What food items will you never use/swap ideas?

blessings3

Re the spriulina - sure thats what cured my infertility!!! took tablets though

I have a big very expensive bottle of a special oil with lots of Omega3s and linseed and goodness knows what in it that I brought from Boots - Its supposed to be fab on Salads and like the healthiest dressing you can have but it smells and tastes like paraffin

Going to throw it away now with no guilt at all

meerkatgirl

Superannuated rice noodles!

Anyone got any ideas?

npsmama

..that you never use?

Maybe we could exchnage tips on how to make use of them.

In my case, I have Fish Sauce which I have never even opened, pumpkin seed oil and balsamic vinegar.

piglet6

A tiny drop of fish sauce in a stir fry with some soy sauce gives it a very "authentic" flavour - more like a restaurant/take away flavour rather than a home cooked one, if that makes sense.

Mr Piglet learned this when training to be a chef, and I was very dubious...but its true!

Piglet

piglet6

P.S. By authentic, I don't mean it tastes at all fishy, because it doesn't!

Just yummy!!!

Piglet

P.S. Pumpkin seed oil I have no idea about,:o and I don't care too much for balsamic vinegar, apart from in a salad dressing (although I prefer other salad dressings, to be honest!:rolleyes:), so I'll leave those to others...

Pink.

Hi npsmama,

We have a great thread on this topic, so I'll merge your thread with it. As always posts are listed in date order so you'll need to read from the beginning to see all the replies.

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Whistling_Gypsy

OMG - Mother gave me some 'home-made' mincemeat about 4 years ago. It must have survived c. 5 housemoves since then - am thinking this MUST be guilt, cos i hate mincemeat (nothing against dried fruit - just the wormy white bits of[STRIKE] lard[/STRIKE] suet (yuck) squirming inside the jar:eek: :eek: .

When I say 'squirming' - they aren't actually moving.........................only in my imagination!!!!!:rotfl:

mel_anthe

I have some Trex in my fridge - I can't remember now why I bought it but it's been there ages and I can't bring myself to throw it out. I dread to think what the best before date is on it

edit - I just looked - it was bbe dec 2005 :eek: definitely time for the bin, I think

Frugalista

Just came across this thread and couldn't resist bumping it .

I have 6 tins of chestnut puree (bought for 5p each) that I have no idea what to do with. Also a bottle of rice vinegar. Anyone got any ideas?

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Frugalista wrote: »

Just came across this thread and couldn't resist bumping it .

I have 6 tins of chestnut puree (bought for 5p each) that I have no idea what to do with. Also a bottle of rice vinegar. Anyone got any ideas?

Hi frugalista,

I use rice vinegar in oriental cooking. It's good in sweet and sour recipes, sweet chilli chicken, stir fries and hot and sour soup.

Chestnut puree is something I've never used, but this thread should help:

Help me use up this tin of sweet chestnut puree

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