Don't throw food away challenge

PixieDust

I fear we may be eating cold beef and ham for quite some time to come.......

Rachel021967

I'm sorry for duplicating this post but am unsure as to where to post. Have made a Carribean fruit cake which is a bit like Christmas pudding than a fruit cake. The problem is nobody likes it but me, and at around 16 stone I can't afford to eat a whole cake on my own. Anybody have any ideas on what to do with it, other than in the bin. I'd rather not do that as the ingredients were expensive.

icontinuetodream

Rachel021967 wrote: »

I'm sorry for duplicating this post but am unsure as to where to post. Have made a Carribean fruit cake which is a bit like Christmas pudding than a fruit cake. The problem is nobody likes it but me, and at around 16 stone I can't afford to eat a whole cake on my own. Anybody have any ideas on what to do with it, other than in the bin. I'd rather not do that as the ingredients were expensive.

slice it into portions and freeze....serve with custard or cream as a treat every couple of weeks or so....:D

rosieben

I'd slice it and freeze it, you can ration yourself to a slice a week/month?

the Caribbean fruit cake I remember is 99% booze and far too good to waste!

Merry Christmas everyone

squeaky

This thread... Christmas Dinner - the Leftovers Thread is worth a look, given that there are often leftovers to use up of foods that we may not have at any other time of the year

flutterbyuk25

I had quite a bit of LO's from Xmas dinner, and all of it has been portioned and frozen, plus one plate in fridge for today. The only waste was 2 sprouts as I don't like them! The whole bag cost me 39p, and there were 30 in the bag so I reckon the loss was less than 2p!

Xmas cake and mince pies will be frozen if not eaten in next 2 days as I want to get back on diet wagon before NY.

x

BohemianCoast

I have had a fairly rotten cold over Christmas, but still managed to cook our lovely Christmas Eve meal and Christmas dinner. This is sort of the great Batch Cooking championship of the year really. The turkey shaped hole in our fridge is now filled with about twenty different plastic boxes of leftovers. (posh sliced white meat, scraggy bits of white meat, dark meat, gravy, salt beef, roasties, mash, sprouts w/chestnuts, parsnips (though I think there are only three bits), pigs in blankets, red cabbage, bread sauce, cranberry sauce, pureed veg from giblet stock, meat cut from giblets after stockmaking, brandy butter, Christmas pudding, Christmas Eve stew, bread and butter pudding (only one portion) brandy ice cream (freezer), giblet stock (freezer).) The stockpot is bubbling away on the stove gently too. One task for today is meal planning the next week so that nobody gets bored or notices that it's mostly leftovers.

Ahem. Anyway, what with two trips away and the cold it wasn't perfect. I have a bag of cherry tomatoes which is definitely going off; I'll assume I can save half which is 50p. I threw out one furry red pepper (25p) and a lemon (10p). I think there are some other things lurking in the veg drawer which I'll investigate when I make the turkey soup. On a tip from my brother I have put the outer leaves of the sprouts into the stockpot; I was offended by the enormous pile they made. Separately I have taken to pureeing the veg out of a stockpot, saving the turkey giblet meat, and squeezing elderly lemons and limes out into ice cube trays. Anyway, we're now up to £2.78.

marmiterulesok

Hi,I have half an opened tub of sour cream and a opened tub of ricotta (about 200g left).Does anyone have any vegetarian suggestions?

TIA.

PS I've already had a quick look at the www.lovefoodhatewaste.com site.I thought about a veggie carbonara sauce,but don't have any eggs-I could get them tomorrow.

Any ideas for the ricotta would be much appreciated.

PixieDust

The sour cream can be used to make a yummy cake I don't have a recipe but there are loads out there if you search

Oscar_the_Pug

This cake is absolutely divine, can highly recommend it: http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/14275/chocolate+and+raspberry+baked+ricotta+cake

It's a forgiving recipe so you could swirl the sour cream through the cake batter, or if you want to use it separately you could do a veggie chilli and have as a garnish?