#170 - Nice Butt

Eating the "Butt" Ends of the Bread

Well, I've been participating in Crunchy Chicken's NO WASTE Challenge now for a month and.... I've lost four pounds and cut our grocery bill by 20% last month! Booya, baby!

If you don't know about the No Waste Challenge and are too lazy to click the link (hey, believe me, I'm not judging -- I'm the Queen of Sloth) then let me recap: No Waste stands for No Overeating While Attempting to Save the Environment. It combines reducing your personal caloric consumption with reducing your household food waste.

So anywide, I've been working on reducing our food waste for a month now. And I've made several changes in our wasteful habits around here - some big, some small. And this is one of the very small ones.

I never used to eat the "butt" part of the bread. You know the part I'm talking about. It's the half-assed slice on each end of the loaf. It's not as thick as the other slices and not as soft either. I used to give it to the dog, feed it to the ducks, or, more often than not, just let it turn all green and moldy in the bread box. Because I'm a good homemaker like that.

Well thanks to Crunchy's challenge, no longer will I push this previously scorned butt out of the way in search of a softer slice. Nay, I shall happily grab the end piece and enjoy it's unique texture and slim lines. "Carpe Buttem!" that's what I say.

Did I mention this is a very small change?

But every small change is a step in the right direction. And with this change I am greener now than I was yesterday. Big steps or little steps, each step is a little lighter. And that's what it's all about, baby.


Savings:

One loaf of bread per week. Two butt ends per week. That's fifty two sandwiches per year. Not bad. If all the people who read my blog yesterday did that, we'd save about fifty two slices per year.... give or take. ;-)


Difficulty Level:

I cannot tell you the exact moment when I became a bread snob. Must have been some time after the poverty of the early, post-college years when I was just willy-nilly with the money. But it was easy to go back to slummin' Wonderbread style. Give it a try. You too can grab a nice butt, right in the comfort of your own kitchen!

::Sitting here waiting for the inevitible string of comments from my gutter-minded friends. Bring it on, ladies.::