Totally did the same thing with veggie scraps, it's a game changer. Started keeping a bag for mushroom stems and parsley stems too, they add a ton of flavor. The real win was using the pulp left over from my juicer, which I used to just toss. Makes the broth almost meaty tasting. Saves a fortune and way less goes in the trash.

Feel your pain, that exact thing wrecked my February spread. Learned the hard way that gel pens are the only safe bet for thin paper. My journal still has a few ghosted pages as a warning.

But what if the crash is too big to fix? You can learn from small mistakes, but some failures just break things for good. That's why a few basic rules first isn't about being perfect, it's about being safe.