What is worth saving?

Any more than 2/3 days in the fridge, and I chuck it - or
mix it in with the dog's food - or add to a soup.
E.

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The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans
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container.

I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4
forks full) is

worth

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saving and I would have tossed it.

What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it?
Cost? Amount?

Dimitri

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What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it?
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For me it's usually based on whether I think I'll end up
using it or not. I try to buy only as much as I can use, but
with some items that's not always possible. I also try to
plan out meals which will use excess ingredients from
previous meals, but that doesn't work out all the time
either. Of course, I'll toss stuff I've saved that have
exceeded my comfort zone for leftovers.

-Mike

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The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans
saved in a

plastic

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container.

I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4
forks full) is

worth

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saving and I would have tossed it.

What to you is worth saving and how do you determine
it? Cost? Amount?

Dimitri

I save cooked veggies if there are enough for at least 1
seving as a side dish.

I save meat if enough to use as at least 1 serving in a
meal. Smaller servings can go in a salad.

I save most bones for soup if no-one put them near their
mouth. (I hate the word noone seems to be the incorrect way
to spell noon.)

I save Liquids stuff cooked in if I have a immediate or next
day use for
it. Example: Potato water is a nice addition to soups or to
cook rice in.

But I'm one of those you must clean your plate people,
ingrained from childhood.

These actions are my frugality. Not the price of the
foodstuff. I won't save one egg white if I need 1 yolk or
vice versa. But if I need 3 or 4 I will. But I usually chuck
them out 4 or 5 days later If I haven't used them yet (not
used is the usual case).

--
Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on
nothing but food and water.
--------
FIELDS, W. C.

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The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans
saved in a plastic container.

I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4
forks full) is

worth

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saving and I would have tossed it.

What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it?
Cost? Amount?

Dimitri

Neither. With me, it's whether I can use it up in, say, soup
or some other recipe. I do try not to waste food, but don't
always manage it. (Witness the just-discovered cucumber
going downhill in the refrigerator.)

Dora

Dimitri said:

The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans
saved in a plastic container.

I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4
forks full) is worth saving and I would have tossed it.

What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it?
Cost? Amount?

Dimitri

Depends on the food. Amount usually prevails over cost,
unless you're talking lamb chops or a prime cut of steak.
Now that I have a small parrot, many small amounts of
leftover vegetables can be given to her rather than tossed
out. It's fun to watch Peaches eat a quarter of an ear of
corn on the cob LOL

Jill

Depends on what space you have to store stuff. I will
happily own up to end up ditching half the stuff we save for
later ! After a decent roast dinner, I do like taking all
leftover veggies and meat that we don't plan to eat and
reducing that to a gravy base that we freeze and then use
next time we have a frozen pie / toad in hole . What gets
strained out whilst making the stock goes into Dog's bowl on
top of his biscuits.

On one of her programmes the Blessed Nigella claimed to
freeze all her left over bones to reduce to a stock once
she'd saved enough . We don't have the space.

Steve

Dimitri said:

The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans
saved in a plastic container.

I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4
forks full) is worth saving and I would have tossed it.

What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it?
Cost? Amount?

Dimitri

Steve Yates wrote: to freeze all her

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left over bones to reduce to a stock once she'd saved
enough . We don't have the space.

Steve

How much room can bones take up? I've got limited space and
only a small freezer compartment on top of my 18 cu. ft.
fridge, but I managed to freeze chicken carcasses and beef
bones for making stocks.

Jill

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Dimitri said:

The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans
saved in a plastic container.

I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4
forks full) is worth saving and I would have tossed it.

What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it?
Cost? Amount?

Dimitri

Dimitri said:

The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans
saved in a plastic container.

I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4
forks full) is worth saving and I would have tossed it.

What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it?
Cost? Amount?

Dimitri

Depends a lot on the mood I'm in. Generally I'll save it if
there is enough (and it was tasty enough) for a full meal
for the two or four of us (Daughter, SIL and their toddler
eat with us most evening meals) or lunch for myself or DH.
If it was icky the first time around or won't reheat well, I
toss it. If I planned the first meal to have leftovers or
ingredients to build another meal on, it gets saved.

I spent too many years with parents and inlaws who lived
through the Depression era and as a result would save and
eat anything, no matter how bad, to share that style now. We
had a few lean years recently where I cooked frugally, but I
won't do it except by necessity again.

gloria p

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worth

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saving and I would have tossed it.

What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it?
Cost? Amount?

Dimitri

To be perfectly honest with you, Dimitri, about the only
factor I consider these days is "will anyone eat this if I
save it?" I got tired of saving things that were never
eaten, only to throw them away later. It took me a while to
get used to cooking for only 3, and sometimes I still make
too much, but at least it's usually the meat that I make too
much of, and that usually gets eaten! As long as it is
enough for at least one serving, and I know someone will eat
it, I will save it.

kimberly

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I'll save something most people would consider negligible,
as long as it's appetizing. It may come in handy to throw
into some soup or an omelet. If it's not used in a couple of
days, out it goes.

Naomi D.

Dimitri said:

The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans
saved in a plastic container.

I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4
forks full) is worth saving and I would have tossed it.

What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it?
Cost? Amount?

Well, I am what you might call a nosher. Cold green beans
out of the refrigerator might look great in the morning.
Just yesterday, some leftover brussels sprouts and a half a
baked potato came in handy with leftover rib roast. I guess,
to me it's often something that I can reheat a little
leftover something for a quick snack.

If it's something that wouldn't reheat well and I don't like
leftover cold, I'd toss it.

nancy

Dimitri said:

The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans
saved in a plastic container.

I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4
forks full) is worth saving and I would have tossed it.

What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it?
Cost? Amount?

This is a running joke in our house.

"Shall I throw this away?"

"No, that's good. Save it."

"O.K., I'll put it in the fridge. We can throw it away
later."

Green vegetables tend to get eaten as leftovers only if
there's enough of them to put a vinaigrette type dressing on
top and added to so they can get eaten as a salad.

Orange vegetables such as squash, sweet potatoes and carrots
tend to get eaten as leftovers only if there's enough of
them to get baked into a pie, and even then I often don't
get around to it.

Leftover stew, whether chicken, beef or lamb, gets stew-
helper in the form of pasta and an extra can of tomato
sauce.

Plain roasted meats and chicken are good cold and get
eaten as such.

Highly gussied up foods such as things made with fancy
sauces, oddly enough, tend to get thrown out. Somehow
they're not appealing cold, and no one knows what to do
with them.

--Lia

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Dimitri said:

The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans
saved in a plastic container.

I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4
forks full) is worth saving and I would have tossed it.

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What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it?
Cost? Amount?

Dimitri

Generally speaking, I'll save more than 1/4 cup; dibs and
dabs can make a lunch meal. I'd have saved those green
beans. Or eaten them before storing.
--
-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> updated 3-29-04.

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The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans
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I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4
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worth

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saving and I would have tossed it.

What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it?
Cost? Amount?

Dimitri

Those green beans, if they were fresh and steamed, would
have been great mixed into a green salad. We always have
leftovers in our house. Leonel, my husband, will eat just
about anything - hahaha. Nothing gets tossed unless it was
something that we just didn't like to begin with.

NancyJaye

Melba's Jammin said:

Generally speaking, I'll save more than 1/4 cup; dibs and
dabs can make a lunch meal. I'd have saved those green
beans. Or eaten them before storing.

I have heard of people who keep a "soup" container in the
fridge or freezer for those odd bits. With some dedication
to the project I'm sure it works. I have a really annoying
SIL who makes such a production of her "Scot thriftiness" it
drives everyone batty. To see her drop everything and dash
across the kitchen to the pantry to retrieve the bread crumb
container, then brush-brush-brush all 12 crumbs from the
cutting board into it then scurry it back into the pantry is
hysterical yet sad. I always feel its done more for show
than to save the world. But that's a whole 'nuther story.
Oy. Goomba

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Generally speaking, I'll save more than 1/4 cup; dibs and
dabs can make a lunch meal. I'd have saved those green
beans. Or eaten them before storing.

-Barb

Me too... or save em to slip into a tuna sammiche, twixt the
slices of hard burled aiggs.

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NATIONS To Paris =--- Sheldon ```````````` "Life would be
devoid of all meaning were it without tribulation."

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The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans
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I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4
forks full) is

worth

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saving and I would have tossed it.

What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it?
Cost? Amount?

Dimitri

Those green beans, if they were fresh and steamed, would
have been great mixed into a green salad. We always have
leftovers in our house. Leonel, my husband, will eat just
about anything - hahaha. Nothing gets tossed unless it was
something that we just didn't like to begin with.

NancyJaye

Exactly my method too.

I can't bear tossing out good food. It's not really
frugality as much as awe at the effort and resources that
went into producing the raw materials (vegetables, fruit,
meat) etc. I try not to think of the waste in grocery stores
and restaurants.

That's not to say that I don't let some things go bad (by
accident), including recently 1/2 bag of spinach. :<
(Interestingly, food really does seem to keep longer in my
new refrigerator. I can almost get through a whole bunch of
celery before it starts getting rubbery.)

Sue(tm) Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

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The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans
saved in a plastic container.

I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4
forks full) is

worth

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saving and I would have tossed it.

What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it?
Cost? Amount?

Dimitri

To be perfectly honest with you, Dimitri, about the only
factor I consider these days is "will anyone eat this if I
save it?" I got tired of saving things that were never
eaten, only to throw them away later. It took me a while
to get used to cooking for only 3, and sometimes I still
make too much, but at least it's usually the meat that I
make too much of, and that usually gets eaten! As long as
it is enough for at least one serving, and I know someone
will eat it, I will save it.

kimberly

I am constantly throwing stuff out. OTOH, I've managed to
salvage quite a few left overs to put in soups, stews etc. I
try to gauge if I can use it or if someone will eat it. Many
times I'll take a bit of this and that to work for lunch.
Some left overs are eaten right away. A piece of pizza, a
small amount of pasta. We use left over chicken, beef and
pork in stir fry or for a BBQ sandwich sometimes. I suppose
it all depends on what the people in your household will eat
or use for other dishes.

Michael

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December 12, 1968

Dimitri said:

The other day I saw a very small amount of green beans
saved in a plastic container.

I admit I don't think that amount of food (maybe 3 or 4
forks full) is worth saving and I would have tossed it.

What to you is worth saving and how do you determine it?
Cost? Amount?

Dimitri

We save all such small scraps and make soup from them once a
week. There's no good reason to throw it out. Even with the
'scraps' there's still plenty of room in the fridge.