Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for April 20, 2009
April 19, 2009
April 21, 2009
Transcript:
Cathy: Wash clothes in cold water! Drip dry! Repair instead of replacing! Rinse and reuse aluminum foil! Grow your own vegetables! Rescue old gift wrap! Make soup out of cooking scraps! Take shorter showers! Mom: At last! She listened! My time is here! My moment has arrived! Cathy: I ordered a book on how to save the planet and had it overnighted in time for earth day! Mom: My nanosecond came and went. Dad: In sports, you'd get credit for the assist.
ejcapulet about 15 years ago
What I want to know is what are they talking about “making soup out of kitchen scraps”? At my house the only thing that ends up in the garbage from veggies is inedible peels, mushy brown parts, and carrot tops, and we hardly ever have soup.
Solitha Premium Member about 15 years ago
Do a Google search with the words KITCHEN, SCRAPS, and SOUP and you’ll find quite a bit of information.
We as a culture have quite a habit of throwing away parts of veggies that are “unsightly” but perfectly edible, or sometimes even the healthiest part.
joylederman about 15 years ago
In the garbage? No, no, no…even the Food Porn channel is now putting their scraps in the COMPOST!
LibrarianInTraining about 15 years ago
I agree. I’m a compost believer. And I don’t need no stinkin’ book. I got my grandmother’s Depression Era wisdom. I swear those people really were the greatest generation. They didn’t waste anything.
humormehere about 15 years ago
It’s funny, but kind of sad… Folks in Depression-era and poor folks for years have grown gardens, conserved, and scrimped. Many people with too much disposable income have done it because it was trendy.
Now the tables have turned, somewhat.
namenamename about 15 years ago
Trust me, poor folk know the difference between what can go into soup and what goes into the compost heap.