Love food hate waste

I was appalled at the amount of veg that we were throwing away, so now buy frozen veg and am really impressed by the quality. Frozen onion, peas, beans and broccoli are now a staple in my freezer - I take out what I need as I need it and waste nothing. I have however just found a multi-pack of crisps that are 2 years out of date.

The coconut milk would have been alright. Canned food can last a lot longer than the best before date, providing the cans are not dinted.

My mother used to make bread pudding regularly and she used to mix in all sorts of things to use them up - a bit of apple pie, left over stewed prunes, any fruit that was a bit past its best was peeled and chopped and thrown in the mix

Ana fruit can be used up if you catch it quickly enough preferably before it crawls out of the bowl :
Apples and pears can be lightly stewed then frozen
Grapes freeze and use in drinks as ice cubes then eat.
Banana cake - yummy
Raspberries , strawberries etc freeze for cereal , yoghurt etc
Oranges squeeze for juice
I find pineapple and melon the hardest and as they are quite large so take longer to get through.

I am a complete and utter Scrooge when it comes to food. Nothing gets wasted. It gets dried (I have a dehydrator, I really am that anti-waste) or souped or curried. Or hidden under pizza toppings. My poor children, they will never know what weird things went into their spag bols when they were small.

I have always grown most of our veg and a fair amount of fruit. When you grow it, and it's such hard work, you really appreciate food.

Missed your post, tanith, I do hope it's not true about veg in the fridge! (or in a vegetable rack, come to that)

I waste as little as possible. Things I will not risk are cooked meats, fish or eggs, so I don't buy big packs of, e.g., ham or corned beef. Once they're opened you have just 2 or 3 days to eat the contents. When I see eggs approaching the end of their shelf life I make some cakes .
Vegetables either go into the pot for soup or they get composted if they're past that.
I too would have used the tinned coconut milk. I'm sure it would have been fine. I ignore most 'best before' dates and use my own judgement, 'Use by' dates I'm a little more wary of, but not if the items are tinned or pickled - vinegar is a preservative for heaven's sake!

I don't waste vegetables - they last for ages, especially in the fridge. But I do tend to be over-optimistic about household fruit consumption and am quite often taken by surprise at how quickly it can go off or mouldy.

That was to ayse

Give him your leftovers the next day then.

I too hate waste but I do wonder if the veg that I sometimes use actually has any goodness/vitamins left after its been in the fridge for a couple of weeks.. they say the vitamin content diminishes quite quickly so is it actually any good for us if not used whilst its fresh?

I have those green bags thats keeps stuff fresh so it looks fine but is it actually any good?

sorry a bit off topic

Very little wasted here. The worst thing is meat as I eat very little but DH likes all his meals with meat. Sometimes I have to throw this away as I just can't face it ... naughty really!

I would have opened the tin of coco milk, had a look and a sniff- and use it if it seemed fine.

Same here- and totally ignore SBdates too.

Nothing. I hate waste.

If there is any stale bread the chickens eat it.

I am bad at wasting vegetables.