ESuzanne Jones

Still celebrating my birthday - one last day so one more restaurant meal. Had to leave behind some french fries, but mostly sis great orderng wisely and eating everything.

Regarding mileage, made some choices early in the day to save mileage this evening.


 

It was my birthday today and so there was a lot of eaating in restaurants, where you often get a lot more food than you think you will get.  I was very careful about what I ordered. This led to no waste at the first restaurant. At the second restautant, I was surprised with part of my order - way more than I expected - so I shared it with everyone at the table and ended up leaving very little uneaten. Also accepted rides from friends rather than taking my own car and saved several miles today.

My awareness has certainly grown over the last two weeks about how many extra miles I have been driving. I live in a small town and it's easy to think that I'm not really going that far, but I see now that there are a lot of choices I can be making to drive a lot fewer miles. Same level of awareness about how much food I was wasting. It's been very interesting.

Cut out 10 miles today by not racing out to the grocery store during lunch and eating what was on hand. And eating leftovers kept me from wasting them.

My sister told me that I could root both the stalk if my lettuce and my celery, so I am going to try that and put them iin my garden. I did that with green onions and it did work. No more wasting those things.

Difficult day. I wasted 2 buscuits because they were white flour -at a restaurant. Back on track now, though.  Did think carefully about going dowtown in my car and decided not to.

Waited on an errand so I could combine it with a meeting to save mileage.
 I have wasted almost no food since the challenge started. Being very creative.

I am going to try to eat the whole asparagus stem for dinner, rather than cut off the tougher parts. I hope to try this with broccoli, too. Regarding mileage, today was tough, but I did manage to take one shortcut to say a cpule of miles.

Met my helper half way to our destination saving 40 miles.

Once again, tried to lump my errands together to save mileage. Went grocery shopping and was very thoughtful about purchasing foods that I knew I could consume without leaving a lot of waste.