Used
- Lettuce, avocado, eggs, tomatoes - these made several salads with sprinklings of seeds and a dressing of left over sundried tomato oil and balsamic vinegar
- Left over spinach omelet - had this for lunch with some avocado
- More tomatoes, some lettuce and half an avocado - used the tomatoes to make a batch of "butter chick peas" rather than using tinned or carton tomatoes. I had this with rice one night and with lettuce and avocado another night as I was craving greenery
- Half a butter nut squash and 2 onions - these went into a big batch of soup along with some lentils
- Half an avocado and 4 tomatoes - made a raw cream of tomato soup for a lighter eating day.
- Spring onions, half a red pepper, a little broccoli, an egg, left over rice from curry night - veg fried rice
- Pomegranate juice - used all of this to disguise the taste of the barley grass powder
- Sheep's yogurt - this was mixed with granola and used to tone down the chickpea curry. Surprised at how much I liked the taste
- Apples - snacked on these, some plain and some with almond butter
I only bought one fresh thing last week which was a bag of spinach.
Wasted
I had to throw out a few tomatoes that had gone mouldy (they had been there a loooong time) and
one clementine that I didn't get to in time. Not bad!
What's Left
- Some broccoli
- A red pepper
- Beetroot
- Apples
- Chillies
- Onions
- Leeks
- A little bit of lettuce
- An avocado
- Half a tub of sheep's yogurt
- Sheep's cheese
- Eggs
- Half a butternut squash
- Almond milk
- The rest of the juices, condiments and protein shakes
This has really highlighted to me how little I really consume during the week and how far I can make things stretch. I certainly don't need to buy anything fresh this week unless I need something specific although I suspect I'll buy some more tomatoes.
Have you ever taken a good look at what you *really* use in a week? Would anyone like any of the recipes for any of the meals I mentioned?
What a good idea to examine how wasteful you are. I know this is something that I need to work on. I buy loads of fresh produce when I go shopping, and like you, only afterwards end up realising how little I use in a week.
ReplyDeleteFresh produce is so alluring isn't it? But when you're one or two people or have limited freezer space it's hard to get through it. I started to over eat because things "needed using up" and I couldn't bear to throw things in the bin!
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