#ZeroWasteChallenge Day 1

Well, I completed day 1.

I didnt bother with breakfast, lunch was a bacon, mushroom and pea omelette, using the last of a bag of frozen peas.

Tea was a slow cooked ham hock, with corn on the cob mashed sweet potato, and a bbq sauce flavoured gravy (one of the ingredients was the last of a bottle of worcester sauce, including rinsings).

i opened a tin of Mango puree that we've had for ages, and we poured some over vanilla ice cream for pudding. theres a lot of mango puree left, so i'll have to work out what to do with it. i found some gelatin, so I might see if I can set some of it to make a mango flavoured jelly.

The only waste has been coffee grounds that went to compost, and a tiny lump off a sweet potato that looked like it had gone bad.

Edible items that i might otherwise have thrown away:

The sweet potato peelings have gone into a tub in the freezer along with veg trimmings from earlier in the week (I'll make some veg stock with them at some point). The bones from the ham joint have gone into the pressure cooker, along with the corn cob cores (after a good wash under a hot tap!) along with the water the sweet potatoes were cooked in - this will make a stock as the basis of a soup for lunch at some point.

There was a small amount of sweet potato mash, some cooked gammon and some home made bbq flavour gravy left over, they're are all in the fridge and will get used in things over the next few days. I wouldnt have thrown these out previously anyway.

I'm getting quite a collection of veg trimmings in the freezer now, ready to make into stock. I'm not sure if I should strain the peelings out after cooking, or blend them into the stock? Time to experiment, I guess!

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