Getting FIREd up 😀

edinburgher

I had a dreadful week recently where a whole chicken, a packet of hotdogs and some fish got chucked. It was a combination of supply chain issues (dreadful dates on things), our meal plan going out of kilter and my diet meaning that I don't eat real meals two days a week. I didn't entirely give up (ended up stewing some beef shin the day after use by and we survived). Wouldn't normally have chucked the chicken either, but for the fact that Mrs E is pregnant. In future, I probably should have cooked it anyway and given it to the cats, who have super acidic guts better suited to eating meat that is on the turn. Nothing annoys me more in the kitchen than throwing out food.

Vegetables basically never go off IMO unless they go brown/smell awful. I finished the carrots we got for the reindeer last week

Chiglepig

Having dogs and a cat - very little goes to waste . I ignore veg best before too.

South_coast

OMG, just completed a long and very arduous survey about confectionery for Shop & Scan 😓 A lot of the questions were very difficult to answer as they didn't allow for the fact that some people just might not buy confectionery 🤦‍♀️!

killerpeaty

Sounds like you need to buy confectionery... 

South_coast

Nooooo! The irritating thing is, they know exactly what I buy, as I scan all of my food shopping for them every week 🤦‍♀️!

themadvix

Not had that one yet… and while I buy it, I doubt it’ll conform to their expectations, given that I get a scoop of vegan sweets and some Tony’s Chocolonely from the zero-waste shop. Our clicker broke the other week and when I rang to ask for a replacement I asked if I could have a new book as half the veg we get doesn’t appear in our current one (it’s 10 years old). I was told the book hasn’t changed! So how do they have any idea what we are buying or from where (also no zero waste shop or veg box delivery scheme 🙄)?!

South_coast

Ooh, you must be buying much more exotic veg than me, Vix - everything I get is in the book 🤣!

savingholmes

I'm learning all sorts on here... I doubt my veg choices are that exotic either

South_coast

S&S ISA into minus numbers 🙁! I was up 5% a couple of weeks ago! Now, can I find some cash to invest while it's "on sale"....🤔?

QueenJess

Wow minus numbers!  Never seen that... I'm too scared to open my pension or ISA as I don't want to see what it says.  I usually only look a maximum of once a quarter anyway..