The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans saved in a plastic
container.

I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4 forks full) is worth
saving and I would have tossed it.

What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it? Cost? Amount?

Dimitri

Any more than 2/3 days in the fridge, and I chuck it - or mix it in with
the dog's food - or add to a soup.
E.


"Dimitri" wrote in message
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The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans saved in a
plastic
container.

I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4 forks full) is
worth
saving and I would have tossed it.

What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it? Cost? Amount?

Dimitri

The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans saved in a
plastic
container.

I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4 forks full)
is
worth
saving and I would have tossed it.

What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it? Cost?
Amount?

Dimitri


I save cooked veggies if there are enough for at least 1 seving as a side
dish.

I save meat if enough to use as at least 1 serving in a meal. Smaller
servings can go in a salad.

I save most bones for soup if no-one put them near their mouth. (I hate the
word noone seems to be the incorrect way to spell noon.)

I save Liquids stuff cooked in if I have a immediate or next day use for
it. Example: Potato water is a nice addition to soups or to cook rice in.

But I'm one of those you must clean your plate people, ingrained from
childhood.

These actions are my frugality. Not the price of the foodstuff. I won't
save one egg white if I need 1 yolk or vice versa. But if I need 3 or 4 I
will. But I usually chuck them out 4 or 5 days later If I haven't used them
yet (not used is the usual case).


--
Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food
and water.
--------
FIELDS, W. C.

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What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it? Cost? Amount?


For me it's usually based on whether I think I'll end up using it or not. I
try to buy only as much as I can use, but with some items that's not always
possible. I also try to plan out meals which will use excess ingredients
from previous meals, but that doesn't work out all the time either. Of
course, I'll toss stuff I've saved that have exceeded my comfort zone for
leftovers.

-Mike

"Dimitri" wrote in message
The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans saved in a plastic
container.

I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4 forks full) is
worth
saving and I would have tossed it.

What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it? Cost? Amount?

Dimitri

Neither. With me, it's whether I can use it up in, say, soup or some other
recipe. I do try not to waste food, but don't always manage it. (Witness
the just-discovered cucumber going downhill in the refrigerator.)

Dora

Dimitri wrote:
The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans saved in a
plastic container.

I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4 forks full)
is worth saving and I would have tossed it.

What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it? Cost?
Amount?

Dimitri

Depends on the food. Amount usually prevails over cost, unless you're
talking lamb chops or a prime cut of steak. Now that I have a small parrot,
many small amounts of leftover vegetables can be given to her rather than
tossed out. It's fun to watch Peaches eat a quarter of an ear of corn on
the cob LOL

Jill

Depends on what space you have to store stuff. I will happily own up to
end up ditching half the stuff we save for later ! After a decent roast
dinner, I do like taking all leftover veggies and meat that we don't
plan to eat and reducing that to a gravy base that we freeze and then
use next time we have a frozen pie / toad in hole . What gets strained
out whilst making the stock goes into Dog's bowl on top of his biscuits.

On one of her programmes the Blessed Nigella claimed to freeze all her
left over bones to reduce to a stock once she'd saved enough . We don't
have the space.

Steve



Dimitri wrote:

The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans saved in a plastic
container.

I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4 forks full) is
worth
saving and I would have tossed it.

What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it? Cost? Amount?

Dimitri

Steve Yates wrote:
to freeze all her
left over bones to reduce to a stock once she'd saved enough . We
don't have the space.

Steve

How much room can bones take up? I've got limited space and only a small
freezer compartment on top of my 18 cu. ft. fridge, but I managed to freeze
chicken carcasses and beef bones for making stocks.

Jill



Dimitri wrote:

The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans saved in a
plastic container.

I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4 forks full)
is worth
saving and I would have tossed it.

What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it? Cost?
Amount?

Dimitri

Dimitri wrote:

The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans saved in a plastic
container.

I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4 forks full) is worth
saving and I would have tossed it.

What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it? Cost? Amount?

Dimitri



Depends a lot on the mood I'm in. Generally I'll save it
if there is enough (and it was tasty enough) for a full meal
for the two or four of us (Daughter, SIL and their toddler eat
with us most evening meals) or lunch for myself or DH. If it
was icky the first time around or won't reheat well, I toss it.
If I planned the first meal to have leftovers or ingredients to
build another meal on, it gets saved.

I spent too many years with parents and inlaws who lived through
the Depression era and as a result would save and eat anything,
no matter how bad, to share that style now. We had a few lean
years recently where I cooked frugally, but I won't do it except
by necessity again.

gloria p

"Dimitri" wrote in message
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The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans saved in a plastic
container.

I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4 forks full) is
worth
saving and I would have tossed it.

What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it? Cost? Amount?

Dimitri


To be perfectly honest with you, Dimitri, about the only factor I consider
these days is "will anyone eat this if I save it?" I got tired of saving
things that were never eaten, only to throw them away later. It took me a
while to get used to cooking for only 3, and sometimes I still make too
much, but at least it's usually the meat that I make too much of, and that
usually gets eaten! As long as it is enough for at least one serving, and I
know someone will eat it, I will save it.

kimberly

Dimitri wrote:

The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans saved in a plastic
container.

I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4 forks full) is worth
saving and I would have tossed it.

What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it? Cost? Amount?

Well, I am what you might call a nosher. Cold green beans out of the
refrigerator might look great in the morning. Just yesterday, some
leftover brussels sprouts and a half a baked potato came in handy
with leftover rib roast. I guess, to me it's often something that
I can reheat a little leftover something for a quick snack.

If it's something that wouldn't reheat well and I don't like leftover
cold, I'd toss it.

nancy

Dimitri wrote:
The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans saved in a plastic
container.

I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4 forks full) is worth
saving and I would have tossed it.

What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it? Cost? Amount?


This is a running joke in our house.

"Shall I throw this away?"

"No, that's good. Save it."

"O.K., I'll put it in the fridge. We can throw it away later."


Green vegetables tend to get eaten as leftovers only if there's enough
of them to put a vinaigrette type dressing on top and added to so they
can get eaten as a salad.


Orange vegetables such as squash, sweet potatoes and carrots tend to get
eaten as leftovers only if there's enough of them to get baked into a
pie, and even then I often don't get around to it.


Leftover stew, whether chicken, beef or lamb, gets stew-helper in the
form of pasta and an extra can of tomato sauce.


Plain roasted meats and chicken are good cold and get eaten as such.


Highly gussied up foods such as things made with fancy sauces, oddly
enough, tend to get thrown out. Somehow they're not appealing cold, and
no one knows what to do with them.


--Lia

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"Dimitri" wrote:

The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans saved in a plastic
container.

I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4 forks full)
is worth saving and I would have tossed it.


What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it? Cost? Amount?

Dimitri

Generally speaking, I'll save more than 1/4 cup; dibs and dabs can make
a lunch meal. I'd have saved those green beans. Or eaten them before
storing.
--
-Barb, www.jamlady.eboard.com updated 3-29-04.

Melba's Jammin' wrote:

Generally speaking, I'll save more than 1/4 cup; dibs and dabs can make
a lunch meal. I'd have saved those green beans. Or eaten them before
storing.

I have heard of people who keep a "soup" container in the fridge or freezer for
those odd bits. With some dedication to the project I'm sure it works.
I have a really annoying SIL who makes such a production of her "Scot
thriftiness" it drives everyone batty. To see her drop everything and dash
across the kitchen to the pantry to retrieve the bread crumb container, then
brush-brush-brush all 12 crumbs from the cutting board into it then scurry it
back into the pantry is hysterical yet sad. I always feel its done more for
show than to save the world. But that's a whole 'nuther story. Oy.
Goomba

"Dimitri" wrote in message
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The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans saved in a plastic
container.

I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4 forks full) is
worth
saving and I would have tossed it.

What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it? Cost? Amount?

Dimitri




Those green beans, if they were fresh and steamed, would have been great
mixed into a green salad. We always have leftovers in our house. Leonel,
my husband, will eat just about anything - hahaha. Nothing gets tossed
unless it was something that we just didn't like to begin with.

NancyJaye