Wholefoods and healthy eating shopping lists

C.W

kboss2010 wrote: »

I make quiches a LOT.

Pastry:
100g cornmeal (aka fine polenta not cornflour as cornmeal is gluten-free naturally - buy it for around £1-2 a kg from the world foods section of supermarkets)
50g butter
A little water
Pinch of salt

Rub the butter and cornmeal together, add the salt and add a little water until the pastry just clumps. You can't roll it so you just have to butter a dish and press it flat with your fingers. Blind bake it for 15 minutes at 200oC/Gas Mark 6 then add the filling.

I use 2 large eggs, 75 mL milk and salt and pepper for the quiche mix and then add whatever filling I have - feta cheese, broccoli, boiled sweet potato, sweetcorn, peas, mushrooms, ham, bacon, cheese, peppers, tuna, onion...anything you can chop up small.

You can freeze the dough or the blind-baked base, can't you? Just in case I decide to make a whole bunch of them... Thank you! Very easy to follow

C.W

maman wrote: »

I do the same but minus the pastry for a Spanish omelette/frittata.


I'm not quite sure about the distinction between what you're calling 'wholefoods' and what I call healthy eating OP. I cook virtually everything from scratch, only exceptions being baked beans and ham/gammon and I do have pasta and I eat a small amount of wholemeal bread rather than baking my own. I'd stretch a point to jars of pickles (like beetroot, onions etc) although I have made my own.


I'd suggest you start with home cooking of simple meals including some for the freezer and work from there.

I think, essentially, whole foods these days is considered to be returning to the healthy eating habits of the past. But with an awareness for how much processed food, GMO and chemical packed foods are on hand as it's difficult to know what are the best choices, especially if you can't immediately gain access to the organic variety or product in its purest form.

I do tend to make quite a lot of food at home. I have limited freezer space so I can't be as organised as I'd like, but I'm certainly working on the meal plans to include freezable portions too.

kboss2010

C.W wrote: »

You can freeze the dough or the blind-baked base, can't you? Just in case I decide to make a whole bunch of them... Thank you! Very easy to follow

I would freeze the dough personally. Mostly as cornmeal pastry (because it's naturally gluten free and gluten is the stretchy binding stuff in pastries and bread) is very crumbly and tends to break easily. But, really, I've literally got this pastry making technique down to minutes so it's not really necessary to prep in advance

VJsmum

Hi, I have banned flavoured yogurt from the house now, due to the amount of sugar, or glucose fructose syrup they contain - the lowest value I found yesterday was 5 tsp of sugar per small pot :eek:

So full fat Greek yogurt for us which OH and i are happy to have plain. for the kids, though I want to flavour with fruit. But what I would like to do is make batches and put them into small portion size jars. Does anyone know of any non Internet places I could get such small jars from - complete with lids?

C.W

kboss2010 wrote: »

I would freeze the dough personally. Mostly as cornmeal pastry (because it's naturally gluten free and gluten is the stretchy binding stuff in pastries and bread) is very crumbly and tends to break easily. But, really, I've literally got this pastry making technique down to minutes so it's not really necessary to prep in advance

Awesome! I suppose it's really just a matter if there's much quiche left but, if it's anything like our house, pastries go pretty darn quick.

C.W

VJsmum wrote: »

Hi, I have banned flavoured yogurt from the house now, due to the amount of sugar, or glucose fructose syrup they contain - the lowest value I found yesterday was 5 tsp of sugar per small pot :eek:

So full fat Greek yogurt for us which OH and i are happy to have plain. for the kids, though I want to flavour with fruit. But what I would like to do is make batches and put them into small portion size jars. Does anyone know of any non Internet places I could get such small jars from - complete with lids?

Many supermarkets have little snack pots on the tupperware eisles. They're ideal for dips/yogurt/small portions of berries etc. The pound shops, B&Ms etc also would most likely have them.

kboss2010

VJsmum wrote: »

Hi, I have banned flavoured yogurt from the house now, due to the amount of sugar, or glucose fructose syrup they contain - the lowest value I found yesterday was 5 tsp of sugar per small pot :eek:

So full fat Greek yogurt for us which OH and i are happy to have plain. for the kids, though I want to flavour with fruit. But what I would like to do is make batches and put them into small portion size jars. Does anyone know of any non Internet places I could get such small jars from - complete with lids?

Morrisons sell afternoon tea sized jam in little screw-top jars, I think they're 4 or 5 for £2. You could buy these and then re-use the jars?