2012 No More Wasted Food Challenge

**NikoSan999** · 02-05-2012, 07:36 PM

Well I ended up tossing that chicken breast that was in the fridge. Sucks. Also ended up tossing 2 bags of salad mix. He INSISTS on the back fridge being almost freezer cold. Destroys more food.

Used Up
Bag sliced potatoes (like hash browns that were BOGO)
1 regular potato for baked
Several red potatoes for roasted potatoes ( yeah, it was a potato night but they needed to be used so so everyone got their favorites and there's some left for me to take tomorrow for lunch)
Meat that was clearanced at the store I was in today
6 ears corn on cob
Half a red , half a green pepper & half an onion (in the sliced potatoes)
The other half of a Subway sandwich

Know there's more but can't remember.

**MakeADollarHollar** · 02-06-2012, 06:06 PM

More waste. One complete head of lettuce and one head that I only used a tiny bit of. I haven't been able to push the produce out since DH's been gone. I'm betting that cucumber I have in there is about to go bad as well but I haven't checked it.

**NikoSan999** · 02-06-2012, 07:43 PM

UGH! I have a cucumber in the back fridge too. Forgot about it. Bet we can toss them together. Produce is my biggest loss.

Tossed today
A very few of the leftover roasted potatoes & about 1/3 cup of the sliced potatoes from yesterday.

Also remembered another thing used from the fridge yesterday...a ziplock with leftover pizza, 2 pieces

Today used
1 container soft cream cheese
4 ziplocs chicken ( 2 different meals)
1 red pepper & 1 green pepper
1/2 onion
rest of a container of salsa the kid brought home from an outside meal
About a cup+ of shredded mexican cheese
4 flour tortillas

Made homemade chicken enchiladas for the first time. Made WAY to much so will go in the fridge. Made 4, ate 2. Other 2 for lunch tomorrow or 2 days. Have enough left probably for another 10 at least, maybe a dozen. No complaints here. They were GOOD! Only thing missing was yellow rice which I might fix the next time.

**dcompton** · 02-06-2012, 11:01 PM

I'm late to the party, but I need badly to do this. I was doing really well until the end of last August when my work schedule went you know where in a hand basket. That lasted until Christmas, and it's been intermittently bizarre this then. I just learned a few hours ago that this week has come unglued too. I think it will settle down soon, but for now, it's leading to lots of wasted food, and way too much fast food. It's past time to get it all together again.

Today was good. I made soup and used up:
-- some French dip broth from Arby's, that I shouldn't have had to start with!
-- about half a jar of (chicken?) gravy I had frozen
-- about 1/4 jar of spaghetti sauce
-- some drying out baby carrots
-- some more baby carrots I rescued from a huge work vegetable tray
-- the last tiny bit out of a ketchup bottle
-- the end of a bottle of Italian dressing (it's great in beef soup)

However - later tonight or tomorrow I've got to clean the fridge. What I know I'll have to toss without even looking, that far outweighs the bits I used up, is:
-- a whole bell pepper and part of another
-- TWO heads of lettuce - romaine (a crime) and iceberg
-- about half of a huge chicken breast
-- a bowl of the last soup, and that's something I never waste
-- whatever is in those two containers in the back corner

I'm sure there will be more.

**NikoSan999** · 02-07-2012, 03:35 AM

Welcome Dcompton!

**MakeADollarHollar** · 02-07-2012, 06:52 PM

Welcome DCompton!

Niko, my cuke was fine. I've been munching on bits and pieces of it all day. I can't let it go bad now that I know it's still good. Cost me $1.99 at Publix!

Did have some more seriout tossage this morning. A cup and a half of milk, a whole glass of orange juice and a chicken breast. The milk was on its way out and I've got another half gallon in there that will only be good for another week...I'd freeze it if I had the room. As for the orange juice, I'm sick and it's messing with my taste buds. It tastes like battery acid to me so I dumped it and I tried a new chicken recipe a few days ago. Not sure if it's my taste buds or the recipe but I didn't like it at all so no sense in putting it in the freezer.

**MakeADollarHollar** · 02-08-2012, 04:51 PM

No tossing today.

**MakeADollarHollar** · 02-09-2012, 04:20 PM

More tossing today since it was garbage day. Tossed out what was left of the potato salad I made earlier in the week and half a bean wrap that had gone soggy.

**tervsforme** · 02-10-2012, 11:48 AM

Threw out a few limp stalks of celery today and a 1/2 bag of salad mix...

**MakeADollarHollar** · 02-10-2012, 06:23 PM

No tossing today.

**MakeADollarHollar** · 02-11-2012, 07:45 PM

Finally tossed the celery today. Can't complain. It lasted about a month or so, I just couldn't eat it up fast enough.

**NikoSan999** · 02-18-2012, 10:27 PM

Been awhile since I last posted. Used up quite a bit. Now if I can remember all of it.

USED UP

Last of a bag of pizza rolls
3 jars spaghetti sauce
head of cabbage
2 red peppers
2 green peppers
3 lb bag of onions ... half half of one left
1/4 box rice
1/2 bag shredded cabbage/carrots
8 lbs hamburger in various dishes...froze part of them
1 container santa fe flavored soft cream cheese
1 lb chicken breasts
1/4 of a lg bag shredded mixed cheese
pkg flour tortillas
2 pkgs taco mix
3 cans tomatoes
2 cans chili beans
1 can tomato paste
1/2 bottle V8
2 ziplocs chicken wings
half dozen ears corn
last of a box of spaghetti noodles
last of bottle salsa

Had to toss
last 1/3 bottle taco sauce
1/2 jar spaghetti sauce

**wunsagin** · 02-19-2012, 01:18 PM

I was gone for almost 3 wks but I had used up all of the LO's before I left so not doing too bad this past week. Did toss a container of beans from the freezer and a yogurt.

Today using the ham bone from the freezer, a freezer bag of okra, the rest of the potatoes that are going soft.

**ephofma** · 02-21-2012, 02:11 PM

I need to be in this challenge as well. I am usually not too terribly bad about using things up; but, it seems that lately using up the food supply is not going well. I came down with a stomach bug of some sort Sunday night so I have been at home for 2 days and am now really conscience of what is in the fridge and freezer and pantry. Yesterday I threw out some egg salad and deviled eggs leftover from oldest dd's baby shower that was 9 days earlier. I don't like keeping things with eggs and/or mayo in them really longer than 4-5 days so they got tossed. It was not alot; maybe 4-5 eggs and a cup of egg salad but I didn't want to take the chance. I finished up the last two apple slices in the pkg in the fridge and dh had a homemade TV dinner of leftovers that I had made up several days earlier and put in the freezer. I need to look in the fridge and finish my inventory shortly. Until then....... Oh - thanks to whoever started this thread and to everyone else for keeping it going!

**ephofma** · 02-22-2012, 02:23 PM

I did look in the fridge a bit yesterday in the late afternoon. I had three container full of those packets of condiments everyone seems to bring from wherever they ate lunch and/or dinner. There were also about 6-8 just laying around so I did a check on them. Most of these were trashed because when I checked the expiration date some were out of date by almost a year. Some of them did not have expiration dates so I had to think back to when they might have been brought in and I realized I had some of those packets from months and months ago. They were tossed as well. I am now down to one container that has 3 Asian sauces and 3-4 Taco Bell sauces in it. That certainly opened up some space in my fridge. I have to really watch myself as I have a tendency to be a hoarder when it comes to food. I still need to look through a couple of more spaces!