The Pig and I

Well, this week was pretty terrible. I wasted some grits that I'd set in a pan to form more solidly, for frying. Basically what happened to them is that I put them in the fridge, then put off cooking them. Then I forgot about them. Then I remembered them, and they weren't good anymore. Then I decided not to make more and made something else for dinner instead. I also wasted 4 figs. I also forgot about those. 2 strawberries in the pound were moldy. It's waste, but it's not waste I blame myself for. And, 1/3 of a green apple got wasted. I put it in acidulated water so I wouldn't forget about it, and then I forgot about it. I'm a little embarrassed by the waste this week, to be honest. I feel like I go a really long time with no waste, and then I guess I just get complacent because I'm so sure I'm not wasting food. And then I waste some food. Normally not this much, but it was a good lesson for me not to grow complacent and to keep paying attention ...

I've still been doing pretty well on waste. This week I wasted two grape tomatoes. I bought a bunch of them, and these two were just ick so they had to be spit out. Otherwise, no waste. How's waste reduction going for y'all?

Somehow, I missed that today was Friday until I was writing up tomorrow's grocery post. This week has been chaotic and has flown by entirely too quickly. Fortunately, it flew by really, really quickly without me actually throwing any food away. So that's a bonus. I'm really enjoying the new method of letting my fridge get bare (of course, that will NEVER happen to my pantry) before go buy the whole store. For a while there, we were buying the whole store every week or two, and I felt like it was a lot harder to manage things. So, another good week in the food waste department. How'd y'all do?

Well, it's just been ages since I've made this kind of a post, isn't it? I think we can all be honest here and acknowledge that at this point in my life, sporadic posting is about all I have in me. Hope y'all are okay with that. This last week, there's been no food waste. This makes me happy. I will admit that there've been a few weeks where I've tossed away something (like the cup of grapes I threw away a week or two ago because I made the really unfortunate discovery that no, in fact, we had NOT eaten all the grapes as I'd thought we had). For the most part, however, we've still been doing really well on the waste front, despite the lack of posting-that-creates-accountability. One thing I've noticed us doing lately that I feel has really been helping with the food waste is simply not going to the store. I know that sounds weird, but hear me out. Y'all know I keep a good amount of staples in the house (even though my Cave is now offici...

This week, we didn't waste anything. YAY!!!! How'd y'all do?

A perfect week, despite the fact that we have some food again! How'd y'all do this time?

Another week of minimal waste, but not no waste. This week it was a pancake. I guess I stuck the leftover pancake in the fridge, topped with the pumpkin stuff, and then I forgot about it. :(

This week? Not perfect. Interestingly enough, as I was cleaning down the bread table, I discovered there was a large piece of cake that snuck by us. I think the cake was probably several weeks old. It hadn't molded somehow (which is particularly strange given the humidity in Houston - magic cake, huh?), but it looked so tremendously stale I opted against eating it (or making Ross eat it; he said he'd had a piece the day before and that it was quite stale but that he'd muscle through that one if I really wanted him to. He's a good garbage disposal). So we wasted that. But that's it, so I'm comfortable with this level of waste. I'm taking it mostly as a lesson to look under foil covers and the like to make sure nothing is escaping me. And, just FYI, recipes should be resuming again next week. I've got three piled up from this week for you, and although I'm spending most of the weekend away from my kitchen (we're going to this rodeo cook-off thing...

Happily, I have nothing to report today. There's been an utter lack of waste, which is pretty amazing. I don't know if this is because the only food we've bought in the last.. what, month? has been related to camping, or just because we've been doing better. But regardless, I'm pleased. How'd y'all do?

Well, my fridge is still empty. This basically means that I had little waste, because there wasn't much that could be wasted. However, there was still waste somehow. We wasted about a bowl's full of pasta. What happened is that we somehow managed to overcook the pasta, and though we tried and tried to eat it, neither of us could stomach getting through that last bit. So this is not great, but acceptable, yeah? How'd y'all do?

Y'all remember that mention of my nearly criminally empty fridge? Well, it's helped me have no waste whatsoever. So, that's two weeks in a row! How'd y'all do this week?

This was a great week in the waste world. Nothing was wasted!

This week was pretty good. There was a little bit of salad that went to waste, so not a perfect week. How'd y'all do on your food waste this week?

This was a pretty good week in terms of waste. I'd made some corn gems and three of them didn't get eaten, but we simply fed them to Frank the Possum, who is our outside neighbour. He never seems to mind these occasional free meals from us, and we chuck whatever we're giving him to right outside his burrow so he just has to poke out his head to grab it.

This week was good. We wasted nothing!! (sorry about the lateness of this)

Oops. I missed last week entirely, haven't I? Sorry about that. I've been crazy the last few days (couple weeks), with the semester and also with working stuff out for my wedding which is on the 19th (are y'all surprised?). I'm doing the food, so that's kind of been something I've been paying more attention to (and my homework, of course. Y'all know how I'm always doing that). Anyway, for this week and last week, I'm pleased to say I had absolutely no food waste (see? Even when I don't remember to post, I do remember to keep track of what's happening). Tomorrow, I'll put in my receipts for the last two weeks. Also, I found my camera. In my gym bag. Did I tell you that already? So pictures of the food should be forthcoming once I get that in the works again (the cooking of things you haven't seen yet, I mean).

This was a great week. I wasted: NOTHING!!!

This week was a good week, for the most part. This week, I wasted: 1/4 cup of sour cream (this was actually really disgusting, so ask me no questions)

Once again, I am not perfect on the waste this week. I've had a lot (for me) of waste recently, though I'm not sure how it is I keep managing to have this problem. But, I'll keep working at it. Someday, I may have a waste free existence! This week I wasted: 1 bell pepper (this is kind of weird, actually. I got this, and 3 days later when I went to use it, it was not looking so great but I was going to use it anyway until I cut it open and found it was full of mold)

This week I wasted: 1 carrot a bit of seaweed salad