Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

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Brilliant stuff another soup recipe to add to my collection. Often reduced odds and ends of salad can be had for a few pennies and added to odds and ends indoors sounds an excellent way of using up bits.

Well done WeeMidgie and also Spider in the Bath. That's what this forum is about, passing on recipes and tips so we utilise every scrap of food .

In our holiday house there is a small food caddy for thrown out bits of food ,We have been here since Friday, and so far there is a teaspoon of rice left from last nights curry meal scraped off a plate, and around half a dozen empty used egg shells :):)

DD and the family and I try to use everything up that we can.Last night two of the boys had pasta with some left over sausages from the day before, and the left over bowl of curry uneaten from the pot has gone into a bowl to be frozen and eaten another day when another of my DGS Jack arrive to stay.

JackieO xx

Hopeless_Case

Some great tips for left over salad, thanks

I'm using iceberg lettuce at the moment as its cheaper but i seem to have to cut a layer of brown leaves off each time, I'll try and be more adventurous with them!

I made a one-pot pasta dish with a couple of plaice fillets and used spring onions as they were looking more in need of using than the other onions - used the green ends and kept the white ends for our salads .

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If you tear the salad leaves off with your hands, or use a plastic knife to cut them you get less browning of the leaves. Hope this helps I never use a metal knife to cut off lettuce leaves

JackieO xx

Hopeless_Case

JackieO wrote: »

If you tear the salad leaves off with your hands, or use a plastic knife to cut them you get less browning of the leaves. Hope this helps I never use a metal knife to cut off lettuce leaves

JackieO xx

Oh yes it does help, thanks! I always just slice a bit off but I'll start tearing it

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

I am currently transcribing recipes into one notebook - so will be going back to the start of this thread & copying down recipes that appeal to me - DH will be OK with what I cook but DSis is a bit fussy & boring in her eating habits so might end up with toast :rotfl:

Lunch - we all had ham sandwiches as the use by date was today :eek: & dinner was hm bolognese sauce with pasta shells - very tasty it was too & enough left over for a snack/lunch tomorrow for at least two of us :T

LFHW

MrsSD

Mummy2cheekymonkeys

Mrs_Salad_Dodger wrote: »

I am currently transcribing recipes into one notebook - so will be going back to the start of this thread & copying down recipes that appeal to me - DH will be OK with what I cook but DSis is a bit fussy & boring in her eating habits so might end up with toast :rotfl:

Lunch - we all had ham sandwiches as the use by date was today :eek: & dinner was hm bolognese sauce with pasta shells - very tasty it was too & enough left over for a snack/lunch tomorrow for at least two of us :T

LFHW

MrsSD

I have 2 a4 sized notebooks that I put recipes into. One I use for cutting recipes out of magazines and newspapers that I then glue into it and the other I write recipes into that I find online. The irony is I have over 20 cook books and the one I use the most is the one I have written myself. I only like to write them in once I have tried making them and think the recipe is worth keeping.

Tonight is leftover roasted veg lasagne and a salad which will use up the last of a YS iceberg and tomatoes.
This morning I made a chocolate and courgette cake to get rid of a couple of huge courgettes from the garden.

Brambling

Mummy2cheekymonkeys wrote: »

I have 2 a4 sized notebooks that I put recipes into. One I use for cutting recipes out of magazines and newspapers that I then glue into it and the other I right recipes into that I find online. The irony is I have over 20 cook books and the one I use the most is the one I have written myself. I only like to write them in once I have tried making them and think the recipe is worth keeping.

Mine are a little tatty and have the odd stain or two but are also the books I use the most I also use a cookery book produced by my nephews primary school about 20 years ago where the request was for tried and tested recipes with 'hints and tips learnt when cooking them'

Gem-gem

Made chilli-con-Carne with quorn (so pleased to have nearly finished the stash that we bought. Bought too many and then went off it).
Used fresh tomatoes from the garden ( picked around 10kg + this week).
Over the past few days I have Made bbq sauce, ketchup, tomato and chilli sauce as well as more tomato and basil soup. Have frozen several kilos as well as given some to the neighbours. Hubby has requested some salsa to be made.
Picked a butternut squash that is over 3kg in weight today. Going to roast and some will be turned into Butternut squash soup, using potatoes from the garden ( Covent Garden soup recipe) the rest I will freeze and use when I want to make roasted veg and couscous or with roast dinners. I have another butternut in the fridge and another five growing. There are more baby butternut but I don't k ow if they will develop yet.
Finished up some blackberry jam with a tea cake.
Finished up some ys butter - made fresh garlic bread and the froze half for another day.

Sharna_Pax

Hi there, hoping I can join in with this thread as we're always guilty of throwing food out and it makes me sad . It's a bit tricky in our house as I'm veggie, fussy DD is an almost veggie (who's not keen on cheese, or egg, or butter, or toast... among many other things), and DH and DS eat meat, so quite often there are a lot of different meals going on and food ends up being wasted.
I made an effort today and have cooked a lentil shepherds pie using up some of a bag of potatoes and leftover cream from DS's birthday cake in the mash. Also had some leftover spring greens with cream with my dinner. And now I have a portion of bubble and squeak from those combined leftovers! I'm going to parboil the rest of the potatoes tomorrow and freeze them for wedges (quite often end up throwing potatoes away as they seem to go soft and sprout so quickly even though they're in a dark cupboard). I'm going to make a cake tomorrow with some brown bananas for a picnic at the weekend (will try to be sensible with what we buy for that as I get a bit overexcited when hosting).
Anyway, this is turning into an epic first post . So one last thing, can I freeze shredded raw spring greens to chuck in soup at a later date or will they dissolve into mush? Thanks!

Mummy2cheekymonkeys

Sharna_Pax wrote: »

So one last thing, can I freeze shredded raw spring greens to chuck in soup at a later date or will they dissolve into mush? Thanks!

I have done this with some kale. I had too much so I chopped it up and put it in a plastic tub for the next time I make some minestrone. I would throw it in the soup from frozen and it should be fine. My thinking is will you notice it's mushy in a soup lol.

Wow gem-gem that's a great glut of tomatoes. We had a lot of salad tomatoes and sun gold ripen when the weather was warm but we have about 5 roma plants that all the fruit has developed blossom end rot so haven't had any. I have one huge squash ripe and a couple more on the plant.
We found a courgette yesterday that had been missed. Popped it on the scales and it weighed 1.8kg :eek: plus another two that are nearly 1.5kg.
Got a busy day today. Need to make some more plum jam. I also have a YS red cabbage so going to make some braised cabbage and portion up for the freezer. Also having a party tomorrow so lots of food to prep.