50p a day til christmas, healthily?!-Weezl's next challenge (part 2)

MrsBartolozzi

Guapa, IIRC the farmfoods bag of peppers is 750g, but Lidl have a 3-pack of mixed peppers for ( I think 69p can't remember exactly sorry 60-70p) weight is usually about 700-750g.
When they are on offer I usually buy lots and chop some for chilis/spag bols and slice others for fajitas/enchiladas etc. I still have some in freezer from the last time they had them reduced . Oh I also do this with onions, chop when on offer or I get some reduced. It makes it easier if you can't be bothered chopping too .

Guapa1

Alex Glad I was able to help in some way, your tea sounds lovely well done on using up what you would have usually thrown away! I''ve finally come up with a meal plan I'm happy with for the week and funnily enough I've got smoked mackerel on the menu. :D

MrsB I was having a browse on the Lidl website and saw that they have a special offer on peppers and onions too. Do you precook the pepper and onions or do you just cut them up and freeze them?
They have half price radishes and I've never bought them before. I'm going to try them in a potato salad with mackerel. Has anyone ever had radish soup?

Right I'm off to watch the last few episodes of 24.
Night ladies! xx

Cazzdevil

Great tip about the veggie water Weezl, I suppose if you let it cool you could always mix it with squash to make it more palatable.

How did your foraging trip go today? We've been over at a friends house for a bbq and he lives right on the edge of a field skirted with elder so I know what our next forage will be

weezl74

AlexRed wrote: »

I whizzed up a large tin of butterbeans, some cherry tomatoes that were going soft and a bit wrinkly, half a red onion, a garlic clove, half a tub of cream cheese, some lime juice, cayenne pepper, salt and pepper and whizzed it up in a blender. It was lovely with a bit of a kick! Served this with some potato wedges that were a bit soft, sprinkled them with some herbs and pepper and olive oil.

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nomnomnomnom!

when your olive oil runs out, you might want to try olive pomace oil,


it's 23p per 100ml rather than 37p for bulk buying the normal olive oil...

weezl74

cazzdevil, the foraging went well thanks, dh had fergie in a sling, and snipped of the flower heads whilst me and our lovely visitors picked them up. He's the tallest y'see?

so today will be making chocolate icecream and elderflower cordial i shall post an update soon!

the carboot with isom yesterday was good, got a seat for fergie that you attach to a table for £3.50

and 10 large onions a kilo of celeriac and 4 large jacket-worthy potatoes for £2.80:T

ceridwen

Hi

Been googling to see what olive pomace oil is - I put up a link I had found on Google and then this website and some others went "all odd on me". Anyways - turns out olive pomace oil is made from the residues (flesh and pits from olives after pressing) and that this is extracted with solvents.

Hmmm...think I interpret "solvents" as meaning "chemicals"?

Ummm...think I'll be sticking to my extra virgin olive oil...:D

fedupandskint

Thanks ceridwen, I too wondered what the olive pomace oil was, after I had seen it mentioned on here I noticed it in Asda. Don't fancy it much altho a good use of what is left over if you don't mind how it is made.

weezl74

ceridwen wrote: »

Hi

Hmmm...think I interpret "solvents" as meaning "chemicals"?

Ummm...think I'll be sticking to my extra virgin olive oil...:D

yep, there are solvents!

only as harmful as the type used to make coffee into decaff coffee though, I read somewhere, also this is quite interesting:

How olive pomace oil is obtained

Olive pomace can be used to make three different types of oil: two of them are inedible and the third is strictly olive pomace oil. This is made by combining refined olive pomace with edible virgin oils, using an organic solvent which only dissolves the fats. Once the oil has been extracted, it is heated to very high temperatures so that the solvents used in the extraction process evaporate without leaving any residue.

and says that olive pomace is better at combatting arteriosclerosis than regular olive oil!

So I guess it depends which sources we go for, I agree with you Ceridwen it's obviously a controversial product! I haven't bought any yet til I've done a little more research... :D

ceridwen

I think the "heated to very high temperatures" would also be offputting to me - I would assume that wouldnt exactly have a beneficial affect on the nutrients in the oil. I believe treating oil generally has a deleterious affect on nutrients?

I tend to start from the viewpoint that Raw Foods are probably the healthiest going - no enzymes destroyed or whatever-it-is - and then its all "downhill" from then onwards - so the minimal amount of processing possible is the way to go.

Of course - any processing of food of any description - other than what is strictly necessary to make it edible - isnt a good idea environmentally either I gather. At the moment in Friends of the Earth this is one of the points that is being made - that people should, as far as possible, eat "primary" foods and not "secondary" ones - ie butter, rather than bread spread for instance.

Errr....guilty as charged I'm afraid - I do have bread spread in and canned tomatoes and canned beans........and...and...

(So - I would say that if one cant afford standard olive oil - then it would be best to buy sunflower oil instead.)

shaz_mum_of__2

Hi guys

The pomace oil is good for soapmaking !!

I have also bought the tesco olive oil in a large tin a bit like the old motor oil cans

Great buys at the boot sale but our elderflowers are not quite in full flower yet


Shaz