Every Friday I link up with The Frugal Girl 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 what happened with food waste last week. I’m a bit of a planner so I blog about the previous week for these posts.

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1.

My best friend from high school and her family came to visit and we did a staycation at Tom’s dad’s “retirement condo”.  All the food that I hadn’t used for the week got carted over to the condo to eat for the long weekend.

I had some extra veggies and hummus left over from the Stella and Dot party and they made for some delicious snacks over the weekend.

2.

When I looked through my pantry to see what food needed to be used, I found some apple juice that was going to go bad.  Since Robert isn’t a big juice fan, I made them into popsicles.  Unfortunately, Robert didn’t like the popsicles either, which meant apple juice popsicles for me every afternoon.

The popsicle mold was only $1 at The Dollar Tree.  Totally worth it!

3.

These veggies went bad so I had to toss them.  They started growing some mold and I figured they weren’t safe to eat.

4.

I had some cucumbers left over from the Stella and Dot party (thanks Tracie!).  They were starting to loose their firmness so I decided to freeze them and use them to flavor my water throughout the day.  I’ll have to remember to do this more often.

Overall, I didn’t do too bad!  I only threw out the veggies.

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How did you do this week with food waste?  Let me know or go to The Frugal Girl to link up.