Happy Friday! It’s time for another edition of Food Waste Friday. Every Friday I link up with The Frugal Girl and/ or Simply Being Mum for Food Waste Friday. I’ve been environmentally conscious about food waste since I was in college and this is a great way for me to keep tabs on what we waste in our house.
Here is how we did this week:
Food Waste Successes
1. Broccoli stalks in soup
Boxed dried soup is one of my favorite things to stock up on at Home Goods and T.J. Maxx. I can usually find them on clearance and get a great deal for less than $2. I found a 13 bean soup mix in my pantry and figured it was time to use that. I was even able to freeze half of it for when the new baby arrives!
Since I had broccoli stalk left over from a dish earlier in the week, I decided to cut it up and simmer it with the beans instead of adding meat. Not only was I able to minimize my food waste, I was able to cut down on food costs by making a meat free meal.
Food Waste Losses
2. berry “cupcakes”
I’m working on developing a recipe with frozen wild blueberries. I had high hopes of making a vegan blueberry breakfast muffin from scratch. It didn’t work out. Robert ate a couple of them and then decided he didn’t like them. I didn’t really like them either. I tried to hold onto them and make myself eat them, but they’ve been sitting in the fridge for far too long now.
While I love doing recipes for my blog, wasting the failures is always hard for me. Rest assured, I’m on my way to coming up with a great wild blueberry recipe!
3. another moldy strawberry
This must be week 4 of moldy strawberries! That is the worse part of strawberry season. They are so cheap and we have so many of them that one moldy fruit always gets into our house.
How did you do this week?
A boring food waste Friday post is usually great news!
I always take the one moldy strawberry in the quart as a personal affront! There is a way to delay the growth of mold on berries… you have to rinse them with diluted vinegar as soon as you bring them home. It’s supposed to kill the spores (it won’t help if one of the berries is already moldy, though). You can google it for the exact ratio of vinegar to water. Berries usually don’t last very long in my house so I haven’t bothered recently. I wish my Food Waste Friday post was as short as yours!. I posted it here: http://imperfectlyfrugally.blogspot.com/2015/04/food-waste-friday-4315.html
That’s great work! Unsuccessful vegan muffins and one strawberry are not bad at all! Do you know what went wrong with the muffins?
Hey, love the post! Have you ever tried to make a blueberry sauce for crepes? It’s an awesome anytime snack! Also, I pick litres of strawberries every summer and I clean them and freeze them so that I can have smoothies all winter long, and the best part is: I don’t need to add ice! And I don’t have to tell you how antioxidant strawberries are. Happy blogging!