If you have a compost bin and a garden it makes it less painful.
Agreed, but I usually don’t bother when the zucchini has turned to liquid in the bag 🤮
That slurry is fantastic for compost piles. It’s loaded with bacteria and nutrients, and seeps down into the pile to help jumpstart the internal brown waste decomp. Extra bonus if you add it right after turning (if you bother with that).
I… may forget, and let things liquify more than I’d care to admit… which is great news in fall and spring (added heat from active microbes helps warm the pile and keep it active longer), less great in winter when the pile is frozen solid.
Not a problem for William Carlos Williams:
I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox
and which you were probably saving for breakfast
Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold
You don’t have to refrigerate plums. If you leave them out you’re more likely to pass by them and go “oh hey plums” and bam.
“Hey, plums. I should eat one… Maybe later.”
They last a lot longer if you do refrigerate them though. Particularly with soft flesh fruits like plums, that have about 12 hours of good ripeness before they start bletting if you leave them at room temperature.
“Like the fruit of the medlar, sooner rotten than ripe.”
Bag of brown cucumber soup anyone?
Had a couple of rabbits as pets and almost never had this problem. I was always tooling around in the produce shelf looking for a treat for them. Made me more aware of produce that was expiring.
Caveat: If you do have a rabbit or are thinking of getting one, stay informed on what they can eat and how much. Learned from their vet that too much calcium-rich produce was not good for their urinary tract. Fruit and carrots were bad for their teeth and should be given sparingly.
I was tossing so much produce before that I ended up choosing a dedicated container that I toss any veggies that are starting to expire or I know I will be too lazy to use and keep it in our freezer.
Once it fills up I make a big batch of vegetable stock and reduce what I won’t use that day to a thick paste with a lot of salt and the vegetable waste goes into the compost. Makes me feel way better about it and is pretty ADHD friendly (toss and forget then process it all at once).
I hate being judged by the ghosts of forgotten/ignored produce.
(Imma blame my spouse who buys stuff without a list, but a better man would find a way to use the crap)
Oranges. It’s always oranges. One day I’ll die of scurvy as a result.
I stopped trying and I just bought a big bottle of vitamin C tablets. It’s somehow easier for me to take one tablet a day than it is to eat one orange a week.
This is the body’s traumatic response to living in a capitalist society that commodifies food (a basic necessity for human life). Our bodies recognize how little society cares for the value of wasted food, which is then extended to ourselves. We originated from societies that had connection to the labor in producing food and sustaining our ecosystems. This has been held hostage under capitalism. Capitalism must be abolished so we can restructure our societies to provide community and sustain our ecosystems.
Carrots last for ages in the fridge.
With the current price of, well, everything, how people afford to buy anything perishable they are not sure to eat within few days and just keep throwing them away?
Remember the cauliflower you bought? It needs money for driving school now. You are a terrible parent.
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