What is your most common reason for wasting... - Healthy Eating
What is your most common reason for wasting food.
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Should have included the option "I don't have any food waste" as I don't!
ditto!
Well said holly2. See what I've said in my post to Jerry.
I try very hard not to waste .Even after losing 5 stone last year and having more control than ever ( though still not enough) , 'your eyes are still bigger than my belly' as my mum always told me .Always will be .😢
Husband now has to do the cooking. His food is delicious, but he can't estimate quantities. Also, when he follows a pattern he makes the quantity stated, even though there are only two of us!
My husband always cooks too much if he does an evening meal...he'll dish out food and say are you sure that's enough potato? I say, you've already given me twice as much as I would eat LOL
I try and avoid waste as much as possible...especially having been brought up as part of a family of eight...my mother tried never to waste anything. If I have too much of something (cooked too much or whatever), then I freeze it...with most things that's possible). With stale bread, then I can make bread and butter pudding etc.
But sometimes food can be wasted if for example, there is an unexpected crisis or something...so I do not have time to cook it. Perhaps I've taken meat out of the freezer to thaw and then the next couple of days I'm hardly at home and end up cooking something quick that takes no preparation, or even geting chips from the takeaway and simply sleeping at home or a relative's house. But normally I try and plan things so that I'm pretty certain I have time to cook something which takes a while...otherwise I plan for something which doesn't take so long.
We have a few reasons: things going off faster than anticipated. My OH puts things in the trolley, then forgets about them, and they end up going off (because I don't eat them if they're his). Also a problem that things come in packs that are too big.
Am pretty frugal with food and with 2 canine disposal units there is seldom any actual 'waste'.
My only food waste tends to be meat/fish bones and the fat from the Sunday roast. Virtually everything else, egg shells, veg peelings etc go on the compost heap before being recycled to the vegetable garden.
Rignold high five to you! Same issue for me but I freeze my leftover for my dog as he has MRSA and all food must be frozen beef ,lamb, chicken, liver, kidney, and all veggie's then chopped and cooked and frozen in containers. All leftovers are put in ziplock bag's for next weeks cooking and freezing of containers. We even freeze squash, sweet potato's. Sweet potato's being the only potato we consume as we eat keto- no grains, beans, pasta. Have learned to much smarter but still do over buy. My husband traveled and I could not drive from seizure's and wanted a full refrig., many options. Still in that frame of mind getting better and my husband does the shopping and now does the grilling. Team work in the kitchen. Good Post Jerry verry thought provoking at least on my end.
I eat less now than before but when I'm cooking food I still over produce on it. Plus as I'm in catering I find it very difficult to scale things down. I often eat the same meal four days in a row just to use it up rather than bin it. Freezing it puts me off.
And food don't taste the same. So gets thrown out.
Also, food don't keep as long as it used to.
I'm usually really good about food waste but a couple of weeks ago my freezer was Accidently switched off. As I'm not in freezer everyday and it's in my partners office it all defrosted .I was devastated !! 😢 All my homemade ready meals gone .My Frozen veg ,home made soups ,fish ,meat etc. Four bin bags to the tip . The guilt I felt when chucking food in skips was awful . Freezer switch covered now .😊😊
I'm struggling with food at the minute. I'm a lifelong vegetarian with Hashimoto's, which has caused celiac disease. I was a good cook before and enjoyed food. Now everything seems bland and uninteresting.
Bought a blackboard for the kitchen 2 years ago Shop twice a week If we are running out o& things it goes on the board Then plan meals for 3/4 days has meant saved a lot of waste Meal planning and shopping for those meals is defo th3 way to go
The only food I waste are things such as mayonnaise or sauces that have to be used up within a certain time after opening. These are fine if you have a big family but if you are on your own or the others in the house don't like them, they can be wasted. I wish you could get smaller portions! I freeze a lot of things so they don't get wasted and for those that don't freeze, I buy smaller portions
I rarely have waste, but sometimes hubby just changes his mind - I always have a weeks main meals planned but occasionally one ofus throws a spanner in the works!
You might guess that we don't have any waste in our house. My wife runs the fridge right down the day before we are due to shop. Vegetable peelings and outside leaves of cabbage and lettuce not normally eaten, are composted as is orange peel finely cut and egg shells etc. We have a huge army of Brandling Worms that work away making our compost which is available for use in 12 months time. Cheese rind is cut very small and enjoyed by the birds visiting our bird table.
We buy whole rabbits and any bits we don't especially like our cat will eat raw especially the head which is a real delicacy.
When you see the amount of food wasted especially by supermarkets it's a scandall.
Your polls are very interesting Jerry; keep them coming.
Tibbly
Since I no longer have teeth, if it is to hard out it goes! Limits my options.
Another good poll Hidden . I sometimes have bought food and plan to use it and then realise it's gone past the date and it's not it's best. I have to say though food waste in my household has gone down quite a lot. Our local Council collect our food waste once a fortnight and compost it and I am so pleased they do. I did have to throw some bread flour away yesterday as I didn't realise it had gone well past it's date, I was gutted as I use bread flour frequently but this bag was stored right in the back of the cupboard so I then moved everything around so I could see exactly what I had.
Although I have answered that poll with 'past it's use by date' it's quite rare that I throw anything away now.
Any meals 'left over' are used the following day, frozen or fed to our chickens to convert into eggs. I try not to buy too much in the first place by making a menu for the weeks meals.
my left overs generally go in the freezer so there is not really any waste, meat gets kept for sandwiches only waste is if there is a little cabbage or a potato left over from the dinner plate, thats it, hate wasting food
Since I moved by myself, I really don't cook that much. I have went to frozen dinners and sandwiches. Being on a fixed income limits how much I can purchase. It seems to cost me more to cook for myself than for two or more. Even with that you can get tired of it. There is some waste.
I ticked 'past its use by date' as the main reason for any waste - but I try my best to reduce the waste as much as possible, and am significantly better than I used to be. I freeze soups and casseroles, and other meals as well, and also the slices of cake that I enjoy are all frozen too - and I've recently bought a slow-cooker, which has helped me to do more batch cooking, and use up lots of veggies.
I have a "Love Food, Hate Waste' Calendar which has some good pointers for reducing waste in it, as well as nice recipes.
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