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The_frugal_fairy

24 recipes for prunes on the Beeb website. Some look like they can be veganised.  
At the moment for butter I use oil or dairy free spread.  Eggs use aquafaba and milk, oat milk.  I just substitute and it works really well.  Recently on a White Christmas cake from Mr Bake Off's website, it was so popular I will make more 

apple_muncher

Hope you feel less frazzled tonight.

trix-a-belle

my mum used to do date & lemon squares which could probably use prunes instead; dates/prunes heated to break them down a bit possibly with a bit of golden syrup & butter, combine with some lemon juice & rice crispies, pack down into a square cake tin, once cooled cover with a thin layer of chocolate, cut into squares once set
adjust non vegan bits as needed

f0xh0les

Oh that sounds like a proper family hand me down recipe @trix-a-belle !   

It is a seriously big sack - over 3kg and I am worried that I will not get through it before it goes bad - because it is more squishy than a dried date or apricot, I assume it will, but do semi-dried fruit go mouldy or am I just stressing over nothing? I should probably look in one of my wartime cookery books,   actually, I just found a fab website called f00dc0mbo.c0m where you put in your  ingredient (or 2 or 3) and it gives you suggestions,  I am going to pass on the potato and prune Knish ((You...What?!!)) but I think I could get some Earl Grey tea poached prunes and oranges past the kids(with some vanilla ice cream).  

Well that has just made the pantry inventory much more interesting. I can hopefully find some recipes for the more random ingredients in there now.

mark55man

Jack Reacher's favorite dish is Porc aux Pruneaux - here is a french vegan version (you can translate the page to English - which is hilarious, but it also looks delicious and uses 500g of prunes 
https://francevegetalienne.fr/blog/2016/12/15/rti-aux-pruneaux-vgtalien-vegan

joedenise

I've had semi dried apricots in the cupboard for quite a long time past their best before date and they haven't gone mouldy and I'm still using them from time to time!  Think they're probably a year OOD now.

greenbee

Just eat the prunes as snacks Have them stewed with porridge. Although 3kg might have a dramatic effect on digestion, so rationing the boys might be an idea... 

Nonnadiluca

You'll be a bit young for this yet  but might find it interesting: about 4 years ago I was diagnosed with osteoporosis and put on alendronic acid and calcium for 3 years. I happened to see on one of the MSE forums a mention of the efficacy of prunes for osteoporosis so had a quick Google and it turns out that they contain stuff, ( medical term) that helps. I'm always ready to try anything if it won't do me any harm, so started having 4 or 5 a day, what's to lose? - 99p a bag from lidl which lasts a week and not an amount that caused any unwanted side effects. Fast forward 3 years to my next bone scan and no more osteoporosis!  One hip is osteopoenic, but the other hip and lower back are fine and all have improved bone density. I appreciate that the drugs probably did most of the work, but still have my prunes every day just in case; as I said, what's the harm? I'm 67 and incredibly clumsy, always tripping up and bashing myself but, touch wood, no broken bones. It helps that I really like prunes!

f0xh0les

Thank you Nonna! @Nonnadiluca  DH has a  Lithuanian Uncle whose father used to produce these chocolate covered plums (prunes) at Xmastime, so that was my starting point, as I remember his family reminiscing about them,  apparently it is a traditional Eastern European thing.   So I tried them out and they are great, but I was hoping I would not have to dunk 3+kg of them,  I will never say anything bad about a prune again if it fixed your osteo problems, and now  you have passed on your wisdom to all of us too.  Thank you.  

greent

Prunes and custard - yum

Prunes in a chocolate cake - makes it all sticky and dense. Could probably use prunes in sticky toffee pudding instead of dates, too. 

Energy balls with prunes, seeds, coconut, a bit of chocolate ?