I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Jelly_Biactol

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"Too big to fit in freezers!" customers complain.

:rotfl:

Kirri

Jelly_Biactol wrote: »

Bananas, eugh! Food of the devil, IMO

A banana is my favoured way of starting the day!
Great mid morning too if starving..
Just bought two


Wish I hadn't given in to my Morrisons boycott, was hellish in there. Only went in for bananas and a cucumber - HUGE queues. Will try and stay out in future, it's just horrible.

MNR - Morrisons do plantain though! I didn't get one. Didn't realise it looked like a banana.. They had loads of other veg I've never even heard of.

Jelly_Biactol

Kirri wrote: »

Wish I hadn't given in to my Morrisons boycott, was hellish in there. Only went in for bananas and a cucumber - HUGE queues. Morrisons do plantain though! I didn't get one. Didn't realise it looked like a banana.. They had loads of other veg I've never even heard of.

Personally I don't rate the Mr M fruit or veg; it seems to go off so quickly (I've bought mushrooms that turn manky before I even get them home:)) - don't Mr M freeze its fruit/veg for transit? Maybe that's what does it.

Kirri

Jelly_Biactol wrote: »

Personally I don't rate the Mr M fruit or veg; it seems to go off so quickly (I've bought mushrooms that turn manky before I even get them home:)) - don't Mr M freeze its fruit/veg for transit? Maybe that's what does it.

Freeze it? Do they? I doubt they could do that with all the fruit and veg as things would get ruined? I only bought 2 bananas but weirdly prefer M&S bananas for taste but was too far to walk as it's so cold Got an organic cucumber too and that was it food wise.

Mrs_T_M

They wouldn't be able to freeze most fresh produce. Bananas turn dark brown within minutes of being frozen, mushrooms turn to mush, lettuce turns to smelly mush, grapes and all of the berries turn to mush and leak sticky goo everywhere when they're frozen. This is just a few examples. They may be using different suppliers than other stores and they may not spray wax or preserving agents over their fruit and veg like some stores do either.

Kirri

Mrs_T_M wrote: »

They wouldn't be able to freeze most fresh produce. Bananas turn dark brown within minutes of being frozen, mushrooms turn to mush, lettuce turns to smelly mush, grapes and all of the berries turn to mush and leak sticky goo everywhere when they're frozen. This is just a few examples. They may be using different suppliers than other stores and they may not spray wax or preserving agents over their fruit and veg like some stores do either.

Yep, from a slight frost on the allotment, a lot of things get instantly ruined. Flavours can change. There's not much that survives a frost.

Edwardia

Freezing fruit & veg... sure it can be done actually. Not sure why you'd want to ? When I was a student I worked in McDonald's for a week (truly horrible) and while the hygiene was fantastic the iceberg lettuce arrived frozen and pre-shredded. So if you can freeze a lettuce, I think you could freeze pretty much anything if done with the optimal technique.

Lynsey.. nope, not the dongle either he's away ATM. Well done on the Mozzarella.

Kirri - DH's father an ex-chef as well (Royal Navy trained)so yes it was surprising. Other than mushy peas and pickled eggs think pretty much gotten husband off that stuff (he's very enthusiastic for organic but lurves his carbs). He got a big jar of pickled eggs as one of his Christmas presents. My mother looked at them as if they were alien eyeballs :rotfl:

Re: pets do you not have PDSA nearby ?

Banana lovers - I can get away with eating one of the teeny tiny organic bananas from ASDA aimed at kids but a whoppa would be way too sweet for me, I'd feel dizzy which annoys me as I lurve bananas so does OH.

Jelly_Biactol

Kirri wrote: »

Freeze it? Do they? I doubt they could do that with all the fruit and veg as things would get ruined?

It's just that I was told that (not recently) by someone who used to work there; whether it's true or not, I couldn't say (hence the question mark in my original post); whatever they do, their fruit & veg does seem to go off a heck of a lot quicker than from other s'markets.

zafiro1984

I'm back - had one of the worst weeks of my life last week, so much so I suffered with a migraine for 3 days - time to move on.

Bought myself a dehydrator, first time of using it today, I put 5 peppers in it and they shrank to a miniscule amount, The tomatoes haven't finished yet, will put them in olive oil once done. Looking forward to doing fruit in the summer, dried apple rings, strawbs, raspberries and going to make fruit leathers as a healthy snack instead of biscuits after lunch. We have four apple trees and they give an amazing amount of apples, usually do cider as well as apple juice but they are too juicy to do good apple pies so hopefully by dehydrating them they will stay as apple pieces instead of going to mush. anyone got any experience of a 'foodsaver' a food vacuum machine, I quite fancy one.

Breakfast - 2 pears
lunch - tinned soup, pistachios,
tea - all from freezer, chicken, peas, brocolli, beans roasties, profiterols

Kirri

Pickled eggs, I just couldn't! Isn't that what used to be sold on the counter of fish & chip shops??

There is a PDSA but it's in Croydon ... and also my vet is a bit of a specialist (general vets are appalling with gpigs).


Breakfast - I had the muesli and yoghurt, bit fed up after a week of it though.
Lunch - had the final and bit small jacket potato with cheese. Nice but didn't fill me up.
Mid pm snack - one of the hm apple and ginger biscuits.
Dinner - hazelnut milk pancakes (not too bad..) with a very hard lemon and sugar.

Bit lacking on fruit and veg today.. but didn't really go with any of the meals.

Have just cleared out some old and very sprouted allotment potatoes so I have none now, (was going to use some for potato wedges with the Quorn Roast but that was scuppered), a mouldy chilli and some dried up lemongrass. Still feel guilty throwing food even though I didn't buy any of that.