Don't throw food away challenge

Pooky

Made a huge vat of veg stock from the peelings from this weeks veg, will turn it into a veg soup tomorrow. The spent peelings then went directly onto the area of garden I want to use for veg planting in the spring.....they'll rot in nicely.

Left over veg from last night got whizzed up into a mush and baked in dollops to accompany tonight's meal....very tasty too.

Bread crusts have been whizzed up for crumbs and frozen and I have only emptied the composting caddy once this week....all used tea bags/coffee grinds and the odd half a spoon of cat food that's been left.

:T feel as though I'm a bit more organised with it all.

debbiedeejay

Similar problems here with the fruit going mouldy.
Another clematine and a lemon had to go. I,too, got the leeks from Aldi at 69p - two are now curling over and splitting so it looks like tomorrow getting the stock pot out and putting all the wilting veg in for a soup.

I was peckish earlier and grabbed a crust of bread to eat - ate prob 3/4 of it and realised there was mould on the bottom(well it is was week old:o) - whoops oh well - at least it didn't all go in the bin,only last mouthful.

Dog was fed the dodgy last slices of german sausage - hope he doesn't get ill but I wasn't going to put them in the bin that was for sure.

For tea we had the last of the jar of hotdogs opened for bonfire night - but made them into a mexican type of wrap with cheese etc and baked in oven - came out lovely so that was good.

Keep it up everyone!

rosieben

I've taken inspiration from a post on the Grocery challenge and sliced part of a small tin of corned beef, now in the freezer for another day!

Doom_and_Gloom

I have to report 30p for a pepper that went mushy and furry so fast I couldn't believe it and 16p for half a tin of tomatoes.

£0.46/£2

SpikyHedgehog

I had to sling have the potato wedges on Wednesday as they were rock hard & we had to dash out the door for Scout Committee (me) & Cubs DS2... - estimated 14p.

I used my veg trimmings from the fridge last night to make stock as the fridge was starting to get whiffy... It now smells clean again! I reduced the stock more than I intended as DS2 turned the timer off when it had cooked for an hour while I was on the phone, so I forgot about it & went off to put him to bed, but it was fine & is now in the freezer, while last week's frozen stock is out to defrost for tonight's dinner. I got 2 tubs from last week, but only 1 this ;-)

I've made orange cordial this morning from a bag of reduced oranges from yesterday's shopping, water & sugar, using Weezl's recipe for lemon cordial. My food processor doesn't grind the peel up fine enough to put inthe drink, so I'm straining it before pouring into the jug - any ideas for using sweet ground up orange peel? I did sling the lemon peel on the flower bed as part of my 'deter next-door's cats from using my garden as a litter tray' plot, but don't want to do that with the orange peel if we can use it... I'll squash it into the fridge while I'm at work & think about it more tonight!

squeaky

SpikyHedgehog wrote: »

I used my veg trimmings from the fridge last night to make stock as the fridge was starting to get whiffy...

Hmm...

If at all possible it's much better to save the trimmings in the freezer.

By and large I use a full one litre ice cream tub's worth of odds and ends in a vegetable stock (and about half that when making a chicken stock) and so it can take me up to two months to amass enough. There's no way this can be done anywhere other than in the freezer

SpikyHedgehog

squeaky wrote: »

Hmm...

If at all possible it's much better to save the trimmings in the freezer.

By and large I use a full one litre ice cream tub's worth of odds and ends in a vegetable stock (and about half that when making a chicken stock) and so it can take me up to two months to amass enough. There's no way this can be done anywhere other than in the freezer

Oh, definitely! But the freezer is very full, & there's quite a but of room in the fridge, so in the fridge it goes... It was more the cut onion smell, I think :-/

My planned big purchase for next year is a chest freezer, so I can use the fridge freezer & the chest freezer well. I do look on fregle but there's been nothing that hasn't gone before I've been able to ask.

We don't eat meat, so the stock's just from veg, & I filled a litre bag over a week (re-used a bad mummy had given us apples in too, so mse there!)

kippers

Pooky wrote: »

Made a huge vat of veg stock from the peelings from this weeks veg, will turn it into a veg soup tomorrow. The spent peelings then went directly onto the area of garden I want to use for veg planting in the spring.....they'll rot in nicely.

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How do you make the veg stock?

Thanks

sistercas

had to throw 4 satsumas away which literally turned green overnight :eek: about 50p?

so thats £1.55 so far

on the up i had 4 hotdog sausages for breakfast that DD1 had left in the fridge for a couple of days

mishmogs

Im upset, cos I have had to throw out half a small pot of natural yogurt which was growing penecillin...:( but apart from this, nothing else has been thrown away. shopping tomorrow, meal plan done so all in all not too bad. Special treat tonight, chippi chips to go with my chilli and mushy peas (good concoction eh?)......