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

hansi

kippers wrote: »

I've been listening to the news today and it states that loads of food is being thrown away each day.....how many meals us O/S'ers could make from this food.

Anyway, i'm fairly good at planning and using my food up, but i am guilty of throwing away a small amount. Therefore i'm setting myself a challenge:-

I'm going to see how many days i can go without throwing any food away.

At the moment i have two nearly black bananas and four wrinkled plums to use and four yoghurts that have two days before their sell by date. I need to think about what i can do with these.

Would anyone like to join me with this challenge?

Don't worry too much about the yoghurts. I regularly eat them way past the sell by date. As long as you keep them in the coldest part of the fridge they're ok.

hansi

posh*spice wrote: »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7389351.stm

My goodness it's appalling isn't it - according to the BBC people throw away 5500 WHOLE CHICKENS EVERYDAY. :eek:

Where would you keep 5550 whole chickens. that's a hell of a big freezer :j :j

hansi

Personally, I think sell by dates are a big con! Just designed to make you part with your money. Also, have you noticed that if you buy, say, a giant jar of pickles,it says on the side "Refrigerate and use within one month". I couldn't eat all that in two months!! As I said, it's just a big con. If you are sensible and store items in the fridge properly, there's no problem. We eat yoghurts way past the date shown and there's never a problem.

ceridwen

Confession time...well the better part of a loaf of bannock bread looks destined for the bin. Am trying to chomp my way through a bit of it for breakfast now - as its the only bread I have in...but...ummmm!! Well - look on the bright side - I know how to make my own homemade thingies for a game of rounders (its hard enough for it).

Oh well....not every recipe is going to work out. It was my first attempt at bannock bread yesterday - think I should have been a bit suspicious about the comment to knead for 10 minutes. I kneaded for 5 minutes - and it was hard work. Back to the drawing board in my search for very quick bread to make - it could be naan bread tonight methinks:cool:

Paige

There is a programme on tonight at 8pm on ITV1 about eating food past its sell by date. Should be interesting.
The only thing I have thrown out this week is half a bag of shop bought salad. Thats it now I am not buying it anymore as every week I bin some of it. I am going to make salad and use red or white cabbage instread of lettuce as it lasts longer and is more flexible. Paige X

2cats1kid

10past6 wrote: »

Hello peeps :hello:

Any suggestions what I could make with the following, carrots / leeks / eggs / tomatoes / onions / mushrooms /potatoes.

Quiche or vegetable shepards pie may well spring to mind, but as we've had both those this week, I'm looking for an alternative

Any suggestions will be most welcome.

I'd go for a Spanish omelette type thing.

joannasmum

Argh i was doing so well and I've just found a full punet of Strawberries at the back of the fridge. I'm going to have to trim them what can I do with them there definately past there best.

Mudbath

A_fiend_for_life wrote: »

One tip I got when I was in college was to take some ice cream and your favorite chocolate bar and put in the microwave for a few seconds. So long as the ice cream is freezing cold / rock solid (and not the easy scoop kind) and the liqueurs quite warm they should melt over the ice cream and the ice cream should remain frozen. Hope you haven't had dessert yet!

Waste this week - one large swede that was hiding.

Mmmm, guess what we're having after dinner! Thank you!

Primrose

I absolutely agreed with Paige about red and white cabbage being excellent for salads. They will keep fresh in the fridge for ages and have a deliciously satisfying crunchy texture. Bagged lettuce leaves are the worst value for money. Unlike a whole lettuce, you can't even soak them in cold water for a couple of hours to revive them if they go a little limp as they just turn to slime.

Primrose

2cats1kid - the other thing you could do with them - apart from the eggs - is chop them up and roast them. The potatoes are best par boiled for a few minutes first. Serve on a bed of rice. If it's a little dry, you can make up a lemon sauce with a chicken stock cube, a little cornflower and the juice of half a lemon.