Foodwaste 03/12/10

Uhm, ehm, maybe only the unfortunately compulsory piece of bread? Really, I cannot remember - oh wait:

some old carrots
a piece ov very old cauliflower

Thanks to the dog there wasn't anything else :-))

Foodwaste 26/11/10

I haven't done any foodwaste for a long time. A lot was going on and I had almost no time for blogging. I'll try toi keep up again for december and then of course throughout the next year.


- some pasta with sauce
- celery sticks from god knows when
- some yoghurt which was even older than the celery.....
- probably something else, but I cannot remember

Foodwaste 22/10/10

Again, I do not have a picture as my man had the camera and I throw the stuff out as I go along, but there were:

3/4 Mango
the rest of the cheese-sauce I used for the Tortilla-Lasagne (I wouldn't have know what to use it for and it had kinda expired already...)
some cottage-cheese
1/3 glass of baby-apple-mash I found in the depths of my fridge.

Foodwaste 15/10/10

Well, thanks to last week's disaster, I can proudly say that this Friday all there was was two pieces of stale white bread. And I can live with that!

Foodwaste 08/10/10

I haven't forgotten food-waste this week, although it is sooo embarassing that I might as well have... It's been a bad bad week :-(((
The only little little excuse to my advantage is that I actually took the picture on Monday 11th, so there's 3 days more to it and 3 days less for next weeks' food-waste. Also I have a mother-in-law who brought over food although I explicitly told her not to. I mean, what am I doing with 2kg of chicken and peppers when I a) don't like chicken and peppers and b) am going to eat out for 3 nights?

Here we go. We have 4 pieces of plum, 1/3 joghurt, an almost full box of disgusting inedible chick-pea-lentil-soup, a rest o cream-cheese, some pancetta, margarine which hid somewhere in the fridge, 1/2 feta which hid together with the margarine, some defrosted applesauce.

Not in the picture (well, I really am ashamed!): 3/4 bag of salad, most of the meatballs I made last week, a rest of the in-law-peppers (the chicken was eaten by the dog, thank God). And I think that somewhere along the line there was a rotten apple.

Foodwaste 01/10/10

This week was a good week. I managed to eat up a lot of stuff I had in my fridge and pantry (even without stuffing the dog), and so I can proudly present:

- ricotta cheese (somehow, I NEVER manage to finish a package)

- fresh pasta

I think somewhere along the week there was a rotten apple, but I threw it out right away. 

Foodwaste 24/09/10

Not a good week. A lot of waste - not even the dog could help me out.

There were:
some spinach which I defrosted to put on the pizza and then simply didn't want to eat anymore
1 apple
3 pizza-buns, quite hard and one piece of "Schwarzbrot"
some kind of cake my sister bought and hid in my fridge
fruit-cake I defrosted and then simply couldn't finish (there were 6 pieces, I ate 4. I'm gonna be fat.)

Foodwaste 17/09/10

Note: I use day-month-year for the date and will continue to do so :-)

I am proud to announce that there has not been a lot of waste, but have to admit that part of it is thanks to the dog. I tried and did a pretty good job in cooking smaller portions, but sometimes the dog had to finish off some left-overs. Or, in one case, a whole steak which was pretty close to uneatable.

I have thrown out: 1 piece of bread which had gone very very hard. Some soft cheese I swore never to buy again and then did so nevertheless - most of the times it tastes funny the day after opening and is inedible the second day. This time I didn't even bother looking when my eyes fell upon the package 3 days after opening. Out it went, no picture taken. I cleaned out most of the freezer as well and threw out a whole bunch of plastic containers with breast-milk (the baby still doesn't take the bottle and anyway they were from January) and some fish with severe freezer burn.

I'll try making some pics next week!

Introducing weekly meal-plans and Food Waste Friday!

Meal-Plans
I've finally gotten around to making a plan for the following week. I've meant to do so for a long time, but somehow I never did follow through. I just cooked whatever I felt up to that day, and thus ended up going shopping almost every day. BASTAAAAA!!

So, here's what we're eating sat. 11 september to Friday 17 sept. 2010

Saturday: Chili con Carne with homemade baguette
Sunday: Wiener Schnitzel, fried potatoes and salad
Monday: Bucatini Amatriciana
Tuesday: Pancakes Salty (cheese and ham, cheese and pancetta) and sweet (jam, apple and cinnamon)
Wednesday: Homemade Agnolotti with salsiccia-funghi-filling
Thursday: Something Indian or Chinese - my man is not home, so I can cook with spices and veggies
Friday: My sister is coming to visit me in Rome and I'll take her out to Pizza :-))



Food Waste Friday
Food Waste Friday is actually connected to the meal-plan: I have been wasting way too much food. Partly due to uncontrolled cooking and shopping or because I simply forgot what I had in my fridge. Since this is not only a waste of money, but obviously also a bad thing from a moral point of view, I always felt rather ashamed. I then stumbled across the blog of Kirsten, The Frugal Girl, and her Food Waste Fridays.
So, I'll try and do this as well. I'll try and share a picture even though it'll be embarrassing a lot of times. I'll try and get better and not waste so much food.

So today I cleaned my fridge, wiped it all with vinegar, threw out everything mouldy or unidentifiable or long-over-the-date, and now I'm ready to go.