Use it up! Don't throw it in the bin!

BigMummaF

I'm in too providing you :silenced: to a certain offspring! Like others have said, this one in particular won't touch anything suspected to be OOD, let alone inbibe!

I'm guilty of the "oooh yes! I'll do XYZ" whilst shopping, then get home to not enough fridge space & stuff left to struggle for survival in a corner:o Having said that, I AM getting better, but the amount of F&V we can eat from one day to the next is noticably variable & I don't really want to shop every day if at all possible.

I am seriously considering a composter--may help turn my weedol thumbs into green fingers so I can grow as opposed to kill stuff--& the pets are really good at eating their 5+ portions; just wish I could say the same for the human lodgers:cheesy:

margaretclare

recovering_spendaholic wrote:

I wondered if anyone knew if I could cook them both and then take the meat off the carcass on the spare one, wrap it up securely and then put that in the freezer? If I can do this safely then I can make it fit in, but I don't want to give everyone food poisoning!

Yes, you can do that.

Cook your chicken, allow it to cool, strip meat off bones, wrap in foil or clingfilm and put into the freezer. You can then use it for chicken sandwiches, chicken salad, or even add to something like risotto.

I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about the possibility of getting food poisoning. What you mustn't do is to defrost and then re-freeze again without cooking in between. But it's perfectly normal to freeze any cooked meat, including chicken, and use it again as part of a different meal.

HTH

Lizzieanne

Hi everyone,

It's nice to see so many people embracing this challenge! :T

I've done well today - this morning I made Mr L a pasta salad to take to work - the remains of a bag of fresh pasta that I cooked in the week, with chopped tomatoes and cucumber, pesto sauce, finely sliced onion and some chicken that needed to be used up. I had the rest of the chicken in a sandwich at lunchtime.
He also took a 'dodgy banana' with him.

I had a glut of oranges that were starting to look a bit dry so I juiced them all this morning, then I whizzed up 4-5 slices of dryish bread into breadcrumbs for the freezer.

Our dinner tonight is roasted vegetable pasta sauce (made and frozen a week ago when the veg box was delivered) with some focaccia (home made) and there may be some semolina knocking about later as we have a lot of milk.

I've just realised, he'll have had pasta for lunch and dinner - keep it under your hats though, he's such a greedy so and so (and a pleasure to cook for!) that unless I point it out he won't notice!

And finally, there was half a bar of Green and Blacks butterscotch chocolate in the fridge that I've just demolished. I don't think it was in any danger of being thrown away, but I just couldn't take the chance.

butterfly72

Great thread!

We are going away tomorrow and I'm not sure what to do with our left overs:

one and a half courgette
green pepper
few sticks of celery
one red chilli
2 onions and garlic (probably keep)
bag of desiree potatoes which are starting to sprout!!

any ideas?? Not stuffed pepper tho.. we had that last night for for lunch today!!

thanks

Rowan9

zarazara wrote: »

cleaned outfridge and cupboards yesterday. threw away all out of date stuff so I can start afresh with this challenge.
had a curry last night and boiled my own rice instead of buying it from the chiy, but had to throw a bit away as its very nasty stuff re re-heating and food poisoning so i never keep left over rice.
today i am starting with using up things in the freezer, about 2 weeks food in there. food shopping is cheap this month.

You're right about having to be careful about reheating rice but.....I went on a chicken cookery course and the tutor told us that rice is the only thing he never buys from take-away precisely because of the reheating reason. He says the rice is often cooked kind of non-stop so you will get reheated rice in it and he thinks it's too risky for tums!
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Rowan9

butterfly72 wrote: »

Great thread!

We are going away tomorrow and I'm not sure what to do with our left overs:

one and a half courgette
green pepper
few sticks of celery
one red chilli
2 onions and garlic (probably keep)
bag of desiree potatoes which are starting to sprout!!

any ideas?? Not stuffed pepper tho.. we had that last night for for lunch today!!

thanks

not a natural combination but what about stir fry and spicy wedges on the side?
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ceridwen

butterfly72 wrote: »

Great thread!

We are going away tomorrow and I'm not sure what to do with our left overs:

one and a half courgette
green pepper
few sticks of celery
one red chilli
2 onions and garlic (probably keep)
bag of desiree potatoes which are starting to sprout!!

any ideas?? Not stuffed pepper tho.. we had that last night for for lunch today!!

thanks

Add some canned tomatoes - ratatouille.

ceridwen

maltesers wrote: »

I have a problem with jars of ingredient stuff with short sell by dates. We opened a jar of wholegrain mustard to use one teaspoon in a recipe and the jar says keep in fridge and use within 4 weeks. The same applies to creamed horseradish, pesto, tahini etc. Has anyone any ideas what to do about these problem jar stuff?

Pesto - I'll add a spoonful (or 3!) to virtually anything bar curry - so a bit in virtually any sauce, maybe a bit in suitable soups, maybe a bit with some leftover cooked veg for stuffing for jacket potatoes.

Tahini - basic ingredient for hummus. Also you could look up Arabic recipes on the "web" - I recall a rather nice recipe for fish baked in tahini sauce from my non-veggie days in the past.

purpleivy

I have courgettes in the fridge. Goodness knows why I bought them..... I must make something with them before they go off! Also need to perform regular checks on fruitbowl, have satsumas and they tend to go off while you blink.

I don't think I've thrown anything away since the bread yesterday morning. I have some pastry in the fridge, so gonna make a treacle tart with all the odds and s*ds of bread kicking around the breadbin and freezer.

Greenqueen_2

Why are there so many black bananas lurking in people`s houses? I think we need some lessons in how to store our food products. Eg, what to put in the fridge, what can be frozen, etc.