14 June 2008

Cook from the Cupboard - Week 1 and 2

My aim with this cook from the cupboard challenge is to reduce the number of packaged/non used food items that seem to have accumulated in the various places around the kitchen, reduce the number of packaged foods that I buy and encourage us all to use what we have. This will make it easier to know what is needed and how much or little to buy.

Due to technical difficulties (read there is too much going on), this report covers week one and two. I will try to report on this weekly from now on.

Things eaten from the cupboard:
  • Spices - not so much eaten as thrown out - anything that was out of date (how does that creep up to quickly) - approximately 12 vials of herbs and spices out the door.
  • Three of the four cans of tomatos
  • Two out of three cans of chickpeas
  • Finished pine nuts
  • Finished crunchy nut cereal
  • Used but did not finish oats, golden syrup and rice bubbles (made a slice and some anzac biscuits)
  • 300g white chocolate in a white brownie mix
  • Finished dried cranberries in the above brownie mix
Things eaten from the fridge:
  • Butter and copha - some odds and ends of butter and some elderly copha (who knows when they were out of date) again not eaten but thrown out of the butter keeper.
  • Several packages of cheese that were not edible were also disposed of, including some bococcini which I bought from the deli (its cheaper) had not got round to eating and found it had gone horrible (its a technical term), not a great saving in the end as had I bought my usual stuff (more expensive) it would have been happily sitting in brine and very usable.
  • Finished off the parmesan in a frittata along with the cream and the last three eggs - have replaced eggs and I still have block parmesan.
  • Used but did not finish the ghee.
  • Finished the bacon
  • Two fresh tomatos
  • Three fresh carrots
  • One and half bunches of corriander
  • Milk - replaced
Things eaten from the freezer:
  • Finished the frozen pies and sausage rolls
  • Finished the spinach and cheese triangles
  • Used a parcel of mince in a spag bol

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