Throwing food in the bin

anniewoo

JackieO wrote: »

I never throw food away,I was brought up during rationing and to me throwing food away is a sin.Last Sunday I went as usual to my DD's for Sunday dinner.She has a roast chicken now bear in mind there were her her DH and five children plus myself the chicken took quite a bashing .Afterwards she said 'Do you want to take whats left Mum as there's not enough to make a meal for 7 on the plate' .' Yes no problem', I took home several slices of chicken, plus one leg and a couple of wings. On Monday morning I chopped some peppers and mushrooms plus a tin of value chopped tomatos and mixed it all up with all the chicken I had got from the left overs .There were also a couple of cold roastie spuds there as well that I quartered.Sprinkled some curry powder over the top and made up a litre of chicken gravy from a cube and chucked that on the top. a stick of celery chopped up went on top of that and half a chopped up onion. put on the hob on a low mark .Stirred it a few time for around half an hour .Hey presto one pot of curried chicken.
tasted it to make sure it was to my likeing then devided it up into five single portion brown earthen ware dishes.When cold put in my freezer. I now have five meals of curried chicken for me to use as and when I want .One dish added to a cup ful of cooked rice and I have a meal that has cost me

value toms 13p
half and onion 4p (the other half I chopped up to go with sausages the next day)
one pepper 30p(part of a pack of six )
one chicken stock cube 10p
one stick of celery 5p
4 mushroom 20p
sprinkle of curry powder 3p (I had a huge jar from a shop that was reduced to 50p )
Half a cup of long-grain rice from my big bag of rice 3p

I have five meals for 85p, I think thats pretty good going. That works out at 17p for chicken curry with rice for one person. A lot cheaper than the supermarkets ready-made meals at a quid a throw
it is possible to live on very little with a bit of foresight and a bit of invention.
I love to have a challenge with food and to me it's great to see what I can come up with that is filling ,nutricious and cost effective

JackieO,you sound just like me.I can't bear to throw food away,it was the way I was brought up,my Mum was the same,she saved all her leftovers to make another meal with.

My DS and DIL on the other hand,throw huge amounts of food away.I am spending Christmas with them and I am sure I will have to bite my tongue when I see things being wasted.It's not as though they have a lot of money to spare either,but my DIL might take it the wrong way if I suggest she looks on here.I think their main problem is that they buy more food than they actually need and then when it doesn't get eaten in time,it gets thrown away.

I used to work in Sainsbury's and the huge amounts of perfectly good food that were chucked out every day used to grieve me,expensive joints of meat,chilled foods,bread and cakes,all eatable,but because of Health and Safety rules it had to be binned.

Desperate_Housewife_2-2

I hate waste and throwing away food too.

I like the advert that says, 'they're not leftovers, they're ingredients' or something like that. I very rarely chuck food out and make another meal with whatevers left. Today's dinner is slow cooked pheasant which I'll turn into a pie tomorrow with whatevers left and make a soup out of the bones, not bad...3 meals for £4 for 4 of us as I got the birds for £1.99 each off Sainsbury's reduced section!

I think people feel like 2nd class citizens if they have to eat leftovers, shame really as they are missing out.

Doom_and_Gloom

My parents really do buy too much food for themselves. I know this as everytime I go back to my boyfriends place they stack me with all the stuff they can not use but know I mostly will. Usually its bananas that have browned a bit or satsumas. Then there's the food that they purposly buy for me as it's reduced such as herbs, fruits, veg and the like. It does help me out but sometimes not even I can end up eating it all so some of it does go in the bin .Thankfully I freeze most herbs and veg that I have alot of (helps when thing are tight or when fruit and veg box does not come due to their holiday season) so not alot gets wasted.
My boyfriend and the flatmates we live with don't think much about wasting something wheather (sp?) it be food, eleki, water or any other resorces (okay my BF does think about eleki but that's as he doesn't have a lot of money and it's more in your face than wasted food which I'm trying to get through to him). I just think it's rather odd as none of them have money to throw away so why would they do so in wasting resorces the way they do :mad: ?

When I go out to eat anywhere I make sure I eat everything now (I don't order much usually to be honest as there isn't much they serve that I can eat as I'm vegan) but when I can't eat it all such as the time my BF took me to a chinese place to celebrate 6 months together (man that was ages ago now. It will be 2 years in January, ekk) I asked if I could have it packed so I could have it later. My BF thought I was mad but I reminded him that the chinese love it when people can not finish their dish as it means they cooked enough for the person and so are happy to send them home with the rest :cool: . Anyway it was an expencive dish so I was not leaving it to waste . Left overs are meals in themselves as far as I'm concrend or at least a substantial amount of the meal you have with it so why not use it :rotfl: .

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi

I think this type od behaviour is very common for non mser's like ourselves:rolleyes: ..TBH, just 2.5yrs ago we used to do exactly the same:eek: :eek: :eek:

I would each week go shopping at M&S every Friday on way home from work, spend anything up to £150 (OMG!!) then come home and be too knackered or couldnt be bothered to cook so we would order a take-away as well. We ordered take-aways maybe 2-3 times (Indian, chineese or kebab)a week plus spend the money on shopping, probably easily spending £800+ a month on food.

Each Friday when I got home from shopping I would bin all the food in the fridge without even a care in the world:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: ...I just replaced with new stuff I bought.

Now is a whole new story and we get by easily on £200 including a take-away or two:D ....hardly any food is wasted and we meal plan weekly and utilise what we have in the cupboards.

PP
xx

d4n13773

My sister will cook a roast chicken, but they only eat the white meat - I caught her about to throw the rest away :eek: . I took it home and got 2 days meals from it then boiled it up and made soup :rolleyes:

mrsmortenharket

left overs go in the fridge. The other week had a bit of mash left. Next day with a tin of tuma, some flour & egg, it was tuna fishcakes.

Left over rice is made into fried rice.

Left over mash also used for bubble & squeek.

left over pasta into a pasta salad.

All bread thats passed its prime is put in the freezer ready for bread crumbs.

Chickens are very rubber!

Veggies about to turn are made into soup.

Sell by dates I use as a general guide. if it smells ok then it's usually edible.

I haven't poisoned anyone. Yet!

Oh & over ripe bananas are made ito YUMMY YUMMY banana bread!

Oh, cold new potatos either fried & served with egg or put into eggs & onion for a spanish ommlette!

Lisa

samuela66

A friend came to mine and stayed over one night there where a few of us, and guess what she poured down the sink???????????????????? the remainders of loads of bottles of wine:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

beemuzed

We do try to use leftovers and often freeze what is enough for a single portion. My problem then is that I sometimes forget about these frozen bits - I need a foolproof inventory system! Only use sell by dates as a rough guide - so long as the smell is ok I'll use.

rach

this is all ringing true for me too. tonight someone at church was about to throw away about 30 lovely big oranges which were left over from the christingle service...i rescued them and am about to set about juicing them! messy job but the results are worth it! i will probably freeze some as there will be too much to drink at once.

for my dinner tonight i'm having leftover fish pie from last night. usually i freeze spare portions. often if we have chilli when OH is here i do extra rice and portion up a container or two with rice in the bottom and chilli on top, instant meal whenever i need it then.

i hate throwing stuff away. beemuzed, as i am moving soon i was aware of needing to empty the freezer and so have made a list of what's in there. it's really useful and i'm just crossing stuff off as i use it - would definitely recommend it and i will keep doing it even when i move!

mouk

i/we never buy too much unless there is a special offer on a paticular product.
only stuff we buy in bulk is cooking oil. and sugar as these last long.

i hate wasting any food and save it and eat it later on...