Love Food Hate Waste 2020

nursemaggie

sorry about the blue underlining I kept copying it in black and white but it still keeps coming up blue.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Nearly had a fail yesterday. 600ml pot of creme fraiche with a use by date of 14/07. Fortunately discovered in time - some used for mashed potatoes & the rest with chestnut honey stirred through as a topping for the rhubarb crumble - yummy 🤤 

Dinner was pork steaks, mash & farm shop cauliflower with the most delicious hm gravy. DSis had trifle for afters (Again) - she was in seventh heaven 😉

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Two day old carrots went black - composted so worms are happy = 75p Nothing else binned & ALL los used to create other meals.

joedenise

Opened a box of soya bean spaghetti for dinner last night but neither DH nor I liked it, the texture was just weird and it tasted really dry even though it was in a lovely garlicy vegetable &  tomato sauce.  So rest of packet binned!  Don't usually waste very much at all, most waste goes into compost but of course there are things which aren't good for your own compost bin which go into the council food waste bin.  The council bin is rarely more than about 1/2 bag of waste and most of that is onion skins & any cooked food that doesn't get eaten (very little!).

Mummy2cheekymonkeys

We have bought a bokashi bin to put all of our non compostable waste in. We could put it in the council waste but wanted to try the bokashi as its supposed to be really beneficial for the garden.  

-taff

Why are you not putting the onion skins in the compost? They will rot too.

joedenise

I know onion skins will rot but the compost bin we bought isn't very big (our garden is minute!) and onions skins take much longer to compost than most other foodstuffs and the instructions advise against it.

newlywed

Is there anything that I should do with carrot tops... as in the green fluffy bits? Came with the veg box and not sure whether/how to eat them or whether to just add to the compost?

greenbee

I chop carrot tops finely and add them to soup with other green stuff (celery ends, cabbage ribs, pea pods etc).

Brambling

Newlywed I keep meaning to try this recipe for carrot top pesto 

https://www.riverford.co.uk/recipes/carrot-top-pesto