, to ensure the product is at its best. As long as the tin isn't "blown", it should be fine.
Generally speaking, if food looks and smells alright, I still eat it, no matter how old it is, people are too worried about hygiene nowadays, that is why everyone has allergies, intolerances, etc. Their body never gets used to a bit of dirt.

I'm with you! At the moment I'm eating Whole wheat spaghetti that expired in may 09; it tastes the same and I'm still here, so no worries. I read somewhere about people eating mammoths' meat that had been found in the ice in Siberia and they suffered no ill effects!

dandy-candy

It's not store cupboard stuff with me, i'm another one in the wasted salad gang! Lettuce seems to mush up within 2 days and often my toms and spring onion's get wrinkly
I think I will give one of those fresh veg bags a go - thx for the idea!

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Well you are all very honest about what you discard. I too tend to over buy carrots ,but I also blanche and freeze them.My freezer is stuffed at the moment so I can't buy anything at all that needs to be frozen so I am doing the alternative and staying away from the temptation of shops.
It is so easy to pop into the supermarket for say bread or milk and come out with a bag full of stuff you bought because
a. It was marked down
b. Just in case.
We have all done it and I'm no different than anyone else.But I decided this year I would put my 'sensible' hat on and use up what I have before buying anymore.I will go through my cupboards this weekend and see what I can donate to my DD who is unemployed at the moment and finding things a bit lean (don't think she's keen on sardines though ) and I am determined that my freezer will be emptied a bit more.The bottom shelf I know has quite a bit of fish in there so fish looks like its going to be an every other day dinner for awhile. I also have a lot of veg in there as well so thats going to make me some vats of soup.I enjoy salad even in the winter and have a fair bit in the fridge I wrap the celery in tin foil and that makes it last for ages and it stays crisp.I suppose cucumber gets binned a bit as it seems to go soft very quickly ,I haven't yet found a shop that sells it to last more than a few days.
How long I can last without shopping I'm not sure but so far this year I haven't been near a supermarket or shop.I have more than enough to keep me going for a bit, I'm even going to use my long life milk before I buy any fresh.So fingers crossed I will get through my own mini food mountain that seems to have accumulated in my house
Watch this space :)
P.S. Sardines and tomatoes on toast for lunch today i really am fed up of looking at those tins of blurry sardines :)

Simba_25

Im ashamed to say i waste that in a week sometimes!....Its never things out of my cupboards though, they do get used regardless, its my fridge items. if ive bought sausage rolls/pork pies, yogurts, cooked meat etc....some weeks they go within a day of me buying them, oither weeks the kids just dont bother and they end up going to waste before i realise the dates are out.

Ive made it my priority to make sure we have a lot less waste this year. Ive made lists of everything in my fridge/freezer and cupboards so i know exactly what i do have and im going to meal plan and stick to it! I want to decorate through my whole house, so i figure the moeny i save on spending less on food i dont need, will pay for my decorating Ive also started buying frozen sausage rolls so i can just stick a few in while im cooking dinner for the next day....it seams to be working well....it all adds up i guess

lambanana

My biggest problem is buying reduced meat and shoving it the freezer then realising it has been in there about a year and we're never going to eat it. I have decided that this year I will not buy joints of meat or ridiculous meats in sauces that we just wont eat for the freezer. I will only buy chicken, sausages and mince as that's about all the meat we eat anyway.

Petlamb

Not storecupboard stuff for me either - that's surely either dried, tinned or jarred? And that lasts for donkeys years!

Fresh produce is a bit different, but now that I've taken over the cooking it might run a little better (big headed yes, I know) - simply because I'll find ways even if it kills me to use things up now - seen enough waste in this house! Currently ploughing through the freezer using up what's in there due to a very very tight month indeed.

Sublime_2

I try not to waste food. Manky looking veg gets made into soup.

I have thrown the odd out of date yoghurt away, and mouldy piece of fruit/bread. I try to use salvageable bread for HM breadcrumbs.

My kids waste food. I have to give them regular meals, whether they are hungry or not, and often find wastage.

aliasojo

*considers locusting my way through the fridge and cupboards today just to make sure nothing goes to waste* :D

Seriously though, cold meat seems to be the biggest issue in this house. I often have to chuck out half eaten packets and slices of thi,s that or the other. Will have to be more on the ball with that I think.