Posts Tagged ‘Freezer’
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
By Kirsten Bokenkamp Did you know that in the United States, the average person throws away around 100 pounds of food scraps per year? According to the USDA, “just over a quarter of the country’s food — about 25.9 million tons — gets thrown in the garbage can every year.” But food is biodegradable, and decomposes in the same manner no matter where we throw it out, right? Wrong. While we should all try to throw away less food, composting what we do toss-out reduces the impact on the env
Tags: Average Person, Compost Pile, Food Scraps, Freezer, Garbage, United States, Usda
Posted in Green Articles | No Comments »
Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Nope. Not feeling it tonight. I think I spent too much time in the kitchen baking yesterday …And I just wasn’t feeling like cooking tonight! I thought about just making some spaghetti…my typical “go to” meal… But thankfully, I managed a quick throw together dinner instead. Stashed in the freezer, I found the chicken taco bake I froze a few weeks ago. Paired with some tortilla chips that the Hubs brought home from an office party, and we were good to go! (The benefits of a stocked f
Tags: Chicken Taco, Freezer, Hubs, Spaghetti, Tortilla Chips
Posted in Green Articles | No Comments »
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
This was the perfect meal to come home to after an afternoon adventure/walk to the park! It was just cold enough outside to be chilly, but not so cold that we didn’t enjoy ourselves! Arriving home to this soup was lovely! Warmed our tummies right up! Here is the “doubled” version of the recipe! The total cost is not under $5…but since it is two meals worth…we divide by 2 and the overall cost is well below $5 per meal. The other half is going into the freezer! Ingredients 2 Tbsp o
Tags: A1, Afternoon Adventure, Beef Stew, Freezer, Tbsp, Tummies
Posted in Green Articles | No Comments »
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
I spent almost all of last weekend cleaning and cutting the apples from our tree and cooking them and blending them into a variety of sauces—primarily, apple-grape (grapes off the vine) and apple-onion (sweet little onions from the farmers market). I’ve given some away, we’ve eaten a lot with cornbread and fruit for breakfast, and the rest went into the freezer for a later month. I’ve eaten bunches of grapes while standing over the sink. I’ve made juice, so sweet we had t
Tags: Apple, Apples, Bunches, Cornbread, Farmers Market, Freezer, Grapes, Onion, Onions, Sauces, Vine
Posted in Green Articles | No Comments »
Monday, September 7th, 2009
When we’re hosting a party, I am either extremely laidback (which means some Haldiram’s kind of items will flow from their packets, some McCain’s stuff will migrate from the freezer to the oven, and we’ll make do with what we have) or go extremely overboard (make cutlets, cut vegetable sticks and make a curd dip to go along with it, bake some savoury biscuits, crackers, muffins, mini pizzas etc, etc). It is very rarely that you would find me walking the middle path. On one of those very rare occ
Tags: Crackers, Curd, Cutlets, Freezer, Haldiram, Laidback, Mccain, Middle Path, Muffins, Occ, Savoury Biscuits, Vegetable Sticks
Posted in Green Articles | No Comments »