Yesterday afternoon, while planning meals for the week, I decided to take a Vegetable No-Noodle Lasagna out of the freezer. We had lots of leftovers from this dish – instead of throwing them out, I froze them in single serving portions. Matt was working tonight so I thought it was a great time to defrost one.
Last night, my boss asked me to work a little later tonight then I had anticipated so instead of wasting my already defrosting dinner, I brought it with me.
I was craving some carbs, so I added a side of whole wheat pasta, PEAS and marinara sauce to my vegetable no-noodle lasagna.
All warmed together
I ate about 3/4 of this – all the veggies but a lot of the pasta was left behind.
September 28, 2009: Iron Less!
I have a severe dislike of this.
I inherited this severe dislike from my mother. She hates ironing too. In my effort to conserve energy, I ran across this:
…a clothes iron consumes a lot of power as well. The typical wattage from a clothes iron is 1000–1800 watts…
To maximize the use of your iron:
Collect as many pieces as you can to press at the same time.
While the iron is heating up, press the thinner clothes that require less heat first. When the iron is hot, press the more difficult ones. If you have thinner items again you can turn off and unplug the iron and press the clothes that need less heat again to end.
Unfortunately our apartment, although it has great closet space, does not have enough to keep my clothes hanging far enough apart that they don’t get smooshed and horribly wrinkled.
To make up for that, I am going to practice the “iron as much as you can at once” technique. In the past, I ironed every day. Tonight, on the other hand, I ironed enough clothes to get me through the week. Not only does this save energy, but saves me time – and my ironing is done for the week. Sweet!
Do you iron every day? Weekly? Not at all?
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I can’t remember the last time I ironed! That’s how much I hate to do it!
I have some no-noodle lasagna frozen in the freezer too. I love dishes that I can freeze and defrost later when I’m in a bind.
I need to make more big meals to stick in the freezer – I love being able to defrost dinner.
I hate ironing!! Yuck!!! I very rarely do it… fortunately, I don’t have to wear real “big kid clothes” to work.
I’m super naughty – when something’s really wrinkly – I throw it in the dryer. Bad bad bad.
I wish I could wear jeans more often to work – my pants are usually what neds to be ironed the most! If its not too bad, I will hang my clothes in the shower and try to “straighten” them…I usually just end up with wet clothes though.
Hi Heather,
Thanks for reading my blog ecoblogist and linking to it here. The more at once technique really does work if you have to use the dreaded iron. Another option is not to iron at all. If anyone ever calls you on wrinkled clothes, you can tell them you’re making the environmentally-responsible choice
Hi Cheryl – thanks for stopping by! I would love to try not to iron – I just wish I had more closet space so my clothes didn’t get so wrinkly!