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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This Week's True Food Confessions
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| Not much cooking this week, although we did make a good broccoli cheese soup and a nice salad to go with our frozen pizza. The rest of the time was leftovers, frozen burritos, and peanut butter cookies. |
It was a week during which we struggled with our cooking and eating. We had take out pizza one evening, that was planned, and Subway another night that was not planned. The rest of the time we had leftovers and stuff found after rummaging through the freezer. There have been a lot of other things going on and the focus has not been food. It was a little scary how easy it was to slip back into the old ways.
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| Didn't seem to get my own picture of our pork chops. |
The results. Everyone liked their pork chop, but wasn't thrilled by it. The meat was a little tough and the flavor kind of bland. We will not be making pork chops this way again. Next time, we are looking for recipes that involve cooking the chops in the slow cooker or the oven. We have enough meat left from the package to have another meal, so we will be doing this soon.
As for next week, there is still a lot going on and we'll be gone for the weekend. We'll see how things go.
Until then...
Yay, you have this food waste business down to a fine art! Are pork chops something that is usually cooked in the slow cooker rather than on the grill? I haven't tried cooking pork yet, so it would be good to know this sort of thing :)
ReplyDeleteI like to do my pork chops in the slow cooker first, then glaze them with something lovely, honey or BBQ, then grill them for the colour. Mmmmm.
ReplyDeleteThat was a good calorie reduction though.
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I think that may be a plan for future cooking. They would be more tender that way, and still have the grilled goodness.
DeleteWe've pretty much given up on pork chops because they always come out dry & chewy. However, cooking them in a crockpot sounds like it might work. Hang in there with the meal planning. I sometimes have really busy weeks where it's just pulling stuff out of the freezer, etc. Some weeks are like that when you have a busy family. Congrats on no waste!
ReplyDeleteSo we're not the only ones who have problems with pork chops. I never remember them that way when I was growing up. I'll have to ask my mother if she did anything special. I think she just fried them.
DeleteGood job on a no-waste week. Pork chops are always tricky for me. I never know how they will turn out (that's why I really make them :)!
ReplyDeleteWe're going to try at least on more time because we have them in the freezer. If we have pork, we usually have a pork loin roast that is always good.
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