Spending huge amounts of our income on food became an annoyance to me. I'd rather go to Europe thank you very much!! We wanted four things, to eat well and enjoy our meals while keeping our weight and our expenses under control. Incentive was born and I started to do something about it. I hope to use this Blog to share what I've discovered.

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Fresh veggies and fruit

I find it most difficult to purchase enough fresh veggies and fruit without ending up wasting and having to throw away produce.

Planning ahead and deciding what veggies to eat each week, then rotating so you have a variety over a period of a month is a big help. One week I buy carrots, turnips, cauliflower along with the onions, green peppers, celery and salad fixings. The next week I buy broccoli, squash and continue to use up the carrots and turnips that have kept from the week before.

With fruit it's much the same. I buy a few apples, an orange, a grapefruit and maybe 2 banana's one week. The following week I buy apples, another orange and a cantalope.

This way I have something different throughout the week but there is not much waste going on.