Did you ever think you saved money but ended up wasting?   

Oh yes, fruits and veggies do get wasted at times here too! A bargain is a bargain, but if you don't eat them, they just rot and go to waste! Oh - and with bananas that happens real quick! I notice if you buy produce at the cheaper places, the prices are great, but they tend to go bad faster.

Yep, that happens to us all the time. I get my produce at cheaper places . . . and sure the prices are cheaper, but it also means they are very ripe and you had better eat them quickly or else they will rot soon. So it either means buy little, but end up going more often - which also means wasting gas.

Yup yup yup . . . I will do the same thing as you! I will often roast a whole chicken and spread it out throughout the week in different dishes, but sometimes a few pieces get lost in the fridge - and by the time I discover it, it's probably not good anymore and I have to toss it. I hate it when I leave something out to cool before sticking it in the fridge and then forget about it.

Oh geez - I've done that with hamburger meat from Costco - I totally left in back of the fridge in case I couldn't pack it up to freeze til later and then I'd totally forget about it for days. And yah, I've done it with non food stuff too . . . my recent one was with a book I got for my daughter . . . I discovered there were pages missing once we got home - argh!

I should have said that I bought the apples on sale.

Oh no! Not quite the way you would normally make applesauce, eh? I've found fruit at the bottom of the fruit bowl like that . . . fruits that get soft like pears don't do too well at the bottom!!!

Wow - that must be tough. The only way I could relate is when I had to feed my daughter when she was starting to have "our" food. I'd give her smashed or totally cut up versions of our table food - sometimes she's have it (hurray) and other times it was just barely touched and there was no sense keeping the leftovers because it'd go to mush. Is that why, too, that you throw out the rest of the blended food?

Yes that is why and I feel so guilty because I have to, because yesterday my friend mashed up some carrots and some potatoes separately. At lunch, I made a soup from tomato sauce baked beans, beef stock, onions, leaks, and some ham and I put some of the smashed carrots and potatoes in them to give it a bit of body. Well he had that for lunch. So I decided to blend the pork stew and added a little water to it because other wise the blender will not blend. I put the rest of the mashed potatoes and carrots and put that gravy stew mix on the side. He just had a few spoonfuls (very small spoonfuls) and he said he did not want any and to throw it away. He did have a tube feeding at 1:30 and it was finished before 3, but the trouble is that he is supposed to put on weight.
Now how is he going to put on weight if he does not eat properly? They will only advocate complete tube feeding if he can no longer swallow. Otherwise, the tube feeding he gets is just a supplement.
Oh and she is supposed to get vitamin D. He cannot get out much, I told him he has to drink milk - no way and he is not lactic intolerant. He will eat puddings, but who knows what is in them? He likes white bread and that is not good for him.
When I found out that something was not good for me, I either cut it out or reduced it's use. I just do not want to be blamed if he loses more weight. Do I have to knock him out and put everything through the tube?

Goodness! Does he not want it because of the taste or texture or he's just not hungry? As I have a 6 month old, I'm making homemade baby food again - so I'm relearning about pureeing again. They said be careful with meat because when you puree them, the meat taste gets too concentrated - and they're not kidding! I made that mistake with my daughter . . . I pureed some chicken and it was straight chicken . . . one bite and she spit it all out. I read about meat pureeing after the fact, so when I tasted it, I pretty much spit it out too!

It must be tough being the chef and the nutritionist for your husband. I know you are doing your very best for him - no one can blame you for him losing weight. He sounds like a picky eater too . . . but I'm sure it's tough on his end too. I hope he gains the weight he needs to gain. Oh hugs to you!!!

Well that's great if you think like that - very positive! But how do you feel if you didn't spend your money wisely afterall - that it didn't end up creative and purposeful? Do you not feel guilty for things that go in the trash? Just wondering.

Oh yes, I've hit myself quite a few times - ha ha. So much for buying up, eh? I'm trying very carefully to not do that anymore - but it still happens. Today I bought a netted bag of lemons with the intent of making several things . . . let's see if I actually use them all!

I've never had a load of roommates, but my friends who did say the same thing. They used to buy up all this food, but not many of them took the time to cook - and like you said food gets moved around all over the place (you can never keep track of your stuff and their stuff). I remember looking in their fridge and seeing various bags and boxes from different fast food places . . . all these leftovers that would probably never be eaten.

Ah yes, money slips out of our hands so quickly, eh? All the little things we get add up and we don't realize that we have spent so much - I know that happens to me a lot when I go grocery shopping. I would think that I had money left, but I did already indeed spend it all. Well, the cool thing is you can continue to save from myLot!!