Love Food Hate Waste 2020

Pyxis

Chrystal said:

That's a real Bummer @ Pyxis.   Have you comlained to them?

It's just me, though. I should have known better than to go for a pizza place that isn't properly Italian or tried and tested.

Someone else might have liked the pizza but I really didn't. The ingredients were't very good quality.
There are very, very few pizzas I do like, outside Italy.

It's the same with pasta. So much pasta in restaurants is overcooked., and I'd never risk a pasta meal delivery, as it would continue cooking on its way to me.

i'll just have to chalk it up to experience! Serves me right! 😁

Pyxis

Well, I partly made up for the pizza waste yesterday!

Tidying the fridge, I found some old celery, a courgette, limp sage leaves, and sprouting broccoli stems about to turn. Plus I also had some old risotto rice that needed to be used, some grated cheddar ditto, and a third of a jar of the Aivar spicy red pepper thing left over from a previous meal.

In view of the rice, I decided to make a risotto thing, so added an onion and some old butter into the mix, and made an very untypical vegetable  risotto with all those old items.

Result: one fridge with space for a delivery due today and one very large and tasty meal!

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

brilliant work Pyxis 👏 JackieO would be proud 🥳 (she was the lady who set up this incarnation of the LFHW thread & how we miss her 😭)

We were lucky enough to have our first Chinese delivery in months 👏 Expensive but does the 3 of us for 2 nights dinners. DH topped up his 2nd night with lo rice & peas from Wednesday night’s dinner. 

Fingers crossed 🤞 - no wastage this week - I am recording Monday to Sunday.

candygirl

Hi everyone
Not much wastage this week really.A few tomatoes that I'd missed in the back of the fridge, n half a loaf, so prob about £1's worth .
Made lettuce, leek n onion soup the other day, which was amazingly tasty 😋
Also got some stir fry veg pouches from Iceland, which are very good with given soy sauce x

nursemaggie

Well Asd* did well this week. I ordered two 200gm instant coffee because they were on offer at £4 each. They wrote to me mid week and said the offer had ended, so I did not expect them to come. I got both for £4 they only charged me for one. I'm just struggling to get and extra large loaf of bread into the freezer. It may fit in if I bag it up in two slices at a time I may get it in.  I think warb*rtons have upped the size of their bread it looks enormous.  All fruit and veg is very good. I made myself buy a lot less ready meals which are only for when I don't feel well.

I tend to build another meal around a ready meal anyway as they are always short of veg. I end up with a pasta bowl of salad or veg in addition.

nursemaggie

I forgot I actually got half a dozen eggs for the first time since the lockdown. I did throw out 4 carrots, I don't see my way round this until they start doing more loose veg. the wast is about 20p I think. Id I take anything downstairs and put on the table for others I don't count that as waste as usually get something back.

I think I will suggest we keep doing this because everyone likes it because it feels like a gift. I noticed toiletries take longer to go but I will still put the soap I was allergic to out there, not same soap but another tablet.

candygirl

Love that idea of sharing stuff NM ! I sometimes do the same with Mum x

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Last week I binned zilch, nada, nothing, niente 🥳 
We had our very first hg potatoes - 2 meals each for 3 people 🥳
Have also made another soup using los from the freezer
Full roast pork dinner on Wednesday - the crackling was excellent but there is never enough 😉

candygirl

Mrs_Salad_Dodger said:

Last week I binned zilch, nada, nothing, niente 🥳 
We had our very first hg potatoes - 2 meals each for 3 people 🥳
Have also made another soup using los from the freezer
Full roast pork dinner on Wednesday - the crackling was excellent but there is never enough 😉

Well done hun!! I've also been a lot better 're wasteage, as I've finally cleared some room in the freezer for bread 😁
Also did a weary looking celery soup n onion, n it was so good 😋😋

nursemaggie

I think I'm getting worse. When you are shopping in person you can see what is in your trolley, when you do it on line you have to keep asking it to show you what you have bought. Then you lose where you were. I just don't find it easy to look for things. It's far too easy to order too much, especially as I have to order up to three days ahead. I will keep impulse shopping too.

I did manage to  only buy one pack of chocolate. They stick some of that on every page, when I have finished they show me everything I have ever bought and keep pushing it. There is very little I buy every week.

My previous buys are often things no one would buy every week, like bought storage jars and cereal dishes. I shall be glad when I can go out again but I think it will take me a long time before I brave going in a shop. I'm finding lots of us are becoming agoraphobic. I have noticed with people who have been just doing click and collect, not just those of us who are shielding.

I found out only a few days ago that there are two categories of the over 70s, those with serious underlying conditions and those who are just over 70. The just over 70s are out and about. The underlying conditions are not allowed to go out yet. I think I have been put into the underlying conditions because when I am wired up to machines it goes haywire. When I have it taken by the old fashioned sphygmomanometer. it is a bit on the low side.

I shall be going out before 31st of July as I have to go for a CT scan on the 28th. To be honest I think I am really scared. I think I am going to have to start going out for walks to prepare myself. I think It's a bit like Stockholm syndrome. I know that's becoming dependent on your captors but I think it is just feeling safe at home and outside is a scary place.