Current Events > How's your food waste CE? Some things you should know how to do, especially now

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• How to make a stock
• How to make bread & pasta
• How to render unwanted meat fat into usable cooking oil
• How to repackage food so it doesn't wilt prematurely
• How to make the most out of stale bread
• How to use your freezer to help with all of these things
• How to look at your "empty" pantry/fridge and figure out a nutritious meal with all the stuff you never use

Cardinal sins:

• having to throw out rotten veggies, salad bags and wilted herbs
• Throwing out bones/fat
• Throwing out stale or mouldy bread
• Deciding there's "nothing to eat" because there no animal protein in the fridge

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I wouldnt call throwing out moldy bread a cardinal sin. Once bacteria grows, it goes in the trash.

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Payzmaykr posted...

I wouldnt call throwing out moldy bread a cardinal sin. Once bacteria grows, it goes in the trash.

The trick is to not end up with mouldy bread in the first place.

Fresh bread stays in the counter. Older bread goes in the freezer. No bread goes in the fridge. Once it's threatening to become too old you turn it into croutons.

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A bag of croutons costs like $1.50 at Publix, so I think I'll do that. They even have pumpernickel croutons

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nah ill stick to vegetable oil

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Girls I've dated always make fun of me for saving fat from bacon, chicken, chorizo, ect.

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I eat whole apples. Core, seeds and stem. Wash your food thoroughly people.

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Zurkon posted...

I'm good on most of this except I don't know how to make pasta or bread except for tortillas. I don't eat a lot of either though. I definitely need to improve on using the things just sitting in my pantry. I'm guilty of throwing out bones and fat, I know I can make stock and tallow out of them but I don't. No excuse really.

Start with flatbreads, Large margin for error and requires little to no proofing time or even yeast.

eston posted...

A bag of croutons costs like $1.50 at Publix, so I think I'll do that. They even have pumpernickel croutons

Fair, although I tend to think if you have the leftovers in the house it's worth being able to do something with them

Solid Snake07 posted...

Girls I've dated always make fun of me for saving fat from bacon, chicken, chorizo, ect.

My ex was like this until i showed her 1) how a stock takes 2 minutes to prepare and 2) how it's several orders of magnitude superior to those shitty powder stock cubes everyone uses

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pinky0926 posted...

My ex was like this until i showed her 1) how a stock takes 2 minutes to prepare and 2) how it's several orders of magnitude superior to those shitty powder stock cubes everyone uses

I really like the better than bullion jars for an easy stock. It's like a thick paste, and taste really good

I rarely make a homemade stock unless I bought whole chickens for something

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pinky0926 posted...

* How to make a stock
* How to make bread & pasta
* How to render unwanted meat fat into usable cooking oil
* How to repackage food so it doesn't wilt prematurely
* How to make the most out of stale bread
* How to use your freezer to help with all of these things
* How to look at your "empty" pantry/fridge and figure out a nutritious meal with all the stuff you never use

Cardinal sins:
* having to throw out rotten veggies, salad bags and wilted herbs
* Throwing out bones/fat
* Throwing out stale or mouldy bread
* Deciding there's "nothing to eat" because there no animal protein in the fridge

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Whatre you, fucking spying on me?!

Mods!!!!

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Ive been pretty good at reducing our waste and making sure our leftovers are consumed, or prioritizing any foods that are close to past due. Like we opened a bag of tortillas so I made steak tacos for dinner, then breakfast tacos next day and tonight (a few days later) Im making chicken fajitas.

Yesterday I made banana bread after finding my husband shoved our bananas in some random pantry I rarely used. So they were very ripe.

I still have a few that need to be used. Thinking of making another banana bread loaf to freeze. Anyone have other ideas of what to do with them?

pinky0926 posted...

Throwing out bones/fat
Throwing out stale or mouldy bread

lol, ok hippie

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I always save fat to flavor dishes later on, then forget about it until it goes bad.

How do you turn it into oil?

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this has been a thing ive been trying to reduce for the last year. so i was fairly prepared for it.

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There is no such as food waste. You eat and you throw away what you can't finish. Simple as that.

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marthsheretoo posted...

I always save fat to flavor dishes later on, then forget about it until it goes bad.

How do you turn it into oil?

It turns back into oil when heated on the stove

So for example, if you've got some leftover bacon fat in the fridge, and you're gonna make hashbrowns, throw that in the pan instead of a cooking oil
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MarqueeSeries posted...

It turns back into oil when heated on the stove

So for example, if you've got some leftover bacon fat in the fridge, and you're gonna make hashbrowns, throw that in the pan instead of a cooking oil

Oh ok yeah, that's basically what I meant
Guess I just have to work on remembering I saved it.

Getting into making stock changed my life though.

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you guys make stock using animal fats? wtf

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Yeah, I really ought to get myself a dedicated container for meat drippings. Definitely glass, though. I'd hate to have to have it permeate a plastic container.

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Cleo_II posted...

I still have a few that need to be used. Thinking of making another banana bread loaf to freeze. Anyone have other ideas of what to do with them?

Banana milkshake!

(The European kind, that isn't thick af)

I also add dates into mine, but sometimes they don't blend that well
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pinky0926 posted...

Fresh bread stays in the counter. Older bread goes in the freezer. No bread goes in the fridge. Once it's threatening to become too old you turn it into croutons.

I've been putting the bread in the fridge my whole life and rarely ever seen mold. I mean, it has to be in there for a really long time. I converted my wife too and she's now a bread in fridge believer.
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most food waste goes into a compost pile in my yard.

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When i eat an apple the only bits left are the seeds and the stem, you tell me how my food waste is

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Cleo_II posted...

Yesterday I made banana bread after finding my husband shoved our bananas in some random pantry I rarely used. So they were very ripe.

I still have a few that need to be used. Thinking of making another banana bread loaf to freeze. Anyone have other ideas of what to do with them?

Honestly, banana bread would be my go-too in that situation too.

SoundNetwork posted...

you guys make stock using animal fats? wtf

Brown stocks are made that way, yes. Afterwards you let it cool in the fridge and collect it from the top. Ta-da, you have schmaltz.

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