We’re on. One month of food waste reduction.
This whole challenge made me think about food in many ways, not just about how to waste less, but also about how it’s made, where it comes from, who gets paid for it, where it travels, the footprint it makes, where it ends up and many other things.
Crunchy has a few good tips on how to start off – I’m getting to that. Our fridge seriously needs to get cleaned out and I bet I’ll find remnants from Christmas and other stuff in there that will probably walk out by its own soon.
Today I have made a two week meal plan for the first time in my life. Based on what’s in the fridge and freezer at the moment. To me this challenge is not only about food waste reduction, but also about saving money, eating healthier and more locally produced/organic/environmentally friendly. A meal plan is an obvious step in the right direction. We also went grocery shopping and bought a lot less than usually because of the meal plan. Yey! We still have a lot of potential when it comes to grocery shopping though. Too much stuff that is unnecessary and unhealthy gets in to this house.
Since food waste is the main theme in this challenge, I’m going to start composting again. As of tomorrow the compost bucket is going back in. I had a compost pile in the garden last summer, but this winter most of our food waste goes straight in with miscellaneous garbage. And we even have rabbits…. SO – Two boxes/buckets are going up on the wall in the stairway down to our basement. One for rabbit food and one for food waste/compost. So at lest it is used in a much better way than just throwing it in plastic bags and waiting for the garbage truck to transport it someplace else…
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Hm, har du noen mattips? Oppskrifter... vi har gått oss helt fast. Undersøkelser viser visst at de fleste familier lager de samme 5-6 rettene om igjen og om igjen. Jeg tror vi er nede i 3-4 retter nå om dagen... Vi snakket forleden om å lage en oppskriftsbok sammen, hvor alle kan være med og komme med middagsforslag, bare for å sikre litt mer variasjon i kosten. Vi var kjempesunne før, men travelhet og en småjente som er 'vanskelig' i matveien har ført oss på den brede massemotorvei hva mat angår..
kompost er veldig tilfredstillende. Jeg digger at vi får så lite søppel, og at man også får noe (flott jorforbedrer) tilbake for komposteringen :D
skymring: Mattips... Hm.. Det høres jo ut som en kjempeide å lage oppskriftsbok sammen. Gjøre noe litt kreativt ut av det. Du gjør jo masse fin papercrafting fra før :) Mitt beste tips er å planlegge på forhånd. Lage to ukers middagsplaner. Det har hjulpet oss masse. Har ingen erfaring med kresne barn, men det hjelper kanskje å involvere henne i planleggingen?
Anne: Ja - kompost er fantastisk. Jeg må bare ordne det slik at vi kan ha en om vinteren også. Har lyst til å få i gang en markkompost og en varmkompost til sommeren. Jeg kan mye om det i teorien, men så er det å få det til å fungere i praksis :)
Ja, en familiekokebok har vært undervis en god stund nå, men det kommer liksom bort fra meg hele tiden... mat blir, i en travel hverdag, bare noe som skal stille sulten. Fort... Men jeg jobber med saken, ja :)
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