Which food do you repreatedly buy, with good intentions, only to end up throwing in the bin a week or so later?

[Tinker]

Berries. All sorts of berries. They look so lovely in teh shops and I'll make jam and tarts and pastries. A week later teh little mouldy punnets get remembered and chucked out...

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cucumber
spring onions
melon (don't know why as it's lovely)
bananas (but only if they go brown too quickly)
various stir-fry type veg.
pears (always hard when you buy then and by the tiime they are ripe I've gone off the idea)

DH tells me ours is the best fed compost bin in the N of England

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Cucumbers.

I just forget, and have lettuce and tomatoe, but forget cucumber!

Oh, I threw an auborgine out too, as I have decided they taste much like marrow, ie, snot.

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Dior, many things are good in curry, like chicken, and onions. I'm not wasting my spices on the Fruit-Of-The-Damned

I feel guilty about the bacon now

god i LOVE aubergines

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Bananas.

Does anyone else find that having a compost bin makes you throw away far more because instead of thinking 'oh dear, what a waste!' you think 'mmmm, a delicious snack for my compost heap!'

I love aubergines too. I love to fondle them in the market, and smugly proclaim my intentions with them, and look at them gleaming glossily in the fridge.

I just won't ever again attempt to ingest one!

Leeks and rhubarb. Happens every time with both of them.

Don't your kidss scoff berries? Mine could put away a punnet breakfast lunch and dinner if i let them. Me and dh chuck them on b'fast cereal too. Sweet - but ruinous.

Necturnines and peaches - they arrive too hard to eat and stay that way until suddenly they've gone bad. No inbetween stage.

I just dont throw food away, not even cheap things . If there are things that arent going to get eaten before they go off i freeze them ,ie on the morning we go on holiday i will put a half used bottle of milk in the freezer for when we get home rather than chuck it out. if there is one egg left someone will have it on toast for brekkie rather than cereal.
I used to waste loads of stuff but I have learnt not to over the years. It saves cash!

low fat bio yoghurt! always buy a pot for putting on curries, mean to make muffins, and never do. Also pears - there are always a few that are too ripe and nobody eats them. One day I will make muffins. Also cream cheese and hommous - always end up with a half eaten pot sitting in the back of the fridge languishing.

With berries I eat them for breakfast and/or leave them out on the kitchen counter - they go in an afternoon then.

fruit! I love veg and salad and eat lots but not that fussed about fruit - don't have a sweet tooth and don't snack between meals but every so often buy fruit and think I'll eat mid afternoon as a good example for DD - never do! Doesn't matter what fruit it is!

Melons.I always think how lovely they will be to eat on a hot day.The dd's promise that they'll eat some.Do they? No they blimmin' well don't.Dh will cut a couple of pieces off,forget to put the rest in the fridge & so it goes off & has to be chucked.I hate wasting food so I get all cross.

I will NOT buy melon again.

butternut squash - just too hard to cut!

Just read all this thread-no one has said 'biscuits' have they?

pitta bread. I love it but forget about it. I think it sort of sinks to the bottom of the bread bin and by the time I fish it out it has grown a blue beard

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waves at the fishy one

cottage cheese

PITTA BREAD?
FREEZE IT!
makes great pizzas