Just to keep things real. It is not all crafts, baking and sunshine here in the hut.
I was struggling yesterday to make our ten day food plan. This is by the way one most effective ways of reducing food waste and keep the budget under control in my opinion and experience. I was begging suggestions from my family as my brain just wouldn't yield anything interesting and easy enough and made it in the end with a herculean effort. I even compiled a shopping list for this morning. Pleased with my staying power I ripped the old menu off the fridge and threw it into the kitchen bin, put the new one on and used an extra magnet to hang my shopping list overnight on the fridge door. Or that is what I thought...
This morning, almost ready to roll I was grabbing my list just to realise that it was the old menu. The new one was where it should be, so the shopping list was naturally in the BIN! And as I was a lazy bone last night, I threw it in the mixed waste bin.
AAARGHHHHHHH!!!! I had to fish it out under tealeaves and other waste, so that I didn't have to do all the thinking and checking the ingredients again. (I did copy it out rather than using the manky copy for shopping!)
Note to self: Use recycling bin for ALL writing paper waste.
3 comments:
I feel your pain! I put the eggs in the washing machine instead of the fridge a couple of weeks ago!(not my only absent minded confession either!)You should have carried your manky,ecoli list with pride as a tribute to mothers everywhere!
I like the 10 day food plan...I tend to shop daily as we are so close to shops and I tailor it to what we are doing that day.Im sure if I planned ahead I could reduce the cost of our food.
Sandie, the list would have dripped bin smelling tea all over my bag/pocket, so no thanks! (I didn't have time to let it dry).
I like the eggs in the washing machine...how and when did you find out?
I find that shopping infrequently lessens the amount of impulsive purchases and on the whole the fewer times I frequent shops, less I use. I also practise "lets stretch it one more day before buying more food".
Sandie, the list would have dripped bin smelling tea all over my bag/pocket, so no thanks! (I didn't have time to let it dry).
I like the eggs in the washing machine...how and when did you find out?
I find that shopping infrequently lessens the amount of impulsive purchases and on the whole the fewer times I frequent shops, less I use. I also practise "lets stretch it one more day before buying more food".
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