Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

VfM4meplse

Just dipping into the thread to say that having had a luxury holiday, I feel super-inspired to be MSE (in part by some holiday reading). Since I came back I have scrutinised my cc bills and energy usage, car journeys will be minimised and I will stop throwing food away! To my shame I did rather a lot of this before I went away, it was all veg in the freezer that was going squelchy. Spinach and courgettes are the worst culprits here. Actually, they are the worst offenders - the culprit is me!

I've promised my little niece we'll go conkering and brambling before the end of the month. The pears on my parents' tree are also ripening nicely! The best things in life really are free

I shall enjoy catching up on your posts properly this evening.

VJsmum

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Salmon from the freezer in the oven in foil along with a Tian which is rice from store, courgettes from the garden, home grown onions, fresh herbs from the garden a couple of eggs and some grated cheese and I'll serve it with a home grown tomato salad...roll on supper!

ooh Tian, haven't made one of those for years..... I will make one for DD next week..

Did a Tom Kerridge Salmon traybake yesterday that used up some of the veggies in the fridge - tomatoes, peppers and courgettes especially, as well as a couple of onions. Served it with asparagus that needed using. also made a broccoli soup that saw off some going over broccoli, plus some in the freezer, also used some chicken stock from the freezer and another onion. i will add some of the cheddar mountain to it today and have some for lunch and freeze the rest.

Cheese and lentil loaf for tea with some (more) of the salad mountain and yet another onion gone.

As you may gather, my stock control had got a little out of hand..:rotfl:

sashanut

Gem-gem wrote: »

Spent the day in the kitchen cooking - using the tomatoes from the garden.
1. Tomato soup - which we had for lunch - used up onion and potatoes from the fridge. 1kg of money maker tomatoes. (Rest for lunch tomorrow)
2. Tomato, red pepper and chilli pasta sauce - using up red pepper from the freezer. 1kg of cherry tomatoes. Divided into two zip bags and frozen.
3. Sweet fruit chutney - 1kg of tomatoes from the garden, finished up malt vinegar, light brown sugar and sultanas. (12 jars - ready for Xmas).
4. Ready prepped piccalilli - ready to make tomorrow - used 6 tomatoes.
5. Made two batches of pastry - used up whole meal flour and 1/2 of ys butter.
Tomorrow, I plan to make the piccalilli, meat pies from ys meat and if I have the time / energy some black currant curd - use up ys eggs.

Hi Gem-gem thanks for the inspo re the toms to use up - just back from 3 weeks hols & we have quite a few toms - and DH doesn't eat them.... Also please do you have a recipe for the black currant curd?? Sounds lovely & we have quite a few of those, too...

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I have left in my fridge, as I am going on holiday on Friday morning

half a jug of UHT milk
3 eggs
quarter of a white cabbage
about 6-8 small new potatoes (charlottes)
1 apple

Tonight I shall use up the potatoes ,cabbage and some chicken from the freezer for dinner and eat the aplle for pudding

Tomorrows breakfast will be scrambled eggs and crackers (I don't eat bread at all)

The milk I shall use up tomake a flask on Friday morning as I am leaving and any left will go on serial for breakfast

Tomorrow night I am DDs for dinner as we usually eat up her fresh fridge stuff the night before

So nothing will have been binned and my fridge will be empty until I return in two weeks time :):):) very happy that using everything up meant no waste whatsoever.Planned down to the last crumb :):)

JackieO

Mummy2cheekymonkeys

Last night was roasted vegetable lasagne and tonight will be using up the last of the roasted veg with some cous cous and served with some YS pollock fillets I found in the freezer which I will breadcrumb.
Me and my son had some homemade carrot and lentil soup for lunch and theres enough leftover for lunches for the rest of the week. It used up all the carrots that were going bendy from the veg drawer.

purpleybat

Wraithlady wrote: »

Not a recipe as such, but if it's anything like damson cheese (we have a damson tree which occasionally goes insane), stew the apples in some water then sieve, add sugar ( usually in a ratio of 2 fruit to 3 sugar), then cook down until you can draw a line in the pan with a spoon which doesn't immediately fill up.

Pour into a container and leave to cool. Wrap in greaseproof paper and keep somewhere dry and cool.

if this is what you (original poster) mean....
you need quite a low heat for quite a long time or the apples burn.
i would advise a recipe for membrillo (sp) quince paste but it works with apples too.
you peel, core and cook apples as above in a dash of water before leaving them to drain overnight (i put the pulp in cheapo tights and tie them around a cupboard door handle with a bowl underneath). you then put pulp and sugar in a pan and heat slowly while stiring a lot til really thick. spread into an oiled tray and leave in a warm place (not hot) for a day or two. wrap in greaseproof (as above) and scoff with cheese or porky products.

one thing tho, wear long sleeves when making it, it bubbles like a volcano (i have the kitchen ceiling to prove it) and it REALLY hurts if it hits you.

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Morning chums last day before my holidays
woodfired glad you enjoyed the melting moments they relly are a doddle to make and vanish so quickly

Just got to make breakfast and then I am off round to Dds DGS Jack gets his 'A' level results this morning and DGS Henry his AS's results so fingers crossed for them both

Have a good day everyone

JackieO xx

ScarletRibbons

Thank you for the recipes, Wraithlady and purpleybat.
i'll give it a go.

PasturesNew

It's absolutely p155ing it down here. Cold, nasty, wet ..... and I have a s0ddin' salad to eat...

I picked up a reduced pack of 5 slices for 70p the other night on a whim - use by date was yesterday, so I do have to eat the last two slices of that... and I bought a cucumber last week and some cherry tomatoes - both which need using up. There's also a boiled egg and some coleslaw.

So it's s0ddin' salad. I don't like salad really ... I usually have one cucumber a year as getting through a whole one is such a faff .... but, for some reason, I've bought two this year.

I'd like chips with that.... but I've only one portion left in the freezer and there's no way I'm going out of the house today in this weather, so I prefer to hold onto those chips rather than use them

Zero waste.... be very careful what you buy - because you are going to have to eat it .... even if it's "the wrong food" for the day

VJsmum

Oh dear PasturesNew, that did make me :rotfl: enjoy your s0ddin salad...

Can you add something to liven it up?

Froze two portions of broccoli soup yesterday after having one for lunch

today's lunch will be to use up some going OOD hummus on some rice cakes.

Tea is chicken fajitas - that will use up the last old onion and some peppers as well as some s0ddin salad :rotfl: