why waste food

[cecil39]

who can understand all the waste food they were on about just a few days after Christmas? for goodness sake, things like sprouts, parsnips and carrots keep for ages, I have a stalk of sprouts hanging on my shed (so the cats can't spray them) and they are as fresh as when i first got them two weeks ago there is no way they will be chucked out, and the remains of the turkey will be finished up today, its time there were a campaign to put a stop to all that, instead of telling people not to eat things after a certain date why not advise what can be done with it up to that date?

[ummmm]

I haven't had any wasted food really. Only what was left on the plates.

[tiggerblue10]

I try not to waste any food which is why my freezer is always packed.

[China Doll]

'Waste' food? What is this concept you speak of?

(Unless it's white chocolate, I'd happily waste that).

[Chaffinch]

I made a lovely soup yesterday, and have just finished it for lunch today. I hate waste......grow it, eat it, compost the inedable bits, start again

[grasscarp]

The advisers and the sell by dates etc are all trying to sell you more food. I use yogurts long after the printed date on them. They seem to last for ever. I trust my nose and not the dates on the item. Never been wrong yet, and the only thing that did poison me once was prawns that were straight from the shop.

[NazNomad]

So far thix xmas/new year I've thrown away a small handful of Swede ... and that's it.

I'll counter-balance that by taking any white chocolate that CD is throwing out.

[China Doll]

You'll probably have a bit of a fight on your hands naz... But I reckon you can take snags so s'all yours!

[NazNomad]

I'll distract him with something else ... fried locust or summat.

[B00]

I had to throw the remains of the turkey away.

Have to say I was pretty peed off about it too as i'd bought a jar of curry sauce yesterday to go with it, and it had gone off! It smelt really iffy- the turkey I mean, not the sauce.

[mccfluff]

just wave a seedy bap in his direction

[ethandron]

i've made some broccoli and stilton soup this afternoon, using a head of broc bought before christmas and some stilton someone bought us for christmas in one of those fancy pots. i rarely waste food but am having a determined effort in 2011 to not throw anything edible out.
i agree with you cecil, in these days of austerity, the powers that be should re-evaluate all food labeling.

[boxtops]

We haven't thrown anything away at all - I can't bear to. The turkey soup has taken up some unused cooked vegetables, otherwise everything uneaten will be so, or frozen. I'm with grasscarp on the yoghurt, I've just eaten some allegedly out of date in October.
The last thing we threw away unused was some curly milk, it was Cravendale, well past use-by but it had been open for a month and had been fine until then.

[madmaggot]

I bought 3 bags of apples yesterday, use by date 30 Dec.
Priced at £1, marked down to 9p; absolutely nothing wrong with them at all. I bought them for the blackbirds but I will be eating them as well!

[ethandron]

pinki, any cooked meat left over can be frozen until you fancy it again, and any cooked veg throw it in a large pan, add some veg stock and boil it up - voila, home made soup, nothing nicer and you can freeze it in portions. or if it turns out quite thick because you've whizzed it up with a hand whizzer in the pan, use it as a veg sauce with pasta.

[woofgang]

the only thing i have thrown away is bread and some cream based desserts that had started growing fur.

[jb190281]

Lovefoodhatewaste.com is a good site if you've any leftovers and not sure what to do