Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

PasturesNew

JackieO wrote: »

No cooking for me tonight as its pub quiz and i get fed a small cooed supper included in the price great night out including food for £2.00 bargain I think.

The trouble is ... just a glass of coke to go with that often costs more than £2! I bought "a wine and half a cider" the other week in the local pub, cost over £9! I didn't go back to the bar again.....

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

a failure to report

Had a small tin of salmon (just in date!) which I was going to mix with various bits & pieces as a topping for some sourdough toast (for lunch). So far so good, but the pitted black olives that I was intending to use had a skin of green mould :eek: So being a good child I binned the top layer, smelt ok & then did a nibble test in the hope that I wouldn’t have to bin the whole jar
Yeugh :eek: - tasted disgusting so whole lot thrown away However the glass jar has been washed & recycled
Found an unopened jar of green olives :T. Topping is made - salmon, olives, capers, sun dried tomatoes, half a tin of sweetcorn, half a red pepper (chopped finely) & brought together with a large dollop of mayonnaise & seasoned with black pepper. Scrummilicious as obviously I taste tested :rotfl:
So, have added a couple of tins of pink salmon to my sm list - will make sure long dated

MrsSD

joedenise

Mrs SD - that sounds delicious, although I wouldn't worry about tinned food being out of date - it lasts far longer than the date printed on the lid!

Denise

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I agree joedenise I use my nose to smell if its OOD.I was brought up years before there were such things and I am still around. I must have a cast iron tummy I think
re the pub I don't drink as I drive and I am not keen on fizzy drinks anyway, so a drink in the pub is not for me Now and again I will have a coffee which the landlord does for £1.25 including a small biscuit, He knows that being a bit off the beaten track, he has to do his best to get butts on seats and his pub is always busy because he charges what the market locally will take. Him and his partner Steve are really lovely guys and very popular.

Back from the wilds of Hertfordshire, and Jack was really pleased to get his lift home .

Eldest DD popped in this afternoon and we had a large pot of coffee and a good chinwag.

Just portioning up my casserole for the freezer managed to get 5 decent portions which will come in handy over the next few weeks . Great delving around in the freezer and managing to stay away from the shops .I will have to get some fresh fruit and maybe some veg next week I expect, but the food budget has been brilliant this month and will have a good aount to go into the holiday fund this month

Hope everyone has a good Sunday and you are all warm and dry ,very damp here in Kent
Take care chums

JackieO xx

candygirl

JACKIE, I educated the staff in my local shop tonight.They were selling OOD crisps, n warned me about buying them, but for 50p a multi pack, who could refuse :rotfl:

JCS1

PasturesNew wrote: »

The trouble is ... just a glass of coke to go with that often costs more than £2! I bought "a wine and half a cider" the other week in the local pub, cost over £9! I didn't go back to the bar again.....

Been to a 30th birthday tonight where can of coke was £1 and pint from a local brewery was £3

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just mad a big tin of melting moments biscuits (some of which will go with my DGS Jack back to Uni) and a couple of dozen sausage rolls (ditto above )

Jack is going back by train this evening so I have done him a couple of small plastic boxes to munch on the train.

Off to DDs shortly for dinner so no cooking for me later.

Eldest DD gave me a chocolate orange yesterday so I chopped a few slices up and chucked them in with the melting moments cookies so they are chocolat orange flavoured this weekend definitely had a citrus flavour as I made an orange drizzle cake and used up the grated peel from my last orange that I had saved in the fridge along with some orange juice .

Tomorrow night I am out to dinner at my youngest DDs as its my son-in-laws birthday tomorrow and we always have a family meal on birthdays Tuesday night its pub quiz night so no evening meal cooking until Wednesday.Then I think it maybe some fish from the freezer and some HM wedges and peas from the freezer . I am determined to empty this freezer out for defrosting eventually :):)

PasturesNew

I really CBA to cook anything today.... but I'm starving... so I did manage to pop into the kitchen ... relieved the freezer of 500g mince and two chillies. Used up the last 3 onions of a cheap bag I bought a month or so ago.... last of the tomatoes (starting to go soggy/needed using up) ... and a couple of other odds and ends. It's chilli today. I'll wander back in in 5-6-7 hours or so as the SC's doing all the cooking of that lot.

Too cold for cooking. Can't feel my feet! Sitting on the sofa wearing a fleece and with two fleeces over me.... brrrrr.

SmarterNotHarder

Hi everyone, I was after some advice and spotted this thread.



I have some chicken stock cubes that are 2 years out of date, I'm probably being silly, but I thought I'd ask anyway. Can I use them? I think it's the whole "be careful with chicken" thing as I wouldn't think twice if it was a veggie one. I'm being silly aren't I?

joedenise

It'll be fine. As you say you'd use it if it was a veggie one. There's not going to be much chicken in a stock cube"