Every week, I post a picture of the food that has gone bad over the last seven days. Why do I do this? Because in March of 2008, I finally got fed up with the amount of food I was wasting, and I thought that showing my waste to other people would motivate me to use up my food instead of wasting it. Because this often embarrassing practice was so helpful for me, I invited other bloggers to join me in posting their food waste photos, and Food Waste Friday was born.
Or a greens-y week. Or something.
The bad news? Greens are really healthy, so it would have been lovely if we’d eaten them.
On the other hand, they are super easy to compost. They’ll turn back into dirt in no time.
During an interview this week, I was asked about the weirdest thing I’d ever done to save food from being wasted, and immediately I remembered the awful time I mixed some leftover lemon/onion salmon into my scrambled eggs for breakfast.
G-ross.
I think I did make it through that plateful, but I’m not sure I’ve cooked salmon since.
If you’ve had a food-waste-save that turned into a fail, do share in the comments. 😉
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Today’s 365 post: This thing is a life (er, back) saver.
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Hiptobeme
Sunday 26th of August 2012
I hate it when you waste good food to try and save bad food. Anyway, I tried to make cold coffee into a jug of iced coffee but didn't realize my milk had gone sour until after I had mixed it in. I also had put the chocolate syrup in, boo! It was about 3 cups worth and I had to throw the whole thing down the sink.
joanygee
Sunday 26th of August 2012
Have you come across food saver bags? They are good for extending the life of fresh foodstuffs. It can be up to two weeks depending on how fresh the veg was to begin with.
Skirnir Hamilton
Saturday 25th of August 2012
Not the best food waste week for me. I had bought a small bag of cucumbers at the farmers market about a week and a half ago with the intention of making some counter top pickles that I had seen a recipe for. But never got around to doing the recipe and I looked at them the other day and about two of them were soft and had white ooze. The rest were covered in the white stuff and I tried washing it off to keep them/use them, but couldn't seem to get it off and was so disgusted I threw out the bag. That is our only food waste so far. But may be set up to have some in the coming week, as I have some turkey cold cuts that are close to going and I need to check my homemade mole sauce that I would like to use on Tuesday for a crockpot dish. Hope it is still good. I sometimes have bad luck with homemade tomato based items going bad real quick.
Skirnir Hamilton
Saturday 25th of August 2012
Okay, just went through the refrigerator and have to add a 1/4 cup of cooked breakfast sausage and 1/2 cup of cooked pasta. Both could have been used, but just never happened. So far my mole sauce looks fine. So this week maybe $3 worth of wasted food for me. More than I like.
Tiffany C.
Saturday 25th of August 2012
Don't use coconut oil to cook a scrambled egg, it turns it green! Bleck!
Rebecca
Friday 24th of August 2012
I hate it when veggies go to waste, but at least you can compost it :)
I wasted a whole bunch of leftover chili. It was so far gone, it looked like a science project.