This Week's Food Waste
I'm very happy that I got to this week's food waste before it exploded all over the refrigerator. I had a sealed bag of pineapple that I was going to eat with cottage cheese (one of my favorite combos). However, apparently I didn't do that soon enough because when I took it out yesterday the bag had expanded to a tight pillow shape. I think some good fermenting was going on in there. So away it went.
This Week's True Food Confessions
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| This week included the rescues of a butternut squash and French toast from some old bread. We also had a blast from the past with hamburger rollups. Haven't had those in years. |
Despite great urges this week to default to the old system (eating out or take out), we ate at home all days except one. And that was a special day when we visited Wally and took him out to his favorite hamburger place.
So Hooray!
Ah, yes, we have experienced expanding baggies here, too. I'd say you did well with food waste. We had some grapes get away from us ... so I used the rest of the grapes and raspberries in fruit salad last night before we lost those, too.
ReplyDeleteIt seems hard to use a whole bunch of grapes before they go bad these days. It may be because they package them to buy in such large amounts. Fruit salad is always good as I'm sure yours was.
DeleteI tried something new and I won't do it again. I had read to add a couple tablespoons of instant vanilla pudding mix to a fruit salad to sweeten and thicken it (can add lemon juice as well). I didn't care for it but it did result in having the fruit disappear.
DeleteInteresting. I never thought about thickening fruit salad, but vanilla pudding seems like that would be a good idea. Did the rest of your family like it?
DeleteMy kids were ok with it--it just seemed ... weird ... to me.
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