Kelly Rossiter
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In these days of economic upheaval many of us are thinking about ways to lower our expenditures. We all eat and we all spend a big portion of our income on food. Probably the most effective way to keep your food costs down is to simply eat what you bought. An enormous amount of food gets wasted every day, much of it thrown out without even opening the package it came in. We've all found something moldy in the bottom of the vegetable crisper that we'd forgotten about and all pushed leftovers to the rear of the refrigerator until they go bad. It's wasted food and wasted money and none of us can afford that.
I've written about strategies for wasting less food before, but it's important to be reminded of this occasionally. Go ahead and make your dinner tonight out of whatever you already have on hand. You might be surprised with what you come up with. I made a salad last week for lunch with a bit of leftover roast beef my mother-in-law sent home with us, a quarter of a red pepper, the end of a lettuce, a few pea shoots and the end of a piece of cheddar cheese. It was fantastic and it used up some odds and ends that I would otherwise have eventually thrown away. Today I made soup out of whatever bits of vegetables I had on hand. If you do this a couple of times a week, you'll keep your refrigerator clean, your food bills down and best of all, keep that food out of the garbage.
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