meals for one

Pollycat

jack_pott wrote: »

I'm still having difficulty imagining what you cook that uses a whole tube of puree in a month.
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Does tomato puree go 'off' in a month once it's been opened?
Sometimes when I'm batch cooking I'll use several tubes all at once but at other times an opened tube can sit in my cupboard for months.

Farway

Pollycat wrote: »

Does tomato puree go 'off' in a month once it's been opened?
but at other times an opened tube can sit in my cupboard for months.

I don't batchcook, but my opened tube of puree sits in my fridge forever until I need another squirt

Many things sit opened in my fridge, including opened yoghurt pots. I find it just gets thicker. But even I do stop when it starts fizzing :eek:

suki1964

jack_pott wrote: »

I'm still having difficulty imagining what you cook that uses a whole tube of puree in a month.



But if you're eating something you don't need just to use up a surplus you didn't want, that's waste. Especially if it's making you overweight.

I cook a lot of curries, casseroles, stews, spaghetti bolognaise etc and I can get through a tube a week easily, let alone a month

Same with cream, it doesn't go to waste as it will be used up somewhere, like in a quiche or a drop in a curry to make it creamier. That's if we have it in. Usually a curry will call for cream and I've none in so I do without

missbiggles1

jack_pott wrote: »

I'm still having difficulty imagining what you cook that uses a whole tube of puree in a month.



But if you're eating something you don't need just to use up a surplus you didn't want, that's waste. Especially if it's making you overweight.

I've just checked my current tube of tomato puree and its use by date is in 2017!

I don't really think that having 3/4 small pot of yogurt as a snack (rather than something else) is wasteful, particularly as it costs less than 18p! Same goes with having 20p's worth of cream in my morning coffee as opposed to 10p's worth of milk!

Life really is too short for that level of nitpicking/frugality!

Pollycat

Farway wrote: »

Many things sit opened in my fridge, including opened yoghurt pots. I find it just gets thicker. But even I do stop when it starts fizzing :eek:

A lady after my own heart.

I'm not sure if my opened yogurt has ever got to the 'fizzing' stage but I find it can it can get a bit watery on top so I just drain it off before using it.

I am MSE, after all.

Pollycat

missbiggles1 wrote: »

I've just checked my current tube of tomato puree and its use by date is in 2017!

I've just checked mine too.

It says 'keep in the fridge after opening & use within a month'.

Never noticed that before and I've just kept my opened one in the cupboard, I've done that for years and I'm still here so I'm not going to change now.

missbiggles1

Pollycat wrote: »

I've just checked mine too.

It says 'keep in the fridge after opening & use within a month'.

Never noticed that before and I've just kept my opened one in the cupboard, I've done that for years and I'm still here so I'm not going to change now.

I didn't even bother checking but I do the same as you do and I'm still here as well!

MallyGirl

JackieO wrote: »

Out of interest how much do you cook, quantities etc as if I do rice I always seem to do too much
i.e. How much rice, to ratio of water.

I allow 2 oz of rice per person. A hangover from my WW days. I do the same amount for pasta.
I don't bother with measuring the water for that small amount - I use plenty of water and just drain it when done.

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missbiggles1 wrote: »

I don't really think that having 3/4 small pot of yogurt as a snack (rather than something else) is wasteful, particularly as it costs less than 18p! Same goes with having 20p's worth of cream in my morning coffee as opposed to 10p's worth of milk!

But those two items add up to 8% of my budget, by the time the farmers and supermarkets have done the same you've got the 25% waste that Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall was making the song and dance about. Waste happens because people tell themselves "this is only a little bit......that's not much", and by the time you tot up a bit here and a bit there, the little bits all add up to a lot.

missbiggles1

jack_pott wrote: »

But those two items add up to 8% of my budget, by the time the farmers and supermarkets have done the same you've got the 25% waste that Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall was making the song and dance about. Waste happens because people tell themselves "this is only a little bit......that's not much", and by the time you tot up a bit here and a bit there, the little bits all add up to a lot.

If 58p is 8% of your food budget then you must be living on £7.25 a week. In those extreme circumstance you obviously have to watch every penny so I expect what you can eat is very limited. Fortunately, most of us (however frugal) don't have to manage on so little and can allow ourselves more leeway.

I literally could not live on that for more than a week and I don't think most could, so hats off to you!

ETA
I still don't see how eating the remains of a yogurt as a snack or putting cream in your coffee can be described as wasting food though.