The Earl of Sandwich would not be amused that both of my kids took turkey sandwiches to school, only to bring them home again. This was not discovered until around 11:00 P.M. when the the offending food stuffs were too sketchy to salvage.
William and Kate, The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge would not approve. Especially on their wedding day.
Katy Wolk-Stanley
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without”
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Compost the bread?
Bread does not break down like actual grown food. That, plus it’s spread with mayonnaise. I already have a mouse or two that frequent the compost. Don’t want to invite rats as well.
🙁
Katy
That’s why we have chickens, they love leftover sandwiches!
yup. bread seems to be like manna to “henny penny jenny” and “flapper”. bread and leftover popcorn.
bread will still compost just fine, and if they can get into your bin, you can be sure the mice will whether or not there is bread in there. If you’re really concerned, you can bury the tempting offering below a layer of gross stuff to make it less appealing. Or just bury it directly in the garden. That’s what I do with meat bones. Happy composting.
Sara,
I compost everything except for meat, bones, fat and cheese. Do you know if cheese will compost?
Bread will compost……………..no cheese but those tea bags will!
Good to know about the bread. Those are not actually tea bags, but are the string and tag that goes with the tea bags.
Katy
Do they just not eat or do they buy school stuff instead?
It makes me insane when my daughters do this. I was pretty sure it only happened in our family, until I read this. Thank you! Love your blog!
Nope, NOT just your daughters.
Katy
how do you know they wouldn’t approve? or am I just too slow to pick up on sarcasm? poor samwiches. I would’ve liked a samwich for lunch at work today instead of carrot sticks and a cookie.
Give a girl credit for trying to tie Food Waste Friday in with the royal wedding! 😉
Katy
Just before we headed off for our celebrations I completed my Friday Routine as part of No Waste Tastes Great – Just 5 apples for me, but did salvage them into a sauce in the slow cooker. In honour of the happy couple did my no waste post in red, white and blue. Many Congratulations William and Kate from one of your future subjects haha! 🙂
Freeze it (or not) and dig a trench and bury it (trench composting). You can compost anything edible this way that would otherwise attract hungry critters. This is what i’ve been doing with chicken carcii, other compost heap unsuitable perishables.
Just a side note: not sure how the royal wedding has anything to do with waste not? Isn’t it more along the definition of consumerism? From the pics I saw, the only thing anyone from guests to couple of the hour was not interested in wasting was their time in front of a camera…… but maybe I missed something – I’ve not been following the big event closely, I’ll admit.
Time to get some hens! My girls would inhale an old turkey sandwich.
Really, they eat meat?
Katy