The Friday Five for 11 February 2022

[kitewithfish]

1. What's your favorite candle scent?

Beeswax - I actually do not like the smell of scented candles much!

2. Do you have an artistic or crafty hobby? What is it?

I knit, I used to crochet, I have done a lot of bookbinding and paper crafts in the past.


3. What's one weird way you save money on food?

Mostly by reducing food waste. I make large batches of food when it's on sale, and then freeze a third of it for later. When I finish with the main batch, I'm usually tired of it, so freezing some means I have a few spare meals in the freezer all the time and I don't have to worry about cooking things when I'm tired.

4. Do you collect anything weird or unusual?

I hoard stationery but that isn't that weird. I've got a few more fountain pens than the average person.

5. Do you fear the deep ocean, or does its unknown depths excite you?

I fear the deep like humans before fire feared the dark of night. The depths are not empty, do not go knocking.


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Comments

[yourlibrarian]

I only wish freezers were the same size as the refrigerator space. I don't tend to cook and freeze food but like you I tend to buy multiples when they're on sale. I rely on frozen foods a lot because with 2 people it's much easier to just defrost a few bits of something. Fresh food is either too much or not enough in the sense of being able to buy a variety of, say, vegetables at one time. I don't like food waste either and I want to be sure we can eat everything before it spoils.

[kitewithfish]

God, yes. I'm usually only feeding two people and it always seems like fresh food is on the verge of going bad the day after you get it. I ended up batch cooking a lot more in the last few years bc of Tamar Adler's book, An Everlasting Meal, had some really sort of helpful strategies on how to manage fresh food. One of them was that if you cook your fresh food right away (even if it's not in the most interesting way) you can dole it out in small amounts over several meals without having to cook extra. That eventually morphed into my current, freezer filling system - because even then it was a struggle to get everything cooked and eaten!