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Eat Your Left-Overs

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OneFootInTheGrave

OneFootInTheGrave Report 26 Apr 2013 12:07

I seldom waste anything, I buy a small chicken about once a fortnight, then use bones and any other bits and pieces I have saved in the freezer, to make a pot of soup, food is to expensive to throw away.

Researching:
I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"

DazedConfused

DazedConfused Report 26 Apr 2013 12:00

No left-overs in this house, OH is in charge of cooking/shopping I just go along to pay!!!

I even get moaned at if I leave even a pea on my plate.... :-D

Researching:
We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, Oscar Wilde New avatar, my dad age about 3/4 months, could have been worse, it could have been the awful nude on a rug!!

OneFootInTheGrave

OneFootInTheGrave Report 26 Apr 2013 11:44

Has he seen the price of fresh fruit, vegetables, and cheese, when I can afford them I certainly would not waste them if I could avoid doing so, and has he seen how much food some supermarkets dump everyday.

Householders are discarding up to £50 of food a month, much of which was “perfectly safe” to eat, Richard Benyon, a minister in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, has claimed.

Mr Benyon said many people had little idea how to keep fruit and vegetables fresh in the fridge or that cheese can be preserved for longer if it is wrapped properly after opening.

He urged families to eat their left-overs and pay more attention to the storage instructions on labels to avoid produce going off.

A more frugal approach to food waste would ease the strain on household expenses, he suggested.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/10019602/Families-wasting-50-a-month-throwing-away-food-says-minister.html

Researching:
I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"