Once that was finished I started in on conquering Mt Weiland aka, the laundry pile and the never ending sink of dishes.
When modern technology was busy cleaning our unmentionables I threw myself into organizing my pantry shelf and got rid of so much expired product. (like 3 tall kitchen garbage bags worth)
Every time I hear the statistics about how much food Americans waste and throw away every day. I always think to myself, there's no way we waste that much food. Well guess what? I may not waste as much as the daily average on a daily basis but I made up for it today and was frightened at how long some of the items had stayed in my home and somehow flew under the radar during previous cleanings. The winner was a bottle of dressing that had fallen off the back of the shelf and rolled under, 2009 was it's expiration date, 10 years!!!!! And before you even ask, I have no idea how it had gone unnoticed that long, I've pulled the entire shelf out away from the wall at least annually to clean, around, behind and under.
I ate breakfast around 1 o'clock this afternoon so when hubby suggested dinner and a movie I reminded him that we weren't dining out for dinner for a couple more weeks. He reminded me that I hadn't had lunch yet so we'd call it linner (the love child of lunch and dinner, think brunch). Go for an early linner and then a movie.
In the spirit of not wasting any more food darling daughter had a variety of leftovers at her disposal thanks to the fact that I've been cooking every night.
An important part of cooking efficiently and on a budget really is trying not to waste anything. I know some people don't like leftovers. I'm fortunate that leftovers are my husband's preferred lunch on his work days and when we have a lot of leftovers we do usually designate one night a week to eat leftovers for dinner.
Often leftover soups will be portioned out and go in the freezer for later consumption. We also have a dehydrator and can dehydrate some meals to be later used on camping or backpacking trips.
If your family really and truly won't eat leftovers try to cook accordingly and keep your portions in check.
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