With the Food Network Channel going strong, we get all sorts of tantalizing ideas for our cooking. We stock up on previously unheard-of or at least unused ingredients to attempt to match the chefs on TV. It is unfortunate, but sometimes my family just doesn't care for the new recipe. "But I bought horseradish, dill weed, tabasco sauce, and asiago cheese for this!"
Sometimes we are "stuck" with ingredients that only go with a certain recipe, and they will probably go bad by the time we use them up. There are some thoughts I had on this topic of unintentional wasteful buying of ingredients:
1. Find more recipes that call for those unique ingredients
2. If you are going to try a new recipe, go in on the ingredients with friends so you can use them up just in case the family doesn't ever want that meal again
3. Certainly, if you haven't used those ingredients for a long time and they are cluttering up your cabinets, dump them into the compost pile and at least you'll get some future good out of them (enrich your soil!) Don't feel compelled to store them for years.
4. Otherwise, stick to main ingredients you know will work with many of your other recipes
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