How exciting! After a few weeks of struggling, we have zero food waste this week! There is some parsley and some cilantro lingering in the fridge, but I’m not that concerned about those. Both are so cheap that it doesn’t bother me all that much to have to through them out. Hopefully I won’t, but at $.99 a pop, I figure I’ve got bigger things to worry about.
Did you waste any food this week?
Not too bad this week. I’m still wasting ingredients rather than whole dishes or leftovers, which is an improvement. But I hate wasting produce! I meant to put the squash in with the Pasta and Veggies on Monday, but it must have gotten buried underneath something, because I forgot. The onion is really going bad. I started smelling something on Wednesday whenever I opened the pantry and when I checked yesterday I found just how gross it had gotten. Luckily, it was the only one that was bad.
I’ve got a little bit of fresh broccoli that needs to be used up. Does anyone know if I can freeze it? Do I need to blanch it first or anything? Suggestions are appreciated!
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We (OK, we = me) dropped the ball this week when I had to throw out a $9 bag of shrimp I'd put in the fridge to defrost … and forgot. For several days. Ah!
Ouch! That's painful to throw away 🙂