“Oh Mr. Cob, Give Me Your Ear!”

Thank you to Jonathan Bloom over at wastedfood.com for sharing this humorous take on food waste avoidance.
Katy Wolk-Stanley
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.”

Cheap Eats — “Hakuna Frittata”

I’ve had some rather unpalatable experiences with frittatas in the past. Dry and oniony with a texture akin to a tire rubber was not a dish I aspired to recreate. But my Scrabble friend Glenn encouraged me to give frittatas another try.
The arrival of an extra half-dozen eggs in addition to the 18-pack in the [...]

Extreme Frugality – Are You Willing to Go The Distance?

I like to bring a book or magazine into bed, where I can actually read without worrying that, “I should be doing this” or “I should be doing that.” Sometimes I read way into the night, other times just a page or two’ll do me.
Last night I grabbed my well worn copy of Amy Dacyczyn’s [...]

Pride Without Prejudice

I am just now finishing up reading my long awaited library copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies which is one of the funniest books I’ve ever read. It has all the subdued strong emotion of Jane Austen’s original classic, but with “ultraviolent zombie mayhem.”
A perfect combination.
The book got me started thinking about pride, and [...]

The Varied Forms of Food Waste

The one and only lowlight of my recent trip to the Oregon coast was a spectacularly bad meal in a rather expensive restaurant. I ordered a bowl of clam chowder with a salad and my sons both treated themselves to seafood platters.
It was a huge disappointment.
The clam chowder was so thick and gelatanous that I [...]

Food Waste — It’s Time to Come Clean

The last couple of weeks have been fairly hectic at casa Wolk-Stanley. House guests, staycation, a debilitating heat wave and work have meant that I haven’t been as focused as normal. (And keep in mind that I’m a bit spacey to begin with!)
A direct result of all this was a fair amount of food waste. [...]

Is Your Freezer a Frozen Wasteland?

If you are anything like me, you are good to utilize the freezer compartment of your refrigerator.
Good about putting food into it, less good about taking food out.
We buy individually frozen chicken breasts from Costco which take up a lot of room and try and keep a few extra loaves of bread in there as [...]

It’s Time for Another “Buy No Food Challenge”

Last August I declared a Buy No Food Challenge after a week long visit with relatives left me with a refrigerator bulging with an embarrassment of food riches.
Enough, said I!
I was not going to buy any more food until I got my family to eat down what we already had. And we did. I think [...]

Food Waste — Another “Waste No Food Challenge” Update

I did very well/poorly with food waste yesterday.
Poorly:
Into the compost went some brown rice, a half bag of edamame that no one would eat, (the Trader Joe’s edamame is juicy yet crispy with the perfect amount of salt, and has spoiled us for the cheap Asian grocery store stuff) and a small amount of cooked [...]

Let’s Ask “Little Debbie” for an Oregon Food Bank Donation

Earlier this week a semi-truck filled with Little Debbie snacks turned over on an Oregon freeway, spilling its contents onto the road. Even though Little Debbie snacks are individually packaged, then in a box, which is then in yet another box, (whew!) the entire load was sent to a landfill. This was despite the Oregon [...]