Don't throw food away challenge

LazyLizzie

I just posted this on the quick questions thread, I hope it's okay to post it here too, seeing as this is about throwing food away!

My fridge was left slightly open last night, and when I woke up this morning, the stuff at the bottom is still cold, but the stuff at the top like sausages, bacon, cheesecakes, cream feels not as cold, a bit warm. There's also two already cooked chickens on the middle shelf that feel warm too.
Do I have to throw it all away? I don't buy meaty stuff often because I find it super expensive, so I really really don't want to throw it away.
I think the fridge was open for about 8 hours, maybe a bit more.

At least I've learnt something from this, in future I'm just going to put drinks and things that are okay to go warm at the top of the fridge, and all the important/expensive stuff at the bottom!

camNolliesMUMMY

still got some bacon left so chucking it in my chicken chilli in the sc as well as half a sad onion nothing else needs using up in the fridge i think ive only wasted up about 20p this month so far???

PixieDust

I would cook the raw meat pronto, and get the cooked chickens eaten quickly too I wouldn't really be anal about it though - for decades meat, raw and cooked, was kept in mesh-fronted press cupboards for ages while it was being used, at temperatures not much cooler than the surrounding room....and the human race is still here

LazyLizzie

PixieDust wrote: »

I would cook the raw meat pronto, and get the cooked chickens eaten quickly too I wouldn't really be anal about it though - for decades meat, raw and cooked, was kept in mesh-fronted press cupboards for ages while it was being used, at temperatures not much cooler than the surrounding room....and the human race is still here

Oh yeah I forgot about the days before people had fridges! The heating wasn't on anyway, so the house was cold, not hot like it usually is.
Thank you!

debbiedeejay

Haven't posted for a few days - thought I was doing ok then house hit by sickness bug:(.

So had to throw plated meals & bits out from a couple of days ago as I thought it would get eaten -but never did.Plus sorted veg bit of fridge - just ends of greens -used wilting veg in soup/stew.

Probably about £2.50 in bin.

Oh well never mind.:(

PixieDust

Aww Debbie that's not your fault, you weren't really wasteful, it was an unfortunate series of events

icontinuetodream

had to throw out 3/4 of a jar of jam today.... someone has obviously used the same knife for butter & jam and jam has gone mouldy....:mad: life would be so much easier if I didn't have other people living with me........;)

BohemianCoast

So, after a busy week, checked the fridge. On the plus side I'm making a lovely leek, potato and leftover soup, and I'm frying down the onions and mushrooms that really needed eating up. When they're fried down I'm going to turn half of them into stretchy mince (with mince, beans, tomatoes and the leftover gravy from the potroast), and the other half into chicken and mushroom sauce for pasta, with the very very ends of the rubberiest chicken ever) On the minus side I had an entire cucumber to throw out, a mouldy lemon, and half the fresh coriander. So say 50p for the cucumber, 10p for the lemon, and 40p for the coriander. So now £1.83.

gallygirl

icontinuetodream wrote: »

had to throw out 3/4 of a jar of jam today.... someone has obviously used the same knife for butter & jam and jam has gone mouldy....:mad: life would be so much easier if I didn't have other people living with me........;)

NO it wouldn't as you would only have yourself to blame .

15p end of cucumber to report so far in Dec :snow_laug

(Though if it was a 'don't waste food' challenge I would have to report that I did a joint of beef in the slow cooker and it was so lovely I ate the whole thing in 2 days rather than spreading over 6 meals as I had planned . Fortunately it's a 'don't throw away food' challenge so I don't have to :rotfl:)

Oscar_the_Pug

Just chucked out my first bit of food in December - a mouldy pear. However used the other, non mouldy but overripe ones in a pear and apple tart.

Going to cost the pear at 20p - last month my chuck out total was just under a fiver, so am going to aim for four quid this month!