I’m sorry I don’t have a photo. We did have a little bit of food waste this week.
My husband cleaned out the pantry and found some breadsticks, mini toasts, and a small bag of pistachios that the moths had gotten into. He threw it out before I had a chance to take a picture.
On the good side, my husband cleaned out the pantry (yay!) and made a great system for our recycling in there so it doesn’t sit out in the kitchen. And we’re making progress because usually when we clean out the pantry, we have A LOT more stuff to trash than that.
Once again, the problem was TOO MUCH FOOD. My new plan is to make at least one pantry dinner per week, maybe more. And I’m going to get to a point where the pantry is about half as full as it is now. I need to strike a balance between having things on hand and not forgetting about and wasting what’s there. I’m starting to realize we don’t need quite as much variety. Three or four choices of cereal, or nuts, or dried fruit is enough- we don’t need to always have on hand every single possibility that might strike our fancy.
I found a great article about food safety and leftovers on Delish dot com. Click here to take a quiz about how long you can safely leave food out on the counter before putting it in the refrigerator, how long you can keep cooked chicken in the refrigerator, how long to wash your hands, and a lot of other questions.
And one more thing… our house guest left soy milk in the refrigerator, which I don’t like very much, and I still have a head of fennel that frankly frightens me. I learn so much from you all, I’d love some suggestions on what to do with soy milk and fennel (not together!) so I can avoid seeing them in my food waste photo next week! Please leave your ideas in the Comments section, and thank you in advance.
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