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Don't Throw Food Away Challenge
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Well this months challenge ended yesterday for me. And i think ive done very well. If it wasnt for the eggs i dropped it would have been £0 waste. I dont count veg ends though as there is only me and i have tried incorporating these in my cooking but the taste isnt nice. So my new challenge starts today, and i will wait for the March thread to start.0
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A wrinkly kiwi just had to be thrown out as it was far too soft for me to eat. There were 2 but managed to eat the other one as not quite so bad. They were 8 fruits for £1 so another 13p to add. DH ate the banana that was past its best. We had belly pork in the week and that took care of a wrinkly apple which was turned into apple sauce. Have a small amount of water cress that is on its last legs its going to get added to a cheese and marmite sandwhich and eaten shortly.
Good luck for March- I'mdoingitforme
Dont throw food away challenge Feb - £0.33/£5.00MARCH £62.38/2500 -
I completely forgot about this challenge oops!
Will start from today...have loads of sprouting potatoes (that I would normally put straight into food waste bin) so I am going to get the chip fryer out (for first time since April 2012) and treat us all to chicken and chips tonight
I also have some wrinkly apples in the fruit bowl so will made black sabbaths fruit pudding served with custard0 -
can i just double check - its only food you don;t use that you count isn't it - not whats left on the plates after each meal?0
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Frogletina wrote: »I also threw away some bread, it was the remaining bit of my homemade bread and had been in the fridge for ages and I thought I'd rather bake some fresh next week. I'm going away until Monday so would not get eaten over the weekend. In future I will try to remember to slice it before freezing it.
Or you can blitz it for breadcrumbs, they freeze brilliantly and are fab for coating chicken or salmon.
@ donnajt - it's whatever you feel you want to reduce wastage on at home. Personally I like to include LOs on plates because it helps us to focus on portion sizes - but I don't go OTT on it, I won't include a few bits of scraps!0 -
can i just double check - its only food you don;t use that you count isn't it - not whats left on the plates after each meal?0
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Thank you both - I must admit I don't throw much away - usually pizza crusts, veg peelings etc0
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I bought a 5kg bag of onions yesterday from morries. I have just costed them, there were 53 onions in the bag works out just under 4p each. So there you didnt waste quite so much afterall.
Thanks for posting this - I need LOADS of onions for my favours for my wedding (the men are getting little jars of onion chutney) and I didn't realise you could get massive bags like this from the supermarket.
We've managed to eat some things up this weekend, sausages and gnocchi that was in the freezer. I fear I am going to waste half a trifle though, we had our parents down yesterday so I made a trifle for pudding, however there is still half of it left in the fridge. I haven't had a particularly healthy weekend and I really don't like the idea of having to eat trifle up all week!0 -
princesskitty29 wrote: »
We've managed to eat some things up this weekend, sausages and gnocchi that was in the freezer. I fear I am going to waste half a trifle though, we had our parents down yesterday so I made a trifle for pudding, however there is still half of it left in the fridge. I haven't had a particularly healthy weekend and I really don't like the idea of having to eat trifle up all week!
Could you take it in to work? I know anything like that popped in our staffroom would disappear in minutesMortgage Outstanding Nov '16 £142,772.75Mortgage Additional OPs 2017 Target £4522.80/ Actual £865.00GC Feb 0/£2000 -
Had to throw away a pan of 'burnt offering spuds' (PLUS pan) this week - very annoyed at myself
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Some salad stuff also went off but it had been whoopsied, so was my own fault at buying too much and not watching the condition of it.
Apart from that, there were the 'skin scrapings' from the potatoes; some peelings from the oxtail stew - not good enough for using in soups etc; some 'mouldy bits' that have been pinched off the loaf that's in use at the moment; teabags; coffee grounds and finally some oxtail bones from the stew.
Feeling quite pleased with myself - apart from the salad and spuds :j.0
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