{A simple, green, homeschooling family of six learning to thrive with less on a modern-day Iowa homestead.}
Frozen Potatoes We almost had a hard week this week with food waste, but I got really lucky. I accidentally let almost 20 pounds of organic potatoes FREEZE on my enclosed front porch over the weekend. The last thing I wanted to do was throw those potatoes out, so I started googling. You can read [...]
Last week, I told you all that I am back on the Frugal Girl’s Food Waste Friday bandwagon. I’m very pleased with my food waste from last week! I did go through my fridge and found a few nasty things to throw out, but overall, we managed to eat up all the leftovers and that [...]
Last year about this time I joined up with The Frugal Girl and wrote weekly posts about my food waste for quite a while. It seemed to help me minimize my waste, but eventually I got away from the posts, and my food waste has risen recently again. Since one of my goals for 2013 [...]
The other day, I cooked a double batch of artisan bread and it didn’t turn out that great. I didn’t want to throw it out, so instead, I turned part of it into yummy garlic bread, fed some to my kids {who don’t know better…}, and then used the rest to make this delicious French [...]
It’s Food Waste Friday time! Here’s how I did: I would not have wasted the sauteed mushrooms, but I didn’t like them. I know, I know. I love sauteed mushrooms and I made these as topping for a delicious grilled steak. However, usually I saute mushrooms in butter and this time I used a pretty [...]
It’s Food Waste Friday again. I didn’t have a whole ton of waste so far this week, but my fridge needs to be cleaned out and I suspect I will find more waste when I finally get to that task. Here’s my waste so far for the week: A bit of leftover salad and a [...]
I had a good week, food waste wise. Yay! That nasty lemon was hiding in my fridge. That’s it! I almost wasted a container of whipping cream – for some reason it wouldn’t whip up correctly. I’ve never had a problem whipping cream before so I’m not sure what the problem was. Usually I buy [...]
I read an article yesterday over at MSNBC.COM that claims 30-50% of the world’s food is thrown away! It claims the average American throws away 33 pounds of food a MONTH – at a cost of $33! I am SHOCKED! I might be extrapolating a little too far, but with 6 people in my family, [...]
It’s Food Waste Friday time! I was determined this week to have zero food waste because we all know that wasted food equals money down the drain. Last week, despite only having been home from vacation for less than a week, I already accrued some food waste. This week, I’m happy so far to report [...]
You’d think since we’ve not even been home from vacation for one week yet, that I wouldn’t have any food waste to share, right? After all, I did a great job at cleaing out the fridge before we left. I moved left over milk to the freezer. I moved leftover spaghetti to the freezer. I [...]
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