NOT BUYING IT! 2015 - A consumer holiday

Primrose

Southerngirl. The best thing to do if food looks as if it's not going to be eaten because of a change in plans is to stickit quickly in the freezer. Even fruit like bananas and strawberries can be frozen. Remove banan skins first and wrap in foil or clingfilm. They and strawberries will be fine for eating with cereals or porridge and frozen strawberries are fine set in a fruit jelly for dessert. They will also last for a week in the fridge when set in a fruit jelly as will segments of satsumas which are drying out, or grapes which are in danger of developing wrinkly skins as being set in jelly prevents the air from drying the moisture out of them.

pm2326

Think my Food challenge is going to be long haul...in last 3 days I've only used up:

100g pasta
1 bread bun
3 fish fingers

Everything else I've eaten has been fresh from fridge :rotfl:

greenbee

pm2326 wrote: »

Think my Food challenge is going to be long haul...in last 3 days I've only used up:

100g pasta
1 bread bun
3 fish fingers

Everything else I've eaten has been fresh from fridge :rotfl:

It took my 6 months to make any kind of discernable impact on my freezers and cupboards, and I still have one almost full freezer (does get stuff put back in it occasionally now) and masses of pulses and grains still to use up. I need to make an effort and do some cooking (which will mean switching another freezer back on... :cool:

suki1964

greenbee wrote: »

It took my 6 months to make any kind of discernable impact on my freezers and cupboards, and I still have one almost full freezer (does get stuff put back in it occasionally now) and masses of pulses and grains still to use up. I need to make an effort and do some cooking (which will mean switching another freezer back on... :cool:

I now have two empty drawers in the freezer in the garage( only a small under counter freezer) and there is room in the freezer above the fridge

AND THE FRIDGE IS NEAR EMPTY YAYYYYYYYYYYY

lol

Taken me months to get to this stage as mum keeps filling them up with ready meals which me and himself don't eat. Just got four quiches I've got to convince hubby he likes for lunch to get shot off and the freezers will be free for the garden produce


Happy days

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greenbee I know what you mean, the smallest bottom drawer in the freezer has just got some movable room in it and I have been doing the 'shop if possible from the freezer' since January I swear stuff multiplys in there

nursemaggie you are right, back in the 1940s-50s most people didn't have a great choice about what they ate.You ate what was put in front of you irrespective of whether you liked it or not. I certainly ate things I wasn't keen on, tripe for one thing I hated the stuff.

Rationing meant if you decided you didn't want to eat it then you went without. Pets were a luxury for a lot of people, as feeding the family came first We did have a very small dog, but that was a pup my brother rescued from being dunked in a bucket of water by a neighbour.Somehow it ate stuff,but even bones were usually boiled up for broth.Certainly none of the wide range of stuff available today.

I can't remember knowing anyone who was either Vegetarian or Vegan, Gluten-free or even Organic-only eaters. I'm sure there must have been but most people queued for hours to get any sort of food.
Chicken was usually only eaten at Christmas anyway.I never ate turkey untill I was grown up and married.

Pasta was almost unheard of and rice was only used for puddings.
I must admit I will eat almost anything (apart from tripe ) and the revolting tinned fish called snoek which came from South Africa I think.Still we survived and managed to grow up relatively unharmed :):)

nursemaggie

Jackie we all ate organic back then, there were not many insecticides. DDT was not available for gardeners and most people were still growing veg while the rationing lasted. Good job we did not get DDT on our fruit and veg it proved to be very dangerous.

As for gluten we did not know what caused the chronic illnesses of the only 1% who are sensitive to gluten, until well into the 50s. It is not dangerous or anything. What causes the minor problems in comparison is the amount of yeast they put in the chorley wood recipe for sliced bread. You just need to switch to home made or buy uncut loaves. Gluten is a protein in wheat and other grains that makes the dough elastic.

We ate lots of vegetarian food we just did not know it was. Beans on toast is the perfect combination of vegetable protein to make the amino acids we cannot make. One pasta you had macaroni cheese another vegetarian meal.

We kept the chickens for the eggs and when they stopped laying we had chicken stew. They were very tough had to be cooked all day to be edible. Chicken was for Christmas dinner and it tasted very good then.

Lynplatinum

Evening all

Suki - hope you do well on Monday and glad that you are finding your kenwood useful - having arthritis I would love to have my old one back to knead bread (ex husband has it!)

Jackie O once again you are an inspiration - I must do my reconciliation for last month tomorrow!! Its all this going out that does my budget in but I must look at it that I am lucky to have such a life.

Re chickens - i couldn't kill one myself but we live a much easier life than we used to with much better animal welfare standards. Edwink - chickens really do not feel anything - it is just their nervous system continuing to act but, obviously, not getting to the brain which processes mere electrical impulses. I agree, however, by modern standards its gross but it is the way we were - we just have to be thankful we have moved on!

Have been very naughty today - out pub surveying with my friend Jim today and had a luscious 'English tapas' and wonderful beer but cos I was driving I did not drink but sipped his. And then this evening a friend came and captured me unexpectedly :Tand took me down the pub :beer: - total cost £15 + petrol.

Am out at Scrapbooking tomorrow so I am determined to make and take my own lunch - cuscus and somat methinks!
Can I be frugal tomorrow? Am out to a music gig in the evening - am driving so again no beer However, non alcoholic drinks are more expensive than beer very often) So we will see!!!
Hopefully you will still allow me on board! :A
Sail on calm non buying it waters folks!

edwink

nursemaggie wrote: »

It isn't cruel Edwink they are not alive when they run away. They had a much better life than the chickens do these day.
I am afraid we are going to have to beg to differ on that!! The cruel part to me is the chopping the chickens head off with an axe and then allowing the poor thing to run around with it's nerve endings going berserk!! Whatever way a hen is slaughtered it is humane and necessary to hold the hen down safely until it is completed dead.

This was in the 50s when food was scarce and you went hungry if you had such scruples.
It is not about having scruples, it is about killing a chicken humanely!!!!!!!

I am sorry if you want to be vegetarian fine but don't impose it on others.
There is nothing what so ever to be sorry about me being a vegetarian. On a personal level that has nothing to do with me keeping hens!! And I have certainly have never ever imposed the choice I made to be a vegetarian on anyone!! My husband is not a vegetarian and he would not kill a chicken in that manner!!

You are lucky to be able to afford to keep chickens as pets. Luck does not come in to it. It is something we chose to do to give rescue hens their retirement!!

I could not afford to keep even a small pet if was was allowed. Being in rented accommodation you are not allowed pets.
I am sorry but I am not sure what not being able to afford or be allowed to have pets has got to do with this!!

Enough said!!!!!!!

Edwink

suki1964

Eeek

I seem to have opened a can of worms here

For that I apologise and I hope that we can all accept we are different and have different ways,accept them, agree to disagree and move on

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suki1964 you are right and we are all different and although I do eat meat and enjoy it I also enjoy vegetarian food as well.I think that is what makes cooking so nice today in that you can choose what you want to eat whereas 60 years ago there was very little choice at all. a piece of cheese the size of a matchbox per person per week would not go very far today.

By the way I still grate cheese rather than slice it as it does help to streeeetch it in a sandwich

Here is a recipe I found from my late Mum, as a child we loved this and I have made it many times for my own children
2oz sugar
1 pint milk
1 tablespoon of apricot jam
3ozs semolina
4 tablespoons of water
heat in a saucepan 2 table spoons of water and the sugar,stir it up until dissolved, then boil stirring until it gets to a caramal sauce,add the rest of the water and keep stirring until its all blended together,let it cool very slightly then pour into a two pint pyrex bowl.
Then in another pan putthe milk in and add the apricot jam,sprinkle on the semolina and whisk all together.Cook stirring for about 10 minutes until its just begining to bubble ,let it cool very slightly and stiffen then pour on top of the caramel base. leave to set and either turn out on a plate or serve straight from the bowl. Bit like a 'cheats creme caramel' my kids loved it and as a pudding it was a great way to get them to have milk :)neither of them were keen on drinking it.

My late Mum would make this for my brothers and I and we loved it.I think she got it from a leaflet of recipes to make your children drink milk :):)
Have a good day shipmates, sea is calm once more :):)