Love Food Hate Waste 2020

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

I am afraid I have to join you in the ‘Failure Club’, Pyxis. One broccoli head & one cauliflower composted instead of eaten 😞 Completely forgot they were in the garage 😞 - which is cooler than kitchen cupboards + no fridge space 🙁. Oh well, at least the compost bin is happy 😃 

missychrissy

My biggest waste is usually cucumber. I find one end of it goes off before I’m anywhere near using it all. If I think I’m not going to use up peppers I chop them and freeze them but cucumber doesn’t freeze. Apart from that I can usually use up most other veg in soup. I have a Salter soup maker and I tend to do soups by colour: green soup - broccoli, cabbage, lettuce, green beans, Brussels sprouts (amazingly good in soup) courgette and peas; red soup - tomatoes, red pepper and carrot; orange soup - squash, carrot and yellow pepper. I add onions, garlic, stock cube and appropriate herbs and very little veg goes to waste.

joedenise

No reason why you can't put the last of the cucumber in your green soup!  It can be frozen if made into soup.

greenbee

joedenise said:

No reason why you can't put the last of the cucumber in your green soup!  It can be frozen if made into soup.

Agree - I put cucumber in mine. Today's had radish leaves in it, and last week's included the chopped carrot tops. Today I sadly had to throw out about 100g of elderly sweet potato, but that's the first in ages. 

candygirl

Just reporting in again: I've wasted about £5 worth of food again, Inc bread, hummus, coleslaw n tomatoes.Im not doing a full shop this week , cos I think buying too much has blinded me to what I've actually got in 😊
Am making a celery n leek soup later, sounds weird , but tastes fab .
Hope you're all ok x

nursemaggie

I found I was buying too much on line so I am limiting myself to £50 and mainly fresh food. A week comes round very quickly, I have to have my order in by midnight on Tuesday in effect usually by 9pm, I don't want to be doing it late at night. I can manage a few days if I forget something. I probably wasted about 50p this week. I'm going to start making smoothies when I have something hanging around before it goes out of date. I don't impulse buy in the shop but I sure do online. I think I'm getting organised to stop it. I really do want to get back to doing my own shopping. I have a free pass on A'da until October 24th.

-taff

Candygirl, not really, I usually put celery in most soups I make for the flavour

And chese rind can be put in soup for extra flavour. That's what I usually do with my parmesan rinds. They're only not edible if they're wax

Pyxis

-taff said:

Candygirl, not really, I usually put celery in most soups I make for the flavour

And chese rind can be put in soup for extra flavour. That's what I usually do with my parmesan rinds. They're only not edible if they're wax

That's an idea, re. cheese rind.
I'm never too sure what some are made of, or whether the ones with the mould on are ok to put in soup?
My favourite cheese is a semi-soft and has a soft, brownish 'rind' which I cut off, but it's difficult as it's soft, but I'm never sure whether to risk eating it, but it would probably be ok in soup or sauce. 

Actually, I've just had a thought........the lemon quarter slices I use in my green tea......some I eat after I've drunk the tea, but the rest  go in the compost bin. I might try putting them in soups instead, or even in a stirfry. They are slightly tea-flavoured, so it might be interesting!

The other day I had some bananas and a small cantaloupe melon which weren't very tasty at all, so were an effort to eat,  so I blitzed them into a smoothie with added lime flesh, and it was all much nicer as a smoothie!

nursemaggie

Ah there's one cheese rind I think is better than the cheese that's Brie. I love it. If you leave it a couple of days it will grow another rind on the cut service.

Pyxis

Last week I got some sprouting pea/bean things in my veg box. Never had them before, but the sprouts were lovely...green and crunchy!

Anyway, I was going to toss the earth pad with the pea things into the compost after I cut all the sprouts off, but then I thought I'd keep them for a bit and see if they regrow, and they are regrowing! 
I doubt they'll be as thick as the first lot, but it'll still be a few extra sprouts for nothing!