Or well, I didn't really forget about it, but I did forget to write about it. As said earlier, I've done a lot of cleaning this week, amongst other things I've cleaned the fridge, freezer and the pantry. Of course this resulted in an enourmous pile of food that was waaaay beyond it's expiration date (seriously?? 2005?? that means I simply packed it and moved it with me when I came to live here, how stupid is that?).
Well in my defence, most of the products that were way beyond their dates were herbs and spices, so for me at least that makes it less yuck.
I've had an enourmous fail defrosting the freezer though. We've been eating frozen foods all darn month to get the thing empty in order to waste as little as possible.
We managed to defrost the thing quite fast and the stuffs that we didn't eat yet were put back in, for future consumption.
And then...
I forgot to plug back in.
DOH!
Can you imagine? I felt so incredibly stupid the next day. Going through all that effort to clean the thing out as fast as possible before foods would be spoiled, and then forgetting to plug the thing back in. We had eaten most of the foods already so it wasn't that bad, but it still irritated me very much.
So yes, all in all, mainly due to my own stupidity, I've wasted quite some food. Food that was once perfectly fine but that I've lost track of; and ofcourse freezer-fail-food. I've also "Wasted" foods that were okay in itself, but due to my daughter's allergies I can't have them anyways. I've given these things away because it was a shame to bin these items.
In a nutshell, this is what I threw out after cleaning the fridge and the pantry:
On the bright side, and very positive for me! I managed not to waste any food that I had bought recently. Usually I'm a bit sloppy with things like that, throwing out that one last lonesome carrot or tomato that's about to go bad. But now I decided that it was a good reason for soup, even though I don't really like soup.
In the light of the Zero Waste lifestyle I had decided to use cloth diapers again for my youngest daughter, but her skin reacted badly to it. I guess I'll give them a special treatment clean before I use them again, stripping them of all detergents.
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