Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

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Oh the relief at being able to pick tomatoes and put them into the freezer and not have to eat them, we've been awash for weeks and I'm heartily fed up with tomatoes. We finished up the cauliflower cheese soup I made mid-week for our lunches today with a crumpet and some grated cheese, was surprisingly filling as we were a bit short on the soup for the two of us so I cooked some macaroni and stirred it through, substantial enough after that. Jacket potatoes with leftover goulasch for supper this evening with a mixed salad of all that is crunchy in the fridge drawer.

LIzzieM

D&#8517 wrote: »

I'm also currently working my way through a bulging pile of cook in sauce packets * what is it with those things do they secretly multiply in the dark* ??
Yesterday I managed to use a Balti mix, Mexican crispy chicken crumb coatie thing, and a cheese sauce because we all wanted different food as per usual!


Only around 99 more to go

I know, how have I managed to get 6 tuna pasta bake mixes?!

joedenise

Plenty of chicken in meals this week! Cooked a good sized chicken in the SC yesterday.

Served as part of a roast dinner yesterday.
Spanish rice for tonight.
Some more chunks will go into a HM curry sauce for either Tuesday or Wednesday.
The carcass will be picked and all bits frozen to use up in soup in the future.

Undecided whether to use the carcass to make some stock or may be better to break it up and freeze it until I get another carcass before making stock. Will have a think about what to do.

Denise

YorksLass

D&#8517 wrote: »

I'm also currently working my way through a bulging pile of cook in sauce packets * what is it with those things do they secretly multiply in the dark* ??

I'm convinced they do! :rotfl:

As predicted, Friday's shop was very small indeed - potatoes, spring greens and some boiled ham. :j Didn't bother with cheese as I can eke out what we've got until the weekend.

This morning we had a bits & bats breakfast - two H*ck sausages from the freezer (twisted in half to make 4 mini sausages) with fridge oddments - 2 salad tomatoes that had gone a bit soft, 3 almost wrinkly mushrooms and lo cooked potato. At lunchtime DH had a cheese & pickle sandwich and I finished off the last bit of lettuce topped with cottage cheese and a sliced pear.

Dinner tonight is liver, bacon & onion casserole with spring greens and potato. I've defrosted 5 chicken drumsticks to go in the oven at the same time and I'll use the meat tomorrow for a chicken curry.

Caterina

I was just thinking of this thread earlier on when I cooked my dinner. Spaghetti with chilli garlic and parsley. My opportunity to use up some old stale homebaked sourdough bread. I blitzed it into breadcrumbs and fried it in the garlicky oil to dress my spaghetti. It was a total roaring success. It was followed by pudding of cooked windfall apples from my neighbour's apple tree. It took me a while to chop off the rotten, manky or insect damaged bits but It was worth it , the apples (russet) have an amazing flavour. Topped by a chopped dry fig and a handful of crunchy seeds it was the perfect ending to a fantastic, zero waste meal. Who needs the restaurant?

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I used up my rather tasteless salad spuds with a few leeks last night and made a litre and a half of leek and potato soup for lunches this week I had a couple of left over knorr chicken stock cubes from our holiday so I used them as well, with a good dollop of garlic puree job done and in the fridge so most of this weeks lunches are sorted. I also used up the pack of apples that were in the fridge Dated on the pack was 28 July .:) they had been in the fridge before our holiday and I had taken them with us and they had not been used so when they came home they went again back in the fridge These were gala apples from tescos and I always keep apples in the bottom of the fridge as they keep so well in there I took them out of the pack and though Hmm better use these up and they were peeled and cooked in a little honey and cinnamon then drained into a bowl and topped with thick custard Thats at least 3-4 days pudding The apples were as crisp as the day they were bought I am useing everything I can in the fridge up again as I am off to Devon next week with my DDs Ma-in-law so don't want to waste anything I have half a cucumber three tomatoes and a couple of little gem lettuces to eat up along with half a carton of greek plain yogurt and about three quarters of a pack of black grapes. These I will easily use up. I will have some soft cheese and crackers with some of the grapes and a couple of decent sized salads and some tinned tuna and sweetcorn with help use the rest up. Last night as I wasn't very hungry I had banana sliced on some crispbread and it really was delicious and used up the banana from the fruit bowl. This morning I will have some of the greek yogurt on my bran flakes.
Incorporating left-overs to use them up brings out my creative juices . I just hate waste of anysort.I can hear my late Mums voice in my head saying of people throwing good food away 'They are feeding the devil if it goes into the bin ' growing up with rationing certainly stays with you thats for sure I was reading yesterday how with all the hullaballoo about whats happening this year more people are thinking before binning food ,perhaps a few shortages with make folk realise that food isn't in an endless supply all the time .The funniest thing I read this morning on the internet was someone complaining about the shortage of tinned potatoes and tinned carrots Have they not seen how much easier it is to buy loose stuff and peel it. I can understand perhaps if you have a problem peeling stuff but this was a young woman who was saying how her children would be feeling deprived if they couldn't have their tinned veg and also how Aldi only had tinned oranges in syrup and not juice .Why ,if you have to buy tinned oranges can't you just wash off the syrup and replace with OJ or is it me being daft :)Some one replied that if they couldn't get tinned fruit in juice then how would she get through after the end of October !!! first world problems eh

People really do have to get a sense of perspective about things As a child we rarely saw fresh oranges or even bananas for that matter because of rationing My late Mum queued for over an hour for one banana and when we got home she mashed it up to go on bread between three children it was bread, a scrape of marge and jam with mashed banana on top and it tasted amazing to someone who had never tasted one before. I hope things won't get as bad as that but I am sure none of us sensible folk will go hungry

JackieO xx

joedenise

Using up the legs from the weekends chicken for dinner tonight. Making a curry with my HM curry sauce using my own mixed curry spices.

Denise

D&DD

Yay another packet mix day today ,slow cooker sausage and bean thingy I seriously love this one so have doubled up with two packets and some butchers sausages yum

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Last night I used a sad looking bramley apple to make a rather tasty microwave steamed pud which will give us 6 servings (well 4 now as we ate two last night) I made the recipe up but it was 4oz S/R flour, 1.1/2oz margarine, 2 tablespoons golden syrup, a finely chopped cooking apple, a handful of pitted dates chopped up, a teaspoon of allspice, an egg and some milk to mix. All into a 2 pint greased basin on top of a tablespoon of golden syrup, covered with pierced clingfilm and microwaved on full for 5 minutes, came out to perfection.

YorksLass

JackieO wrote: »

I also used up the pack of apples that were in the fridge Dated on the pack was 28 July .:) …. I always keep apples in the bottom of the fridge as they keep so well in there. Me too. I find most F&V lasts a lot longer than it says on the pack - nose and eyes are a better guide IMO.

The funniest thing I read this morning on the internet was someone complaining about the shortage of tinned potatoes and tinned carrots Have they not seen how much easier it is to buy loose stuff and peel it. We do have tins of F&V as a stand-by but much prefer fresh as that's what we're used to. Even before we retired we always made time for food prep and whoever got home first started on dinner.

People really do have to get a sense of perspective about things. I hope things won't get as bad as that but I am sure none of us sensible folk will go hungry. Couldn't agree more. JackieO xx

Mrs LW: Your steamed pudding sounds wonderful and brings back childhood memories.

I used up most of the remaining cheese this morning for Welsh rarebit; just a small piece left that DH can have with crackers. At lunchtime we almost finished off the spicy courgette soup, one portion left that's gone in the freezer.

The meat has been stripped from the drumsticks that I cooked last night and that's for tonight's chicken curry with oven chips. The bones, skin etc went in a pan to make the obligatory stock so now I have to decide whether to use it as the base for the next batch of soup (some kind of minestrone type) or keep it for risotto. Decisions, decisions.

I've also made 4 individual pots of jelly and fruit; I was going to open a tin of orange segments (tangerine jelly) but instead used up the last 3 easy peelers from the fruit bowl. I've enough plain yogurt left for a topping instead of cream or custard.