Do You Ever Make Something Then Throw It Out?

katlupe

katlupe

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Do you ever buy and/or cook something and throw it out instead of eating it? I hate to waste food more than anything. I have cans of soups that I will never eat because of all the ingredients they put in them. I will never eat them. I did not buy them, I think I got them from a food pantry some time ago. I tried to give them to my son but he said he doesn't eat them anymore. I also had a can of sausage gravy. Libby's. So I thought I'd use it up and mixed it in with some breakfast sausage I had cooked. Now I love sausage gravy..........my own or in certain restaurants. I went to taste it and could not even do it. It looked like paste and I left it sitting in the pan.

Is it just me? I guess I feel guilty about it because I lived without much besides what I grew before I moved here. I know though, that sausage gravy will make me feel even worse if I eat it. They put so much stuff in these foods to preserve them that they ruin what may have been a good product.
 

Never, Kat.

I cook and bake everything from scratch, and the biggest push for me as to the why's of what I do is attributed to the junk they sell on store shelves. 99% of if is garbage and shouldn't even be allowed to be made need alone sold.

If you do have food related things you know you'll never eat, donate them to your local food bank. At least someone will take them/get to enjoy them.

I could my blessings that hubby and I can eat what we want and the way we want. We don't have to watch our dollars when shopping.

Definitely makes for a greater experience when one can prepare meals and desserts using only the best of ingredients.
 
I’ve had similar situations experimenting with foods that were touted as healthier options or miracle foods.

I try them and they end up in the back of the cupboard for a year or two until I do a purge.

Most recently it was a bag of dry TVP and a small bag of chia seeds.

I’m always curious and hopeful that I’ll make a life changing discovery relating to healthy, economical, meal planning for one person.
 
Aunt Bea said:
I’ve had similar situations experimenting with foods that were touted as healthier options or miracle foods.

I try them and they end up in the back of the cupboard for a year or two until I do a purge.

Most recently it was a bag of dry TVP and a small bag of chia seeds.

I’m always curious and hopeful that I’ll make a life changing discovery relating to healthy, economical, meal planning for one person.
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I use TVP. I agree some things that are pushed as being healthy, I don't like either. Like quinoa and kale. Also flax seeds. I avoid them, I have heard they can go rancid quickly, at least the ground ones.
 
Wow, it's too bad that can of gravy was so bad, :sick::oops:
@katlupe
that it ruined the entire thing, after you'd had a good idea on how to use it up.

I've had the same rare experience with some things I tried, in the past.
Usually these experiments, can be suffered through , or additionally doctored by some other idea, by we who are very determined... :rolleyes::sneaky:

But sometimes they just cannot. :oops:
Some ingredients that rationally should have gone together, just didn't!
They are simply not palatable, and it's okay to make an exception, and toss it. :giggle:
And,
Especially if it will upset your body, if you force some down!

Btw, don't add error to error, by adding more ingredients you think might make something more palatable,
when you might just end up with a greater quantity of something that needs to be tossed! ;):LOL::love:
 
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Living alone, I find I throw things out more often than I would like ... expired, bad quality, or just something that I thought I would like to try and it turned out to be terrible.
The quality of some name brand foods is slipping ... not just the sizes sold.
 
Aunt Marg said:
Never, Kat.

I cook and bake everything from scratch, and the biggest push for me as to the why's of what I do is attributed to the junk they sell on store shelves. 99% of if is garbage and shouldn't even be allowed to be made need along sold.

If you do have food related things you know you'll never eat, donate them to your local food bank. At least someone will take them/get to enjoy them.

I could my blessings that hubby and I can eat what we want and the way we want. We don't have to watch our dollars when shopping.

Definitely make for a greater experience when one can prepare meals and desserts using only the best of ingredients.
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I am still waiting to see a 🍨 dessert made by you.
 
I have some stuff in the frig that's got to go this week. I ate half. My digestive system isn't as forgiving as it used to be. One is a frozen pizza, just can't eat the rest and another is Hormel's beef tips, been there too long to consider safe to eat. Oh and some grape tomatoes. They weren't that good when they were fresh-er.
 
Aunt Bea said:
I’ve had similar situations experimenting with foods that were touted as healthier options or miracle foods.

I try them and they end up in the back of the cupboard for a year or two until I do a purge.

Most recently it was a bag of dry TVP and a small bag of chia seeds.

I’m always curious and hopeful that I’ll make a life changing discovery relating to healthy, economical, meal planning for one person.
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That's me! I have tried stuff thinking it will be good based on other people's reviews and yuk! Chia seeds was one for me too.
 
Kaila said:
Wow, it's too bad that can of gravy was so bad, :sick::oops:
@katlupe
that it ruined the entire thing, after you'd had a good idea on how to use it up.

I've had the same rare experience with some things I tried, in the past.
Usually these experiments, can be suffered through , or additionally doctored by some other idea, by we who are very determined... :rolleyes::sneaky:

But sometimes they just cannot. :oops:
Some ingredients that rationally should have gone together, just didn't!
They are simply not palatable, and it's okay to make an exception, and toss it. :giggle:
And,
Especially if it will upset your body, if you force some down!

Btw, don't add error to error, by adding more ingredients you think might make something more palatable,
when you might just end up with a greater quantity of something that needs to be tossed! ;):LOL::love:
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I have done that too. When I lived with my husband, he was fussy about certain things like mushrooms, cabbage or onions, but as long as none of them were in my failure, he'd eat the whole thing anyway.

I did end up eating that sausage and gravy. I watered it down a bit so it was more like soup. But I know I can make really good sausage gravy and I could have made my own. I just wanted to use that can up.
 
Bonnie said:
Living alone, I find I throw things out more often than I would like ... expired, bad quality, or just something that I thought I would like to try and it turned out to be terrible.
The quality of some name brand foods is slipping ... not just the sizes sold.
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Yes, living alone changed my grocery budget so that I could afford more food but have had to learn to cut down the amounts I prepare. I love trying new foods or products so if they are horrible I throw them out.

The quality has gone downhill in many brands. If you read the ingredient labels you don't even know what is in it. I like to watch FlavCity with Bobby Parrish videos on YouTube and he explains in detail various foods' ingredients. I am taking notes!
 
Judycat said:
I have some stuff in the frig that's got to go this week. I ate half. My digestive system isn't as forgiving as it used to be. One is a frozen pizza, just can't eat the rest and another is Hormel's beef tips, been there too long to consider safe to eat. Oh and some grape tomatoes. They weren't that good when they were fresh-er.
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I get so disappointed by the grape tomatoes or berries that come in that little plastic package. Usually the bottom level is moldy in the berries or wrinkled and squashed in the grape tomatoes. I have learned how to preserve produce better but it doesn't change the taste.
 
We seldom throw food out but when we do it’s typically a vegetable of some kind. We cook our meals from scratch and if I miss-plan and don’t use up all the fresh veggies we bought, the overage will end up in the compost bin.

Leftover dinner portions end up as lunch. We both still work so it’s really nice to have something nutritious and tasty to eat on our lunch breaks instead of some fast food item or packaged meal.
 
Lesson learned a long time ago when cream sherry was an after dinner drink I thought it might be a great to use in scrambled eggs. Wrong! Only time food was thrown out.
 
Yes....and that libbys sausage gravy smells like dish soap...I tried it out and I'm over it.....
Tennessee pride makes a good one...and another one called "old folks sausage gravy " ...freezer section
 
Aunt Marg said:
Never, Kat.

I cook and bake everything from scratch, and the biggest push for me as to the why's of what I do is attributed to the junk they sell on store shelves. 99% of if is garbage and shouldn't even be allowed to be made need alone sold.

If you do have food related things you know you'll never eat, donate them to your local food bank. At least someone will take them/get to enjoy them.

I could my blessings that hubby and I can eat what we want and the way we want. We don't have to watch our dollars when shopping.

Definitely makes for a greater experience when one can prepare meals and desserts using only the best of ingredients.
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Well, when I cook from scratch, oh, wait, I don’t do that 😂
 
yes.. somewhere along the line of life I have developed a taste ability to bad things...bought something in a store that was cooked and after the first taste I knew it was bad and if I ate it I would be sitting on the throne for a week....I have made things using canned foods and found it to also be off and was tossed....also have developed an intolerence to some foods I used to eat, green leaf lettuce, onions, anything from mcdonalds (cooking oil?)
 
It’s only been in the last couple of years that I’ve discovered that canned foods have an expiry date. I’ve kept some canned foods too long.

Occasionally I make something I don’t like so it gets tossed. There’s rarely anything I purchase that I don’t like since I make most of my foods myself so know what’s in them.
 
cdestroyer said:
yes.. somewhere along the line of life I have developed a taste ability to bad things...bought something in a store that was cooked and after the first taste I knew it was bad and if I ate it I would be sitting on the throne for a week....I have made things using canned foods and found it to also be off and was tossed....also have developed an intolerence to some foods I used to eat, green leaf lettuce, onions, anything from mcdonalds (cooking oil?)
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Yup, it would be the McDonald’s cooking oil, you can always “taste“when it needs to be cleaned.
 

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