What do you always end up throwing away in your house?

[LondonStone]

In our household we can’t seem to get through a packet of raspberries or beansprouts without them going off.

Fancied some raspberries this morning and half of them are covered in furry mould and the other half are just brown mush. They were only bought on Friday night!

I’ve realised we quite often throw raspberries away so I think I probably won’t bother in future unless it’s for something specific.

Limes. I love them and cook a lot of Thai and fish dishes, but suddenly they go from shiny bright green and plump to brown shrivelled bullets overnight!

[quote MoesBar]Wash the fuck out of that bagged salad stuff AND beansprouts - Microbiology student here who’s just done half a module on food poisoning

Beansprouts are one of the most common causes of food poisoning. Grim.

Salad leaves
Tomatoes, they are often over ripe on delivery
Bread, baguettes are often rock solid the day after purchase.
Oranges, they often go mouldy after a couple of days.
Sauces, the condiment type, bought a new variety to try, disliked and binned!

Beetroot. Always goes furry before we finish it.
Frozen berries are your answer OP.

Spinach too! Why does it come in such huge bags?! Thanks to this thread I’m definitely going to try frozen.

I like bagels but they always turn into hockey pucks within 24hrs. As they come in 6 packs the last one or two are normally not fit for consumption.

I'm glad it's not just me with bags of spinach and salad leaves

Bagels freeze well, if you have room in your freezer (which I usually don’t).

Potatoes

Pears. They have about a twenty-minute window where they are pure pear perfection. Prior to that, hard as a rock; any later they turn to rotten woolly mush. It’s so irritating.

Sandwich ham

definitely bread and milk ,we either use loads and i need to buy more ,or we hardly use it and i need to bin it

Mushrooms.

So much so that I now go to the shop specifically for them if I need them, or I chuck a bag of frozen ones in my shop.

Other than that, we're pretty good. I finish off all manner of random odds and ends for lunch, and freeze anything and everything I can (including eggs when I'm over-run with them. They're fine to whisk & chuck in a cake/pancake mix).

Berries cos DH buys far too many. I did have to throw a pack of salmon the other day which I jadnt realised DH had put in the fridge rather than the freezer. That was upsetting.

Always half a bag of salad leaves, I wish they used smaller bags.

Fresh strawberries, DD loves them but only eats about a third of a punnet then promptly forgets about them until they cause a bio-hazard risk.

Fresh corn on the cob, I suspect there are still out of date ones hiding in the fridge yet I still optimistically bought 4 more a few days ago. Why? Why?

We rarely have to throw away anything. Only things that go bad prematurely. Tomatoes are back in the fridge as they started going off in the fruit bowl for some reason. Normally we eat anything that doesn't last the week on the days after shopping day. So mushrooms and spinach with eggs for breakfast at the start of the shopping week then porridge at the end. Berries would be eaten the day we got them or the next day if we bought fresh, though we buy frozen except for strawberries.

Strawberries, I keep buying hard tangy ones. And half packets of pork pies and sausage rolls.

Another one (that really annoys me) is packs of Quorn slices for sandwiches.

For some reason they've started doing them in really big packs yet you're supposed to eat it within 2 or 3 days of opening (can't remember exactly how long) which is ridiculous when you're the sole vegetarian in the family.

@Lampzade

Potatoes

Agree -

But why ?- when I was a child we would buy a sack of potatoes every week a s they didn't go off. Now within 3!days they are sprouting !

I've had that with raspberries and it's really annoying.
Do you refrigerate them? Mine go off in a day if they're on the side.

The other one is tomatoes. Not large tomatoes but the little ones - cherry, plum, vine in packets. I'm wondering if they somehow get wet in transportation because I've noticed they go off very quickly (a few days). Now I've started opening them as soon as I get back and leaving them to air before I put them in the fridge.

I don't understand things like berries, cherries, mixed cherry tomatoes being around long enough to go off, they would be lucky to last a day or two in our house! I don't often buy them as they are expensive but if I do they are usually spotted and opened before I've finished unpacking the shopping.

Cat food.
I open a sachet, they sniff if & just look at me 🤷‍♀️ I open another, it might get a cursory taste, then they cry or wander off.
I put 2 different varieties of dry food out, one day they love it, next day not at all.
So much 1/2 eaten cat food gets binned. It's such a waste.

Carrots! Why do modern carrots go off so quickly? Am I storing them wrong? Do I need to buy a special carrot receptacle?

Coconuts, because they look as if they should last ages but don't, and still look fine on the outside.

I 've had to buy a load of curry ingredients this week to finish off the spinach from last week.

I do this sort of thing then end up with too many curry ingredients then get stuck in the never ending loop of having to buy more stuff to use up the stuff that I bought to use up the other stuff...

Any and all salad leaves, never seem to manage to get through more than half, also a few tomatoes and always a bit of cucumber.

Although now the Isle of Wight organic tomato mix is back, tomatoes are not as much of an issue, there are normally 3 or 4 different sorts which go into lots different meal ideas.