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A post up on the Non-Consumer Advocate got me thinking about this style of "clean out the fridge" cooking and how it's a skill to be cultivated. She recently whipped up a pasta salad out of assorted bits and pieces from her fridge (she's currently engaged in a 'buy no food challenge' in an attempt to use up what she's got) and I've got my sights set on a spaghetti dish for tonight, made with roasted eggplant and some ricotta cheese that's only got a day or two of life left in it.
Before you head to the grocery store after work today or grab a pizza on the way home, take a mental inventory of your fridge. Is there anything you can create from what's there? We'd love to hear about what you whip up!
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8-26-2008 @1:58PM Katy Wolk-Stanley said... Katy, the "Non-Consumer Advocate" here.
We would be 9 days into our "Buy No Food Challenge," except that my husband went to the store last night to buy lunch fixings for work week. (He is a Paramedic, and has no way to heat up leftovers, and never really gets an official lunch hour)
However, I continue boldly on in my quest to eat up all the various foodstuffs in the fridge.
I cover issues of food waste, decreasing one's garbage output, green living and frugality on my blog http://thenonconsumeradvocate.wordpress.com.
Come join us!
-Katy Wolk-Stanley
"Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without."
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9-17-2008 @12:04PM Tamara Kaye Sellman said... Marisa
I also buy food like some women buy shoes and some men buy tools.
I've fantasized about becoming a food monk. You know, eat every last little thing in the house until the cupboard is completely bare (even of condiments).
I just figure that, with my luck, there would be an apocalypse on that last day and I wouldn't have anything to eat.
Still, I try. And we're having leftovers: meatball sandwiches. We're out of bread, though...so I guess I *still* can't take the Buy No Food Challenge today.
Tamara
http://rhymeswithcamera.blogspot.com
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8-26-2008 @5:09PM Dan Tannenbaum said... There was a very sweet older lady at a company I used to work for. Her name was Lydia and she was always bringing in things for the staff to snack on. Once in a while she would make what she called her "Kitchen Sink Lasagna". It consisted of all of the leftovers in her refrigerator, baked into a lasagna. On occasion there were some odd things in it, but on the whole the combinations of meats and vegetable were delicious!
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8-27-2008 @10:21AM Kat said... I usually make "Egg Surprise!" I cut and saute veggies, add leftover meat of some kind, (or cut up lunch meat if there isn't anything else) pasta or rice or noodles--whatever is there goes in the pan to heat up. Then I add a couple eggs on top of it to make a big egg scramble. I try to add some chopped onions to it or a little garlic or even a half cup of leftover gravy if I have it. Its our clean out the fridge meal.
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