Friday, January 24, 2014

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. (Thanks to Jo from Simply Being Mum for sponsoring FWF this week.)

This Week's Food Waste

Hamburger, carrots, bread

Between being called out of town unexpectedly and then being sick, I gave the refrigerator a good clean out. Unfortunately, several things went bad in my absence. After this clean out, so far, we've been able to keep up. I hope this continues, but things are still a little crazy here.



This Week's True Food Confessions


The True Food Confession this week is that cooking at home hasn't been a priority. When push comes to shove, which it has around here recently, cooking goes far down on the list of what's important. However, even with that, we did manage to fix a few things that provided us with good leftovers to have other times. We fixed a spinach pie, pasta salad, and sloppy joes. These were supplemented with green salads, cottage cheese, and frozen bean burritos. We also had sandwiches from Subway and a family meal out at a deli. We have good ingredients in the house for more cooking and ideas that I want to try. Maybe this next week I will get to some of them. I hope so.


5 comments:

  1. With all you have had going on, I think you get a free pass for food waste! Glad to hear we aren't the only ones who supplement meals with cottage cheese--it's a favorite around here. Your spinach pie sounds yummy. I had a medical test earlier this week and was on a clear liquid diet including jello. We had leftover jello with our dinner last night. Apparently I've been depriving my kids of jello--I thought they were going to lick the bowl.

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    1. You mean parent--depriving your kids of Jell-o. They may have licked the bowl when you weren't looking.:)

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  2. Sometimes they do it WHEN I'm looking. Not that they are allowed to continue.

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    1. Do they ever ask you to turn your head like mine used to do when they wanted to lick their plate or some such thing?

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  3. Reading between the lines, things have been tough for you the last couple of weeks. I hope you're feeling better and that things will be easier this week. xx

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