44. "I can't eat *everything* my kids don't eat" In response to In response to 0
and they frequently don't eat much, so there is almost always leftovers that I don't want or simply can't eat and that aren't worth saving.
We used to compost anything that wasn't meat; but then we got chickens. The leftover food (and cooking scraps as well) still gets composted but almost all of it gets processed by the chickens first. Those things will eat ANY damn thing. Including chicken.
In short, it feels a lot better to put something I don't want to eat to good use rather than throwing it out.