The salad has gotten to the point where some of it decaying. Nothing a good soak and cleaning won't help. Took the last of our salad and left over veggies combined the veggies to a soup base and placed the clean salad on the side to eat along with my soup. Saving remanences of veggies is wat we do best.
Hello , I took all of the foods from my refrigerator and those items that were old I placed in our compost pile. Not much waste but it is still nice to have it going back into the earth by composting.
I often seem to be visiting my parents' during the first week of this challenge; I'm always inspired by the ways my mother raised us all on avoiding food waste. She uses leftovers, rotates her fridge, keeps grocery lists. It's harder when there are big groups and grandkids, but it's nice to be around mindful people!
Working on this food inventory is showing me there are certain things I can't live without and there are some things I think I need and I don't use as much at as much as I thought... for example the large bag of diced celery has been waiting for use for some time now and since it's not soup, whether I realize my mistake of not separating it into smaller portions for stirfry when I put it in the freezer.
However, gently hammering to separate it should solve the problem!
Just getting started on the challenge and inviting/re-inviting team members! Right now my kitchen is kind of messy and that is detrimental to food prep and definitely makes me not want to focus in the kitchen, however, little by little, I'm getting organized and hoping that the food waste challenge will be an inspiration!
