Today’s question is from Jessica:
What do you do when you try a new recipe and nobody likes it? Do you eat it until it’s gone anyway, and just don’t make it again? Do you throw it out after tasting a few bites? Offer it to someone else?
As far as I know, food pantries don’t accept home-cooked foods, and we don’t have nearby family to pass things to, either. In the past month, I had to toss a pan full of side pork we didn’t like, and a sheet full of pumpkin granola nobody liked.
I usually try 2-3 new recipes each month, and at least one of them is usually a dud, despite my best efforts to find recipes that only include ingredients that we like. After a while, tossing out all that food can be costly. So what to do? -Jessica
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I usually avoid new recipes with a very picky family. After the eggplant fiasco of our first married year, I usually let my husband cook whatever he wants, even if it doesn’t have vegetables in it. My grandmother was very frugal though and read in Ladies Home Journal about saving bacon grease to use instead of lard (this was many years ago). She used it to make cookies and said she wasn’t going to make any more cookies until they were eaten up. She forced down one or two cookies a day until they were gone, and I’m pretty sure she never tried saving bacon grease again.
I always try to see if I can ‘fix’ it or see if it can be used in another dish. However, there are some times in which the dish cannot be saved. They just end up in the trash and I chalk it up to learning experience.
When this happens, I try to change it into something we will eat. If this won’t work, I use it for a compost project for homeschool. If we can’t do this with the particular food, or for any other reason, I throw it out back for squirrels, birds, wolves, deer, or any other animal around here that fancies it.
Blessings,
K.
For the most part, hubby will eat just about anything so I’m lucky. We also have a dog but I try not to give him too much human food – he has a pretty sensitive system. Like others have said, rinse it off if possible, repurpose, etc. Personally, there isn’t much that a ton of cheese on top won’t fix!
I acknowledge that it doesn’t taste good and then hide my eyes while my very patient husband tosses it. He’s a model of grace and never makes me feel like I’ve wasted money or ingredients when a recipe fails.
Our local homeless shelter and another local drug/alcohol abuse treatment home both accept prepared food donations so it is worth trying. Churches that offer food pantries/community dinners are another great place to check. If nothing else, for certain foods (like the pork) you could break it up and reconstitute it into another dish- like chili where the flavor can be masked by other, more powerful foods.
I noticed a lot of people were mentioning feeding scraps to dogs. I just wanted to mention avocado, onion, grapes, raisins, and raw bread dough are all harmful to dogs as well as cocoa and xylitol sweetener. Chicken bones can lodge in a dogs throat . So PLEASE be careful with the scraps you give to your dogs!
My family is laughing about the pumpkin granola, because I tried that out on them this past month too, and they would be in agreement with your family. But I did make them eat it–every last morsel. My husband is the only one who gets a free pass. But we have 6 kids, so I just divvy up the portions. It makes everyone happy for the good days. 🙂 Unless I feel I have actually ruined food (burned, mushed it too much, etc.), we eat it. If it’s beyond human consumption, we do have a dog and 5 cats out back who leap every time I open the door . . .
If we don’t like a recipe, I try to turn it into something else such as; dried out pork into pulled pork (cover w/BBQ sauce) other meats can be put into soups. Cakes, muffins, can be turned into a trifull. As a last resort our chickens will eat it!
Composting!
To recycle our bad food we use our chickens. They make eggs, we eat the eggs, so it is essentially like we’re eating the leftovers. Whatever doesn’t go into the eggs turns into poo and then compost, which then gets put in the garden and turns into food again; hopefully I won’t mess it up this time around! They are the most useful and cute creatures!
The only thing I wouldn’t feed them is obviously bad for you food(chocolate, chips, etc.), rotten food, and I can’t bring myself to feed them leftover chicken. They’d probably eat it too…
I try to make it into something else. I know this sounds complicated… For example, if a salad is too acidic you can add it to a pasta and throw some olive oil and broth in. Isn’t that a gastrique? I also am not one to make a dish that is one pot because I can reuse the elements of the previous meal to add to a salad, soup, or pasta. Ya dig?
Before you throw it check first:
-Can you rinse off the seasonings (meat, etc)
-Can you make it into something else (soggy bread into bread pudding)
-Can you cut off the burned parts (if the bottom of the pan is burned don’t stir it just pull off the stuff on the top)
-Can you add more of something to balance the flavor (a little sugar if it’s too salty)
-Do a quick Google search (too salty soup yields several ideas)
Otherwise – just chalk it up to a learning experience 🙂
We compost, so anything compostable goes there. The rest is either thrown out or given to our black lab who hasn’t yet once complained about a recipe I’ve made! lol
Just wanted to add something to the idea of dogs as garbage disposals…be careful that all the ingredients are dog safe! In particular, onions and onion powder are VERY toxic to dogs. They won’t get immediately sick, it’s an effect that builds up in their organs over time. It could be very expensive down the road to feed certain things to pets! I know many pet owners are familiar with human foods that are dangerous to dogs, but I didn’t know until my vet told me, so I like to share.
I can eat pretty much anything, so usually I’ll have it for lunch until it’s either gone, or I can’t stomach the thought of eating any more 🙂 DH will eat pretty much anything once, so I can usually count on him to eat at least one serving when it’s served. He’s not a fan of leftovers to begin with, so it’s on me to try to eat the rest of it. I’ll repurpose meats if I can.
If it’s super gross, it goes in the trash with no guilt. I use it as a learning experience and make sure to be more careful before trying the next new recipe! I have gotten really good about only trying recipes that have lots of good reviews. The allrecipes site is my favorite. Most of my duds have come from pinterest where there weren’t many reviews.
I used to try tons of new recipes a month. Most of them just weren’t for us. I almost never make a recipe that doesn’t have reviews-good reviews! I can also tell usually by reading a recipe and ingredients if it will go over well. Every once in a while I am wrong and something is bad. Generally, this doesn’t happen. We don’t have a ton of variety in our meals, but this ensures we usually like what I cook!
As a single mom, I refuse to throw food away unless it is inedibly burned. We usually have a ‘leftovers’ night once a week, and if no one else will eat it, I take it to work in my lunch every day until it’s gone. So it doesn’t taste the way you’d like? Suck it up! If it’s home-cooked, it’s bound to have some nutritional value, and eating it for a couple of extra meals won’t kill you!
I usually take it to work…those guys will eat anything…
usually we eat it, or recycle (making it into a different meal). I would also recommend if you have a friend at church or in the neighborhood who has a bunch of kids, offering to bring it to them rather than throwing it away (if you just don’t like it, not if its burned or something!). in a large family there is usually someone who will like it, and moms with big families always love a free meal!
I never throw food out. Some recipes don’t turn out great but we have an idea of what we will like and won’t. I’m notorious for cooking up something that nobody else likes. You can always salvage it somehow. We just suck it up and eat it til it’s gone. It’s think it’s a matter of disciplining yourself to a) not make new and unusual stuff and b) eating it no matter how bad it is.
I try to remake it into something that would be edible. I will offer it to my elderly neighbors or parents if they want it. If all else fails the dog gets it. I really dislike throwing away food.
The chickens get it!
Is there a way that you could try just half the recipe when you are not sure of how it will come out? Maybe serving more of a side dish until you know that recipe will turn out. That has been helping me a lot since I have changed my way of eating and I’m not sure how something will taste.
I recycle it into something else, chinese dishes, mexican dishes are very forgiving. …………..THEN I serve it by candlelight (when my children were home they loved eating by candlelight and cloth napkins)………….then serve a marvelous dessert….presto all gone!
If I make a recipe that is mediocre we try to eat it anyway…but we don’t save the leftovers. If it can be saved by adding something or revamping it a little I do that. Cheese and garlic seem to zest up bland recipes nicely. If there is no saving it and it is just awful than I toss it and learned a lesson!
Well, I only try recipes that at least the ingredients “sound” like something my family would eat – or I’ll even ask my husband to look at a few recipes to see if he might like them. Then, if I make it and something goes wrong – too spicy or burnt – we try to salvage it by rinsing the spices off the pasta that had way too much garlic or picking out the burnt parts. If the kids would be willing to eat the item with ketchup or barbecue sauce, I’ll pull out some condiments. For a muffin recipe I just tried, some kids liked it and some didn’t. The ones who didn’t, let the others eat them (which the kids who liked them were excited about since they got to have 2). With the muffins, if someone didn’t like it cold, we also just microwaved it to see if they liked it better warm. We have ventured into gluten free baking lately (by necessity) so we’ve hit more recipes we aren’t wild about, but we try to find a way to eat it if possible. Then again, I’m not that adventurous in my cooking because I want my family to like whatever it is we eat.
A lot of other people have mentioned what I try to do- repurpose. The pork would have been thrown in the crock pot with a bunch a green chile and made into pork chile verde, burritos, or bbq meat. I would have tried making granola bars out of the granola- mask the flavor with enough other ingredients. I recently got a box of multigrain cheerio-type cereal that the kids said tasted like soap- and it did! I melted a bag of cinnamon chips, coated the cereal, and added other ingredients to make a snack mix. The kids think it’s the best thing ever- and they know what cereal I used. I also sometimes freeze these things in small portions that make it easier to disguise in other meals so we don’t eat it every meal that week. I hate to waste food and cringe when I throw anything away, so I usually try to find ways to use things up. And I do tell my family that even though we don’t really like it, we will eat it anyhow and not make it again.
Locally, we have a homeless shelter/ city mission that does accept left overs from meals, weddings, showers, etc. http://www.joshuashaven.org
Maybe check more privately ran programs.
I do a lot of the things already mentioned- repurpose, rinsing off seasoning or sauce, reading all of the reviews on websites and trying to make adjustments for negative comments. I have been going freezer cooking forever and we’ve learned to only try 1 or 2 new recipes at a time. So if we are doing 10 meals, 8 or 9 of them will be tried and true ones that we know we like. Actually after almost 10 years of freezer cooking, I think we’ve only thrown away a meal once. But there are definitely some that don’t get repeated!
This happened to us just last night, I had 5 bananas that were brown and I tried to make banana fritters but I’m not sure what happened but they just burned and made a huge mess with the 5 I put in the frying pan so I dumped those burnt messes and took the rest and put it in my waffle maker to make like banana pancakes (since this was our dessert) and put some sugar on top it turned out like banana bread and on the plus side everyone ate, although it wasn’t our favorite so just be creative! 🙂
I pitch it. We are blessed that we are not starving and we have other options of food to eat. I’d rather my kids eat a sandwich and be happy at the dinner table, then forcing them to eat something they hate just to save some money.
I had a lot of leftover pasta I had made for a church event not long ago. Unfortunately not my family’s favorite kind. I definitely could have served it to my picky eaters but thought maybe the neighbors would actually LIKE it. Well, I was glad I did b/c I saw my neighbor later that day and she thanked me profusely, saying she had no idea what they were going to have for dinner that night and it was a big blessing.
So unless there is something wrong with it, I say pass it on! ( :
We have chickens, which end up being our garbage disposals. The only thing I don’t feed them is, well, chicken, so we can feed them most of our table scraps and failed foods. I make my own bread and every now and again I completely mess up the batch (forget to add salt or yeast, over cook it, or sometimes it just doesn’t turn out for no reason) and I give it to the chickens. Do yo know anyone with chickens or pigs that would eat the food?
I know it sounds horrible, but chickens actually love chicken. I read several articles that suggest feeding them chicken on purpose -that it’s good for them. I NEVER do it, but my son accidentally spilled popcorn chicken near their cage and they went crazy. They were begging for more! I thought it was interesting.
OH MY.
My dog loves bread too. Weird.
Growing up, my mom would always say “Sorry guys–I don’t like it either. But it’s what’s for dinner. We have to eat it now, but I’ll never make it again.” It helped to know that we were all on the same page and suffering through together. 😉 AND that the sooner it was gone, the sooner we could eat some GOOD food.
If it’s truly inedible, toss it. But if it’s just a preference thing… it doesn’t kill us to expand our horizons once in awhile. 🙂
If neither my hubby or I can stand it and it’s such a mixture that there’s no saving part, into the trash it goes. This rarely happens.
Granola is great mixed in yogurt or on top of a fruit cobbler/crisp.
On pork, enough good BBQ sauce drowns out other flavors so shred it and make a sandwich.
If something is edible but not “great”, it gets deleted from my Pinterest recipe file never to be made again 😉
Eat it. If I went to all that trouble, and we used good food as ingredients, we’re all going to suffer and eat it. I can only think of one spinach and mackerel recipe that we all actively disliked from the last 10 years of cooking.
I love this! Validates, agrees, and then a promise 🙂 My husband and I will eat a really bad meal for that meal, but I then throw away any leftovers.
As far as transforming the meal into something else–I often hate doing that, for fear of wasting MORE ingredients and have more of something I didn’t like. If it’s a sauce we didn’t care for, I too will rinse it off and use something I know our family likes. I have found that I can hide most everything in either omelets/fritattas, pizza toppings, quesadillas, or fried rice.
I’m blessed with a husband who is also a garbage disposal. Mostly, I just use trusted recipes from Moneysavingmom or something with a really high rating on allrecipes.com. My rule is to never throw out food so I work very hard to make soups, etc. to use leftovers.
My ONE exception was when I found an awesome looking Chinese recipe for the slow cooker. It was turning out wonderfully, but I decided it needed more ginger. I accidentally grabbed cumin. My wonderful Chinese recipe turned into Mexican Chinese, which is not a good taste. I couldn’t stand it, but God bless my husband who proceeded to take one for the team by eating the whole pot over the course of the next few days!
Man, that combination doesn’t sound too good. I’m Hispanic yet cannot stand the taste/smell of cumin. I must have missed a taste gene somewhere…
Funny. I made peanut butter chili once (highly rated on allrecipes so I ignored the skeptical voice in my head and tried it). I couldn’t choke down more than a couple bites. My husband didn’t care for it either but he took it for lunch till it was gone! I felt bad for not helping him. :). He said he wouldn’t mind if I didn’t add that meal to our menu rotation. lol
I made spanish rice that stayed crunchy – I kept adding liquid and cooked it an extra 20 min but it just didn’t work. I used it to make stuffed pepper soup and it was perfect!
Kudos to you for being brave enough to try new recipes!
I love trying new recipes too.
I have accepted that in order to have a varied rotation of exciting meals, some things will be bad and have to be thrown away. There is really no way to be an adventurous cook without the risk of bad food. Fortunately for us, one bad recipe won’t ruin our monthly budget.
A couple things I have learned that really does minimize food waste:
-I only use recipes from experienced sources with knowledge of food science. I absolutely never use “church cookbook” recipes or imprecise recipes from a home cook. Cookbooks/websites by chefs or cooks who have carefully tested the recipe and understand how to write a recipe are more helpful than vague, hobby cooks’ recipes.
-I don’t substitute tools. If a recipe calls for a stand mixer/immersion blender/you-name-it-gadet that I do not have, I pass on that recipe rather than wing an important step.
-I don’t substitute ingredients. After you’ve made a recipe and are comfortable with it, fine. But not on the first try.
I second the importance of not subbing ingredients or equipment. I use allrecipes.com for many of my new recipe attempts, and it irks me to no end when reviewers sub other ingredients, and then have the audacity to rate a recipe down because of it. Things like, “Subbed table salt for kosher salt and it turned out way too salty.” Well, duh!
Or the opposite: Added more seasoning, used less liquid, and cooked it for this long and it turned out great! Especially when a lot of reviews for a single recipe state that.
I don’t think anybody who reviews on Allrecipes EVER follows the recipes as written, so you have to take them with a grain of salt.
Would that be a grain of table salt or kosher?lol
I make new recipes 5-6 times a week, and there are a lot of duds! However, it’s rarely so bad as to be inedible. First of all, I typically only try dishes that I think will be successful–or at the very least, not objectionable. And I cut down new recipes that seem too large for our family of four. (No freezer cooking with new recipes! . . . though I really don’t freezer cook anyway.) My husband and I aren’t terribly picky and we don’t like to waste, so leftovers are the next day’s lunch, though I don’t force leftovers on the kids. I can rarely choke down breakfast, so lunch is typically my first meal of the day. You’d be surprised how often something not-so-great tastes when you are starving. 😉 If that fails, repurpose! I don’t love leftover pork at all (so our pork dinners tend to be small with few if any leftovers), but it, like many other meats, can usually be successfully “disguised” in a quesadilla or made into a barbecue (if saucy or unpleasantly seasoned, just rinse it first). The granola would get used in a yogurt parfait or mixed into a lightly sweetened hot cereal (oatmeal, cream of wheat). New snack or dessert foods aren’t made until the older stuff is eaten, so no waste there. I’ve found when kids are given the choice between no snack/dessert or whatever is there, even if it isn’t popular, they’re going to take what’s available!
Put it in a container in the fridge, tell yourself it will get reheated and eaten soon, then wait for it to grow fur so you can justify throwing it away. No? I guess maybe that’s just me. But for real, I sometimes go through a bout of self-hatred when that kind of thing happens. Definitely not the best use of resources when you have so little resources. But I like what someone said about making the smallest possible portion when trying a new recipe.
LOL, That’s EXACTLY what we do. It’s fantastic. Sometimes if I feel super guilty, I freeze it for about 6 months to a year and let it get horrible freezer burn.
Our pumpkin puree has been in the freezer a good two years. . . I keep thinking I’ll make myself like pumpkin, but it never happens, so it just sits and waits. I got brave and tried some pumpkin dog treats. But then I was too lazy to make another batch, lol!
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Nope that’s me too! Haha No really, I just leave it in the fridge and forget about it untiliit’s time to clean it out the night before trash day.
Your going to laugh at me.. but if it is like the granola you mentioned.. I live backed up to green acres.. so I put it out for the deer or any of the creatures that come along.. They love oranges and banana’s.. that have gone brown..
The meat on the other hand.. well when I am trying something new.. I buy the smallest one I can find.. and if we do not like it.. well then it ends up in the trash.. sorry to say.. but with getting the smallest one.. I don’t feel so bad.. Like if I see something at BJ’s or Sams, I will look for it in the regular grocery store.. when it is usually smaller and if we like it.. then I get it at the larger store.
sue in NJ
Yes…that reminds me…opossums PREFER rotten fruit to good fruit, so we do the same if we’ve let fruit accidentally go bad.
I suggest starting back at the beginning and only making recipes from trusted websites/cookbooks. For example, I love the Pioneer Woman Cooks, and every. single. recipe. I have ever made from her blog is amazing, works great the first time, and my family loves it. I try to stick to websites with trusted tried-and-true recipes, like King Arthur Flour or Epicurious (although I always read the negative reviews before I buy ingredients!).
When it doesn’t work out, I just throw it away, but I haven’t had any major duds in some time (knock on wood) since I’ve been only trying new recipes from the sites above. Good luck!
Yes- Everything I have made from The Pioneer Woman has been good. I love her chicken spaghetti. I made a Paula Deen Goulash that didn’t go over too well. It had way too many spices, so I had to add more water and noodles, so we had even more of something we wern’t crazy about. I have learned that there are certain spices (Italian Seasoning) we just don’t like and make sure not to use as much as the recipe calls for. You can always add more.
And my family LOVES the Paula Deen goulash 🙂 It’s dinner tomorrow night, in fact!
Everything from America’s Test Kitchen turns out well, too.
Yes it does! EVERYTHING!! LOVE their Family Cookbook!
Mel’s kitchen Cafe is awesome too. I love her recipes.
If it tastes ok, but maybe it wasnt to your liking.. maybe bring it into work or have your husband bring it in with a “help yourself” sign on it. I dont know about you, but in my experience, if you bring anything into work and leave it in the breakroom as a free for all, there’s very rarely left overs at the end of the day. It doesnt necessarily save you money, but it will hopefully feed someone and won’t go to waste.
Ha- that is so true! I have sent some truly bad kitchen experiments to the work breakroom and they always disappear by the end of the day.
So true! I made a caraway seed candy once that just tasted bizarre. My husband insisted someone at his work would eat it – and he was right. A woman there liked it so much she took the rest of it home, and her husband requested more!
I read in a blog (maybe this one) about saving scraps of meat or veggies or pasta and putting them into a big Ziploc container/bag and then making a soup with them. We tried it once, I didn’t think it would be good, but it was! Just add some good spices and some broth and give it a shot next time.
I tried that soup idea. Two out of three times it was not very good so I am done with that!
I had much better luck with that when I had separate bags for beef, chicken, veg, pasta,etc… It didn’t take up much extra space and the soup was a million times better.
You are right. At my workplace we have a couple of bachelors who will eat absolutely anything that’s up for grabs!
Sorry, meant to reply to Kim M’s post.
I hate wasting food, mostly because food is expensive! My tip would be to try to change it up so it’s edible. For example, was the pumpkin granola not sweet enough? Then try it on sweet yogurt with honey on top. Or mix it half and half with a granola that you like better. Was it just the flavor of the pork? Maybe try it on bread with bbq sauce. I’d at least try some way to “doctor” food up before tossing. Of course, sometimes things do get burnt or are otherwise inedible, but most of the time you can add some sort of sauce, sweetener, etc. You may not repeat the recipe, but at least you didn’t waste good food. : )
If there’s nothing “wrong” with it but we just don’t care for it, I usually try to repurpose. Meat can be used in soup or casserole; granola could be incorporated into a dessert. Your freezer is your friend, for this. If you can’t figure out what to do right away you could freeze it until inspiration strikes.
I don’t repurpose often enough…I love this tip!
Dry granola makes a good cobbler topping.
Granola cookies are also a great option!
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Granola-Chocolate-Chip-Cookies-233015
For something that’s burned or is truly inedible– added way too much hot sauce or whatever– we pitch it. But most of the time we either try to find a way to do something with it, either mix something in with the granola or using the side of pork in something else that we can “hide” it into. OR, and this is just us, we suck it up and just eat it anyway. My husband and I, that is. It’s not the greatest solution in the world, but if I can choke it down or mask it with something else I will try to. I will say though that it has made me test drive smaller batches of recipes before fully committing to them. Sometimes that’s not always possible, and sometimes it results in someone not getting as much of it as they’d like (I love it when they liked my recipe so much that they fight over it!), but its better than having to throw something away!
I recently had too much chili in a dish and found out ways to tone it down depending on the dish: lemon or lime juice, sweetener such as sugar, honey, coconut milk. I added to a thai rice dish, lime juice and coconut and it did tone it down a lot so it was edible and actually really good, very different from the original dish.
I try to start small with new recipes just enough for one meal and that way if no one likes it it’s not so bad. If I can I try to re-make it into something else, For instance if it’s meat that we didn’t like how it was seasoned I try to add something extra – shred it up and add it to a casserole. Sometimes it’s so bad I just have to throw it out like the time I made enchiladas and for some reason the corn tortillas just went away in the sauce???? It was horrible… so into the trash it went!!!
That is hilarious!!
I would have added some beans and broth and called it enchilada soup. 🙂
That sort of thing we would try to eat but if it truly was gross, it would either get tossed to our dog or our chickens, both of which will eat virtually anything.
lol! That’s EXACTLY what we do. Or I’ll eat. I grew up on a farm. I have a pretty strong stomach. 😉
Us too. We don’t have animals, but my folks do, so I save Meals Gone Wrong in the freezer and when we visit, give it to them…the dogs will eat anything!
Sadly for my husband (happily for the rest of us!) he is a human garbage disposal. So…he eats whatever is left.
I also try to repurpose things so I made a new recipe recently that I personally loved, the children did not. It had a tomato based sauce so I used it as a spaghetti sauce later in the week. I’ve also used leftovers that weren’t a huge hit to make soups as you can doctor them up to be more palatable.
For the pork you mentioned, I would probably cut it up, add a new sauce and make enchiladas. With the granola, I’ve had granola that was too dry before (gag) but find it’s perfect in yogurt parfaits or over ice cream. For baked good that don’t work well, you can use them to make a bread pudding. (what doesn’t taste delicious with custard and a good sauce!)
Don’t laugh but I’ve actually “washed” off seasoning to reuse some things rather than throw it away. 🙂 Look at it as an opportunity to be creative in the kitchen and enjoy!
That’s exactly what I was thinking. Meats can almost always be cut up and put into soup. As for the granola the yogurt is a great idea! I am, as my mother puts it, “too Scottish” to throw anything away so I’ve found many ways to repurpose things!
Just about any meat shredded and mixed with BBQ sauce can be eaten and enjoyed.
Sometimes I try to eat it – I’ll have it for lunch for a few days. Then whatever is left gets tossed. I hate tossing food, but if no one likes it…
I’m right there with you Mona! You can only eat a certain meal so many times without getting burnt out.
My first source is my mom, I pack it up and send it to her house other then that or if its really bad we pitch it and i really really get upset throwing away food like that especially meat that i have to bend and scrap money to afford Just the other week I made a beef stew in a crockpot I paid $8 in stew meat, and idk what happened but it just burned! completely burned and I was so upset. 🙁