Rupert (W.Yorkshire) wrote:
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Janet Baraclough wrote:
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I will
just continue to use my normal compost heaps but I am still reluctant
to put cooked food on them
I can't get my head round anyone throwing away left-over cooked food
in the compost bin!
Although we have a dog and cat, they count themselves lucky to get any
leftovers (the skin and meat pickings from chicken carcases after I've
made stock). If we have leftover meat, it goes into spaghetti sauce or
some variant of shepherds pie or pasties. If it's veg or carbohydrate,
it goes into any of the above , or soup. If it's fat, it's bird food. If
its bones, it gets buried under plants. Even the gloppy scrapings from
the porridge pan (scorned by cat and dog) are eagerly eaten by birds
:-)
We have a cat and no dog and the cat gets nothing. My family are
vegetarian (all of them). Left over meat gets pout in the fridge until
I either eat it or it goes mouldy. I then dump it. If you cannot get
your head round that then good luck to you. We are in the process of
getting a green cone jobby where the left overs will go in the future.
In the meantime, the tiny amounts get dumped. I simply do not have the
time or energy to make shepherds pie or bubble and squeak every
evening.
As it is, we are easily the best recyclers of any family I know. That
is city life with young kids.
Janet
Dazz you sound very stressed :-)
A solution to your problems would be to feed the cat some meat resulting in
a very happy pussy. Cease to peel vegetables and cook them as they are
resulting in tastier food, little or no waste and a healthier bank balance.
An added bonus of hours of time saved would allow you time to chill out.
vegetable peelings are not an issue as we have a compost heap already
and I do not like the taste of vegetable skins anyway apart from
potatoes and only then when baked.
The cat gets bits but she is tiny.
The only remaining problem is how to dispose of cooked food that cannot
be converted into potato cakes.
or string vests. That will be solved by a green cone (traffic cone
shaped thing that you stick in the ground and fill with food; it stops
rats or foxes getting at it.
I had pointed out that I was talking about very very small quantities
and suddenly I get the entire womens institute home thrift section
berating me about my household organisation and/or offering advice
about hens and bubble and squeak.
Sorry for the stresss Janet and Mike do that to me :-).