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Wednesdays are my at-home day. (I work out the other days, so my mornings are broken up.) I usually do a variety of tasks throughout the morning and decided that today, there were some things in the fridge that I needed to use up before they went bad.
I had 1/2 an onion, more than half a bag of cauliflower and an old pear.
I have this handy-dandy food chopper, slicer thingamabob and I LOVE IT!!!! (The official name is “vegetable chopper“. I think I like my name for it better!)
(I had a great set of photos for this blog post but for some reason, they won’t save and upload properly, so sorry for just words.)
I love that it has different sizes available for a dice/chop, multiple shred options and a slicing blade. (I used the slicing blade like a mandolin slicer the other night for dinner when I needed chopped cabbage for fish tacos.)
I used the small dice to chop the onion and freeze it. I also used it to make cauliflower rice. I blanched the cauliflower and then riced it and put it on a small baking sheet in a thin layer to freezer before bagging it up. If I don’t freeze it that way, then it will be a solid mass of cauliflower rice and not easily used in smaller servings.
I used the larger dice for the pear which I used to make a double recipe of a single-serve apple cinnamon muffin that I adjusted to make into a pear ginger muffin instead.
I still have a couple of things in the fridge to use up or put up (freezer or freeze dry), but I will work on that throughout the rest of the day!
No need to throw money down the drain by throwing out perfectly good food. Getting it taken care of ahead of it fully going bad makes a huge difference in spending, but also prevents filling up the landfills. (If it has already gone bad, then put it to good use by composting it – either in your backyard, yard waste bin or a community composting arrangement.)