Don't throw food away challenge

RoobyNooby

Oh I might try the tip about the tea towel, thanks. Does it need to be in the bottom of the fridge or just on a shelf?

RoobyNooby

Just to update - nothing thrown away yet.

My first attempts at muffins were a success and I am just about to tuck in to some bubble & squeak (made of leftover gratin) for brunch.

I've done a meal plan for next week and shall make some soup later. Keeping focused!

squeaky

RoobyNooby wrote: »

Oh I might try the tip about the tea towel, thanks. Does it need to be in the bottom of the fridge or just on a shelf?

My fridge has two pull out drawers (made of clear plastic) that sit on the bottom of the fridge. I line the bottom of each of these with paper towel and then place my fruit and veg on top.

icontinuetodream

Need to join!!! I have made a meal plan for the next four weeks, but only for dinner.... I need to use any leftovers for lunch rather than doing my usual trick of popping out to the supermarket to buy olives etc to munch on.... I also have lots of unlabelled things in my freezer that will do as 'pot lucks' when this months meal plan has been completed...I have ten days off work in Dec/Jan so will feed the tribe with the contents....:D

I have a load of kiwi fruit sitting in my fruit bowl which are starting to look a bit dodgy ....think I had better get a move on and make some kiwi jam!!! :rotfl:

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just popping back as have put the 'jam' on..... 12 kiwi, 2 dodgy looking oranges, 8 grapes, half an apple and some demerara sugar!!!

all peelings etc go into my compost to help grow my veg for next year...so nothing wasted!

BohemianCoast

OK, ages since I checked in because we have been eating from freezers and cupboards and genuinely not wasting a scrap apart from exactly one mouldy clementine which I'm counting as 10p... except that today I checked the bagged herbs and there's an entire bag of dill that I'd missed somehow so that is 80p wasted. All together that gets me up to £4.87. On the other hand I'm still under £150 for groceries for the month so far so I am definitely still smug and happy; that's a significant chunk of Christmas paid for.

lilrahi

Hi guys, I was wondering if you guys have any good ideas about what to make with cornmeal apart from cornbread?

icontinuetodream

lilrahi wrote: »

Hi guys, I was wondering if you guys have any good ideas about what to make with cornmeal apart from cornbread?

Roasted garlic polenta.... put a bulb of garlic in a small pot, half cover with boiling water, splosh some olive oil over the top and whack it in the oven for around 20minutes..... make the polenta with 1 cup of cornmeal to 3 cups of water, 1tbs olive oil and mix all together then bring to a boil (while stirring) over a high heat, immediately reduce the heat to medium and cook, stirring constantly for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat. Squish the garlic out of the cloves (literally, just squeeze individual cloves towards their base and they will squirt out like toothpaste) and stir into the polenta. Now you have two choices...either serve immediately or place into an oiled baking dish and allow to cool then slice and fry in a little olive oil.....serve with a tomato and basil sauce....delish!!!:D

One thing I will say is that the cooking polenta spits like a camel and it holds heat like magma :eek:....be really careful while you cook it!!!

lilrahi

icontinuetodream wrote: »

One thing I will say is that the cooking polenta spits like a camel and it holds heat like magma :eek:....be really careful while you cook it!!!

I know EXACTLY what you mean

Thanks for that sounds good will try that next week when we get garlic in

SpikyHedgehog

Had DS1's birthday party today & threw away too much food :-( I did keep & eat the unused pizza toppings (that was my dinner!), and DS1 & his friend sleeping over are snacking on the crispy stuff. But I should have made sure to source mini pizza bases instead of big bases, then I wouldn't have had to throw away half eaten pizza. And I should have only opened 1 tin of pineapple, 1 pack of pringles, bought 1 jar of pizza sauce - not something I use, so will either have to use it or gift it...

On a more positive note, all his friends enjoyed the vegetarian food, and DS2 is planning to have a similar (cheap!) party for his birthday. Since the last suggestion he'd had was a bowling alley party, we're now looking at a fraction of the cost with yummier food.

I use kitchen roll in the bottom of my salad drawers too, and put it in the compost bin when I change it.

gallygirl

gallygirl wrote: »

Running total £1.55 but no alchemy to report

1 lemon, 10p (was reduced).

1 pack of mince £1.50 :eek::eek::eek:. Left out defrosting, ended up out till midnight at A&E with MIL. Looked well dodgy when I got back so binned. Wasn't even making a meal with it, meatballs for taster session at Slimming World. New packet safely defrosted in fridge overnight

Running total £3.15 which is a bit :T and :eek: at the same time