Don't throw food away challenge

TrixieB

cooking-mama wrote: »

My biggest problem is actualy with freezer waste....I buy Whoopsied cartons of soup/yoghurt/ready meals etc,all state freeze on day of purchase(which i do)and use within one month(which i dont)

But it's frozen so why would you need to use within a month? I certainly don't and am still alive lol


A quick question, freezing cooked chicken carcasses for stock - when ready to use them do you neeed to defrost first or can they be bunged right in from the freezer? *thick*

mizmir

prepareathome wrote: »

EEks I have just had to throw away half a lamb joint - took it out slow cooker last night and we ate half and I left the other half on side, covered, to cool, but suddenly felt so tired I went straight to bed straight after eating totally forgetting the lamb, came down to it this morning and I wouldn't even give it to the dogs now - been out there since 6pm last night

Dogs would be fine with it - remember given a chance they bury meat and come back to it after several days! If you were worried I would put it back in the slow cooker covered in water for a few hours and then strip the remaining meat into the stock and give them that. I have done that with chicken carcasses that have been left out in the past and they have never come to any harm.

PixieDust

I'd have eaten the lamb anyway.........

thrifty-gal26

Hi squeaky, I am sorry to say it was all rotten veg and fruit and dairy No garden so no compost. Did manage to save a few things and put in the freezer but everything else had had it!

squeaky

Bummer.

Still - lesson learned I hope

Every cloud has [STRIKE]a silver lining[/STRIKE] some rain in it.

rosieben

I thought I'd only peelings to throw out last week, but then I found a small amount of cooked veg in the back of the fridge along with 2 cooked sausages, all intended for a bubble and squeak (sorry squeak! ) lunch

my excuse is I've had workmen in the kitchen and my dinner for 2 days was jacket potato as I couldn't get near my pans cupboard - but I know I could just have warmed it all in the micro if only I'd remembered

poorbutrich

I've just thoroughly burnt two slices of bread (in fact I'm typing this now through a thick fog - I should really dance around like Pan's People as it looks like the old set of Top of the Pops in here now). Have put the "toast" out for the birds. Think it's pennies I've wasted, but wasteful nonetheless.

rising_from_the_ashes

Ohhhhhh I didn't count the bread I'd frozen for the birds as waste as it's going to be used ..... should I have?

his_missus

his_missus wrote: »

This month my aims are
a) to make and freeze breadcrumbs from the crusts of bread neither of us eat and
b)I'm going to plan meals more carefully as I usually buy a huge bag of spuds but then throw half away because I then make pasta or rice dishes and the spuds get forgotten about and start sprouting
c) not be lazy and make fruit salads instead of leaving a huge melon or pineapple or a pack of kiwis in thr fridge because I can't be bothered to prepare them.

Hmmm... so far I've only achieved 1/3. I bought a large bag of spuds and, after reading another thread on here, made the whole bag into mash and froze into 6 portions. (peelings composted) No more wasted spuds :j
However, there is melon which has been sat in my fridge all week with some sorry looking satsumas, still waiting to be made into a fruit salad. I seem to be also collecting crusts of bread but have yet to get around to making them into breadcrumbs.
Must get myself organised!

squeaky

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

Ohhhhhh I didn't count the bread I'd frozen for the birds as waste as it's going to be used ..... should I have?

Whether you call food wasted that feeds the birds/cat/dog/goat/chickens/aardvark is entirely up to you.

The best definition I've seen posted was along the lines of...

"if it's food that I was going to eat - it's waste"

So anything that you hadn't intended to eat, especially if you manage to feed it to something else, or even get it into compost... you could reasonably not consider to be wasted.

It's your call