What food items usually go to waste/go off in your house...?

[faithfulbird]

By the end of the week/bin day/before ur next shopping trip?

All bought on by some lettuce that's turned a bit pink and soggy which we bought last Thursday.

I've just thrown out some junkies that was actually fizzy. It for hidden object the wrong shelf so I forgot about it.

We're pretty good really but there will the end of a cabbage if they send a big one or a soggy end of cucumber.

Hardly anything! Occasionally the dregs of a bag of salad or something like half a potato that was left over so we put it in the fridge to use up and forget about it but we are pretty good at buying what we need and eating it. Pears annoy me, they seek to be hard for ages, perects for about 10 minutes and then go horrible really quickly so they sometimes get chucked.

Parmesan cheese. Need so little of it and then by the time I come to use it again no matter how well it is wrapped up it's blue!

@strawbmilk

Parmesan cheese. Need so little of it and then by the time I come to use it again no matter how well it is wrapped up it's blue!

If you have a freezer you can bung it in tthere!

Broccoli. Every week, I buy a head of it with the intention of having it with Sunday lunch (which I cook at a friend's house). Every week I forget to take it with me, and by Monday it's gone a bit yellow. Now I've thought about it, I'll add an Alexa reminder to take the bloody stuff with me!

Bananas. Either they all disappear within 2 days or they sit there going blacker and blacker until they get lobbed out.

I can't think of anything at the moment. I did have some dying veg in the fridge which I have made into dying Veg soup yesterday for lunch or dinner.

Quite a bit. Fruit, bread, leaves, orange juice and some cold meats and smoked salmon I just threw out this morning.

Lettuce here too. And pears. DD and DS2 like them but it seems like they're hard one day and the next they're mush!

@Pascha

Bananas. Either they all disappear within 2 days or they sit there going blacker and blacker until they get lobbed out.

It's a bit like that with bread here; some weeks I can't keep enough in the house, other weeks no one touches it and it goes mouldy.

Not much but if anything, spinach because it often doesn't even last as long as the BB4 date.
Occasionally find potatoes that have missed being used but anything else tends to go in the freezer or gets made into soup or pasta sauce / random salads if it's on the turn.

Nothing, apart from about twice a year something like half a tub of coleslaw. We make use of everything.

Can relate to the bread/bananas either disappearing or rotting away. Same with baps. Eggs either get finished mid week or lay there for weeks.

Carrots are the worse. They go black regardless. Any advice? I can only give my toddler carrot sticks the first 2 days....

lettuce
cold meat

Half-finished Bags of watercress etc. It sits there getting slimier and slimier until I crack and bin it.

Spinach! It's impossible to finish the whole bag. Bananas occasionally too.

Thanks @Rigi I'll give that a go!

Yes to carrots at the moment too. My mum is finding the same for some reason they are going off very quickly atm

Bread because we buy different ones for different purposes. DH loves bagels and can't resist buying six at a time!

Cucumber always bloody cucumber

Lettuce, carrots and tomatoes mostly. But to be fair, they do go off quickly.

Bread.

bread - mine goes in the freezer, that is the only way to have fresh bread all week.

lettuce, I only every use half before it goes off

bananas - usually I eat them, but off banans = banana bread, so all good!

Salad. It's only me that eats it so I'm not guarenteed to get through it.

Cream. Always bloody cream!

Hardly anything. We're really stingy about food here in the "don't do waste" sense. I've been caught out a couple of times with the heal of a loaf of bread but that's about it.

Always someone willing to eat blacker bananas!

We even save the stalks of broccoli to make soup with.