Don't throw food away challenge

Cheapskate

I'd like to join in, too, please - my name is Cheapskate and I confess to wasting food more than I ought!

Can't put a figure on what I've chucked out this week, despite trying to use up things, eat leftovers, not over-buy, etc., but I know items have included bread crusts that could be classed as blunt instruments, VERY dodgy-looking half a jar of curry sauce, 4 slices of fab organic bread (gone mouldy long before BB date! :eek:) and some fish from the freezer that had been there nearly a year!

Today, the only things to end up in the bin were some leftovers from the kids' plates at lunchtime and teatime, very little really. After reading the start of the thread I've saved my veg peelings from tea, and the cooking water, towards making soup from the pumpkin flesh I saved as well. To my eternal shame I've never done this - DSis-in-law always saves her veg water to make stock, freezing it if she's not using it soon.

We have some very bendy dessert apples to use, too, so hoping to at least cook and freeze them. We'll also be having various leftover meals at least 3 times this week before I defrost anything else to cook! :rotfl:

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mizmir

I'd like to join in this too please. We throw away for too much food so it will do me good to have to account for it. I am meal planning now and have thrown away so much less doing that but I want to get it down to nothing. Two dogs so there really shouldn't be much wasted!

I'll do it by cost and challenge myself not to throw away more than £10 worth of food in November.

Thanks!

Aril

I am generally pretty good in not wasting food but I did for the first time split a bigger pack of pate into two and have frozen them separately as there always tends to be a small amount of waste there and have also started a bag in the freezer for the leek tops and some older cabbage so that I have them for soup next time I make some.
Aril

prepareathome

Help, I have chicken I took out of soup I made and we ate yesterday ( saturday) in fridge and for life of me cannot think what to make with it, mind just blank apart from chicken pie, but hubby got to keep an eye on cholesterol levels so pie out. I want to cook it and freeze it as already have beef chilli in slow cooker for tomorrow.......have a fairly good store cupboard so think I have most things in I could use, but what?????? In past I admit chicken like this has been forgotten about and dogs have ended up with it, but this time I want to use it. Please help:)

SpikyHedgehog

Feeling very pleased as all the food I'd prepared got eaten today DS2 doesn't like (sigh!) raisin & carrot loaf, but I'd given him some before getting my own breakfast, so I ate his bit; cloddies (although given the amount of biscuits & cake he had after church, not surprising), so DS1 & I shared them & I kept some in the fridge & had for my mid-afternoon snack.

DS1 doesn't like olives, so didn't like olive & tomato pudding, but ate it anyway. DS2 does like it :j. No waste with the pastry trimmings, DS2 made apple curd pudding so we had pudding after pudding tonight (cue much amusement & repetition of this). Left over olive & tomato pudding for my lunch tomorrow.

I kept the onion skin & other veg trimmings - how many do people have before they make stock? Probably a silly question as of course it depends on how much you want & how much liquid you use...

I must admit, apples cores are still going in the council compost bin - I'd feel ok about it if it were my own bin, as the food would go straight onto my garden. We don't have a lot of fruit waste as DS1 eats mainly dried fruit, & we all eat down to the core of apples & pears. I'm not counting these as waste this month!

SpikyHedgehog

prepareathome wrote: »

Help, I have chicken I took out of soup I made and we ate yesterday ( saturday) in fridge and for life of me cannot think what to make with it, mind just blank apart from chicken pie, but hubby got to keep an eye on cholesterol levels so pie out. I want to cook it and freeze it as already have beef chilli in slow cooker for tomorrow.......have a fairly good store cupboard so think I have most things in I could use, but what?????? In past I admit chicken like this has been forgotten about and dogs have ended up with it, but this time I want to use it. Please help:)

Bear in mind I'm a vegetarian so don't eat chicken, so my idea might be just horrid! But could you do a mashed potato topping so it would be more like shepherd's pie?

prepareathome

Now that is different and I like it, as its only been cooked once and in fridge since I could do the mash put it on top and heat it all through in oven and then cool and freeze it, then can be served up with veg. Thanks. A bit to late now to put it on in oven and wait for it to cool so will do it first thing in the morning, should be ok till then.

We were vegetarian for 5 years then daughter took very ill, turned out she cannot take in Vit B12 from anything except animal sources just like my mum so we went back to meat and although she has long left home I just never got round to leaving off meat again, just got into the habit again of eating meat, but starting next year to grow lots of vegetables and hoping to cut right down on meat, if not totally cut it out. Preparing garden now for this. I want to try and be more self sustained even though living in a city.

prepareathome

SpikyHedgehog wrote: »

, olive & tomato pudding, !

Can I ask for the recipe for this I love olives and tomatoes, sadly only me, hubby cannot stand either

Thanks

squeaky

prepareathome wrote: »

Help, I have chicken I took out of soup I made and we ate yesterday ( saturday) in fridge and for life of me cannot think what to make with it, mind just blank apart from chicken pie, but hubby got to keep an eye on cholesterol levels so pie out. I want to cook it and freeze it as already have beef chilli in slow cooker for tomorrow.......have a fairly good store cupboard so think I have most things in I could use, but what?????? In past I admit chicken like this has been forgotten about and dogs have ended up with it, but this time I want to use it. Please help:)

Ye gods! There are zillions of things that you can do with chicken.

Start here:- Rubber Chicken

You can have a chicken salad, or make a whole bunch of different chicken curries...

Here's a lo-o-ong list of threads about chicken to browse: chicken threads here on Old Style MoneySaving

outtawork

I would like to join & get my food wastage down to zero. I buy veg in bulk when it is cheap, Blanch & freeze it, mainly carrots & swede. But I bought a whole cauli & broccoli and dont know what to do with it.I buy eggs from Iceland for £1.00 use 3 & beat the rest up in small pots & freeze.I freeze squidshy bananas & grapefruit juice in icecubes.I also have mozzerella i would like to use up.