Waste Not, Want Not (Recipes & Such)

[Noahs ARK]

Soooooo - since we hijacked Sign's rice thread, we thought it might be a good idea to start a new thread.

Share some of your tips with us.

Sign keeps her bacon grease in her frig. I freeze mine in Tupperware midgets. 4Ever snags the ham bones at the Ward dinners and uses them for another meal. (How could anyone throw away a ham bone?!)

Come on...spill your secrets....you know you wanna!!

[4evermama]

Hubby's left-overs invention: Fast and the kids can make this on their own.

Pizza Bowls

sliced day-old French bread
leftover Pizza/Spaghetti Sauce
Pepperoni/Sausage (leftover from breakfast)
shredded Cheese

Place a slice of bread in a bowl.
Spread sauce on bread.
Top with meat and cheese.
Microwave for 1-2 minutes.

Eat with a fork.

[Charlene]

This one can get the biggest groans at home, although sometimes it gets a PLEASE make that again. We affectionately refer to it as "Gottago". It's everything in your fridge that is left over. It either needs to be eaten or it's gotta go! So, it's unlikely that it will ever be duplicated again.

Combine all to make casseroles, soups, stews, pasta or rice dishes etc.

Once, when my youngest was in her early elementary years, I found a paper she had done for school. On it the teacher wanted them to write things they liked and disliked. "Gottago" was on her list of dislikes

[Charlene]

I always save vegetable scraps or leftover in a freezer bag in the freezer. When I get enough, it's broth to can. I keep the celery, onion, pepper in one and all the other vegetables in another. You can also save leftover bits of meat and such to do the same.

[signseeker]

No problemo hijacking my thread. I think more threads should be hijacked, it's just fun. I think more Gospel Doctrine classes should be hijacked, too.. but that's another subject.

Truth be told, I used to have two Mason jars of bacon grease that I'd rotate. I use it for hash browns and quesadillas mainly.

There was a family on my mission that made the "gottago" thing once a week. We happened to be there for dinner on one such night. We had this "soup." I think she even put some old cookies in it. Anyhoo--

Most of our kitchen scraps go to the chickens. I need to remember to look in every nook and cranny of the fridge cuz I hate throwing stuff out. Didn't use to bother me but it really does now.

[Noahs ARK]

Tomorrow is garbage day, so the frig gets cleaned out. Quite a few of our meals are hodge-podge on Friday, but tonight was good.

I had 8 buttermilk biscuits, some country gravy and 6 strips of bacon.

Made SOS and it was good, plus no food was wasted. Yay!

Tomorrow the rest of the cinnamon raisin bread will be turned into french toast or bread pudding.