Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

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Shropshirelass wrote: »

I do love food hate waste and was getting cross at the size of the end slices in the white bread OH likes for his toast in the morning. For some reason the crusts are now twice the thickness of the rest of the loaf.
I saved them up in a container in the freezer, and tonight made a bread and butter pudding. Cut them into small 'soldiers' instead of triangles. Very nice too with usual thin custard.
I've also grated some of them into breadcrumbs, seems easier to do from frozen.

I don't eat bread at all for almost two years now ,but when I did I too used to get cross about how thick the crusts of the first and last slices were soI used to slice through them very, very, carefully with my kitchen devil knife, ( I think I could use it in an operation its so sharp) and would make two extra slices which I then froze wrapped for toast The absolute thinner crusts I would chuck into my mini mincer and mince to a crumble and then spread on a tray of a cooling oven to 'crisp' them up, and use as a coating for things mixed with herbs, or the ends of packets of stuffing mixes. Worked well especially on scotch eggs I literally would not waste a crumb :):) Now I get them from my youngest DD for breadcrumbs as her boys dislike the 'outside' slices of the bread.;);)

PasturesNew

At the weekend I treated myself to a takeaway indian (having finally found a local one that's passable). £7.15 and it does me for two meals. But, I got greedy as it's still a novelty and I decided to buy naan at L1dl too. While in there I spotted they had a (very pricey) bombay spuds dish, so I got those ... spooned out half and it was pretty rank. Too hot, wrong taste, spuds a bit too hard. So the other half of the spuds has sat in my fridge since Saturday night.

Tonight for tea I nuked that 2nd half, with 1/3rd of a tin of beans, called it "veggie curry" and served with some rice

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Tuesday I spent several hours making a Ha*ry B*kers recipe from scratch - Beef & Stilton Pie. Accompanied by mash & cabbage & lashings of Stilton gravy. The time spent was well worth it though It was absolutely delicious :drool: & because I made two DH & DSis also had Pie for Wednesday’s dinner with mash & green beans. I on the other hand had all the los from the fridge (boiled potatoes, spoonful of baked beans, lo egg - from the Pie glaze) together with lo cabbage, a spoonful of mash & lashings of the lo gravy. The really good news from an LFHW pov is that I have a portion of gravy as a base for either soup or stew :T

I have a small piece of puff pastry left so I will be making a mini pizza tomorrow with anything I can scrounge up :rotfl:

Yippee, I am back on the LFHW bandwagon :rotfl:

MrsSD

Mummy2cheekymonkeys

Still trying my best not to waste any thing. Only 6 more weeks of maternity pay and then I will drop to nothing so will need to be extra careful.
Lunch yesterday was some leftover roasted veg cous cous from the previous nights dinner. There wasn't much there so I bulked it out with half a tin of OOD chick peas I found in the cupboard. There was a small crust of a YS salt and pepper bloomer OH picked up the day before that was a bit too dry to eat as it was so I spread it with some tomato puree, a sprinkling of oregano and a bit of cheese and cooked it in the oven whilst I had a cake in there. It was so tasty and felt even better knowing it wasn't going to waste.
Tonights dinner is curtesy of another YS find by OH of a M&S Chinese banquet box that he picked up reduced from £10 to £2.50!!

candygirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

At the weekend I treated myself to a takeaway indian (having finally found a local one that's passable). £7.15 and it does me for two meals. But, I got greedy as it's still a novelty and I decided to buy naan at L1dl too. While in there I spotted they had a (very pricey) bombay spuds dish, so I got those ... spooned out half and it was pretty rank. Too hot, wrong taste, spuds a bit too hard. So the other half of the spuds has sat in my fridge since Saturday night.

Tonight for tea I nuked that 2nd half, with 1/3rd of a tin of beans, called it "veggie curry" and served with some rice

The aldi Bombay spuds are fab

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Thursday night was a chicken, mushroom & cheese mascarpone sauce with tagliatelle with enough made for Friday night’s dinner No space in freezer at the moment Not a morsel wasted :T

MrsSD

VJsmum

oH has gone on his holidays today so DD and i will eat freezer food for the week. Tonight is a pie each, quorn for her and pumpkin and feta for me, with spuds and veg we need to use. Left over crumble for afters. Nom

we cooked lamb shanks for OH's mate with roasted veg (spuds, cauli and carrots) with the last of the beans from the garden (they blew down but had pretty much finished anyway). Leftovers have been boxed and frozen.

Am looking forward to not cooking much (DD is cooking tonight) and being able to see the wheat from the chaff in the freezer (well the soft fruit - there's TONS - from the leftovers... :rotfl:). I am planning to have a meat free week - except for one pack of ham that DS (who's gone back to uni) and OH didn't eat. i'm not mad on ham but i won't waste it, and DD is veggie. I will have at least one portion of fish pie, however...

Olliebeak1951

Used up some 'almost sprouting potatoes' for Actifry Chips tonight :j!

Seem to have quite a lot of carrots, plus some celery, in the fridge at the moment, will be using some carrots for tomorrow's evening meal, so could be making 'Carrot & Coriander Soup' on Monday !

kboss2010

Quite pleased that I’ve managed to FINALLY use up an old chicken breast that was languishing in the freezer with some random frozen chunks of gammon, frozen peas & sweetcorn, an old tin of chicken soup & a packet of frozen puff pastry to make a couple of chicken & ham pies for dinners next week!

I also plan on using up my fridge veg on a veg soup. This cold weather is much more condusive to using up leftovers it seems than Summer!

VJsmum

YEsterday, DD and i had a pie each, with mash and kale mixed, broccoli and peas. Trying to use up everything before i go shopping again, but may need to go and get some fresh veg...

Today will be a freezer 'something' - either a fish pie, lentil shepherd's pie or autumn vegetable bake with more kale and some carrots.

Had some of the leftover crumble yesterday - DD found some slightly OOD custard in the cupboard and relished hers with that. I've a lot of eating apples atm as OH is doing a low-carb diet and we've been having cheese and apples instead of cheese and biscuits but i over catered, so may well make even more crumble...:rotfl: might even do one last blackberry run.. I like making crumble with eating apples as it means there;s no need to add sugar, making it even more low carb. the topping is made with ground almonds..

Off to the cinema in a bit so a late lunch today, when we get back..