The Crunchy Chicken is running a month long No Waste challenge. As I ate dinner this evening and served my family (especially the little ones) I really thought about how much food I was putting on the plate and trying to not over serve them. This week we are to collect all our wasted food and weigh it at the end of the week. I'm keeping ours in a zip lock bag and so far it's not too much (but who's to say what's too much). I've noticed that normally I throw lots more away so I think this is helping me to really think about our food consumption and food waste.
Another challenge is at Chile Chews. The challenge:
Presenting my very first challenge. Reduce-Reuse-Recycle: Rethink it! The purpose of this challenge is to help you reduce your consumption, expenses, and garbage by getting you to think about every aspect of the recycling logo. Break out of old habits and find new ways to reduce your consumption, reuse what you can in creative ways, and recycle everything else.Can something I am consuming be used/recycled in a new creative way? This is what I was thinking about as I threw away the packaging from Abygail's snack of blueberries and cheese. "How can I reuse these containers/packaging?" I thought to myself. Well, I didn't come up with anything, but the point is I'm trying to think of things in a new and creative way. What I did realize is that if I made my own cheese, which I hear is easy to do, and grow my own fruits and veggies there is no packaging/containers from the store to worry about.
Along those same lines, on Sunday I made chile. It was a super simple chile that consisted of 2 cans of beans, 2 cans diced chile style tomatoes, 1 can of rotelle tomatoes, 1 can of tomato sauce, mexican seasonings, cumin and 3/4 lbs of ground beef (I always buy the ground meat in the large size, which usually equals out to be 5 1/2 lbs, and then section it into 6 portions for later use). I realized that if I had my own garden (when I have my own garden) I could have (can) make this meal with my own canned tomatoes, beans and spices and only have to buy some spices and meat, if I still chose to use it. What a money saver that could (will) be!
Anyway, those are just my thoughts, enjoy.
The plastic bag is really quite comical. Are you going to make a casserole once you collect enough?
ReplyDeleteNO WAY! It will be so rotten by then. (although if I kept it in the fridge I might be able to reserve it all...hmm I'm getting an idea here -j/k) It's actually a good exercise to see first hand how much food we waste.
ReplyDeleteI know you don't have your garden ready yet,but I try to keep my garbage and bury it in the garden.I feel like it fertilizes the soil and completes the circle.
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