Convenience foods you love... mse of course!

Lizling

I buy bags of cubes of frozen ginger and garlic (separately or together) from the frozen world food section. Cheaper than fresh, nothing in them except garlic and ginger, and no waste.

This is what I mean http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/asda-compare-prices/Frozen_Vegetables/Taj_Crushed_Ginger_400g.html?TrackingCode=122.1gFAZ84QKkyUXh9jw37lKg

trailingspouse

I reckon to cook from scratch, but if I'm being brutally honest, I also use some convenience foods -

tinned tomatoes, tinned tuna, baked beans, frozen puff pastry, frozen chips, frozen peas, tinned custard, frozen pizzas.

Not all the time - but it's handy to have them in for the days when I don't have time.

I also like to have a bag of ice cubes in the freezer.

Eenymeeny

Some good ideas on here thanks everyone. I was brought up to believe that 'tins' were evil and fresh was always better. I'm just getting around to the idea that some 'convenience' foods are actually more nutritionally sound and more economical, when used as part of a balanced meal.
I'm still fighting the 'guilty feeling' but find that things like tinned custard, rice and soup are cheaper to buy than prepare, portion controlled and a lot less washing up! (i also use the occasional dumpling mix:eek: on top of home-made soup, although I do sneak the packet in with my shopping and would never admit to it;))

Lance_De_Boils

I have recently become a freegan.


My favourite convenience food is Sunday dinner round me mum's.

System

Frozen pizzas

Frozen vegetables

Frozen chips

Sliced bread

I'm sure there are more.

System

Lance_De_Boils wrote: »

I have recently become a freegan.


My favourite convenience food is Sunday dinner round me mum's.

In true fregan spirit!

kerri_gt

danih wrote: »

Fresh Pasta from the shop!

With home made pasta sauce from freezer 9 times out of 10.

Def more expensive then the dried, but so handy and so nice.

I finally found out the reason for the difference between fresh and dried is that fresh contains egg.

I sometimes use ready bought puff pastry but for some reason when I use ready bought shortcrust my bakes go wrong and I end up making my own anyway.

Fav convenience is frozen yorkshire puds. Quick to heat up and as its only me that likes them I can just heat a couple at a time without having leftover batter.

meritaten

microwave rice - only trouble with that, is that it rustles the same sound as a pack of 'dreamies' and when I 'ding' it - the cat comes running in the kitchen expecting treats.

Gigervamp

Haha Meri, we have that problem too!

janb5

perrywinkle wrote: »

I peel fresh root ginger, leaving it as long uncut pieces, wrap it in cling film and put it in a freezer bag in the freezer. When I need some for a recipe, I just grate it from frozen and return the remainder to the freezer. Never any waste and it grates really easily.

You can put ginger in the freezer unpeeled and grate it with the skin on. Skin stays in the grids! HTH