Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

purplevamp

Thanks YorksLass I may give it a go. It won't have the 1/4 cabbage that was lurking in the fridge because DH said it was grey and threw it in the bin :mad:. I told him that he wouldn't make that mistake again :cool:

[Deleted User]

I decided to swap my dinner tonight, for lunch today, as I am at DDs this afternoon looking after my DGS. So I am full up but saved pudding for tonight which I will have will the soup and crackers instead.If DD or my son-in-law gets delayed coming home, as they do sometimes on Mondays I don't get home until gone 7.p.m. and then its a bit too late to be eating a big meal, so a light snack meal on a Monday night is better for me I think.
Tomorrow night I am at my quiz night in the pub so I don't have to cook as I get fed there No shopping needed today at least and only eggs on my shopping list at the moment

JackieO xx

LameWolf

YorksLass wrote: »

On the subject of "to meal plan or not to meal plan" I usually do (on a flexible basis so I can swap meals around if need be). If I don't, I find myself wasting a lot of time trying to decide what to make and get quite cross with myself for being lazy.

I do that, too - so that I can swap days about if my lupus is giving me a hard time on a day I'm supposed to be doing something labour-intensive.
It's in red on the spreadsheet if it's "subject to change" and blue if it's "set in stone".

YorksLass

I was decluttering the sideboard this weekend and found 2 unopened bottles of wine tucked away at the back - a Merlot and a Chardonnay, both unoaked. We're not wine drinkers so I think they must have been presents at some time or other. The thing is, they are probably about 10, maybe 12, years old! :eek: Does anyone think they may be drinkable or alternatively could I use them in cooking? Or should I head in the direction of the sink?

joedenise

Yorklass - I doubt they'll be any good, even for cooking! I wouldn't use a wine in cooking that I wouldn't drink. However the only way of knowing would be to open them when you want to use in cooking and have a sniff and a tiny taste - it'll probably be like vinegar after that length of time though.

If it's not like vinegar then freeze in icecube trays for later use (it's unlikely you'll use a whole bottle in cooking in one go).

Denise

purplevamp

YorksLass wrote: »

I was decluttering the sideboard this weekend and found 2 unopened bottles of wine tucked away at the back - a Merlot and a Chardonnay, both unoaked. We're not wine drinkers so I think they must have been presents at some time or other. The thing is, they are probably about 10, maybe 12, years old! :eek: Does anyone think they may be drinkable or alternatively could I use them in cooking? Or should I head in the direction of the sink?

That would not stop my DH, but then they wouldn't even last 10-12 days with him :rotfl: Like joedenise says, do a taste and sniff test. Personally I think they'll be ok. After all some wines are hundreds of years old :eek:

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Definitely a sniff and taste first, then perhaps freeze in ice cube trays then bag up red wine is particularly nice in SC beef. I am not a great wine drinker either but have around half a dozen bottles in the cupboard that I have won at quiz nights over the past year or so and normally take them with me if I am going to dinner at my sis-in-laws or eldest DDs.My youngest is also not a wine drinker at all. DGS Ben sometimes helps me out as his G/F is French and enjoys wine I enjoy a decent G&T occasionally but not often, as I drive almost daily so don't like to take a chance.
HM soup for lunch today with cheese and crackers, greek yogurt with a dollop of honey mixed through it Quiz night tonight so no cooking for me

bouicca21

When I cleared out my mum's place I found similarly aged wine.

The really good stuff ages well, but the bog standard supermarket wine sadly does not. I had to throw the stuff away.

YorksLass

Thanks all for the replies about the (forgotten) wine. It seems to be a question of "nothing ventured, nothing gained". I'll do the sniff & taste test and then decide whether to use or not. The first challenge though will be to get the corks out of the bottles! :rotfl:

SpendingSensible

Could I please join?

Long time lurker. Although we are luckily financial relatively stable, I am aware how much money we fritter away by wasting food. We are both (just the two of us) fussy eaters and although I try to mealplan, we often change our mind on the day, resulting in food getting thrown out.

I do try to freeze left overs / non eaten food but also end up throwing bits out because they have been ages in there or because I need space for other stuff 😣

Am inspired by this thread though, plus the freezer needs defrosting so will try to use up freezer/fridge/cupboard stock and limit food shopping.

Dinner tonight will be mash, have some broccoli that needs using up and whatever meat I can find in the freezer. Am pretty sure there is leftover cooked ham from Christmas so that will be a start ☺️