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

happy35

youo cook belly pork on low for about 1 or 1.5 hours, you can put spices on the skin or marinade it if you want to

I have some in my freezer and will be putting chilli, garlic and honey on it for the last 1/2 hour or cooking

saveabobortwo

when iv got the time and motivated enough i do every so often cook up batches of meals and freeze them.as well as being more economical , healthier it tastes heaps better than packet meals. but of course you got have the day to bake and keep it all up, but i do like what we re eating when i cook everything from scratch. SO TRYING to use everything upin the fridge and freezer . to clean out the freezer then fill it right up full with home made meals. in the beginning a bought those foil trays from 99p shop to freeze the meals but when i tried to wash these out and use again that was nt very strong and fell apart so i have bought the large oven cooking dishes from the 99p shop instead this is more economical and will last longer one good thing is although after a days baking i am absolutely cream crackered it is lovely to just get something out the freezer in the morning to defrost and pop it straight in the oven come tea time knowing what im eating will be cheaper yet more nutricious .so this week eat up /make meals with whats in the fridge and freezer;)

dannie

Only two days left for the May challenge which was to use up leftovers from last April and beyond. Was hoping it would free time for other things.

The plus was less time superstore shopping but generally I did not successfully make time for other things. At a guess, this was due to my diet/ health reasons.

Anyhow, recently I've been using up an old chive bread recipe. Due to the texture, I "improved" them by creating "mini pizzas" by putting on top any suitable leftovers from the freezer

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came home from DDs last night with a plastic bowl in which what was left from Dinner and was going to be binned.3 roasted potato's,some carrots,some brocolli a sausage roll and some sliced lamb.My DD has 7 in her family so there was no way it was going to stretch around them.She was going to either bin it or chop it up and give to the dog !!! I imediately stepped in and said I'll take it home that will do for lunch for me today.I shall make up some gravy and re-heat the rest and voila my lunch I am quite happy to eat it as it save me having to dig something out of the freezer and cook so I can relax and read my book and no faffing around at lunch time.
recovering spendaholic I always use honey instead of sugar when I cook rhubarb as it takes the tartness off.A couple of weeks ago I had some reduced price Rhubarb 20p from £2.99 from Sainsbobs and three small wrinkly apples that were past their best and I stewd them together with some honey and they were delicious I covered the lot in some thick gloopy custard and when my brother and sis-in-law were here to lunch we had that as a pud.My brother hadn't had any rhubarb for years and he loved it. I can't understand how its so expensive to buy in the shops now at one time almost every garden had a small crown of rhubarb in a tucked away corner.Once you byuy one it takes very little effort to grow and replaces itself every year.When I was small my Mum even made rhubarb jam as we had such a glut of it one year

recovering_spendaholic

recovering spendaholic I always use honey instead of sugar when I cook rhubarb as it takes the tartness off.A couple of weeks ago I had some reduced price Rhubarb 20p from £2.99 from Sainsbobs and three small wrinkly apples that were past their best and I stewd them together with some honey and they were delicious I covered the lot in some thick gloopy custard and when my brother and sis-in-law were here to lunch we had that as a pud.My brother hadn't had any rhubarb for years and he loved it. I can't understand how its so expensive to buy in the shops now at one time almost every garden had a small crown of rhubarb in a tucked away corner.Once you byuy one it takes very little effort to grow and replaces itself every year.When I was small my Mum even made rhubarb jam as we had such a glut of it one year[/QUOTE]

Thanks for this Jackie. I know what you mean about the rhubarb crowns - we had one in our back garden as a child and until she moved house last year my best friend had one in her garden which she let me pick from as they didn't like rhubarb. I was talking with the kids last night and I said that we should try and get stuff growing in the garden so we are going to start planning it next week. Will go over to the greenfingers thread later and ask for some tips.

Had leftover chicken and stuffing sandwiches for lunch - still have about a quarter of the chicken left and loads of stuffing, plus veg from yesterday too so I will have that for tea with some gravy. DD1 is going out for tea and DD2 won't eat the roast so I will make a scone pizza for her using some leftover cheese and some past their best tomatoes which I will cook down with some dried herbs and dried onions. I find the Costco dried onions are brilliant - they cost £2 ish for a big tub and they are lovely in stews, casseroles and sauces. Nothing like the Whitworths dried onions which I don't like at all!

saveabobortwo

to carry on emptying the freezer i today found at the bottom a prepacked mince dinner with veg that you could cook from frozen i whipped it out it wasnt enough for the 3 of us so i popped it in the oven and got out my wacking great big frying pan from the top shelf put a bit of oil in chopped last of garlic tesco value mixed herbs 1 leek chopped 3mushrooms looking a bit lonely some tatas that had been in the bottom of veg compartment for quite a while i boiled these then slicedthem and added to the pan it still looked a bit sparce so bunged in a can of peas and carrots i seasoned the lot then had anotherlook in the fridgeand hooray there in the corner was a small lump of double gloucester value cheese all still in the pan i grated it all over and VOILA A GOURMET DELIGHT FOR 3 i love cooking like this making up your own lunch dished it all up with a nice cup of tea they all laugh because they dont know what im going to cook upfrom one day to the next so keep joking telling them im going on master chef :rotfl:

saveabobortwo

name me one thing you have lurking in the darkest corner of your fridge and we ll think up some suggestions what you can do with it HOW ABOUT THAT THEN?

cat_smith

Not lurking in fridge but full jar of pickled quail eggs with BB 2009. Any ideas?

saveabobortwo

MMMMM. PERSONALLY I DONT LIKe QUAILS EGGS and i think you should have a look at them first if pickled maybe ok but if deteriated in anyway then dont give yourself belly ache not worth it i personally if they were no good would empty the jar of its contents and recycle the jar because jars are dearto buy clean that right out and reuse to make some nice chutney or jam come autumn harvest;)

cat_smith

saveabobortwo wrote: »

MMMMM. PERSONALLY I DONT LIKe QUAILS EGGS and i think you should have a look at them first if pickled maybe ok but if deteriated in anyway then dont give yourself belly ache not worth it i personally if they were no good would empty the jar of its contents and recycle the jar because jars are dearto buy clean that right out and reuse to make some nice chutney or jam come autumn harvest;)

Thanks. They are pickled and they look fine. Will certainly keep the jar.