Hugh's War on Waste

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Goldiegirl wrote: »

If a person was on their own, would they genuinely use a quarter of a stock cube? Or would they, like you originally said, just add the whole stock cube, which would be approx. 4 g of salt.

Exactly, he said add a stock cube. When have you ever seen anyone cut stock cubes into quarters.

honeythewitch wrote: »

"A girl called jack" is very good and there are recipes connected to the "live on £1 a day" campaign which are pretty well balanced.

They're all full of salty stock cubes as well.

moneyistooshorttomention

#puts hand up here

Stock cubes - I don't buy stock cubes (personally wouldn't like to think what ingredients might be in some of the more "commercial" ones).

But I buy the equivalent (from a health food store in my case).

Marigold vegetable stock.

It comes in packet/can type containers. The size of it I buy is 500 grammes worth (says it makes 25 litres on the packaging). So I just figure that a mean teaspoon worth equates to about one stock cube and measure out what I want accordingly. So - if I want half a stock cube for a recipe - then I use half a mean teaspoon worth and so on.

Ken68

If the supermarkets can't make a profit from veg. they will put up prices on other stuff, so no change there.
And the surplus parsnips, whatever, isn't wasted, it goes for animal feed.

Caterina

jack_pott wrote: »

?....When have you ever seen anyone cut stock cubes into quarters....

...me. And dishwasher tablets in half, too

Pollycat

Gigervamp wrote: »

As I said in my post and has been pointed out by others, that reply doesn't wash. Chicken is not essential to a healthy diet. If you must have meat, buy less, but better quality and use other proteins.

Anyway, a lot of people eat far more than the recommended amount of protein.

Chicken might not be essesntial to a healthy diet but it's probably better than buying cheap processed junk from Farm Foods or Iceland.
And if the Mum is trying to serve protein in the form of not-free-range chicken with fresh vegetables, then :T to her.

My main point in the post you quoted was the inability of food presenters and chefs to understand the problems some people have in putting food on the table because of low income..
Hence my comment about Tom Kerridge - it was crass, insensitive and lacked knowledge about a lot of people's struggles. Smug fat cats (in the case of Tom K- literally (it was some time ago) sat round a table talking out of their ars*s.
Even though I'm lucky in that I don't have to worry about food bills, it actually put me off watching Food & Drink and I still won't watch Tom Kerridge on any programme.

Former_MSE_Andrea

Lol, I love that a post about a programme on waste turned into a Vegetarian and chicken debate. Some great points made

Waste is something I'm really trying to improve on at home. I'm trying to encourage my family not to produce waste because it saves money and the environment but it's a slog convincing the rest of them when they're not as "on board" as me so I'm hoping my other half will watch the programme with me and take note.

We've worked with WRAP/Lovefoodhatewaste, The Rubbish Diet, and ZeroWasteWeek in the last year or so on a couple of projects that help show people where they can reduce waste and save money. It'll be interesting to see what they think of the programme too

I expect on the Old Style board you'll see a lot of things mentioned in the programme that you do as part of every day life anyway.

I'll probably sit through the programme saying.. I do that, yes I do that, and that... oh now I hadn't thought of that!

moments_of_sanity

Caterina wrote: »

I am (99.9% of the time) an almost lifelong vegetarian, with odd foraging into vegan. After many judgemental years I have come to the conclusion, in my older years, that I cannot change the world by bearing a grudge to people who do not live like me.

If you hold a gripe about someone breeding cattle for meat, then you need to hold a gripe with each and every person who eats it too, those who wear leather, wool, silk, who eat cheese, honey, eggs...by implied connection we are all culprits..

The holding a gripe thing sounds just like my DD2. She is a vegetarian and I fully respect her wishes but what I don't need is a daily ear bashing about us 'awful meat eaters', not a day goes by where one of us remaining 3 meat eaters gets a lecture for our meat/food choices/animal welfare etc! Being vegetarian and militant, in my opinion, seem to go hand in hand!

Pollycat

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Lol, I love that a post about a programme on waste turned into a Vegetarian and chicken debate.

So a bit like most threads on MSE then.....;)

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Some great points made

Waste is something I'm really trying to improve on at home. I'm trying to encourage my family not to produce waste because it saves money and the environment but it's a slog convincing the rest of them when they're not as "on board" as me so I'm hoping my other half will watch the programme with me and take note.

We've worked with WRAP/Lovefoodhatewaste, The Rubbish Diet, and ZeroWasteWeek in the last year or so on a couple of projects that help show people where they can reduce waste and save money. It'll be interesting to see what they think of the programme too

I expect on the Old Style board you'll see a lot of things mentioned in the programme that you do as part of every day life anyway.

I'll probably sit through the programme saying.. I do that, yes I do that, and that... oh now I hadn't thought of that!

I'll probably watch the programme but tbh, we waste very little food.

That's probably because I menu-plan (like so many posters on the old-style board) so I'll buy a value pack of peppers (usually have 6 or so in) and use them in risotto, pasta dishes, Spanish chicken etc. Ditto for mushrooms.

I'll buy a 300gm pot of creme fraiche and use half for goulash and half for stroganoff.
When we're going on holiday, I'll have a list of what's in the fridge/veg basket and work hard to use it up.
Any potatoes are boiled, mashed and put in the freezer.

Let's see how much Hugh (who I loved in his early programmes - remember the one where he had his little boat (A Cook on the Wild Side) and TV Dinners- both pre River Cottage ? ) can teach us OSers.

missbiggles1

jack_pott wrote: »

Exactly, he said add a stock cube. When have you ever seen anyone cut stock cubes into quarters.



They're all full of salty stock cubes as well.

I don't cut them up but I do break bits off and fold the wrapper over - I thought everybody did.:o

Out,_Vile_Jelly

moments_of_sanity wrote: »

The holding a gripe thing sounds just like my DD2. She is a vegetarian and I fully respect her wishes but what I don't need is a daily ear bashing about us 'awful meat eaters', not a day goes by where one of us remaining 3 meat eaters gets a lecture for our meat/food choices/animal welfare etc! Being vegetarian and militant, in my opinion, seem to go hand in hand!

I'm afraid I was like that as a teenage vegetarian. I did grow out of it though! Literally nobody, ever, has been converted by a sanctimonious ranting vegetarian.