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Post by Kath on Jan 3, 2023 17:03:10 GMT
In a effort to reduce food waste, I've started taking more note of the things we buy but then either don't eat or, more accurately, only eat because they're all that's left. This Christmas for instance I see that the only person who ate any of the big jar of fancy paté was me and I've only had about a cm out of the entire jar. Clearly I don't need to bother next year. There is also a packet of medjool dates that hasn't been opened and we still haven't cut the Christmas cake. Everyone has proclaimed that they're too full after eating everything else. It will be eaten but I feel like it's a lot of stress and money for something to end up being a 'duty eat' so I'm going to be all radical for Xmas 23 and not have one. Maybe I'll just stuff the dates with marzipan and call it a day.
Anything not eaten in your house this year?
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Post by zou on Jan 3, 2023 17:08:43 GMT
Not that I can think of, no. Whether that makes me a glutton or an environmental role model I will let you decide!
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Post by MJB on Jan 3, 2023 17:41:13 GMT
Everything got eaten here except for the smoked salmon that my wife insisted she had to have. I'm pretty good at putting my foot down in the shop when she says "we have to have because it's Christmas.
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Post by andy on Jan 3, 2023 17:51:20 GMT
Nothing that we bought for ourselves AFAIK. We were given more chocolate and biscuits than I normally care for but, bit like the case of Coors, will get through it.
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Post by geoffr on Jan 3, 2023 18:02:11 GMT
There’s a Lamb shank in the freezer and half the ribeye, but that was always the plan. There’s quite a bit of Brie, that’s still in date as it the purple sprouting broccoli. There’s a Panatone dated July but nothing has been chucked out.
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Post by John Farrell on Jan 3, 2023 18:09:58 GMT
There's a packet of rice crackers, and most of a jar of sundried tomato and olive chutney...
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Post by nickr on Jan 3, 2023 18:42:04 GMT
In a effort to reduce food waste, I've started taking more note of the things we buy but then either don't eat or, more accurately, only eat because they're all that's left. This Christmas for instance I see that the only person who ate any of the big jar of fancy paté was me and I've only had about a cm out of the entire jar. Clearly I don't need to bother next year. There is also a packet of medjool dates that hasn't been opened and we still haven't cut the Christmas cake. Everyone has proclaimed that they're too full after eating everything else. It will be eaten but I feel like it's a lot of stress and money for something to end up being a 'duty eat' so I'm going to be all radical for Xmas 23 and not have one. Maybe I'll just stuff the dates with marzipan and call it a day. Anything not eaten in your house this year? We've got 3 boxes of mince pies, a stollen and - until this evening - a giant goat's cheese log untouched. All of that is very unusual, normally we have a good bash at all of that. On the other hand, almost all the rest of the cheese has gone, the veg, all the meat we bought, even the cream. So on balance, not too bad. Nothing will be thrown away. |
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Post by squeamishossifrage on Jan 3, 2023 19:30:19 GMT
Yeah - a bag of satsumas! I bought them on the 23rd as they are a rarity here, only seen at Christmas. I eat one that night and it was disgusting - it was as if each segment was inside a condom. Apart from that, and some rather nice whisky that needs drinking up, most everything else got eat.
A comment on Christmas cake - for the first time, this year I made my own. It was so good that it was gone by the 29th, so two days ago I made another one!
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Post by Kath on Jan 3, 2023 20:16:35 GMT
Yeah - a bag of satsumas! I bought them on the 23rd as they are a rarity here, only seen at Christmas. I eat one that night and it was disgusting - it was as if each segment was inside a condom. Apart from that, and some rather nice whisky that needs drinking up, most everything else got eat. A comment on Christmas cake - for the first time, this year I made my own. It was so good that it was gone by the 29th, so two days ago I made another one! I used to make my own cake until we moved into this flat and I put all those beautiful ingredients into the unfamiliar oven and accidentally grilled it for four hours instead of baking it. Since then I've bought an un-iced cake from Aldi and fed it with rum for a few weeks then marzipanned and iced it as if it were my own. It will be delicious when we do cut into it but I will probably be the only one who eats it and frankly I don't need the calories. Tonight's dinner is also a festive purchase - half a side of salmon that I bought when the Christmas food first came to Aldi and put in the freezer. We're having it with roasted veg and I expect will finish off the dates for pudding just because they are there. Technically Christmas isn't over yet - I don't go back to work until the 9th, so there's time to eat up the stragglers and nothing will actually go to waste but I think a reduced shop next year is in order. We're all ready for a bit of normal eating now I think. |
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Post by andy on Jan 3, 2023 20:50:43 GMT
Due to not having bought too much for Christmas or New Year I had haggis truffles for dinner as the supermarket has Burns supper stuff in.  |
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Post by eightbittony on Jan 4, 2023 9:35:58 GMT
We massively cut back this year (for health reasons, not necessarily financial) so didn't have a lot of waste. There's probably 1/3rd of a jar each of plum chutney and onion chutney left, which I'll be dumping now we're back 'on the wagon', and I bought some pate and never opened it, so that'll be literally going to waste. Otherwise we did okay. Previous years were a crapshoot depending on our emotional state during the shopping trips.
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Post by mick on Jan 4, 2023 11:35:40 GMT
A rather large Waitrose Christmas Pudding that we were given. To be truthful, I find it hard to believe that it will ever be eaten by us.
We also didn't eat much of a Lidl's "three bird roast" because for some reason it fell into tiny pieces when I tried to carve it. It wasn't thrown away. The dog had a treat.
Mick
PS Glad nobody noticed my typo before the edit!
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Post by Kath on Jan 4, 2023 20:52:03 GMT
There’s a Panatone dated July but nothing has been chucked out. Now that you've said that, I am sure I bought one of these too. No clue where it has gone so I have to assume the gannets ate it behind my back! |
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Post by spinno on Jan 5, 2023 9:59:43 GMT
Sadly a chunk of Cornish Yarg didn't make it. It was the only casualty.
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Post by stevewmh on Jan 16, 2023 17:57:07 GMT
Between me and the cats it all got eaten so nothing went to waste apart from a lump of my neighbors Christmas cake that I'm still not sure what to do with
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