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By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:10:58 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree with these ideas and appreciate the smiley face from Mr. Linky. What a guy!

Great to see so many people thinking about reducing their food waste. It’s good for the environment, our economy and our ethics. Check out my blog WastedFood.com for more on the topic.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:33:36 +0000

I always try to let my pantry go almost bare before going back to the grocery store, which means sometimes I come up with the strangest combinations :), so I think that’s a great idea!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:42:09 +0000

Yesterday I came home to a wonderful smell in the house. I had started a veggie stock in the crock pot the night before. It came out great.

The best part about it was I used vegetable parts that would have been fed to the worms before. In a plastic bag in the freezer, I saved all of my vegetable cast offs — the carrot peels and onion skins the rough tops and bottoms of carrots and celery, etc.

The stock came out great, and now I can put the vegetables into the worm bin knowing I got the absolute most out of them.

By: Candy

Candy — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:32:10 +0000

I try not to waste food and use leftovers. Great post!

By: Jules @ Money Feuds

Jules @ Money Feuds — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:30:07 +0000

Great post, Lynnae! On my own, there wasn't any real food waste, but with my husband on board, things are a little tricky because both of our schedules are so varied that things do get forgotten about in the fridge and freezer. Since we don't want to waste, but we also want to eat fresher food (we want to stay away from questionable health hazards or experiments growing in our kitchen), we've limited the number (variety) of fresh veggies and fruits we get at a time and just make more trips to the local market (we can walk there or if we need a greater selection, we drive to the bigger market but only when we combine that with other errands/work). With just the two of us, that has worked out well. Plus, we have a list on our fridge to remind us of everything that is in the fridge/freezer/fruit bowl at any given time and we can mark that off as we use up our food. And so we can also know what we need for our next trip to the market. Jules @ Money Feuds’s last blog post..Go Green, Gain Green

By: Marci

Marci — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:45:27 +0000

Be flexible in when you eat what also… meaning, leftover dinner is good for breakfast also :)
Yesterday morning I had leftover clam fritters (homemade) for breakfast. This morning I had leftover clam au gratin (homemade of course) and for lunch left over beef/barley stew (homemade too) – the broth and meat being from 2 neckbones I had pressure cooked down and saved the night before I made the stew.

Try supercook.com also for great recipes – type in what you have available and it will give you lots of choices of what to make!

I try to keep an up to date inventory on my freezer door. But more importantly, I try to keep the leftover inventory on the refrig door on one of those little white boards. While it doesn’t work perfectly, cuz sometimes I forget to jot something down, it does give me a good idea of what’s in the frig that needs eaten or frozen, and the day I put it in there.

By: Lynnae

Lynnae — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:53:48 +0000

@Coupon Dad – I LOVE the idea of giving picky children the option of eating leftovers! I never would have thought of that, but I’m going to try it for sure!

By: Coupon Dad

Coupon Dad — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:38:46 +0000

We’ve recently at Coupon Dad’s house started doing monthly meal plans. We go to the store at the beginning of the month and buy everything on the list based on the plan (except the veggies and fruits – we buy those weekly).

Since we started this we have really done a better job not wasting as much food. This has also helped us plan ahead and find coupons for most everything we need.

Another thing we did is we have a large family (like most on here I imagine)- feeding 9. With that many people it is hard to plan meals everyone will eat. So we established the rule that if you don’t like what’s for dinner than your other option is to eat leftovers. We used to let them eat a sandwich or something similar. This has helped make sure all the leftovers get eaten and not wasted as well.

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