Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

purpleybat

castleton wrote: »

I use 1pt Milk Bottles to store soup in the freeze. Also good for talking soup to Work

i do this too, also use 2pt bottles if I have enough to last a couple of days.
my microwavable BFG mug lives in my locker ready

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Mrs_Salad_Dodger wrote: »

Hi everyone,

Lunch today was ys seeded bread - toasted with a scraping of Berto... & a small tin of mackerel fillets in tomato sauce (have been in the larder for at least a year but surprisingly were NOT ood!) I cannot believe how something sooo simple was so delicious - it!!!8217;s true what they say !!!8220;less is more!!!8221;

See you later alligators

MrsSD:drool:

I didn!!!8217;t make the peperonata. We had pan-fried mackerel fillets from the freezer, mashed potato used double cream instead of milk & finished a bag of mixed vegetables from the freezer. A nice simple meal - !!!8220;not faffed about with!!!8221; as my DSis would say (although she wouldn!!!8217;t have eaten it as she doesn!!!8217;t like fish:()
Still on course for full roast beef dinner on Wednesday & LOs on Thursday. Need to sort something for lunch both days & need to work out a new menu plan from Friday!

LFHW

MrsSD:)

VJsmum

today's use it up meal is going to be Nigella's sweet potato macaroni cheese. I bought a sweet potato the other day to put in my veggie stew but forgot to put it in and i sorted out the cupboard where DD had stored the stuff she brought back from uni, some of which had gone out of date. She had a boxed macaroni cheese - the cheese being in a sachet, so I am (not very) sorry to say I have binned the cheese but will use up the macaroni in a fresh cheese sauce.

Binning the cheese doesn't count as it isn't proper food

we did bin some other stuff in there - slim pasta (revolting stuff)

silver-oldie

Wondered if you lovely people can help, three questions ?

Can I freezer rice pudding (basic rice milk and sugar)

Can I freezer coconut rice pudding (rice, coconut milk, coconut and sugar)

If I make rice pud using evaporated milk do I make the tin of milk up to one pint with water?

Thank you

suki1964

babs_103 wrote: »

I've been lurking on this thread for a while, last week I had to get a new fridge freezer as the door broke after 17 years. Since then I've realised how out the thermometer was and how much food I threw away. When I opened a pack of lettuce for example, it used to last 2 days max but I've had an open pack in the salad drawer for 5 days and it's still as good as new.

I am delurking (is that even a word?) to say that I have now listed everything in the freezer and all my cupboards and will work my way through them. I have also now learnt (via this thread) that I had been packing foods incorrectly in the freezer so will now correct that too. I am looking forward to not wasting food or money any more and tasting the different concoctions I find on here, so hopefully will have something different from shepherds pie and chicken casserole all the time.

Thank you all x:T

New fridges and freezers are amazing

Mine has a meat locker at the top of the fridge and believe me when I say fresh meat lasts in there for up to two weeks. It kind of keeps it at a soft frozen state

I also have a vegetable drawer and a soft veg/fruit drawer. Last week I finally used a butternut squash I had put in there in November, only the stem was showing signs of decay. I'm always buying the special offer veg in Lidl and might not use it that week or even the following, all lasts so much longer then in my old fridge

PasturesNew

Just before Xmas I bought two large parsnips, the 19p/pack ones on offer at budget supermarkets. I cooked one for Xmas dinner.... roll on four weeks and I discovered I still had the second one (buried behind the THREE bags of 29p/2.5Kg spuds I'd also bought at Xmas; spud overload due to them being cheap and getting carried away).

First week of December L1dl had celery at 39p/head and I needed 2 stalks for my Xmas nut roast, so I bought that, used 2 stalks and the rest languished.

Yesterday I finally cooked that 2nd parsnip, most of the remaining celery and a few more of those Xmas spuds.

I made a stew in the SC with those and a few other things.

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Hi chums well I looked into Dobbies but the big gammons were gone so I saved myself from splashing out a tenner

Re the rice puddings I have never frozen one as I like them too much and they never last long enough to freeze I use a large tin of evaporated milk and a tin and a half of water to make it up and then top the made up evaporated milk up with ordinary milk to two pints.

This I use to make a very large rice pud (2pinta) in the SC, or a one pint rice pud and one pint of custard. Both of which happily sit in my fridge to be used up over a few days for desserts.

The small size tin of evaporated milk again I use a tin and a half of water and top up to a pint with ordinary milk.

By the way I wonder why Aldi's don't sell custard powder ,probably because they sell custard in a tin (revolting stuff to me ) I much prefer to make it up myself as I am not keen on sugar so leave it out, and replace with a bit of runny honey for sweetness when making custard.

I wrap celery or sweetheart cabbage in foil, and leave in my salad drawer and it will last for a couple of weeks in there.

If you haven't get a lettuce keeper ( a lovely lady on here sent me her one as my one fell apart ), then wrap in foil, and it will keep lettuce quite well.Celery will keep fresh for several weeks this way.

By the way I never use a metal knife for cutting chunks off an iceberg lettuce as the metal oxidises the lettuce, and makes the cut edges go brown ,either use a plastic knife or just tear a chunk off the main lettuce with your hands.

I remember my late Mum dotting the cut end bits of the stalks of tomatoes and apples to stop them from going soft too soon with a dab of candle wax.No fridges or freezer back in the 1940s

Have a good day chums

JackieO xx

Jaymie_kate

I would also like to join! I definitely love food and hate the idea of wasting anything that can be consumed. Would love to hear ideas about saving on food and money as I know there are ways very effective for many.

THIRZAH

DD sometimes gets a big gammon joint for a tenner from her local branch of Brogdale butchers - might be worth trying in the future if you have one near you JackieO

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THIRZAH wrote: »

DD sometimes gets a big gammon joint for a tenner from her local branch of Brogdale butchers - might be worth trying in the future if you have one near you JackieO

Thanks Thirzah There is a branch not too far from me and Iwill look into seeing what they have