It has been a week since I started trying to reduce our food waste. The first few days have been everything between easy and delicious to somehow difficult and not pleasant.
The best: a delicious wrap for lunch made out of leftover steamed pumpkin, a boiled egg, some capsikum and cucumber as well as humous. I realised in the morning that that pumpkin will go off if I don’t eat it that day, so decided to steam it before I went to work and do something with it. The outcome was one of the best wraps I’ve ever had.
The worst: bread with baked beans. I really do not like baked beans. I have them at home for a quick lunch/dinner for Little M when time is not on my side. In this instance I quickly warmed up some baked beans added a bit of fresh tomato and put it on top of a nice rye sunflower seed bread from the German bakery. Love these breads, they make every meal delicious. I had to learn that in some cases even this bread doesn’t help. So, obviously Little M hadn’t finished his dinner and I faced the task of doing something with the last bit of bread that was soaked with cold baked beans. Well to cut a long story short I ate it but REALLY didn’t enjoy it. Baked beans have to go onto Big N’s plate the next time, that’s for sure.
The average: you can never do it wrong with leftover pasta. I had it twice this week and liked it both times. Not extraordinatry but always a yummy dish.
My first week showed me that it is easy to avoid food if you eat it all. What a learning! But who wants to end up with a muffin top? Or even worse having to eat baked beans?
So for this week I actually planned our meals. Going shopping with a proper shopping list and just buy what you will need the next few days will hopefully make a big difference.
Let’s see how the next 7 days are going to taste like.
~ Sustainable Mum ~
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