Binning completely inedible meal - guilt

[macandplease]

DH and I like cooking up different recipes for each other. Often we follow a recipe. I’d say in a usual year we both make at least one meal that is (by accident) completely inedible. Today I cooked pasta sauce in a rush, it involved blending spinach into the sauce. I took handfuls out of the bag without looking and something made me check back in the bag before serving the meal. Loads of mould on the leaves at the bottom. I’d only bought it today but it went in the bin as there’s no way of knowing if the mould spores have spread. No big deal, used a new jar of pre made sauce from the cupboard which we have never tried. Sweet potato and onion. Mixed it into the pasta. Absolutely gross, and inedible. DH was polite but could tell he also couldn’t stand it 🤣

We are now on the way to collect a takeaway but I feel so guilty for this as obviously it’s a privilege and throwing away food seems morally wrong! Does anyone else have cooking faux pas and has taken to doing this before?!

First time DH cooked for me (we’d been dating a couple of weeks) he couldn’t get green chilli from any shops so cheekily asked in local pizza takeaway and they gave him a bag of sliced chillis; he used them all in a prawn dish!! I couldn’t go in the kitchen let alone eat the resultant dish - and that was after he’d added copious amounts of cream, sugar and potatoes to try and diminish the heat 🤣😱

Another time, he made me a carrot cake while I was at work; used loads of butter, mixed whole nuts and fruit (that I had in the cupboard for fruit cakes!!) chopped carrots instead of grated and plain flour, no raising agents!! The cake that came out of the oven was thinner than the ingredients in the pan went in the oven!! He then suggested feeding it to the local wildlife as it was inedible but I said it would be a deadly weapon to animals!!

Couldn't be helped. Mould is a big no go and you couldn't know that the jar sauce would be gross.

I was supposed to be taking a strawberry pavlova to a family meal recently. I don't know what I did with the meringue but it looked ok, then fell into pieces when I took it off the baking tray.

I mixed the broken bits with the strawberries and cream and told people I'd decided to make Eton Mess instead. I think I got away with it 😁

Did you mistake the sweet potato for a tomato based sauce? When dd was a baby and I made frozen mashed food for her I’d sometimes mistake the different ice cube colours

I once had a rare night in myself and treated myself to a pad Thai kit and the most beautiful king prawns. I used the amount of fish sauce on the kit but literally couldn't eat a single bite. It smelled like old mouldy cat food.

Then another day I was making a stir fry and had browned a lot of chicken and added soy sauce, all smelled lovely. Grabbed the stir fry veg that I'd bought the day before and chucked it all in. The veg was out of date 3 days previous and the bottom half was liquid. It all clumped on the chicken and made a paste and there was a strong vinegary smell. I tried so hard to eat it but had to vomit halfway through so all went to waste.