Waste Not, Want Not - what have you reused/recycled today?

kboss2010

Used up today:

1/2 pot of coconut yoghurt
1/2 bag flaked almonds
1/2 bag cranberries
Bottle lemon juice (made coconut cupcakes)

2 quorn hot dog sausages
1/4 bag frozen carrots
1/2 bag frozen stir fry veg

kboss2010

I've taken my last bits of frozen fruit out of the freezer (strawberries, bananas, blueberries and ginger) to make a breakfast smoothie tomorrow.

I'll use up the last of my potato cakes for lunch and defrost a packet of chicken to make sweet and sour chicken for dinner.

I had to throw away a garlic baguette that I'd forgotten to freeze today and a cinnamon roll.

Caterina

DS and I drove to the council tip where we recycled as much as we could in each of the skips, separated plastic from wood, rubble etc. So at least it did not feel too bad to have created so much junk from our building works.

We have had a long term guest, a very large spider who stretched his/her web across between two plants of tomato on the windowsill. The tomatoes are truly dead and gone, the plants drying up and the leaves brown and curly. But the spider seems asleep behind one of the plants and we cannot bring ourselves to remove the plants (even though we ought to paint the windowsills before winter!) to avoid disturbing his or her sleep. I poked it with a stick, gently, today, and it moved a leg. So I know it is not dead. I would be really sad if it died, I feel like it has been a house guardian.

Do I beat GQ in weirdness stakes, for having a pet spider on my windowsill?

I always think of Charlotte's web and cannot bring myself to let the spider come to any potential harm!

[Deleted User]

I've got one who lives under the lip of my dustbin CATTIE, he's called Harry and I love it when he spins his web (we have to move the dustbin for emptying every fortnight) and he has his wrapped fly 'ready meals' all lined up neatly, he's beautiful, one of those brown beauties that are around at this time of year, so if you're wierd, so are we!!!

GreyQueen

SailorSam wrote: »

You could have got a prize if you'd said you eaten the cricket for lunch.

The cricket has had a couple of kernels of sweetcorn to sustain it until it gets fed to the tarantula or the lizards, and was still in our office as of this afternoon (in a jamjar).

I did joke that we could put it in the workplace cockroach traps to freak out the caretakers, but this was vetoed as cruel.........*

* not sure if the person protesting was concerned about the cricket's well-being or the caretakers' nerves.

MandM90

Chucked all our spud peelings in the SC overnight. In the morning I blitzed them and gave them, warm, to the chooks for a treat.

Used the last tsp of chutney in my sausage casserole by swilling with hot water, then washed the pretty jar to hold HM delights. Also chucked LO gravy from last night in casserole, along with two ropey carrots lingering in the veg crisper.

natlie

ruthber wrote: »

I recycled (ie put in the right receptacle) someone else's rubbish left by the recycling containers in the village. It drives me insane: plastic and glass bottles left in a bag next to bottle and plastic bank. Why do people do it ? They go to the bother to take it there but run out of the energy to actually put it in the appropriate containers.
What prize do I get?

Thanks from 2 environmental scientists lol

fuddle

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I've got one who lives under the lip of my dustbin CATTIE, he's called Harry and I love it when he spins his web (we have to move the dustbin for emptying every fortnight) and he has his wrapped fly 'ready meals' all lined up neatly, he's beautiful, one of those brown beauties that are around at this time of year, so if you're wierd, so are we!!!

He's still there?! He's set for the long haul

Retrieved a pink fleece armed blanket thing, that the girls have most probably grown out of, from the blanket box. It will be turned into 2 hot water bottle covers next week. There will be left overs so I will make a couple of cushion covers for their 'snug' under the spiral staircase.

A neighbour has given me the wool from the insulation pack of her organic delivery. Would it be safe for cushion suffing? It smells but only of farm yards. I can cope with that :rotfl:

danih

We go through a lot of milk cartoons ever week, so googles how to re-use them. Found a link to making snowflakes for xmas decorations out of them. So pretty!

Caterina

MrsL, our darling is also a brown beauty. I saw him (her?) in the middle of the web last night quite late, so I know he is in good health. We might just have to carefully move the whole tomato grow bag so not to disturb too much.