Kristen, a.k.a. The Frugal Girl posts her weekly food waste on Fridays. She has inspired me to be more mindful to not waste food, and to use it up before it ends up inedible and fuzzy in the refrigerator. So, I’m jumping on board and joining in the Food Waste Friday fun 😉 This is my fourth week posting and yes, I am noticing a difference in the amount of food my family is (not) wasting anymore!
This week, I wasted about 1 1/2 cups of tinned pasta sauce. It was my own sheer laziness that led to this waste, so I’m sad about it. I don’t usually use tinned sauce, but when I do, I put any leftover in a container and freeze it for later use. This time I totally flaked and left it out all night, in the tin, on the counter. Bad, Bad domestic goddess! I pitched it after many attempts to convince myself that it really wasn’tthat bad to have left it out. And failed. So out it went. We also wasted two bananas that, when peeled had weird, hard brown stripes on the actual banana. Nobody was a fan, so add those to our food waste this week.
Why is it that I never have a post about wasting chocolate? Or potato chips? Or Diet Pepsi? Or Kawartha Dairy Moose Tracks ice cream? Hmmm, why? Why don’t I ever waste anything that is actually BAD for me? *sigh* Oh, wait, I know why – because it all tastes too zipity-do-dah good and I’m a glutton for sweet stuff, that’s why! Mystery solved. *bangs head on table* I’m pathetic, I know.
Anyhoo, I don’t have a picture of the woebegone wasted sauce, nor of the equally sad and wasted bananas, but a post without a picture is like a blogger with an internet connection. Useless. So, here’s a picture that I snapped last August of a some food that we grew in our backyard and didn’t waste. And there’s no sugar added 🙂
Have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the sunshine if you’ve got it!
I think you made a good decision with the sauce. Better safe than sorry.
Thank you 🙂 It was a hard decision, I hate money waste as much as I hate food waste 🙁 I probably should have frozen the bananas to make bread later, but I wasn’t really tuned in that day, I guess.
Good call on pitching the tomato sauce. I totally would have too. Not worth the risk.
Thank you, Jess 🙂 It was harder than it should probably have been to throw it out, but I know it was the right thing to do 😉
A little sauce, not bad at all. Looks like you had god luck with tomatoes. My tomatoes did horrible last year. Can’t wait to get planting again.
Thank you 🙂 And yes! We had amazing luck with our tomatoes. I’m really hoping that it wasn’t a fluke and that we do even better this year! Good luck with your garden – I can’t wait to start planting and growing again too 🙂