Labels: dips, food waste, recipes, recycling, soapbox
----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: DATE:12/17/2008 12:05:00 AM ...and sometimes it's very expensive to buy the smaller quantity. Meal planning has to be carefully planned to use up larger sized ingredients...but that can also be fun! ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: DATE:12/17/2008 01:21:00 AM I'm becoming quite adept at reusing -- today's effort, which also involved black beans (I love them!) was leftover bean and sweet potato stew combined with some chopped onion and roasted butternut squash, cooked down with orange juice and pureed into soup. Now if only I could get my photos to look as appetizing as the soup tasted... ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: DATE:12/17/2008 08:45:00 AM I'd say that "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" is stated in order of preference. If you don't use it in the first place, that's best. If you used it, then REusing it is better (cheaper and more environmentally sound) than recycling, which is sometimes nearly as expensive and dirty as making a new one. In fact, I knew a guy who insisted that recycling paper was actually dirtier and more expensive than making new paper.