I have to get this food waste under control. I want to get a handle on it simply because it’s wasteful of our grocery money and not being a good steward, but now I have an extra motivation. Since we’re wanting to go into foreign missions, we’ll more than likely be in a third world country, where we’ll be the rich people. I can’t be tossing old food out when their’s literally people around me starving.

So…I’m going to be linking up at Food Waste Friday again, at least for a while, and each Friday I’ll also share a tip on how to NOT waste food.

At the beginning of this week, I cleaned out my fridge and pantry to begin this waste-less-food journey (wanted to start on a clean slate), and I threw out about 2 grocery bags of food….yes, I’m embarrassed to say the least.

Bake old dairy into muffins.

Waste-Not-Want-Not Tip: When your milk (or yogurt, sour cream or buttermilk) starts to get a little sour smelling (but still okay to drink), bake it into something. I made 2 batches of muffins this week with old milk, although I still have a lot more milk to use! Hopefully I won’t be blogging about it being wasted next week!