Week One
Project 1No Wasted Leftovers
While my family actively composts, we still end up wasting a lot of food through leftovers that didn't get eaten before they spoiled. In order to combat this terrible waste, this week I'll be actively doing a few things:
- Cooking in smaller portions
- Eating leftovers more
- Waiting to cook something new till the leftovers are finished
- Re-purposing leftover food (cut up fruit in fruit salad, pasta in soups, etc.)
- Cooking food the kids are more likely to eat
Total: 1 bag full
- Library Receipts
- Leftovers
- Candy wrappers
- Tissues
- A broken pen
- Band-aid wrappers
- Food packaging (Jell-O, local beef, chicken sausage, cheese, peanut butter, bread, strawberries, salad greens, cereal, applesauce)
- Baby wipes
- The garbage bag itself
- Cat litter, in a plastic bag
- Fruits, vegetables, meat, bread and eggs are now bought at the farmers market (it opened last Saturday)
- Bar soap (100% glycerine) in large quantity, to cut down on packaging
- Food scraps are composted or turned into soup stock
- I keep my grocery list on my phone
- "Yesterdays News" Catlitter - it's made out of recycled newspaper
- Cloth bags are taken to grocery store, and when they're unavailable, I choose paper bags
- Switch to handkerchiefs instead of tissues
- Ask farmer that we get our meat from to have an alternative packaging method besides shrink-wrap
- Toilet-train my little brother
- Get coffee in bulk
- Tackle the junk mail
- Find an alternative to band-aids?
- Make our own peanut butter
- Make our own desserts/treats instead of the prepackaged stuff (candybars, jell-o, cake, etc.)
- Make our own pasta
- Switch to refillable pens
- Stop using garbage bags
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