Don't Throw Food Away Challenge 2012

Gracie_1827

Count me in on this one, please. Just had lunch and had to get rid of some lettuce leaves and a slither of red pepper...and a whole sachet of fennel (was supposed to use it on smoked salmon but forgot it..it was reduced to 39p)...so starting off with a whopping 50p worth....drat. Think I'll go and do a store cupboard audit, hopefully won't be anything lurking there. Freezer needs defrosting at the end of the week but I still have quite a bit of stuff in there. will use my big picnic box to keep them in while the ice disappears then put them back in again. Looking for a very low spend this month:)

Quillion

Hi Guys count me in on maternity now so want to save and be healthy cupboards full freezer full will only need to shop for the fresh bits.

On another note Hiya Pen Pen xxxxx

Mrs_Veg_Plot

Hi all
I think that this is a great idea.

Today for lunch I made a parsnip and apple soup with the parsnips I defrosted but forgot to roast on christmas day. Garnished it with some (leftover) chopped pan fried chestnuts and a drizzle of pesto.

Hae checked out the contents of the fridge and the two girls will be having left over tuna pasta tonight . I have some leftover veg from crudities on new years eve and half a box of mushrooms that need eating so will be making a veg bake for OH and me topped with some breadcrumbs from a couple of slices of bread rescued from the bottom of the bread bin and some cheese that will be growing fur soon. I have a day off tomorrow and will be using some sad brocauli, cauli, cream (BB 1st) and blue cheese (left over from christmas day) to make soup.

So lots of food rescued today that would normally have been binned.:T
Mrs VP

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Had some lemons left over - dh got through the gin before using all the lemons!!! - so made moroccan lemon potatoes.....broth that it is cooked in will be used as soup tomorrow so two meals from one :j

Done pretty well so far....:D

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Just having leek and tattie soup for a light supper and some fruit from the bowl.IOne of my new Years resolutions was to ensure that every scrap of food gets used and not binned this year (not that I throw much out anyway) and I am just going to have a look in the cloth spud bag to see what's in there and if its savagable, I have a feeling there are four jacket sized ones in there that may have to be peeled,mashed and frozen as they are from before Christmas.
Food is far too expensive to throw away nowadays .I had a box of crackers donated to me and quite a few left overs which I will be eating up this week.
Good luck everyone evey bit of food you can save means less you have to buy and less getting chucked into landfill, I am getting paranoid about landfill as the local site seems to be over full at this time of the year.

dawn1980

I'm in on this too.
I chucked some stuff before christmas but I need to check jars and the cupboard.

I know I have dried beans going out so I will soak and boil them and batch freeze them.

We used some squidgey mushrooms and a red pepper in cottage pie tonight. (actually really nice.)


I have
Leftover cranberry sauce and brie=toasted sandwhich
Two frozen chicken carcasses with loads of meat=stew.

Mother in law bought us a 2.5kg! pork loin joint best before tomorrow £20 down to £3.50:T I've split it into two 1k joints and 500g diced for casserole and all in the freezer-wastage avoided by getting on with it and not leaving it in the fridge.

I can't set myself a limit so I'll just work my hardest and keep a record of what I waste (which will be alot this month) and see if I can beat it next month.

My most frequent wastes-pineapples,wafer thin ham, halves of melon, curry paste, apples and pears, bread,avocado's, squashes and carrots

Kylieminoag

I am feeling really happy with myself for todays efforts....:A

Tomatoes and peppers going wrinkly in fridge turned into roast pepper and tomato chutney which we had with baked brie left from Christmas for starters for dinner tonight.

Main course was yesterdays mash with sauteed onions and cubed black pudding from the weekends breakfast fry up, formed into potato cakes and covered in breadcrumbs before being fried in olive oil. Served with a slice of cold gammon and the last of the cranberry sauce.

We also had half a box of carrots left from my Christmas mass catering so I've sat and peeled, boiled and mashed them and they are now sat in jars as Mrs Beetons mock apricot preserve. Very sweet but will make a change from strawberry jam.

I failed with half a pack of pitta breads which were dry and mouldy at the back of the breadbin! have added 30p wasted to my total....not too bad for me!:T

nannygladys

Hi everyone
Ive had a good leftover day today, I made a salad using leftover rice, leftover tuna mayo, left over pots and all salad veg. Then for dinner I had leftovers from yesterday with fresh gravy and chunky bread.

So quite a good start to the new year!
Jxx

Mrs_Veg_Plot

There was more leftover tuna pasta than I thought so we all had that with the veg bake. I found some tomato juice and mushroom cooking juice left over from yesterdays cooked breakfast that I saved to use in a soup. I added this to the veg bake as a sauce. Oh ate all of the crunchy topping off the left over portion of veg bake and I then turned the remaining veg and sauce into a veg soup for the freezer.

So still on no wastage this week.

Will still make the broccoli and blue cheese soup tomorrow but thanks to Dawn1980 I now have a hankering for brie and cranberry toasted sandwich. Does anyone know if you can freeze broccoli and stilton soup?