Don't Throw Food Away Challenge

fiftyeighter_2

I too hate waste and very rarely have left overs. What I do have I freeze, even gravy. A lot of my friends think I,m mad but these are the ones who spend well over £100 per week on food for 2 people.
I think we eat well and healthily but I refuse to waste money and food. It's criminal.

busiscoming2

Totally agree. Some people waste so much good food.
We don't actually have much waste. DH makes the bread for me and him as DS2 likes the 50/50 rubbish bread. If any is past its best, I freeze it and when I have enough make a bread pudding.

If there is any leftover dinner, I tend to have it for lunch the next day.

modern_millie_2

Very much agree with all the above. Maybe how to prevent waste should form part of the new cookery and nutrition classes coming in in schools - using up leftovers, how to preserve by freezing and other methods -seems second nature to most of us, but we learned it somewhere!

Something I do is always to freeze at least half of a new loaf - only two of us most of the time and we don't always use a lot of bread - and I always eat the crusts!

Billie-jo

Food waste is something I have managed to get a good grip on recently and although there is occasionally something I chuck out its nothing like it used to be. Reading the statistics on waste is horrible and so shameful when so many people are going hungry.
We do not like frozen bread but if there is any that really needs using quickly I will do breadcrumbs and then freeze, we also like bread and butter pudding which uses it up.
Recently I made an awful batch of tomato soup (not sure what happened but it wasn't nice) instead of binning it I have frozen it in small pots then tipped into a box and these are in the freezer and will be used up when I do lasagne, bolognaise etc.
Hubby has just been outside and gathered a washing up bowl of apples that have fell off our tree with all the wind and rain we had yesterday. I have washed & dried them and separated them into ones to eat and ones to freeze and will be stewing them in the next half hour or so.
Nowadays our food recycling bin is only put out every other time even then there is only a small amount in the bottom but in warmer weather who wants maggots and smelly bins. The only time it is full is if the hedges are cut or this time of year full of leaves.

We have managed to slice a huge amount off our food bill since planning better which is another bonus for us. Used to spend £100 minimum a week but now its often less than £50. Only regret is not doing it earlier we could have been rather wealthy by now.

If children were educated in school then it is a problem which could be drastically reduced in a few years time as and when they came to doing the shopping/cooking themselves.

tessie_bear

food waste is very bad....it really upsets me especially lately when there is so much on the news aboue people needing to use food banks but in the same town so much is being wasted

i love the crusts of bread and for a sarnie will go through the bag of bread to get both crusts so any spare send them my way...i keep any sad veg in freezer and turn it into soup...i read i think on frugal queens blog that wilting salad can be tipped into soup plan to try that

does the cake in that pudding taste stale ? tbh we dont left with much cake so im not going to worry too much about that

hermum

It's only me at home now & so I tend to buy only frozen veg these days, it works out cheaper than fresh & means I can have several different ones in a meal. The only time I buy fresh is if I see yellow stickered at a price that makes it cheaper.
I buy pitta bread rather than loaves & keep them in the freezer, just taking out 1 when I need it.
All leftovers are either eaten as is the next day or transformed into something else or frozen for another day. If I end up with several small pots of stuff not enough for a meal I'll make it into a soup with some extra veg & tin of tomatoes if needed.
I throw away very little.
If youngsters could be taught how to run a household efficiently it would be great. Stand them in much better stead than some lessons.

[Deleted User]

I hate wasting food but sometimes things go off before they can be used in my case this morning I had to throw away two still in date bagels bought from Al*i on Friday that I had intended to use for breakfast, opened for breakfast on Saturday morning and kept in a cool enamel breadbin in a cool cupboard and covered in blue dots today! I think that sometimes it isn't they way you store things at home but maybe how they are stored in the shop? Whatever the reason it still makes me cross for having to throw them away.

Hard_Up_Hester

Rather than arriving home and thinking 'What do I fancy for tea' I open the fridge to see what needs using up and then work from there.

jackel

I tend to do that too Hester. Last Friday I made some barbecue sauce(BBC Good Food) to mask the taste of some reduced sasauge.Half was left so on Sat. evening we had "pizza" made with a pkt. of (red.) pitta breads, covered with the sauce and asmall amount of grated cheese and cooked in the micro. Better than a take a way ! jac x.

daisiegg

jackel wrote: »

I tend to do that too Hester. Last Friday I made some barbecue sauce(BBC Good Food) to mask the taste of some reduced sasauge.Half was left so on Sat. evening we had "pizza" made with a pkt. of (red.) pitta breads, covered with the sauce and asmall amount of grated cheese and cooked in the micro. Better than a take a way ! jac x.

What is a red pitta bread made of? I am intrigued!