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

Kirri

pixiedust09 wrote: »

Guilty here too , in fact I have been very bad in the past , but it will all change this year. I've started to freeze stale bread until I have a load and then make into breadcrumbs. I do use veg if it's out of date provided it looks OK, meat and dairy I'm cautious with. 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?

Could use the oranges if you are baking anything, biscuits etc?

andrealm wrote: »

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.

Have you seen the vegbox recipe site? Really good for finding great recipes for all sorts of veg especially the more unusual things from boxes

Loulou2010 wrote: »

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 used up some coleslaw from Christmas with cheese (also needed using up) on a jacket potato, lovely!

adelight

Pfft the most I waste is the last slither of nutella i can't get out of the jar or the very end of an onion that gets lost in the veg box!
I just cannot afford to, what I buy, I eat and this definitely shows in some of the odd concoctions I eat :eek: Meals like sardine curry and peas & egg have become a delicassy :rotfl:

Kirri

mrs-stressed wrote: »

I dont throw anything away now. Needs must! £ dictates EVERYTHING. I only buy what I need - and then I have to REALLY need it. Stale bread goes to the birds, bacon fat I eat, left over spuds get fried, left over cabbage goes into soup, soups go into my tummy. Newspaper goes to light fire. Dog food - no wastage there ever!! The only thing I have really going in the bin is egg shells and tea bags na dother stuff that really could go onto a compost heap - of which is on my wish list this year - oh and a wormery please (if anyone has one going begging)!!!!

But I do recall chucking stuff out willynilly without a second thought - how utterly disgraceful I must have been. Who can I say sorry too??????

Crushed egg shells can also go around veg plants to supposedly keep slugs off I've seen a wormery or two on Freecycle though they were snapped up quick!

rachbc wrote: »

I don't consider a bottle of wine or bar of choc a waste - I might not need it but if I drink it and enjoy it its not wasted money!

The only things I waste are things I've bought to try and not liked - but generally I pass them on to someone rather than bin - recent disasters include pearl barley (yuk) and some bland watery Jamie Oliver pesto.

I'm learnign waht the things I regulary used to throw aware are and don't buy them to plan uses for the rest of the pack

We used to put pearl barley in home made dog food - it's also good to boil up, drain the liquid off and cool and give to guinea pigs for bladder issues!!

Pesto could be used as a pizza topping under the veg/meat etc



I'm off to warm up my pasta sauce, made last summer, I even got courgettes in it and they seem ok (was intent on keeping some frozen in some way!).

redlady_1

Jesus, adelight that sounds flipping rank!!!! :D_pale_

That said you are a better person than I am. I do have waste, normally because I have my meal plan then end up working late, then pushing it back to the next day, then the bin because it has gone off.

luxor4t

I hope I don't allow £10 worth of waste a month ... but with 4 adults in the house with different meal times, things can slip through the net

I'm going to keep a record of what has been wasted and what it cost, which should help us plan better. Thanks, OP!

~moneysavingnovice~

What an interesting thread!

This year I've already wasted an onion, some potatoes and about a pint of milk I'm ashamed to say.

No cooked food gets wasted in this house though- if we can't finish something the dog can!

I am meal planning to reduce waste as much as poss but I haven't quite got the hang of it completely yet

morganlefay

yes but....I've got 2 jars of curry sauce in my cupboard which I bought because they were 4p each. We don't eat much curry and I distrust it because it was SO cheap, but I did feel very thrifty when I bought them. I shall now go and throw out the contents and use the jars for jam !

adelight

redlady_1 wrote: »

Jesus, adelight that sounds flipping rank!!!! :D_pale_

That said you are a better person than I am. I do have waste, normally because I have my meal plan then end up working late, then pushing it back to the next day, then the bin because it has gone off.

I only have myself to cater for so it's easy enough to use up odds and ends


Pesto is brilliant on pizzas, i always use it, it's great on [cheesy] garlic bread.

nikinackyloo

OMG - I am totally and utterly ashamed:( I possibly waste about £10 a week:eek: well maybe not that much but possibly ( easily) £10 a fortnight:( I will definately, definately try this year to sort it out though! my biggest problem is I buy things reduced and when I get home the freezer is full and the fridge already has stuff in it for the week's meals so I end up cooking something with the reduced item and binning what was in the fridge or what I do other times is look in the freezer for what I like the least and bin that and then put the reduced thing in its place:( My new years resolution though is to use something from the cupboard/freezer every day so hopefully will get this under control soon:o

katieclampet

I dont waste much, but have actually stopped buying lettuce. As another poster mentioned, it never seems to last more than a couple of days, and I got so fedup of binng half eaten lettuce, or salad bags, that I have just stopped buying it.

katie