Don't Throw Food Away Challenge

Katzen

Evening all!

I desperately need to get back to this, our wastage is reaching ridiculous proportions again. We had a leftovers wrap dinner, which was lovely, but I've had to throw half a bag of bean sprouts. I love eating them but only in small amounts. Has anyone every tried growing their own? Any recommendations of which beans to use and where to source them?

dannie

Cambs85 - the cereal bits could be mixed into a (plain) yoghurt.

icontinuetodream

Katzen wrote: »

I've had to throw half a bag of bean sprouts. I love eating them but only in small amounts. Has anyone every tried growing their own? Any recommendations of which beans to use and where to source them?

Mung beans for the beansprouts you get with Chinese food....any health shop will stock them and also many of the supermarkets do! HTH

Gers

In anticipation of moving house (early next year) I have been making a start in the kitchen cupboards. I have found, and want to discard the following:

• 1kg of penne pasta –bbe May 2010
• 1 small tretrapack of organic cannellinie beans- bbe July 2012
• 1 tin of organic chick peas – dated Sept 2012
• 1 tin of cannellinie beans – dated April 2012
• 1 tin of red kidney beans – dated Jan 2012

Not as bad as I thought but we really won’t eat any of these foodstuffs. Would it be OK to donate or does it all just need to go out?

Have found and will use a jar of Gordon Ramsey Comic Relief butter chicken sauce dated May 2012 and a tin of coconut milk dated April 2011. Don't mind eating these ourselves, just worried about the donation really.
Thanks

Firemunchkin

Gers wrote: »

In anticipation of moving house (early next year) I have been making a start in the kitchen cupboards. I have found, and want to discard the following:

• 1kg of penne pasta –bbe May 2010
• 1 small tretrapack of organic cannellinie beans- bbe July 2012
• 1 tin of organic chick peas – dated Sept 2012
• 1 tin of cannellinie beans – dated April 2012
• 1 tin of red kidney beans – dated Jan 2012

Not as bad as I thought but we really won’t eat any of these foodstuffs. Would it be OK to donate or does it all just need to go out?

Have found and will use a jar of Gordon Ramsey Comic Relief butter chicken sauce dated May 2012 and a tin of coconut milk dated April 2011. Don't mind eating these ourselves, just worried about the donation really.
Thanks

Pasta bean bake? Great for using up LO cheese and herbs too. Add can of tomatoes and a little stock and yum! The chick peas would make lovely humus on their own, and the other cans can be added to stews etc.

I'd probably leave the coconut milk alone, but the sauce is probably fine.

With donations - they wouldn't be able to use anything that's out of date - policy/health & safety etc.

Gers

Firemunchkin wrote: »

Pasta bean bake? Great for using up LO cheese and herbs too. Add can of tomatoes and a little stock and yum! The chick peas would make lovely humus on their own, and the other cans can be added to stews etc.

I'd probably leave the coconut milk alone, but the sauce is probably fine.

With donations - they wouldn't be able to use anything that's out of date - policy/health & safety etc.

Thanks for that info - we won't eat the beans or pasta. My mother keeps on giving me tins of bean and chick peas and I keep taking them and bringing them home. :mad:

I'm going to use the sauce today and then will have to dispose of the rest. Am angry with myself here.:mad::mad:

icontinuetodream

been very good recently and feeling quite virtuous have used some dodgy looking sweet potatoes (along with the 'scoop out's' of potato skins that we are having tonight with salad) as a topping for a shepherds pie which was made by using half a packet of mince, some freebie courgettes and green beans from my sister's garden nothing lurking in my fridge anymore and determined to keep going with this!! :j

aplaceinthesun

Hi all, can I ask a bit of advice please?? Made chicken stock last night with a cooked chicken carcass that had been in the fridge a few days put it in the oven to cool down safely away from the cats and only remembered it at lunch time when I went tyo put some pasties in to cook. The kitchen is quite cold but obviously not as cold as a fridge where it sdhould have been!i did strain and refrigerate it but my questiion is...would you still use it bearing in mind it had over 12 hours not in the fridge?!?! Thanks all, love reading this thread!

icontinuetodream

aplaceinthesun wrote: »

Hi all, can I ask a bit of advice please?? Made chicken stock last night with a cooked chicken carcass that had been in the fridge a few days put it in the oven to cool down safely away from the cats and only remembered it at lunch time when I went tyo put some pasties in to cook. The kitchen is quite cold but obviously not as cold as a fridge where it sdhould have been!i did strain and refrigerate it but my questiion is...would you still use it bearing in mind it had over 12 hours not in the fridge?!?! Thanks all, love reading this thread!

Personally, I would still use it....I'd just make sure it was boiled for about 5-10 mins prior to adding it to anything or anything to it!!

cornishchick

Just realised i have mash left in the fridge from Saturday, would you still eat it, freeze It?