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Do you spend £10.00 per month on food you don't eat
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sounds delicious and I'll definitely give it a try so thanks for sharing it with us:T
I hope you like it. I'd love to know if it works with mackeral.:)
wastage: anything dog safe is useful here...my dog won't eat her food if its the same a few days in a row, so she gets the same basic ration with a small amount of left overs mixed in to ring the changes all the time. We moved last year and have three apple trees and quite a few plums. I did get some apples n the freezer, and gave them away..and fed them as treats to the horses. But the only ''people''who got round to the plums in any quantity were the dogs:o who picked them off the tree. Apples left were useful to the birds but not to my pocket or to the battle against wastage.
This year plum jelly and plum ''membrillo'' will be happening. For those wasting lettuce ...what about trying a few cut and come again lettuces at home...even on windowsills...you can start pulling of baby leaves and children might take more of an interst in salad if growing them themselves?
Another area of wastage for us is veg I pick up reduced to blanch and freeze...I often don't get round to it...and the think ''oh well, it was only 10/15 pence''. But to buy it fresh would be a lot more.
we have two chest freezers, but using what's in them is important, not just stuffing them! I get a bit lax on that tbh....0 -
pixiedust09 wrote: »I do have a couple of oranges in my fruit bowl that have seen better days, any ideas how I can use them up? or can citrus fruit be composted?
I give everything a second look now before chucking out. As I dont buy meat or poultry anymore I dont have to worry about them going off. Veg can certainly be given a second chance (unless its slimy and smelly!!). We are soo fortunate in this country to have such a diverse range of relatively cheap good nutritious food. Its what we do with it that counts.!!!!
All my tins (6) are all relative (!) and will be used to bulk up other stuff - like tomatoes (value), kidney beans (value) tuna fish, sweetcorn (value) and they wil not have the chance to go to use-by date!!!
I do miss Avocados though - now that was a treat!!!0 -
I do not throw anything away and am a little too obsessed by it. I have been known to worry about how I am going to use up that bag of salad or carrot in the fridge - sad I know. It's not just about money (although mainly my priority) but food miles, packaging, energy etc etc.
I put stuff in soups, freeze random little bags of stuff to use later and have what I call 'use up tea' which is a random meal of stuff that needs eating (which isn't as bad as it sounds!)
My bf still hasn't really got used to my way of thinking but after the first time he saw my face when he threw away some eggs he just doesn't now for a quiet life!!!Since starting again after beanie: June 2016: Child development DVDs, Massive Attack tickets. July: Aberystwyth trip, hotmilk nightie. Aug: £10 Hipp Organic vouchers, powerpack. September: Sunglasses. October: £30 poundland vouchers.0 -
I have to admit we do waste food, although £10 a week seems a lot. We get organic veg delivered and some of that tends to get wasted, need to plan better really. Need to start meal planning again, we find it hard to come up with ideas that everybody likes. Tins usually get used eventually, I'm trying not to buy so much and only stock up on things that we regularly use. I am trying to use up stuff we have in the cupboard at the mo.0
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I'm ashamed to admit it but I easily waste £10 a month....mainly on meat!!
As a single person I really struggle to eat meat quick enough and quite often through it away. Now I've started watching the pennies I've monitored what gets thrown out and in the last week alone I've lost to the bin....
1/2 a packet of low fat pate
1 chicken breast (3 days in the fridge and smelt like death)
The last scrapings of a tub of Flora (I only have 1 shelf in the fridge and I needed to fit the new whole tub of spread in)
A suspiciously squishy lettuceThere's probably 2 or 3 lunches worth of food there gone in the bin because it was off. I have started planning meals though which I think will help because it's the impulsive buys that catch me. The lettuce was left from before I went away for Christmas too so there was never much hope for it.
Does anyone have any tips for making meat last longer, especially chicken? I know to freeze it but I thought it would last 3 days!0 -
I'm ashamed to admit it but I easily waste £10 a month....mainly on meat!!
As a single person I really struggle to eat meat quick enough and quite often through it away. Now I've started watching the pennies I've monitored what gets thrown out and in the last week alone I've lost to the bin....
1/2 a packet of low fat pate
1 chicken breast (3 days in the fridge and smelt like death)
The last scrapings of a tub of Flora (I only have 1 shelf in the fridge and I needed to fit the new whole tub of spread in)
A suspiciously squishy lettuce
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Does anyone have any tips for making meat last longer, especially chicken? I know to freeze it but I thought it would last 3 days!
Was the chicken breast from a packet that you have already opened? If so, put the remaining meat into an airtight box or bag and it should last another couple of days. With the flora I would have scraped the remains of the old box into the new one. With lettuce there's not much you can do if it gets to the squishy stage - use it up in sandwiches, soups etc, before it gets to that stage!Skint but happy with my lovely family
Hypnotherapy rocks :j0 -
Actually coming to think of it I'm finding bread goes off faster a lot lately too though I can't think why. I wonder if I'm storing it incorrectly... I do use a bread bin to keep it dark. Maybe it's because I've had the heating on too high...
we've been finding that as well so we just freeze it and take out a ouple of slie as we need themlostinrates wrote: »Never tried with mackeral
Fish in a small bowl with
i read that as put it in a fish bowl
we dont waste tinned stuff really. just more fresh veg as we forget about it. peppers usually. salad stuff goes in the blink of an eye... ds is addicted. do occassionally find things we've forgotten about in the freezer but usually still usable.
in fact you have just reminded me of a tub of coleslaw that needs using... oh and we're currently wasting half a tin of quality streets that we got brought! its all the nutty ones left and alan is allergic to nuts and i dont like the ones left!"I have learnt that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one""You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”Maya Angelou0 -
I'm ashamed to admit it but I easily waste £10 a month....mainly on meat!!
As a single person I really struggle to eat meat quick enough and quite often through it away. Now I've started watching the pennies I've monitored what gets thrown out and in the last week alone I've lost to the bin....
1/2 a packet of low fat pate
1 chicken breast (3 days in the fridge and smelt like death)
The last scrapings of a tub of Flora (I only have 1 shelf in the fridge and I needed to fit the new whole tub of spread in)
A suspiciously squishy lettuceThere's probably 2 or 3 lunches worth of food there gone in the bin because it was off. I have started planning meals though which I think will help because it's the impulsive buys that catch me. The lettuce was left from before I went away for Christmas too so there was never much hope for it.
Does anyone have any tips for making meat last longer, especially chicken? I know to freeze it but I thought it would last 3 days!
we used to cook too much meat all the time so now when we buy it, we put each chicken breast in an individual freezer bag. that way we just take out what we need."I have learnt that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one""You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”Maya Angelou0 -
Hmmm, would love to say I don't waste that much...but I wouldn't bet on it. My downfall is salad leaves too - buy, then forget them until it's too late. Also, often but "treats" for DS when he comes up. He then doesn't eat them always and then they just moulder away! (Things llike meat pies which DH and I wouldn't eat ourselves.)
Oh well, must do better....Resolution:
Think twice before spending anything!0 -
Love this word average as it covers the world, who is one of the average. I waste no food in my house.
We waste very littel; leftovers are frozen, and bits of food left in the fridge are added to cookingThe thing I tend to waste is crusts .
that's not wasting - it's like saying that you "waste" orange and potato peel
I often eat the fresh crust on warm bread, but once it gets to the other end, I cut off the dry crust for recycling, and make the dry bread into croutons:rudolf: Sheep, pigs, hens and bees on our Teesdale smallholding :rudolf:0
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