Table For One...

Breckgirl

I live alone and thus find sometimes that it is a challenge to eat food before it goes bad.

Case in point. I love making mini pizzas with multi-whole grain light English muffins, pizza sauce, 2% mozzarella, veggies and turkey pepperoni, But I find that the unused part of the pizza sauce spoils before I can use it. Well. I just figured out how to get around this. I fill my ice trays with the leftover sauce and freeze it. Then I pop the frozen sauce cubes into a freezer baggie and keep them in the freezer. One cube is enough for one half of a muffin. It's easy to thaw and make mini pizza quickly without wasting half a jar of pizza sauce!

I'm sure I'm not the only person with food spoilage issues. So lets share tips for the single cooks out there everywhere. Or if you have a food storage problem toss it in and see if we can help each other out.

purplefreak60

That's a great idea, thanks! Its me and my husband, but I still find some things spoil, so I will use this trick. I'll do some thinking and let you know if I think of any other tricks!

Foxworth81

What an awesome trick. I bet this technique would apply for so many things. Thanks for sharing. I do not live alone but am often the only one eating healthy so it's basically the same.

LuckyLeprechaun

I discovered a great one:

I buy bananas at the store every week, but sometimes we do not get to eating all of them before they blacken past our taste preference. So as soon as I think it's no longer edible as a fresh banana, I peel it, and toss it in a ziplock in the freezer. Then when hubby makes smoothies, he just grabs the frozen bananas out of the freezer along with the frozen berries, ice, etc.

I feel SO happy about no longer wasting bananas. They aren't that expensive compared to other produce, but now I never have to waste them again! :bigsmile:

Valtishia

You could make a different meal with the sauce too.. maybe a couple nights later. I make homemade pizza sometimes cause I like the fact that I can control the ingredients.. especially the sodium. Then I take the leftover sauce and maybe 2 nights later I will make a mixture of the sauce with a little cream cheese for more flavour and mix in chicken breast on top of a little rice with some mixed veggies on the side. You can do all sorts of stuff

Valtishia

I discovered a great one:

I buy bananas at the store every week, but sometimes we do not get to eating all of them before they blacken past our taste preference. So as soon as I think it's no longer edible as a fresh banana, I peel it, and toss it in a ziplock in the freezer. Then when hubby makes smoothies, he just grabs the frozen bananas out of the freezer along with the frozen berries, ice, etc.

I feel SO happy about no longer wasting bananas. They aren't that expensive compared to other produce, but now I never have to waste them again! :bigsmile:

We had this issue too... Now we just buy a few that are yellow and ready to eat and the rest as green as we can find them. By the time you are done eating the first few, the green ones are ready to eat. Lasts us the week until next grocery run.

Breckgirl

I discovered a great one:

I buy bananas at the store every week, but sometimes we do not get to eating all of them before they blacken past our taste preference. So as soon as I think it's no longer edible as a fresh banana, I peel it, and toss it in a ziplock in the freezer. Then when hubby makes smoothies, he just grabs the frozen bananas out of the freezer along with the frozen berries, ice, etc.

I feel SO happy about no longer wasting bananas. They aren't that expensive compared to other produce, but now I never have to waste them again! :bigsmile:

That's wonderful! Thanks!

Breckgirl

You could make a different meal with the sauce too.. maybe a couple nights later. I make homemade pizza sometimes cause I like the fact that I can control the ingredients.. especially the sodium. Then I take the leftover sauce and maybe 2 nights later I will make a mixture of the sauce with a little cream cheese for more flavour and mix in chicken breast on top of a little rice with some mixed veggies on the side. You can do all sorts of stuff

Yum! You're making me hungry!

izzys1mom

This is also great to make banana ice cream...yummy! I just throw the frozen banana into the my chopper add a little fat free milk and a teaspoon of pb, my daughter and I love this as a snack:)

Breckgirl

That's a great idea, thanks! Its me and my husband, but I still find some things spoil, so I will use this trick. I'll do some thinking and let you know if I think of any other tricks!

Any ol' tricks will do.