what do you do with yours ?
just caught my daughter putting a chicken in the had most of the breast off it for her and her chap`s dinner who rescued it and having a curry of soup tomorrow from bones.
jars of jam etc. thrown out with
loads left in.
everything thrown out thats a minute past its SELL by date,as if the bellyache fairy is just sitting there like a nuclear countdown,ready to get them.
its got to be wrong or am i just an old skinflint?
I'm embarrased by the amount of food we throw away, I think a lot of it comes down to the eradication of local grocery stores. We as a country appear to have adopted the once a week shop at a large supermarket rather than buying as its needed and eating it before we go for more.
we throw very little away...mrs c would chuck most things that are out of date in the bin...i was brought up before best by dates were on things....if it smells normal it gets ate....and i'm still here..fit and healthy......ok fit-ish ..the sunday joint, if it doesn't all get used....it's a curry on monday ...or sarnies, if the tattie* and veg dont all get used..they go in the frying pan on a monday, sometimes a tuesday...i hate wasting food..it costs enough to buy it i'm gonna make sure i eat it.
* potato.
Nothing wasted in this house most of the food is eaten if not the dogs get it as for bones n things the parrot get them and if they cant eaten it goes in the garden compost pile
Yum left over veg made into bubble & squeek :happy:
I'm looking forward to boxing day cold leftovers & pickles hmmmmmmmmmm.
My mum used to do bubble and squek every monday with the sunday lunch leftovers, it was yummy!.
I hate throwing away food and make less food rather than throw it away. I'm always checking best before dates and cook accordingly. I think throwing away food is a kick in the teeth to all the starving people in the world..............
when times are hard, a quick scraping off of the kitchen walls and Im set for the day!
lp
good point example if you buy beef from a good traditional butcher it will be brown because he has hung it at 1 cor 2 degrees for days before putting it on display. supermarkets pack it far too fresh and then put it under red virtually give away any that starts to look how it should .to get a really tender steak the enzymes need time to work.
I confess we put loads in bin try so hard not to but i have just did a food safety ,hazard, microbiolgy ,bacterial food poisoning,food-borne disease, food spoilage course and it did my head in how so many things can poison people .that said we used to do all the left over soups ,curry ,fry were still here
There's an awful lot to be said for using your common sense when dealing with leftover/out of date food. Look at it, smell it, taste a little bit of it if you can. If in doubt, bin it. I've done the food safety course and food hygiene but we eat stuff past the sell-by/use by date and we're all still here.
As has been said already, the worst offender is rice - I never reheat rice. It's cheap enough not to have to do that anyway.
The people who benefit most from sell-by dating, are the retailers.
I confess, I do the same. I don't take the risk with anything a day over it's sell by date, not these days. I've heard stories from the 'inside' of supermarkets :shock: 
: I feel sick just thinking about that, curried or not.
amen to that markz i think i love you 
