Don't throw food away challenge

LittleMai

Thanks for the advice spiky hedgehog! I'll do that this evening.

TrixieB

I'm sure there are some old fashioned nursery style puddings that used breadcrumbs, I can remember treacle tart does but sure there's one along the lines of an Eve's pudding style thing that used breadcrumbs - just in case you fancy something sweet instead of savoury!

Found a few recipes that look nice

http://www.baking911.com/recipes/qb/pudding_applebrownbetty.htm - American Apple Brown Betty
http://www.wildyeastblog.com/2008/09/15/the-good-news/ - Fig upside down breadcrumb pudding
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/queenofpuddings_85166 - Queen of Puddings - this is the one I half remembered!
And of course there's Xmas pud

plsplshelpme

Back home after a lovely weekend in the dales, to be greeted by 4 mouldy clementines, toooooooo mouldy to salvage so in the bin they went, arghh!I guess thats a good part of 69p down the swannie.:mad:
I was hoping not to have any waste at all but looks like I might have to say £4 a month to start with.


4 clementines = 46p

gallygirl

gallygirl wrote: »

Well, it's now 6 days later and no more to report except a manky crust - say around 3p :j. Will be around 1 or 2p to report tomorrow as a Philly Light tub has a bit of mould - not my fault as Mr GG has stopped eating it and I'm on a diet, but will add some to a carbonara type thing which has yet to be invented :cool:

ETA - don't be so cocky! 20p on manky Clover spread and 25p on liquid cucumber (hmmmmmmm, face mask????????)

£1.15 with Philly Light to come.

Not braved the Philly yet .

To add:
6 cherry toms, 20p
spring onion & celery trimmings, say 10p

Running total - £1.45.

Visited DD yesterday, she is off on a course so I left with 2 pears & 4 pints of milk. Milk out of date tomorrow so stopped off at ex hubbys and gave it to him, not my problem then :rotfl:.To be fair, there are 3 of them so more likely to be used.

PolkaDotsAndLace

Have just used up some depressed looking carrots (and onion, potato) to make carrot & coriander soup (though I don't know how it tastes yet, hadn't tried recipe before) Must have saved about 50p - 75p there I think. Think I'll hide last two carrots in a pasta sauce tonight.

I need to hunt down more recipes though, everything is ending up as soup!

Oscar_the_Pug

Well, I have to add an end of black pudding, some fried rice and some creamed leeks - had followed a recipe but didn't really enjoy it, and the bits mentioned are those I chucked.

I'll allow about 75p for the above. That's about 3.75 in total for the 1st half of the month.

On the plus side we still haven't done a 'proper' supermarket shop, and we're using up what we have. It's good to know when we next plan for it we will probably buy a good bit less as I'm much more conscious of how little food we actually *need* for the week!

gallygirl

Oscar_the_Pug wrote: »

Well, I have to add an end of black pudding, some fried rice and some creamed leeks - had followed a recipe but didn't really enjoy it, and the bits mentioned are those I chucked.

I'll allow about 75p for the above. That's about 3.75 in total for the 1st half of the month.

On the plus side we still haven't done a 'proper' supermarket shop, and we're using up what we have. It's good to know when we next plan for it we will probably buy a good bit less as I'm much more conscious of how little food we actually *need* for the week!

Aw, 3 of my favourite things - bung them over here please

newlywed

Does anyone have a soup recipe without coriander? I don't have any coriander and have lots of carrots to use. Soup would be ideal for me to freeze for work.

Ta

squeaky

https://www.soupsong.com

A great site by a real enthusiast and you'll find loads of really good recipes on there. Every one I've tried has been brilliant

RoobyNooby

Wow! This thread has been so inspirational. My OH is currently working away, leaving me to work through the vegetable box we get delivered each week and I have been struggling.

However, newly determined not to let anything unnecessary go in the compost

• I have made a huge batch of ratatouille to freeze,
• a rather limp looking chinese leaf will be stir-fried with noodles tomorrow
• the chard and spinach will go in a potato bake
• the oranges will be turned in to choc orange muffins
• the apples will become apple and chilli chutney...

My personal challenge is to avoid throwing away £10 worth of food this month