What do you do with your food waste?

[MargaretR]

If serving dishes were used instead of just presenting somone with a plateful, then it is hygenically acceptable to reuse any food left in those dishes at the end of a meal. eg - cold mashed potatoes can go into homemade fish cakes, cooked veg can go into soups and omelettes etc. Reheating meat is not recommended more than once and then it needs reheating very thoroughly.
Wasting food is just not the way I was raised - during post war rationing.
There was no junk food then, which is probably why it gets left in the 1st place -I cant think of any way of reusing cooked potnoodle, but I never eat it so havent tried

[entwisi]

Try frying them with the left over chips and curry sauce from your supper. If you happened to have passed the kebab shop on the way as well a bit of Chicken Tikka or donner adds a little extra kick.

[entwisi]

Originally Posted by panther

heres a question for you where do you put your used cooking fat out of the chip pan????

Depends if its cooking 'OIL' or as I prefer, LARD, the latter would go in the bin , the former I sneak in Neil's diesel car (Shhhh, don't tell him!!!!)

[Mick]

Originally Posted by entwisi

Depends if its cooking 'OIL' or as I prefer, LARD, the latter would go in the bin , the former I sneak in Neil's diesel car (Shhhh, don't tell him!!!!)

Neil was saying his car has never run better than it has done in the last few months and he was getting a lot of mileage from it.

[davo69]

used cooking oil should be tacken to a household waste recycling centre put with motor oil

[WillowTheWhisp]

......and think of the carbon footprint that must create going on an extra journey, in a vehicle, adding to the air polution, using up fuel........ you can't win.

[West Ender]

There's very little ever left, in our house, but what bit there is is scraped off the plate into the waste bin and I still feel guilty, doing it. In my head I can hear a voice saying, "Don't throw that away. I'll take it off your hands if it's going spare", which is what Jet, or old dog, would have said, accompanied by an accusing look, if she'd been able to talk.

I have very little "sloppy" waste, what constitutes that? I use olive oil for frying but in such small quantities it's absorbed by the food and I haven't had a chip pan or deep-fat fryer for many years. If the pan is left with a residue I rinse it under hot water and I put Domestos down the sink regularly. I can't think of anything else that's sloppy apart from the milk that's sometimes left at the bottom of a cereal bowl.

The more solid waste, what bit there is of it, goes in the bin and gets transferred to the wheelie bin in a tied plastic bin-liner. Uncooked vegetable waste goes in the compost bin.

[grannyclaret]

Originally Posted by panther

heres a question for you where do you put your used cooking fat out of the chip pan???? down the loo, or down the sink or back in the bottle!!

We use crisp and dry ,,which is solid ,so i put it in the black sacks (when its solid again of course, not when its hot...)

[MargaretR]

You might be eating trans fats - not good for you
Trans Fats 101 - Feature Story - University of Maryland Medicine

[WillowTheWhisp]

The 'sloppy waste' which inspired the debate on the radio was Tony Livesey's left over breakfast cereal, with milk.

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

The 'sloppy waste' which inspired the debate on the radio was Tony Livesey's left over breakfast cereal, with milk.

He should have eaten it all up - naughty boy

[entwisi]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

You might be eating trans fats - not good for you
Trans Fats 101 - Feature Story - University of Maryland Medicine

Oh no I'm not!!!, Olive oil for shallow frying, Lard for deep frying

Trans fats work of teh devil,


Oh, what was it that first brought the idea of them being so bad for you to the consumers mind yep, the unhealthy(according to some) ATKINS Diet

[panther]

ahhh the atkins diet!!
didnt do the fella much good did it!

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by entwisi

Oh no I'm not!!!, Olive oil for shallow frying, Lard for deep frying

Trans fats work of teh devil,


Oh, what was it that first brought the idea of them being so bad for you to the consumers mind yep, the unhealthy(according to some) ATKINS Diet

I was replying to Grannyclaret (should have used a quote)
Glad to see you dont use them spread the word

[Tin Monkey]

Tony Livesey also asked how many people ate in the toilet? Seems pretty disgusting to me, but in the name of research I thought I'd give it a go.

Didn't really work out for me. The candelabra and napkin kept slipping round the u-bend.