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
. com...
> 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.

hahabogus > wrote in message >...
>
> 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 think most people use (and the standard usage is) "no one."
Merriam-Webster's doesn't list "noone." (I don't have esay access to
the OED.) "noone," which I sometimes use, comes from e.e. cummings'
poem "anyone lived in a pretty how town." My boss always insists that
I add the blank.

<http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?prmID=1185>

-bwg
Do your ears hang low?
Do they wobble to and fro?

"Dimitri" wrote in message
. com...
>
> 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

jmcquown wrote:
>
> 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

Well, first of all I can even begin to imagine a
leftover partial ear of corn. ;-) But if there
were such a thing in my house my cat Gaoth Rua,
an Abyssinian would eat it. Even when I eat all
the corn off the cob she still scavenges on the
cob. She comes and steals them off my plate when
I'm done with them, and happen to glance away for
a second - she's really fast, and then later I
find these dried corn cobs in various places in
the house.

Kate

--
Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?

"Kate Connally" > wrote in message
...
> Well, first of all I can even begin to imagine a
> leftover partial ear of corn. ;-) But if there
> were such a thing in my house my cat Gaoth Rua,
> an Abyssinian would eat it. Even when I eat all
> the corn off the cob she still scavenges on the
> cob. She comes and steals them off my plate when
> I'm done with them, and happen to glance away for
> a second - she's really fast, and then later I
> find these dried corn cobs in various places in
> the house.
>
> Kate

My cat loves corn - and popcorn. Weird..............

Elaine

"elaine" > wrote in news:407de60e$1_4@aeinews.:

> My cat loves corn - and popcorn. Weird..............
>
> Elaine
>

Perhaps there is too much corn meal in her dried food.

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

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

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 14:46:05 -0500, "jmcquown" >
wrote:

>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.
>
I always save carcasses and bones in the top freezer. When I make
stocks from them I put it in partially-filled zipper bags and freeze
it. Crustacean shells, especially with heads, get frozen for stock as
well.


Rodney Myrvaagnes J36 Gjo/a

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the
simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
- Richard Dawkins, "Viruses of the Mind"

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
. com...
> 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

In article > ,
"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

>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

Your SIL wastes a lot of evergy...

You mean after slicing the bread you don't skush the crumbs into the tuna salad
before building the sammiche?



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"Life would be devoid of all meaning were it without tribulation."

>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

Me too... or save em to slip into a tuna sammiche, twixt the slices of hard
burled aiggs.


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"Dimitri" > wrote in message
. com...
> 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

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 18:42:18 -0400, "NancyJaye" >
wrote:

>
>"Dimitri" > wrote in message
.com...
>> 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

Exactly my method too.

I can't bear tossing out good food. It's not really frugality as much
as awe at the effort and resources that went into producing the raw
materials (vegetables, fruit, meat) etc. I try not to think of the
waste in grocery stores and restaurants.

That's not to say that I don't let some things go bad (by accident),
including recently 1/2 bag of spinach. :< (Interestingly, food
really does seem to keep longer in my new refrigerator. I can almost
get through a whole bunch of celery before it starts getting rubbery.)


Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

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

We save all such small scraps and make soup from them once a week.
There's no good reason to throw it out. Even with the 'scraps' there's
still plenty of room in the fridge.

"Dimitri" > wrote in message
. com...
> 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 an amount that equals - do I want to wash the container after I save
it, or, is it worth it to save it in a new container? If it's 4 forkfuls of
something delish, yeah. If it's just veggies, it depends. I don't have a
dishwasher so I have to question if saving the amount will be worth washing
the container I saved it in.

kili

Dimitri > wrote:
> 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 don't see that problem. Anyting which would not be worth saving,
like below 100 grams of something, is possible to be eaten by me
quicker that the desision wether to save it or not takes.

I usually make more food that I can eat in one meal, but after and hour
for example I am able to eat the leftover, and I like it, because I like
"snacks" like that. I just get a little hungry after an hour, no matter
what and how much I eat.

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On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 18:25:48 GMT, "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?
>
Since I am retired I usually make lunch for myself at home, often
soup. Little bits of leftovers often make interesting ingredients for
a single bowl of soup.

Example: Last night for dinner I made a clam soup that included a
dozen Long Island Littlenecks. THey were a little larger than usual,
so when time came to add the clam broth to the rest of the soup, I
tasted the soup before all the broth went in.

It was salty enough so I saved the remaining clam broth to salt a
lunch soup.

I normally zap the clams to open them rather than cooking them in the
soup just so I can control this. It also gives me another chance to
eliminate grit if there is some inside a clam.

If I didn't have the single-luch use for small leftover items, I would
toss them.


Rodney Myrvaagnes J36 Gjo/a

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the
simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
- Richard Dawkins, "Viruses of the Mind"

On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 18:25:48 GMT, "Dimitri" >
arranged random neurons, so they looked like this:

>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?
>
The DH is miserable about eating leftovers. Will eat them maybe once.
As I was cleaning up after dinner one night, I held up the entree that
was on its second outing and said, "You want to throw it away now or
wait 'til it goes bad?"

Around here, it's not cost or amount, but a) fridge space, and b)
playing "Name that Entree" when it's become green, black and
disgusting.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret
had been as old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had
been as full as the waitress', it would have been a very
good dinner." Anonymous.

To reply, remove replace "shcox" with "cox"

In article > ,
"Dimitri" > wrote:

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

Neither. We decide what is worth saving based on if it will be eaten
again, in any amount. That's not entirely true, because if we have a
lot, we will save it for Rich to eat, since his job is to eat leftovers
for lunch.

Regards,
Ranee

--
Remove do not and spam to e-mail me.

"The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of
heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by man." Acts 17:24

>Ranee Mueller danced:
>>
>>"Dimitri" wrote:
>
>> What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it? Cost? Amount?
>
>We decide what is worth saving based on if it will be eaten
>again, in any amount. I will save it for Rich to eat, since his job is to eat
leftovers
>for lunch.

You consider yourself leftovers?!?!?

Ahahahahahahahaha. . . .



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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
>
>
I see you are agonizing over the same level of leftovers that I do. Here
is how I determine this decision. Normally, I feel guilty about throwing
out the veggies, so I put them in the fridge. If I don't eat them within
two days, I now know which ones I shouldn't save.
--
Alan

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and
avoid the people, you might better stay home."
--James Michener

Dimitri had something important to tell us on Tue, 06 Apr 2004
18:25:48 GMT:

>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?

If it's meat it goes in the fridge and someone will eat it next day.
We very rarely have leftover vegies - I tend to dish them all onto the
plates and save a little of the meat from the meal if the plates seem
too full, rather than putting the extra vegies into the fridge. That's
because nobody around here seems to remember to EAT them unless
there's meat to go with them! Soups, stews etc get saved if there is
more than one bowlful (lunch next day) as long as they are only on
their first time around. I don't save ANYTHING a second time unless
it's been totally recooked and turned into a whole new dish, because I
don't think that just reheating it will guarantee germfreeness a
second time.

Not all leftovers get eaten of course. Once it gets down to half a
bowl it might sit in the fridge until I get rid of the science
experiments... if it's more than one serve we make the effort to use
it for lunch or even breakfast.

--
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I don't like to throw out food, so I usually save even the little bits
and pieces to take for lunch. If I don't want them for lunch, I keep
leftover vegetables in a freezer container until I have enough for
soup. That said, when I don't feel like saving something, I
cheerfully envoke Peg Bracken's mantra from the I Hate to Cook Book:
When in doubt, throw it out!

Tara

In article > ,
"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?

For me it's some combination of cost, amount and how likely I really am
to use the leftovers.

Miche

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