What food items will you never use/swap ideas?

Queenie

gingin wrote:

Good idea! I have a vacuum pack of chestnuts, had them for ages, no idea what to do with them, we really don't eat puddings so nothing sweet please .

Chestnut Soup ( a la Delia)

Chestnut Stuffing (can be frozen ahead for stuffing your Christmas Turkey )

BBC Chestnut recipes

mikeywills

Sorry squeaky, its not a suggestion to send each other your unwanted goods, only to suggest how they might be used. All in the name of moneysaving...eh!

Your absolutely right thriftlady, I hadn't spotted that it was for Irish Moss, I assumed Welsh Moss would do the same thing.....:rotfl:

squeaky

So I see.

Still, given the title, I don't think it hurts to remind people that swapping ideas is fine and that posts should not move on to swapping the items themselves.

lynzpower

Lucie wrote:

Like Sarahsaver, I'm a ground coffee only kind of girl, but have a jar of instant for my Mum & MiL; it's been there about 2 years & not even half way down!
There's also a tub of bisto chip shop style curry sauce granules & a jar of ready made beef in ale casserole sauce lurking in the back of my cupboard that surely must be out of date by now. Heaven knows how they got in there?

Me too!!

I went through a really self-created diet ( basically, eating NOTHING containing fat at all) after a summer working in a bakery where I piled on the pounds many years ago. This instant curry sauce was a lifesaver I used to have it with sliced mushrooms onions & frozen peas & rice. ( i was a student then BTW) I bought my one on a whim about a year ago

Thinking about it now, I bet the sauce itself is crammed with transfats and nasties!

mikeywills

Come on squeaky loosen up a bit, how about a game of virtual conkers, I picked some crackers up over the park last week, theres defo going to be a few 6 or 7ers in amongst them, how about it eh....:D

suep

Bulgar Wheat, I'm a vegetarian and was told to try it as it's full of protein, but I don't know what to do with it.

hazzie123

One unopened box of crispbreads,BBE 10.06.Have no idea why I bought them or even when I bought them? I think I`ll stick them on freecycle and some poor devil can feast upon them.

I did browse through one of my cupboards the other day and found half a tub of bicarb with the BBE 04.02!!! I only had my new kitchen put in 2 years ago,just goes to show I never looked at the date just chucked it back in the cupboard.

LydiaSophia

Coscus (cant even spell it) I see it in all sort of ready made meals but somehow doesnt look same when i cook it

try this lovely recipe

Moroccan lamb and couscous

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/moroccanlambandcousc_70924.shtml

voguemonkey

pudding06 wrote:

chestnuts are brilliant mixed with sprouts at christmas!!! - i take it you chestnuts are cooked already and just need heating.

pudds

My mum does this, mixed up and roasted with bacon and garlic too, they are delish. No-one has to be forced to eat their sprouts at my house.

vizcacha

A tin of peaches with a big dent in it

A tin of prunes

Quinoa - tried to make myself like it but let's be honest - it's not the most pleasant thing. I feel too guilty to throw it out coz it was expensive

beans and pulses I can never remeber to soak and then get too confused trying to work out how to do it in the pressure cooker and give up

stuff I found out inteferes with my thyroid meds, corn tortillas, cornmeal, tofu, etc