How to Boil Water

Kitchen rules.
Meat.  Raw meat on the counter - the surface has to be cleaned before it is used again.  You have some leaway if you are preparing vegies to be cooked.  Believe me, clean knives and counters are worth the effort.

Kitchen asthetics.



Scraps and peelings.
If you're lucky you have chickens; chooks eat everything and leave perfectly compostable straw. 

If you don't have chooks, you can only compost vegies.  No meat, no oil.  Put a small bucket near the kitchen counter, in a drawer, or behind a cupboard door.  Every day put the trimings and leftovers in it, include egg shells and tea and coffee (admittedly, coffee grounds are kind of wet).
 
There are two approaches to compost.   I simply bury left over vegies for worms to eat in a trench as wide as my shovel next to a concrete wall.  At any given time the hole is about three feet long and about a shovel and a half deep.  Empty the bucket into one end of the trench and throw some dirt over it.  Continue for about 15 feet, then start over. 
A proper compost pile requires a fairly large amount of room, but they say that the resulting soil is without volunteer tomatoes.

The best part about composting is that you can waste the left over parsley without guilt.