Lettuce & Sour Cream {Food Waste Friday 10/12}

One of my biggest pet peeves is throwing away food. I could kick myself every time I dump food down the drain or in the trash: it’s just a complete and total waste! And I hate waste. Which is why I am so thrilled to link up to  The Frugal Girl on her weekly feature where she posts a picture of all the food she had to throw away for the week, and invites other bloggers to do the same. The idea is to feel some accountability – who wants to admit they threw away all that money to the whole world? – to help you avoid throwing away food in the future.

Aside from the odds and ends here and there (like the half of an apple that my son didn’t finish and then left in the fridge for several days), I don’t have a great deal of food waste to report:

• 1/2 a container of homemade sour cream
• 1/2 a bunch of Romaine lettuce

I do have some cooked quinoa, a little bit of chicken, and the ends of some celery that I need to eat up today before they go completely bad. I’m going to attempt to work the quinoa into oatmeal for breakfast, the chicken for lunch, and I guess I’ll need to chop up the celery and freeze it.

How’d you do with food waste this week?

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