Waste not, want not... - Page 4

lovesrecess · ‎03-14-2010

I didn’t say I was worried. Not sure why the snarky comment. I’m done.

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@lovesrecess wrote:
Yes I know some health codes don’t allow serving food that is over an hour , etc old.my MIL would also save cornbread in the freezer for dressing.

Oh we always save cornbread for eating later with beans or for dressing. I'll bet a LOT of freezers in the South have some cornbread in there somewhere!

Marienkaefer2 · ‎03-09-2010

@kaydee50 wrote:
Yes, I was raised by parents who came of age during the depression. Along with "waste not, want not" my father used to say "take all you want but eat all you take." Wise words and frequently ignored these days unfortunately.

@kaydee50

My dad used to say that too...."take what you want but eat what you take."

We always had plenty of food, but we did not waste anything. I grew up in the 1970s and 80s.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.--Marcus Tullius Cicero

DiAnne · ‎09-22-2010

I volunteered for several years at a foodbank in Washington state and grocery stores are not required to throwout food. We had volunteer drivers that would go to QVC, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Fred Meyer, Metropolitan Market, PPC and Safeway several times a week to pick up produce, bread, etc. We also got all the premade sandwiches, salads, dips etc. from the delis that were close to expiration. Our clients ate well.

SunValley · ‎04-19-2010

My mother was beyond frugal and made us eat some questionable food. If it didn't agree with your digestive system you didn't dare complain. Her family had farm animals that would be fed anything left from the kitchen so if course she didn't remember anything going to waste. We were in the city with nary a pig in sight, but she just never quite saw it that way.

I try to sync my grocery shopping to my meal planning, but sometimes it goes awry. I refuse to eat food that has gone south just so it doesn't go to waste. But I am a stickler about conserving water, electricity, natural gas, and combining errands so I'm not wasting resources and the $$ associated with wasted use.

blackhole99 · ‎08-22-2013

Our parents could care less if we didn't eat what was on our plate, they were not frugal, we were poor. The only thing we had enough of was food, because it was fairly cheap in the 50's and 60's. I wore shoes to school with holes in them and got through high school with a handful of cheap dresses. No warm boots or gloves in the Winter, we were lucky we had coats. We didn't have the luxury of being frugal, remember that when you speak of being frugal to the poor.

viva923 · ‎03-12-2010

my parents were frugal. We got nothing except if we really needed it. My 2 oldest sisters got the clothes (new) dresses and such and they would be passed down to myself and youngest sister. My parents would purchase bikes for the oldest 2 and they would be passed down to the younger 2 kids. We rarely got new stuff unless it was absolutely call for. I will say my parents did give us a 12 year parochial education so most of the money went to tuition.

shoekitty · ‎03-10-2010

I am i71. dont think we needed much encouragment to clean our plate, we just did! we didnt have all the food options kids have today. no junk food. also we never seemed to have between meal snacks. when dinner came, we were so ready! there were times we didnt like something. then of course we had to hear about all the starving kids in Korea.. always the kids in Korea. i think Mom served our plates. we never had food on the table to take if tat was true no one would have eaten, as my 2 brothers would have had it all gone before you could think about what to eat.

“sometimes you have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on”….Bob Dylan

Financialgrl · ‎03-13-2010

@kaydee50 wrote:
Yes, I was raised by parents who came of age during the depression. Along with "waste not, want not" my father used to say "take all you want but eat all you take." Wise words and frequently ignored these days unfortunately.

My father was also a child of the depression era. He had always been very frugal when we were growing up and when he could no longer live alone moved in with me. Not until that time did I realize just HOW frugal he was.

If I tried to replace something and throw out the old, he'd always want me to keep it bc "it still has use and someone might need that someday",

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@blackhole99 wrote:
Our parents could care less if we didn't eat what was on our plate, they were not frugal, we were poor. The only thing we had enough of was food, because it was fairly cheap in the 50's and 60's. I wore shoes to school with holes in them and got through high school with a handful of cheap dresses. No warm boots or gloves in the Winter, we were lucky we had coats. We didn't have the luxury of being frugal, remember that when you speak of being frugal to the poor.

@blackhole99 Yep! I never thought of that but you are SO right! Frugal isn't an issue when you don't have it to waste in the first place. You have taught a huge lesson here! It changes your pespective doesn't it?

Thanks for the wisdom!