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. You can follow how we are doing in
this endeavor by reading True Food Confessions.
This week's food waste.
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| Practically, no waste |
We had no food waste again this week. Well, let me qualify that. A few things went to waste, but I didn't count them. There was a quarter of a piece of bread that was leftover from a sandwich and a few rotten leaves from the salad greens. If you blink really fast, you would never see them. So if you don't look very closely, we had no waste this week. Yea!
Thanks to Simply Being Mom for hosting Food Waste Friday this week.
This week's True Food Confessions.
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| Our cooking this week used mostly what was on hand. |
We ate at home every week-night after a weekend of being away and eating out. I could tell you everything we had to eat at home, but I'd rather talk about what we had to eat at the pig roast we went to on Saturday.
I love it when people share their favorite dishes.
There were three kinds of cheeses that I sampled--mac and cheese, cauliflower and cheese, and broccoli, rice and cheese. All were topped with bread crumbs and were "cheesed" to perfection. There were two kinds of sauerkraut--one cooked with bratwurst and one made with champagne. Theo reports that they were very tasty. There were also dozens of deviled eggs that disappeared quickly and a green salad that had everything in it except the kitchen sink (just the way I like it). I ate mine with a pasta salad made with delicious homemade pesto. We also had baked beans and homemade BBQ sauce which satisfied the taste for both sweet and spicy.
Then there were the desserts. There were at least five chocolate desserts that involved sauces, rich cakes, and mousse. I know that there were more sweets, but my eyes didn't make it past the chocolate.
I think that's all of the time I have for food talk now before I start drooling down my chin. Maybe another time, I'll tell you about the appetizers and I'll get the carnivores in the house to tell you about the meat that was there.
Potlucks are the best...which has me thinking - are you already gearing up for Thanksgiving? I just started to think about it.
ReplyDeleteAlso, what does a mainland pig roast look like? The only one I've been to was in Hawaii (many years ago).
My father-in-law likes to have pig roasts. Being Mr. Gadget, he has perfected the large rotisserie/oven that the whole pig cooks in. Ward has learned at the hands of his father and we have had a couple of pig roasts of our own. We do nothing special except cook the meat in a large way. The rest is like a fun picnic. I went to one recently where they smoked many pork shoulders for theirs.
DeleteI'm not that into the whole pig cooking or eating thing but when the lid is removed to check on the meat, it is the main event that everyone wants to see.
The food at the pig roast suggests there would be no room left in the tummy for the pig!
ReplyDeleteI am enjoying the ponderings of Theodore. Please give us more!
Thanks for visiting, Jean. I didn't have room in my tummy after the appetizers, so I didn't have any pig. Just most of the vegetable dishes and they were sooo good.
DeleteI was wondering if the "Ponderings of Theodore" were as interesting to anyone else as they were to me. However, as my husband says, "It's your blog. You can do whatever you want." I think it's about time for another one.
What an impressive lack of food waste!
ReplyDeleteThank you. I was pretty pleased.
DeleteWow! The pig roast sounded delicious, even without the pig! The NW version of a pig roast is a "salmon bake".
ReplyDeleteI guess that makes sense to have a salmon bake in the NW. How is it usually fixed?
Deletei guess we waste some food, but a lot will go to my dog, chickens and rabbits, what is left over except food and milk products will go as compost and i will grow produce from it the next year......Is this still waste???
ReplyDeleteI know i waste some food, but most of it will go to our dog, chickens, rabbits. Except meat and milk-products. What is left over i compost and use next year in the garden to grow produce..... So we keep or waste to a minimum.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you have a use for everything and a plan to keep food waste at a minimum. We should all be like that.
DeleteResult! (that's all I can say to a plate that empty of waste!)
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