Don't Throw Food Away Challenge 2012

Kylieminoag

Thought I would share tonights experiment with you....

I made a potato topped chicken and leek pie with a difference.... I had half a pack of poxo stuffing mix:eek: in the cupboard going over its use buy date.... made it up with some potato boiling water and then stirred it through the mash to make sage and onion mash for on top of the pie. Dabbed with butter and baked in the oven as usual....

None left over so by my reckoning it was a hit!:rotfl:Plus - another cm of space in the cupboard:T:T:T

Tiggy10

So I've had a little cupboard/fridge/freezer audit since deciding to waste less food.
last week i made sundried tomato bread out of yeast and open sundried tomatoes. its very yummy!!
I used the oil in the jar of sundried tomatoes to top up my olive oil!

Unfortunately half a bag of smart price salad wasted though. £0.22

Firemunchkin

Used up over-ripe bananas today to bake a cake, also used in it the last of some hot chocolate powder. Am making a carrot cake for my dad tomorrow using up 2 carrots - I've just got so many!

Everything going very well with the challenge - amazing how quickly it makes a difference.

squeaky

A whole batch of ginger biscuits and a tin of golden syrup. I opened the syrup about four months ago and used just two desert spoon's worth. When it came to making these biscuits there were a couple of tiny dots of mould on the top - so I scooped them off then used it.

Never again. Upset innards!

I can't face working out how much that cost yet

geminilady

I have some cherry conserve in my fridge that has been there a couple of months and says use in six weeks would this be safe to eat and any ideas what to do with it?have more than half a jar

wannabee_in_credit

Just ashamedly reporting 125g leftover gammon that I left in the fridge and completely forgot about. I need to start taking control again of the things that I can control, and forget about the things that I can't

Firemunchkin

Made a delicious hugarian goulash using up some roast beef from last weekend - really easy and so yummy.

Making more veg stock today with trimmings and leftover bits of veg. No red cabbage this time - it made the last batch turn a really horrid grey colour.

Also making another batch of flapjacks, but with the correct sugar so it doesn't caramelise and go solid!

DundeeDoll

At the bottom of my freezer a pack of 8 wraps best before august 2010. Now that's obvs for had they not been frozen, but will they still be wrappy if I defrost them? Suggestions gratefully received.

VfM4meplse

DundeeDoll wrote: »

At the bottom of my freezer a pack of 8 wraps best before august 2010. Now that's obvs for had they not been frozen, but will they still be wrappy if I defrost them? Suggestions gratefully received.

It wouldn't stop me from eating them! Have eaten age-old defrosted naan bread several times w/o a problem.

debbiedeejay

DundeeDoll wrote: »

At the bottom of my freezer a pack of 8 wraps best before august 2010. Now that's obvs for had they not been frozen, but will they still be wrappy if I defrost them? Suggestions gratefully received.

Why not make some kind of enchilada/bake with them with lots of spicy sauce and cheese?Wont matter so much if they split then.

Or what about using same kind of ingredients and layering it up like a kind of Mexican lasagne's and bake - sure there is something like it out there but for life of me can't remember the name. Think it begins with Q:o