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

Annie021063

Succumbed to 2 jars of mincemeat reduced to 24p each in my local co-op. Please help me turn them into some delish puds! otherwise my budget is blown!:D

2cats1kid

Sian_the_Green wrote: »

I really like a lot of these suggestions and would like to join the challenge if that is okay. My main problem is that as a single person living in a shared house where we don't share food or cook together I have very little freezer space and can't palm off food on anyone else

Anyone else in a similar situation? I've been getting an abel and cole box each fortnight which has been great as you get to try new things and specify what you don't want but the majority of my fridge space is taken up with veggies, delicious I grant you but doesn't let me store much else

Hi Sian the Green. I have been in a shared house like that and like you didn't have much fridge or freezer space.

The first thing that came to mind was if you are taking up most of your fridge space with veg, does it need to be in an actual fridge? Could you have a cool box, either in your room or in the kitchen, for your veg? You can get the normal ones with cool blocks, or you can get cool boxes that plug into the mains, sort of like mini fridges. There would obviously be an investment in doing that, but it might give you more variety of food.

Or even buy a small fridge/freezer that could go in a garage/utility if you have one, and then that could move with you if you got a place of your own.

CoD_2

you could add the mincemeat to a bread and butter pudding, or do a pud with puff pastry and mincemeat.

grapefruit make great marmalade, i've made a nigella recipe before where you boil the fruit, then chop the whole thing finely, removing any seeds then add sugar and re boil rather like jam.

emmental/leerdamer is lovely cut into chunks and stirred through rice and peas. makes a quick and easy risotto type dish. you can add any leftover ham/ chicken/ fish/ salmon/ veg i've also stirred through leftover garlic and herb dip.

Beccatje

mumoftwo wrote: »

Sounds fattening! Glad my nieces loved it!

I have been to the library and got some cookery books and a lovely cake book. Will copy some recipes for when we come over, we can bake for the kids and DH's, sure there won't be any leftovers.

Aye, I don't think this pudding thing is very good for my waistline....





Looking forward to loads of baking and eating together!!
(although we might never get past the stage of talking...)

EssexHebridean

Hurrah - we have a compost bin again! When we had the allotment we used to compost everything we possibly could - but since we gave up the plot we've not had the facilities to do it. After clearing a bit of our tiny garden area we decided we had space for something small, but of course nobody makes a composter small enough do they!! In the end we bought a plastic dustbin, and jigsawed off the bottom....buried it about 8" into the ground and hey presto - one composter! Once the lid is on it's as good as a "proper" one I reckon - we'll see what the results are like.

Fish pie and leftover salad tonight - yum! The mash for the top was from the freezer, and the fish was a combination of a quarter of a pack of reduced price "fish pie mixture" from Tesco (Smoked haddock, cod and Salmon) one of the white fish fillets from that Sainsbury's basics £1.27 bag, a quarter of a pack of reduced price jumbo prawns from tesco and a quarter of a pack of Tescomvalue smoked salmon trimmings. Handy when you find some freezable reduced price fish isn't it!

Time to go and raid the freezer for tomorrow night's dinner I think!

Sian_the_Green

There is an amazing pudding with mincemeat that makes my mouth water just thinking about it... I had an official recipe but you can make it up really.

1. Make up basic cake mix (I just chuck in 175g of butter, flour and sugar with 2 eggs and whizz with the hand mixer),
2.Put evenly at bottom of square tin.
3.Dump a layer of mincemeat all over, leaving a small gap around the edge of the tin
4. Mix together a random crunchy topping (think, oatmeal, a little flour, cinnamon, brown sugar, mixed nuts... whatever else you fancy) and spread over the top of everything else to form a lovely topping

You might want to cook it too, oops

Mmmm... so where is this reduced mincemeat eh? I have a sudden craving...

THIRZAH

There is an interesting article about food waste on todays rubbish diet blog-therubbishdiet.blogspot.com

Annie021063

Sian_the_Green wrote: »

There is an amazing pudding with mincemeat that makes my mouth water just thinking about it... I had an official recipe but you can make it up really.

1. Make up basic cake mix (I just chuck in 175g of butter, flour and sugar with 2 eggs and whizz with the hand mixer),
2.Put evenly at bottom of square tin.
3.Dump a layer of mincemeat all over, leaving a small gap around the edge of the tin
4. Mix together a random crunchy topping (think, oatmeal, a little flour, cinnamon, brown sugar, mixed nuts... whatever else you fancy) and spread over the top of everything else to form a lovely topping

Mmmm... so where is this reduced mincemeat eh? I have a sudden craving...

In my local co-op, christmas stock BB June 08, spose it would freeze so might buy more and decant from glass into tubs and save for crimbo. Feel batches of mince pies coming as gifts!!!!

Olliebeak

oooooooo can you freeze mincemeat, then? I've bought 2 jars of ES mincemeat and then found it was BB Sept 2008 and I wanted it for Christmas.

Could I just put it into plastic tubs and then into freezer?

foxybabe

cany you freeze double cream