Apr 15, 2023Liked by Michelle Albanes-Davis, Bad Manners
Lol it’s funny you mention your broth recipe from the first book. I used to buy ready made stuff from the grocery store for soups and stuff until I bought the first book saw the broth recipe and thought WTF am I doing it’s really that simple. I haven’t looked back. Since doing so I’ve noticed a decline in food waste, Not to mention it tastes way more flavourful ! And you’re not recycling the veggie broth cartons either.
Apr 15, 2023Liked by Michelle Albanes-Davis, Bad Manners
Grat article of stuff I have done for years. Moon used to dig a hole in the garden and plop in the scraps. Before winter a bigger hole and keep it going. Keep going w/ good stuff! Also at some point could you please do an index that cross references all your books recipes?
Thank you for this! Very important topic. There's a great app (i think also in the states) called too good to go that allows you to buy older vegetables/produce/meat from stores. still good, just not what the typical consumer wants.
we also have a movement here called "kook je koelkast leeg" which translates to "cook your fridge empty."
I’ve just finished installing a Subpod in one of my planters with a gang of worms living in there to eat all my waste food bits. It reckons that when fully up and running they will get through 10-30 litre of waste a week?! Which seems insane. I don’t think we will have enough scraps for that!
Great article! I save all my kitchen scraps for the freezer, too! The vegetable stock you make with them is packed with flavour and costs you nothing: a win win situation! I feel a responsible adult every time I make it!
Red composting worms…they eat everything faster—and make the world’s best potting soil…not big enough for fishing, though…not that anyone here would do that…but if your peeps fish and find out you have worms, well—they’re too small, really.. but they sure do eat…and multiply..
This is awesome! I made it my resolution this year to work on food waste. I have been relistening to the podcast again and I've been looking forward to that episode where you guys talk about your composting bin in your garden. I want to set something up because I have a lot of plants and this seems like an easy fix for soil problems.
having a sheep farm pretty much solves any leftovers dilemma... i have a scraps container right by the kitchen sink for food scraps that get tossed to the sheep daily. anything i think they wouldn't want to eat (e.g. coffee grounds, eggshells)gets composted. granted, farm life is freaking *hard work* (as my howling aching body can attest at the end of each day!) but it's a lot easier to deal with food scraps when you live on a farm.
Another great read! I’m a proponent of throwing anything you think you’re not gonna finish in the freezer. We always have way too many leftovers, and people are often surprised by the amount of food that’s still just as good a month later when you don’t feel like cooking. Just googling “can this thing be frozen?” Changed my life.
Has anyone tried those overpriced little kitchen composters (Lomi, etc.)? We are trying to buy a house this year, and I’m appalled at the number of neighborhoods where composting is AGAINST THE HOA RULES?! Like... what? I’d prefer to not live in a place where I’m going to be fined for trying to help the earth, but also looking into all options now since the majority of the HOA’s in the area are insane.
We also bought plastic reusable coffee pods for our Keurig coffee machine you can buy them on Amazon. It saves money because you’re not paying over $40 for a box of pods when a tin of coffee is $20 and stretches much further and you don’t have the mess of separating the coffee from the pods in order to recycle the plastic pods. Freezing bread also saves waste when you buy it bulk at Costco there’s no way we are getting through 3 loaves of bread in week.
You inspire me to be even better at good-steward practices! I'm starting my composting now. Even though I live in an urban apartment, I do have access to a small composting bin the site manager uses that I've not bothered to use in the past. Today, I'm setting up a waste bowl when I cook and starting a compost container that's always available. Thank you!
I live in an apartment complex--sorry, community--and was so excited when a green can showed up one day a couple year back. Unfortunately there wasn't any kind of education about it, so people were tossing in their old pizza boxes and whatnot, and then the landscapers started stuffing it full every week with leaves and other clippings, which fine, except that it's a very small portion of what they're still hauling away anyway! I messaged the property management and for the past few weeks it has remained empty so I'm cautiously optimistic that the residents can start dumping scraps again. Why is this so hard, people?!
Lol it’s funny you mention your broth recipe from the first book. I used to buy ready made stuff from the grocery store for soups and stuff until I bought the first book saw the broth recipe and thought WTF am I doing it’s really that simple. I haven’t looked back. Since doing so I’ve noticed a decline in food waste, Not to mention it tastes way more flavourful ! And you’re not recycling the veggie broth cartons either.
Grat article of stuff I have done for years. Moon used to dig a hole in the garden and plop in the scraps. Before winter a bigger hole and keep it going. Keep going w/ good stuff! Also at some point could you please do an index that cross references all your books recipes?
And finally sneaking veggies into smoothies is a good way to use em up
Thank you for this! Very important topic. There's a great app (i think also in the states) called too good to go that allows you to buy older vegetables/produce/meat from stores. still good, just not what the typical consumer wants.
we also have a movement here called "kook je koelkast leeg" which translates to "cook your fridge empty."
I’ve just finished installing a Subpod in one of my planters with a gang of worms living in there to eat all my waste food bits. It reckons that when fully up and running they will get through 10-30 litre of waste a week?! Which seems insane. I don’t think we will have enough scraps for that!
Great article! I save all my kitchen scraps for the freezer, too! The vegetable stock you make with them is packed with flavour and costs you nothing: a win win situation! I feel a responsible adult every time I make it!
Red composting worms…they eat everything faster—and make the world’s best potting soil…not big enough for fishing, though…not that anyone here would do that…but if your peeps fish and find out you have worms, well—they’re too small, really.. but they sure do eat…and multiply..
This is awesome! I made it my resolution this year to work on food waste. I have been relistening to the podcast again and I've been looking forward to that episode where you guys talk about your composting bin in your garden. I want to set something up because I have a lot of plants and this seems like an easy fix for soil problems.
Sweet potatoes are also really good in a creamy chocolate mousse recipe I found on the “plantyou” website.
having a sheep farm pretty much solves any leftovers dilemma... i have a scraps container right by the kitchen sink for food scraps that get tossed to the sheep daily. anything i think they wouldn't want to eat (e.g. coffee grounds, eggshells)gets composted. granted, farm life is freaking *hard work* (as my howling aching body can attest at the end of each day!) but it's a lot easier to deal with food scraps when you live on a farm.
Another great read! I’m a proponent of throwing anything you think you’re not gonna finish in the freezer. We always have way too many leftovers, and people are often surprised by the amount of food that’s still just as good a month later when you don’t feel like cooking. Just googling “can this thing be frozen?” Changed my life.
Has anyone tried those overpriced little kitchen composters (Lomi, etc.)? We are trying to buy a house this year, and I’m appalled at the number of neighborhoods where composting is AGAINST THE HOA RULES?! Like... what? I’d prefer to not live in a place where I’m going to be fined for trying to help the earth, but also looking into all options now since the majority of the HOA’s in the area are insane.
We also bought plastic reusable coffee pods for our Keurig coffee machine you can buy them on Amazon. It saves money because you’re not paying over $40 for a box of pods when a tin of coffee is $20 and stretches much further and you don’t have the mess of separating the coffee from the pods in order to recycle the plastic pods. Freezing bread also saves waste when you buy it bulk at Costco there’s no way we are getting through 3 loaves of bread in week.
You inspire me to be even better at good-steward practices! I'm starting my composting now. Even though I live in an urban apartment, I do have access to a small composting bin the site manager uses that I've not bothered to use in the past. Today, I'm setting up a waste bowl when I cook and starting a compost container that's always available. Thank you!
I live in an apartment complex--sorry, community--and was so excited when a green can showed up one day a couple year back. Unfortunately there wasn't any kind of education about it, so people were tossing in their old pizza boxes and whatnot, and then the landscapers started stuffing it full every week with leaves and other clippings, which fine, except that it's a very small portion of what they're still hauling away anyway! I messaged the property management and for the past few weeks it has remained empty so I'm cautiously optimistic that the residents can start dumping scraps again. Why is this so hard, people?!
I had not even heard of the compost law, and it’s certainly not in affect in Northern California! I can’t even find places to drop off compost!