Friday, July 20, 2012

Food Waste Friday and True Food Confessions

It's time for Food Waste Friday, when the Frugalgirl encourages us to post pictures from the previous week of wasted food from our household. This accountability hopefully will help us to be more careful with our food and maybe save some money.

Also, I am using this public forum to encourage us to eat out less which includes better meal planning. 


This Weeks Food Waste 

No waste this week, or at least that's what I say. However, my friend says that I wasted an egg on my frying-an-egg-on-the-sidewalk experiment. (Did I mention that it's really hot here?) I consider the egg part of my entertainment budget, and pretty cheap entertainment at that. 




This Weeks True Food Confessions
Some of the cooking that we did this week.

Now onto how we did this week with our efforts to eat at home. We did well. The only time someone ate out was when Wally and Theodore had breakfast at the local diner while they were waiting on the car to be fixed. Our success can attributed to our menu plan and our determination. We found it hard to not stop somewhere on the way home from work when we were tired and hungry, but we didn't.
 

Grilled cheese and sauteed kale. This was tasty.
Of the things we cooked this week, there was an old favorite and a new favorite. Our old favorite was meat loaf based on the recipe from Quaker Oats box. Our new favorite was a grilled cheese sandwich based on a recipe from Cook This, Not That! by David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding. The sandwich included dijon mustard, bacon, granny smith apples, and cheddar cheese. We will definitely have these again.

Next week still needs a menu. There can be a few carryovers from this week and hopefully, those will get us through until there's time to work on one. See you next week for the next installment of True Food Confessions.


9 comments:

  1. Looks like the menu planning is going really well. And I found your egg experiment very entertaining too - so as you're providing entertainment at an international level then I think that successfully counters any arguments that the egg was food waste!

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    1. I am a very practical person, a good thing, but I'm trying to expand other areas of my life, like being more spontaneous and doing things I'm interested in. The egg experiment was one of those. Only wished it had worked.

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  2. I so wanted to try the egg experiment a couple weeks ago when it was upper 90s here! I applaud your spontaneity! Congrats on eating in, the photos are fabulous. We had grilled cheese this past week as well but your recipe looks much tastier!

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    1. The grilled cheese was really good. I thought mine had a little too much mustard on it, so next time I would only put it on one of the slices of bread. However, the others thought it was okay. Also, one of my sons said he didn't like the texture of the apple peel in his sandwich, so he would peel the apples next time. The rest of us didn't notice it. However, we all really liked the combination of flavors.

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  3. Ha! The egg as entertainment. It's sad sometimes what can be considered entertainment, isn't it?
    I love that grilled cheese with apple and bacon idea; it sounds really delicious.

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    1. I am easily entertained as you may have guessed.

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  4. Mmmm. That sandwich looks delicious!

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  5. I love the photos of the food you made this week! Well done for sticking to your menu :)

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  6. Mmmm...this sandwich sounds so yummy!! And I agree, I think the egg experiment is definitely an entertainment :) Good job on creating and following a menu!

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