Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

ellas9602

Mrs SD

I don’t think my corned beef ash is authentic at all, it’s basically a stew!
Whenever I see a recipe for it, it seems to be a dry pan fried affair (often topped with a fried egg). My mum, nan and everyone I know makes it like this, I’ve even asked colleagues and corned beef hash to us here in Yorkshire amounts to corned beef stew so may be a regional thing.

So it’s basically onion, celery, carrot, parsnip, swede and potatoes stewed with beef stock (two oxos!) corned beef added last. It’s tasty anyway! Corned beef was bought from fultons for £1 and was good quality, I’ve seen it in Poundland too. I’ve gone off the tins of corned beef!

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The left over shepherd's pie was delicious I steamed some cauli,carrots (from the freezer) and sweetheart cabbage (fresh bought on Friday) to go with it and it was a real filling meal which it I priced the cabbage freshly bought cost me around 20p all told Tomorrow night I am out at quiz night so no cooking for me ,but I shall have a small jacket spud and some salad around lunchtime as the pub meal isn't until around 8.30 p.m.

great to be rooting around the freezer for stuff and not having to trail around the shops for anything

using up stuff instead of shopping for it is really money saving

JackieO xx

HERTSCOOKIE

In response to the recent post I have a few tips. I DO store bananas in the fridge - in bubble wrap - keeps them perfectly without going black.
To keep lettuce and celery fresh for weeks, put a piece of kitchen roll round the bottom, wet it just at the bottom. and then put back in plastic wrapping in fridge. Wet the kitchen roll every time you use the veg. 
To keep carrots fresh in their plastic bag in the fridge put a piece of kitchen roll  either side of them just inside the bag - it absorbs moisture and stops them going mouldy. 
PS I buy organic fruit/veg so it usually comes in plastic bags.

Indescribable

Your list of what not to put in  the fridge is not quite correct. Eggs do not belong in the fridge. Supermarkets do not store eggs in fridges but on the shelf. Likewise potatoes, garlic, onion peppers  ginger root . None of these should be refridgerated

Brendajoan53

I put bananas in the fridge all the time and they are great. Please tell me why I shouldn't.

London_1

Golly is it really that long ago that I started this thread, I remember thinking that at the time folk will think I'm barking but today with everyone trying to make a pound do the work of two it doesn't seem quite so potty  

I'm still making sure I have zero waste as my late Mum didi for 14 years during WW2 and rationing which never finished until 1954 which is 70 years ago !!!.
I remember the day to finished, she threw the ration books in the air, and was beaming broadly and said 'Thank goodness its all over at last lassie' Although austerity was still around 
I wonder what she would think today of how much is wasted and thrown away.:( 

I think its ingrained in me not to waste food for any reason, bless her she passed on so many things to me that seem a bit old fashioned, but the best was how to streeetch what you have to make it go round. She definitely made a shilling do the work of two if she could.

Today its called recycling, but it was a fact of life for everyone back then because there were so many shortages for everything, not just food, but textiles, furniture, even toys children, clothes were often passed on to siblings or neighbours, and I can't honestly remember when I didn't knit, which I still do every day today well over 75 plus years later.

Mum never owned a fridge, freezer, washing machine, (eventually had a boiler and definitely a mangle and I've spent many a time turning the handle of that monstrosity Wall to wall carpets were considered unheard of to many people really it was lino with a rug here and there.

Certainly no central heating or double glazing, everyones windows rattled in the winter, and bedding was sheets (not fitted ) blankets and a candlewick bedspread, and an eiderdown if you were lucky, or your Dads army great coat over your feet

Life wasn't bad though, it was just that times were tough but I think people were just so relieved to have survived 6 years of war
My late Mum was bombed out twice, which she always seemed to take as a personal challenge from that "Horrible little man in Germany "  

Today people are challenged by different things but its still a challenge, and most folk will come through it.

JackieO xx

P.S. I came off the site for two years, when I rejoined for some reason I had to change my user name but its still me just a bit older, greyer and I hope wiser  

Telnix

You give no reason as to why one shouldn't store bananas in the fridge.
I have been doing it for years. They last so much longer!! Admittedly the skins do turn more easily, but the bananas themselves keep well for ages - well beyond storing them at room temperature.

Pollycat

Telnix said:

You give no reason as to why one shouldn't store bananas in the fridge.
I have been doing it for years. They last so much longer!! Admittedly the skins do turn more easily, but the bananas themselves keep well for ages - well beyond storing them at room temperature.

Google gives conflicting advice regarding how to keep bananas.

Just do what you find is the best way.
Personally, my best way is not to refrigerate.

London_1

I think maybe because some people believe the gases given off by bananas are not good to be in the fridge.
But I have never had a problem ,but then I don't buy that many at a time, and its rare they start going soft or the skin gets too spotty.
 I think they don't have a very long life once bought, as they have been kept pretty cool before reaching the supermarkets shelves. As opposed to apples which keep pretty well in the veg drawer for several weeks
JackieO xx

YorksLass

I keep bananas in a cool shady place on the kitchen worktop, not the fridge, but I only buy a couple at a time as I'm the only one who likes them.  And I buy them under-ripe as that gives me more wriggle room time for using them.  Should they get a bit riper than I would like, well there's always banana bread and I also like them mashed on toast with a (generous) sprinkle of cinnamon, so no waste.  

I agree that apples keep well in the fridge, as do oranges, pears and soft fruits but I take them out to come to room temperature for the best flavour.  Same with tomatoes.