I'm not long in from work, bought myself a kebab for dinner on the way home and have no interest in going anywhere near the fridge or tidying up or clearing out in any way. That's the way it goes sometimes. I know I do have a very small amount of cream cheese left - I brought the rest of the tub to work today and bought a breadroll and had it with that for lunch but didn't quite finish it. It was fine though so I think it might do on a slice of bread for breakfast tomorrow morning. Apart from that I don't think there was anything to get rid off. I'm not doing much in the way of shopping this weekend either as I have a few things to get use up and it's just easiser to do that sometimes if you have no choice about what to eat and just have to use what's there.
I do have tomatoes that I bought last week - I still haven't gotten around to making the kasundi relish that some Australian friend asked me to try making. I have great plans to do things in the evenings but by the time it hits four or five o'clock I'm getting so tired in work that I can't even contemplate doing anything apart from going home to bed. It hasn't helped that it's been raining for a couple of days now. At least we're not getting the ferocious storms that are hitting Ireland and Scotland - leaving people without electricity even. Actually I need to get working on figuring out how to light a camping stove type thing. I bought a couple of small ones on ebay last year, even bought a bottle of spirits and since then haven't been brave enough to try it out (with a large dose of I'm not really sure what to do). Wish I knew someone who was into camping who could just come over and teach me this kind of thing. I have plenty of candles stashed in two or three easy to get to places (with boxes of matches also stored with them and in a few other places too) so light wouldn't be a problem if the electricity ever did go out here. But having something to heat up water or cook with is something I don't have until I figure out how to light those camping yokes. Come to think of it, I should buy some replacement gel burning things for my fondue set too, there's nothing says that cheese is the only thing you can cook in that pot. I think living on a main road with lots of restaurants and pizza places and the like nearby means I assume I'd be fine even if something did happen. But it'd be nice to feel like I was prepared myself too.
Hmmm, that was a bit of a tangent there, where was I? Oh yes, kasundi. Well, maybe I'll get to that tomorrow.
So, not much food waste this week and a few tasks tomorrow to keep things under control.
Edited about half an hour later: as soon as I'd written the above I was overcome with an unbearable need to get up and check that I really did know what was in my fridge (I also remembered I still had some milk and decided to drink a cup of that to help finish it off). I couldn't have been more wrong about very little food waste this week. What is the matter with me? I made lovely vegetable soup nearly two weeks ago, have looked in the fridge numerous times since then for various things (including FWF last week!) and somehow managed to do it without even seeing that jug of soup. Ridiculous behaviour!
I also found these:
Some apple/nectarine jam which is starting to mould, some quince juice which looks fine but based on the state of the apple juice behind it, I'm not taking any chances on it. The quince juice was supposed to go toward making some jelly and the apple juice was the leftover bit from my steam juicing efforts and was supposed to be a nice treat for my breakfast the next morning. It got shoved to the back and has been there for over two weeks as well (since I gave the juicer back two weeks ago, it has to have been at least that long). I think I just didn't look at an entire shelf of the fridge at all or something. I'd like to say I just need a holiday but I'm not sure that would be enough. I definitely need something! Honestly, how many other people would have this growing in their fridge and not notice?
Shudder, shudder, shudder. I will be scrubbing out the fridge tomorrow, that's for sure. Eeeewwww. And what a waste of some really delicious food!
I know what you mean about being too tired to do anything when you get in from work. I have aims and aspirations on a daily basis to attend to various crafts related projects or practical tasks but recently have achieved zilch. I'm blaming it on the fact that it's at least dreary when i leave for work and definitely dark when i return :-)
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