Do you spend £10.00 per month on food you don't eat

lostinrates

JackieO wrote: »

Sardines on toast anyone ??:rotfl:

OK. Dh and I are fairly cosmopolitan and are known to be fairly decent cooks and eaters by our friends.....but sardines are the basis one of our favourite ''no think comfort meals''. we have them with salad or crudite on English muffins, toast or crumpets. and we call them ''Catsick'' because what we do with them does look revolting till coooked but tastes delish..my mother used to feed people on this when I was smaller...I can rembemer having an early teenage tantrum because ''noone eats sardines'' but my mother just...never said they were sardines..she called it ''muffin/toast Pizza'' (dh and I branched out into crumpets;)) And everyone ate it. It takes minutes to do costs very very littleand is a good way to get fish into non-fish eaters. I can share the recipe if you need help using them all up! I don't know if its a well known thing or not none of my friends know about it.


edit: I really fancy it now.:)

freyasmum

JackieO wrote: »

I suppose cucumber gets binned a bit as it seems to go soft very quickly ,I haven't yet found a shop that sells it to last more than a few days.

I can't keep my daughter in cucumber! :eek: She pinches it as I chop it and she walked to nursery eating a chunk today :rotfl:

gemini12

The thing I tend to waste is crusts . I freeze my bread because we dont eat a lot of it but sometimes the crust is stale even in the freezer to the point of being hard so I am afraid out it goes. Bread I toast but I dont like toasted crusts.

Salad can also be a problem coz I only like it occasionally add DH doesnt eat it all so the lettuce and cucumber tend to go mushy.

taplady

lostinrates wrote: »

I can share the recipe if you need help using them all up! I don't know if its a well known thing or not none of my friends know about it.
edit: I really fancy it now.:)

yes please - share it:) I adore tinned mackerel so I could swap that for the sardines possibly.

lostinrates

taplady wrote: »

yes please - share it:) I adore tinned mackerel so I could swap that for the sardines possibly.

Never tried with mackeral

Fish in a small bowl with...(this is where it gets simple!)a good squeeze of ketchup, a dash of Worcester sauce and some grated cheese. mash...it looks ghastly. (you can see why we call it catsick at this point)

Put on toasted bread product under the grill. Eat when cheese melts, bubbles and if you can wait...till it starts to go gold around the edges.

We can never wait and are pulling it out from the grill on to our plates. Its one of those things that is greater than the sum of its parts. We've tried ''poshing it up'' with fresh tomato, various tomato chutneys and fancier cheese and addng herbs..but ketchup and cheddar really can't be beaten...and the splash of worcester sauce.

mrs-stressed

I dont throw anything away now. Needs must! £ dictates EVERYTHING. I only buy what I need - and then I have to REALLY need it. Stale bread goes to the birds, bacon fat I eat, left over spuds get fried, left over cabbage goes into soup, soups go into my tummy. Newspaper goes to light fire. Dog food - no wastage there ever!! The only thing I have really going in the bin is egg shells and tea bags na dother stuff that really could go onto a compost heap - of which is on my wish list this year - oh and a wormery please (if anyone has one going begging)!!!!

But I do recall chucking stuff out willynilly without a second thought - how utterly disgraceful I must have been. Who can I say sorry too??????

Yorkielass

This is actually my thing to tackle this year. Before Christmas I had a really good sort out and now I'm in major use up mode/don't waste things etc. We bought another freezer in October and that helps a lot too.

We've made a good start mashing all our remaining Christmas potatoes and now have several portions in the fridge, Christmas carrots went into the cottage pie with some of the mash too.

When we make a meal and there is leftovers we either pop in the fridge and I have for lunch the next day or the freezer and I'll take them at some point. Boxing Day risotto yesterday and Chicken storecupboard/freezer stir fry today!

taplady

lostinrates wrote: »

Never tried with mackeral

Fish in a small bowl with...(this is where it gets simple!)a good squeeze of ketchup, a dash of Worcester sauce and some grated cheese. mash...it looks ghastly. (you can see why we call it catsick at this point)

Put on toasted bread product under the grill. Eat when cheese melts, bubbles and if you can wait...till it starts to go gold around the edges.

We can never wait and are pulling it out from the grill on to our plates. Its one of those things that is greater than the sum of its parts. We've tried ''poshing it up'' with fresh tomato, various tomato chutneys and fancier cheese and addng herbs..but ketchup and cheddar really can't be beaten...and the splash of worcester sauce.

sounds delicious and I'll definitely give it a try so thanks for sharing it with us:T

pixiedust09

Guilty here too , in fact I have been very bad in the past , but it will all change this year. I've started to freeze stale bread until I have a load and then make into breadcrumbs. I do use veg if it's out of date provided it looks OK, meat and dairy I'm cautious with. I do have a couple of oranges in my fruit bowl that have seen better days, any ideas how I can use them up? or can citrus fruit be composted?

Meadows

pixiedust09 wrote: »

I do have a couple of oranges in my fruit bowl that have seen better days, any ideas how I can use them up? or can citrus fruit be composted?

Squeeze and freeze the juice to use later in something.