Don't throw food away challenge

Pooky

kippers wrote: »

How do you make the veg stock?

Thanks

I just used all the peelings (which were a small amount of potato ones, parsnip, carrot ends, outter cauli and cabbage leaves, leek ends, a few slightly manky looking cherry tomatoes, onion tops and skins, a whole onion copped and a couple of celery stalks chopped). Popped them in my stock pot with a generous sprinkle of mixed herbs, a good grind of salt and pepper and around three pints of water. Brought to the boil, simmered for about half an hour and then strained. I then reduced the remaining stock down until there was just a pint of liquid left.

The chunky veg, lentil and barley soup made from it was just fab!

debbiedeejay

Help!

Have found a small fresh beetroot sitting in my veg rack - I bought it a couple of weeks ago - no idea why,never cooked them but I love them pickled:o.

It's slightly squishy to touch.......

Any ideas what I can do with it ?

The rest of the wilting veg it was sat amongst was made into a lovely corned beef hash dumping soup type stew thing and it was lovely!

kittywight

8p 2 eggs
30p?? mince

thrifty-gal26

Nothing to throw out today! Woop woop. Things are looking up as morning sickness seems to be getting better so actually eating the food in my fridge

rising_from_the_ashes

Kitty - do you have your own chickens? I wish I could get eggs for 4p each!!!

Seriously, if you do, is this how much the eggs work out at when taking costs of keeping the chickens into account? (I'm seriously wanting chickens - have been for ages!). TIA


Nothing else thrown away in the Rising household:j. Made a huge pot of soup with stock from the chicken bones and threw in all the veg that was left in the fridge.

It's sooooo much easier to do this in winter!:D

Linda32

debbiedeejay wrote: »

Help!

Have found a small fresh beetroot sitting in my veg rack - I bought it a couple of weeks ago - no idea why,never cooked them but I love them pickled:o.

Hi, we grow our own, you can cook them by boiling until you can get a fork through. It takes a while and you do have to top it up with water and keep an eye on it, otherwise you will for ever have a pan just for boiling beetroot [STRIKE]burnt[/STRIKE]

If its still got leaves the tear these off by twisting, don't use a knife or scissors as they bleed.

Once cool the skin peels off then you can slice and open freeze. Then bag up and just defrost a few peices as you want.

Or slice and put in jar with pickling vinegar.

kittywight

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

Kitty - do you have your own chickens? I wish I could get eggs for 4p each!!!

nope they were just cheapy ones from lidls 80p for 10 .. thats 8p right? or is it 16p? threw 2 away ...... today is not a day for maths :rotfl:

wish i had chickens and ducks i love them , no garden at the moment im afraid though, had to buy the battery caged eggs last week due to SEVERE brokeness :eek:

xx

ChrissieT_2

SpikyHedgehog wrote: »

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 dry citrus peel in my bottom oven (Rayburn) to use as firelighters. I think citrus mush dried out would work the same.
Gave DH pasta with gremolata last night. Gremolata - breadcrumbs, toasted in a frying pan with a little oil then mixed with finely chopped parsley, garlic, lemon zest, crushed garlic and a tiny bit of chilli. Splosh a little bit of oil over cooked pasta and a dash of lemon juice then liberally sprinkle with gremolata - cheap, tasty, and really quite sophisticated!

WelshWoofer

Nothing thrown away since the leeks incident:o

Using up stuff from the freezer and half a tin of beans from the fridge for tea tonight.

forever_saving

I had to throw away 4 tomatoes today, first things i have had to throw away this week. I am quite pleased with that. Since finding this site i have started to be careful but there is always room for improvement, for me anyway.
FS x