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I got Too Good Too Go and had to suffer other people's inexplicable need to gut croissants and fill them with unholy substances like ham and cheese and brie and bacon. The Koreans I might forgive a little because they seem to do a lot of sweet fillings too, but "ham a cheese croissant"? NO MERCY.

The solution was to empty the worst offenders and keep their mutilated husks for breakfast tomorrow, to be enjoyed with home-made cranberry jam and possibly equally home-made yoghurt. Yeah yeah, "why do you sneer at the ham and cheese when you'll be eating them day-old" IT'S ABOUT FOOD WASTE. And because the entire purpose of Too Good To Go is limiting food waste, getting my sliced bread out of the freezer and put the ham-and-cheese into sandwhiches that will go back into the freezer. This however messed up the logistics of eating the rest of the smoked trout and that egg tomorrow, so that went to Monday's lunch, but this then delayed the ham past its expiration date, and that's how I ended up with six days' worth of lunch sandwhiches all ready to be taken out the night before (one with trout).

The cousin to whom I am closest in age would rather die than go through the embarassement of this frugality. But it really is about the food waste, for me. Making yoghurt from expiring milk and re-purposing profane sanwhich fillings won't save the world, but you know - I almost never throw away food. At least I don't help drive the demand for meat because I only buy it from the "expiring date today" bins and chuck it in the freezer.