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I put my peelings and raw vegetable waste on the compost heap - no problem.
I know cooked stuff will attract rodents etc.
What about neat cooked vegetables without any animally additions like butter etc.?
Ps anything apart from potato, cabbage and onion in bubble and squeak is an abomination!
In London. Keen but lazy.
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Nothing cooked goes on ours, not even plain veg.
Ok thanks obelixx. Council has started weekly food waste collections. Will chuck it in there
I put cooked veg, if there is no butter in them, on the compost heap, but I don't have much cooked veg left over anyway.
I never cook more than we can eat, we never ever have any cooked food waste. Mind you, we lead a very frugal life.?
I put all our food waste in the compost bin, apart from things that don't rot eg eggshells and avocado stones. Never had rats, if ever I see any, I'll stop putting the cooked food in. Like Lyn's family, mine doesn't leave much.
put eggshells on a baking tray on the bottom of the oven when you're roasting something and they can be crushed to crumb easily and then add. Great for worms.
I used to bake egg shells and put out for the chickens.
they are supposed to be a slug deterrent, but I dont think it worked, slugs don’t seem to be deterred by anything here? the chickens were a slug deterrent, not the egg shells?
Thanks, I'll try that.
We don't have leftovers either really, except the kind that get recycled for a next meal. Two hoovering dogs see to any protein and we eat our veggies.
I crush egg shells in my hand and bung them in compost corner. Never know them deter slugs so stopped baking them years ago.
I waste nothing. We either eat it, compost it, feed it to the birds or if it is cooked, bones or meat scrapes I leave it out for the foxes. Cooking fats I save and mix with wild bird food to make blocks that go on the bird feeder and the seagulls will quite happily munch away on a chicken carcass.