This morning when my husband surveyed the refrigerator, he sighed at my "lack of diligence" to push the leftovers. Already yesterday he had to throw out some old veggies and a significant amount of raisins left in a bowl and this morning, it was the leftover fish, which was well....fishy smelling. "Push these leftovers," he tells me. "I hate to waste it all."
After I groan and grunt about how I am not only having to feed everyone, but remind them to eat the leftovers. I thought OK, I can do this. I will use up what we have. I sent him to the store for our usual list of necessary items like: milk, bread, yogurt, eggs, etc. But this week, I challenge myself to use what we have so by Saturday, Old Mother Hubbard's cupboard is bare.
You'll have to follow up daily on what crazy things I make (or make my kids eat) in order to get rid of our leftovers. We're trying to be green and not waste food.
So today I used up three browning (yes, very brown) bananas for my favorite banana bread recipe. Threw in a handful of leftover chocolate chips, which had been bought for cookies, but broken into for just plain eating. After taking some blue cheese out of the freezer for a recipe (it was in the freezer when someone bought more than I needed) I ended up not using the blue cheese, knowing it would go back, I made a blue cheese salad dressing out of the leftovers.
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My friend Julie does the "use what you have" thing once a month. Saves $$$ and keeps her pantry from looking like an overgrown jungle like mine does. I keep promising myself I will try it - this may be the week! My problem is not using up leftovers - we are good about that - I just way overstock on "staples". And some not so staples that may happen to be on sale.
Tonight I used half a leftover rotisserie chicken to make chicken soup from a gourmet chicken soup mix someone gave me months ago. Not half bad and as a bonus, my kids ate it!
I throw browning bananas in the freezer and pull them out to make banana muffins or cookies when needed.
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