Eat Your Garbage!

**Shell** · 09-20-2005, 08:59 PM

Yes, you read it correctly. I said, "Eat your garbage!"

See what I mean:

http://frugalliving.about.com/od/how...eatgarbage.htm

**nodmicks** · 09-20-2005, 09:22 PM

Interesting! I'd never though to eat a cabbage core! Now I have a cabbage craving!!!!!!!

**peanut** · 09-23-2005, 03:44 PM

Thanks! My dsil is of Russian extraction, and whenever I go visit she constantly amazes me by how she doesn't waste a single thing! This is an excellent article on 'waste not, want not'.

**Shell** · 09-23-2005, 08:55 PM

Oh, I loved to hear what she does peanut!

**Lori Biever-Launder** · 09-24-2005, 02:37 AM

A lot of Asian folks dry radish tops to flavor winter foods. They also use ALL of the cabbage, celery, etc.

I give some of my scraps to our Guinea Pigs. They LOVE apple cores and lettuce trimmings.

**peanut** · 09-25-2005, 05:11 PM

Well let's just say it was a bit disconcerting to be eating chicken noodle soup one day and come across the chicken bones. She claims she never saw the sense in making stock. You just throw out all those good vegetables. So she throws the chicken carcass and vegetables together to make a soup, bypassing the stock making approach North Americans use.

She makes applesauce by nuking the whole apple in it's skin, and yes, they eat the core too.

She doesn't peel carrots, just washes them. She peels potatoes, and composts the skins. Personally I'd use them for garlic fries.

Stuff like that. She'll make blinis for breakfast (yeast pancakes), and serve them wrapped around cheese and other goodies for lunch.

What gets me is whenever she goes to a restaurant, whatever is free, she'll take. If free bread comes with the meal, she makes sure everyone orders some and then takes doggy bags home. She often can stretch a restaurant meal into two or three!

She's very concerned that everything be made fresh every day. So she shops daily for food. She doesn't use canned goods. It's all fresh...like in Russia. Never any leftovers. If there are, she finishes them with 24 hours.

We don't dare tease her about her cooking style because she is so sensitive. Her parents lived in some kind of camp for immigrants for awhile and they have taught their children to be very frugal and not waste anything.