Showing posts with label new years resolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new years resolution. Show all posts

Sunday, January 2, 2011

New Year's Resolution

I'm not usually big on resolutions, probably because I can't usually come up with anything good, or because why only commit yourself to a self-improvement idea one time a year?  I've been working on this for a few weeks now and I am going to call it my 2011 Resolution so then if somebody asks I can answer without giving some self-righteous explanation of why I don't have a New Year's resolution.  Drumrollllll......

Create less waste! Especially when it comes to food. I feel like we are always throwing away leftover this or part of that.  Recently I have lived up to this resolution in the following ways:
  • I made pumpkin bars for Thanksgiving and had purchased a large can of pumpkin puree of which the recipe only required half. I put the other half in an air tight container and made pumpkin bread with the leftovers.
  • We made mac & cheese two nights in one week (I will not disclose if it was homemade or out of the box). After night 1 we had a Tupperware of left overs, so on night #2 I mixed the leftovers into the fresh batch and voila! Extra mac & cheese without having to eat the crusty leftovers or throw them away.
I'm going to work hard at this, I'll post some new creative ways of producing less waste if I come up with any. What is your New Year's resolution?