Let’s say an onion costs between 10 and 25 cents, depending on if I got a screamin’ good deal on it.
Let’s say I use 3/4 of said onion and 1/4 of the onion is left over. Its value is between 2 and 6 cents.
Do I use 2 cents worth of saran wrap to save the onion, thus reducing or even eliminating the thrift involved in this “savings”? Or do I toss it straight in the trash?
(note: saving it in a reusable container is not a 3rd option. I do package most items in glass or plastic containers, but don’t really want to put the onion in a permeable container, and a portion of onion shoved into a glass canning jar just seems weird…not that this whole post isn’t weird…)
What say you?
I chop the rest of the onion and throw it in the freezer in my perpetual “soup bag”. The soup bag gets odds and ends of leftovers and ultimately is dumped in a stock pot, has broth added to it, and turns into soup.
Or throw the onion in a compost bin.
When I was young, we would have had to eat the onion. “There are starving children in India” and apparently us cleaning our plate and eating every scrap of food was going to save these children. Now I’m fat and there are STILL starving children in India. But I digress.
Cheryl, what a great idea. Tossing leftovers into the freezer for soup is something I have always read about but never gotten around to trying. I really need to. I frequently end up with a TB of tomato paste, or celery that’s getting soft, etc. Those would be ideal for a minestrone bag.
PS – I don’t think it’s the onions that are making us fat.
Buy a smaller onion next time??
I think Cheryl’s answer was great.
My answer would have been…what I do: feel guilty about wasting the saran wrap or throwing it away, so do nothing, leave it in the crisper and forget about it, till it starts to go bad, then dig it out and throw it away.
I have to work on my efficiency.
I do what Jenny does but I think I’ll try what Cheryl does. But mostly I used dried minced onion so it’s not an issue.