Food Waste Friday

This week was not good. I had way too much waste.

3 bananas went bad. I always freeze them for smoothies but I didn't get to them in time. With Macie down one arm right now she has to pull the bananas with one hand. When she grabbed one it ripped open 3 of them at the top and I didn't know until I went to grab one and saw the damage.

I also had cilantro, a small half can of jalapeños and 1/4 jar of home canned tomatoes go bad. Just not a good week.

Food Waste Friday

This week I had....... ZERO waste!! Wahoo!! My first week without having to throw anything out.

Food Waste Friday

This week I had an unfortunate item go bad. I set out a pound of hamburger meat for dinner and forgot about it when our friend came over and bought dinner for us. Sigh.

I also burnt a pot of red beans when I left it on too high and took a nap. Not on my game this week.

Food Waste Friday and some Instagram

I am happy to report that this week went great as far as food waste. The only thing that I threw out was about two tablespoons of sour cream that was a little iffy. That's it! Almost a perfect week!

Since I had a good week and not a lot to share for FWF I am going to post a few Instagram pics cause they are so fun.

Food Waste Friday

This was NOT a good week for food waste around here. On Saturday I made 4 beautiful quarts of homemade vanilla yogurt using the Frugal Girls' recipe. I unknowingly burned the bottom of my milk and when we went to eat our delicious yogurt it was a burnt vanilla flavor. Yuck. So I had to throw it all out. So disappointed. I'm gonna try again and hopefully this time I will leave out the burn.

I also had a container of oats and shortening go bad. I used the shortening once and forgot about it since I don't usually use it. And I tried to use up the oats but half of it still went bad. I'm quite embarrassed over that one.

I also just threw out a whole head of lettuce. It turned brown since it was forgotten in the bottom of the fridge. Like I said...... Not a good week.

Food waste Friday

Kristen over at The Frugal Girl does a post each Friday about the food she wasted during the week. Its a great way to motivate yourself to not let food in your house spoil. I have really been working on that area and I think I'm going to start posting every Friday as well. This week I had a number of things go bad.

A carton of half and half. I bought it to make a dessert I never got to so sadly it expired.

Half a can of evaporated milk. The recipe I used only called for half the can and after that I forgot about it.

A few carrots went bad.

2 small cans of pineapple juice. My kids open them, take a sip and then leave the rest. I was going to put them in a smoothie but they got pushed to the back of the fridge.

So there you have it. My food waste from this week. Hope I do better next week.