Tuesday, August 2, 2011

How trashy are you?

During an average week we...
Compost 7 quarts of compostables.
Feed the chickens about 2 quarts of scraps.
Recycle 2 large bins of stuff.
Throw out one small white kitchen bag of trash.
Then there are THOSE weeks...
The one where you clean out the cupboards and find expired weird stuff...
Or clean out the kids room and find a stash of broken toys that they were hiding...
Or this week when I cleaned out the freezer...yikes...

Freezer burnt tomatoes from 2 years ago...
A loaf of bread I can't remember making (chicken treat)
4 pints of freezer burnt rhubarb (chickens are eating high on the hog tonight)...
Soup...unlabeled and undated...going in the trash...I see meat in it...
Maybe spaghetti sauce...maybe gazpacho...anybody's guess...trash...
Cranberries...oh boy cranberry sauce with chicken in a couple nights...
Blackberries...smoothies?

I have been planning defrosting the chest freezer since I noticed it's only about half full...
Cleaning out the freezer in the kitchen will make that possible i'm guessing in about a month so that way we can use up what's in the kitchen freezer and then move items from the chest to the kitchen.  In the chest freezer there are bananas... about 1/8th of a cow...some chicken... and a few quarts of blueberries.

Menu planning will be put into place in order to use up the items left...so in our future there are...
Blueberry muffins for breakfast (in the oven)
Blueberry pie at Glummer (end of summer festival at our house...we're glum because it's the end of summer) or pineapple blueberry dump cake...not sure yet...
Beef stuff...
Banana bread...
Cranberry sauce (chillin in the fridge right now.)
Lots of smoothies.
Hamburgers at Glummer as well...

At this point of the month, I have usually done our large shopping order for the rest of the month, but I haven't had to yet...in fact I've only bought (or rather the husband stopped on his way home from work and bought) milk and coffee, two items we cannot make here.

I am truly thankful that we are able to take care of our needs via the freezer.

3 comments:

  1. I'm doing a month of No-Spend and going to have to go through our freezer as well. It's going to be interesting trying to identify some of the frozen stuff.

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  2. I love the term "glummer" I may have to adopt it for our back-to-school night theme.

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  3. I need to clean out my freezer, too. It's amazing what you can find in there!

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