Don't Throw Food Away Challenge 2012

majjak

I'd like to join as well ....... this challenge will help with a few of the others that I'm doing .

I made a good start today, bananas were on the verge of being thrown but I've de-skinned them and bunged them in the freezer ready for a breakfast smoothie when the mood takes .

Glad to hear I'm not the only one with carrots in the bottom of the fridge :rotfl:.

Kylieminoag

Hi Majjak
If you havent already......Try whizzing them straight from the freezer with a tiny bit of left over cream or yoghurt - fab ice cream! I even buy the overripe/squashed bananas just for this!

barneydee_2

I've got to do this challenge, as I have spells where I find I waste a lot, I've joined the grocery challange and feel this one would help me with that. At the mo I have my turkey carcus in the stock pot simmering away for stock, I did'nt make the best from the left overs, cold for sarnies, a curry, some in the freezer and the rest in the cats:eek: I have loads of left over bread which I have soaking in milk and water which will be made in to good old bread pud.:j
I am going to do a meal plan in the next couple of days for the next month to use up what I have in .


Dee

BohemianCoast

Count me in of course -- but has the previous thread been deleted? All my posts seem to have disappeared from my history. That would be a shame...

Meanwhile, an update. I threw out two avocadoes! My son had insisted on buying them at the market just before Christmas but had then forgotten them with all the delights of Christmas eating. £1. And a leftover portion of risotto just got leftover a bit too far -- say 50p. So I am up to £5.48, but I do think that will be it till the new year as my fridge is now a highly-regimented series of plastic boxes, all orderly and accounted for.

So, target of £4 for January please!

We have had a bread machine loaf go wrong -- I am not going to count that but am wondering if people have ideas for what to do with half a loaf of seriously stodgy not very nice tasting bread? I am thinking a rather parsimonious bread and butter pudding, with milk not cream, those two brown speckledy bananas, five dried apricots I found in the back of the cupboard and perhaps a few sultanas or mixed peel? I'm just worried it won't be nice.

BohemianCoast

lucy_lemon wrote: »

there always seems to be some manky carrots at the bottom of the fridge, or a half used jar of something or other!

I did wonders in November and early December by taking the half-used jars of things and working out what they could be cooked with; in several cases I had the appropriate meat/fish/veg/whatever in the freezer already so that was essentially a free meal. And the fridge is much emptier now which made Christmas loads easier.

rozmister

I'd like to join please! Used to be quite good at using up the food before it went off but since my ex and I broke up I've stopped eating as many proper meals but still buy the same amount of food so lots is going in the bin! Definitely need to cut down cos I swear I'm wasting at least a fiver a week which when there's one of you is really bad!!

kittywight

ooh shiny new thread count me in!

done so bad in nov/dec ... time for a fresh new years start .... ive got a lot to throw in the bin atm stuff past the point of saving, anna get it all ou before january

january goal £5

icontinuetodream

I'm in too!! :D Didn't know the old one was finished!!:o

£5 for me in January please

tazzyb

Count me in two, giving myself a target of £5 for jan

WelshWoofer

I'm in again too please - I started off well on the last thread but it then sort of petered out.
This can't continue!

There's only me and the dog so there's only me to blame for wasting things:o.
I cleared out the last of the leftovers past saving from the fridge today - about half a pot of pasta salad, some manky lettuce and 2 dried up onion bhajis.
Everything else WILL be used!
My main issue is overbuying or having to buy something that's just too much for a single person so I'm planning to buy loose veg and fruit from the greengrocers rather than prepacked from the supermarket and to try to eat up things as lunches for work or freeze stuff. Sounds simple enough but it will invariably go wroing!

I'll start from tomorrow and pledge £5 for January.