Love Food Hate Waste 2020

nursemaggie

I peal the stalk cut it into batons and eat it with the broccoli. Both broccoli and cauli are nice raw, I chop them very small and eat them in salads.

nursemaggie

last night I got my delivery from Morries, I got a veg box. Some of the sweet potato was going rotten, the potatoes I have were sprouting and I had a parsnip left from a couple of weeks ago so I peeled the lot added two more parsnips from the veg box, cooked them and I have made a huge mash with them all. I shall freeze them in batches if I can find room for them all.

I have been waiting two weeks for the order and wonder if this veg box was packed when I ordered it as there was a rotten cabbage in it too. There are 4 swedes in it so I think I will be making swede and carrot mash too. I'm shielding so I cannot go out at all. I need to order the next lot today but I have no idea what I will need then. I think I may have to wait three weeks this time. I have two bunches of bananas. I asked for two bananas not two bunches. 

I live in sheltered housing, it feels like I am the only one here it is so quiet. I know others are still here as people keep leaving notes on the notice board. I'm not sure if people will accept them if I give them to other residents.

joedenise

I would certainly complain about the rotten veg - that is totally unacceptable.  I would try and book your next delivery as soon as you can as when I looked today I can't get a delivery slot at all.  Tesco's have dates up until 17 April so need to wait for another lot of dates to come on line to see if I can get a slot.  Asda are only doing 2 weeks at a time and nothing available and nothing with Ocado either.

Siebrie

We ate our last 2 frozen pizzas (a half each) and husband and I had some lentil beetroot salad to go with it. I'm full.
It is my Mum's 84th birthday today, so dds and I baked a cake, and facetimed my parents in the afternoon, showing the cake with a lit candle. 

nursemaggie

I'm not going to complain as I may not get another slot. I am overloaded with food. I don't know what I will eat in the next three weeks so I just can't order today. They will not prioritise me unless I have what they give me. It's probably not the sort of food I eat. Bet it will be pork chop, lamb chop, steak pie, cabbage and carrots. I eat very little meat. I don't eat any of those meat dishes and I have plenty of cabbage and carrots.

Pyxis

Hello non-wasteful people!

Can anyone help with an apple conundrum?

I get fruit and veg (and some other stuff) delivered weekly from an organic supplier, and have done for years. I have been very grateful for that fresh food as I have been in isolation for 4 weeks now, due to underlying health stuff, so can’t risk going to shops.

This week the supplier has had mega problems, I think with staff, and so I haven’t been able to get my normal fruit and veg or to substitute it with other types. What the firm has done is to allocate a mixed box of fruit and veg to everyone, which I was so relieved about as I had run out of fresh fruit and veg. There is no choice in what has gone into this box, and ditto next week’s, but I really don’t mind, providing I get something.

Anyway, in this week’ s box were some red apples, I don’t know what type, possibly Gala or similar. I don’t normally buy apples as I find most varieties are insipid these days. I have just tried one, and it is a bit of an ordeal to eat.

I was wondering what else I could do with them, given that they don’t have a lot of flavour. I suppose I could make a smoothie, or risk stewing them, but again, the lack of flavour might rule that out, and I don’t want to add any sugar.

Would it be possible to slice and dry them in the oven? Would that intensify the flavour, do you think? If so, can anyone recommend the oven heat to use and for how long?

Or does anyone have any other suggestions? 
(I don’t have any yogurt or cream to mix them in, and the only other fresh fruit I have are some very underripe pears and a small hand of bananas which also aren’t very ripe).

Thank you in advance!

greenbee

I had the same problem @Pyxis so suspect we have the same supplier. I don’t usually get potatoes or fruit so am a bit short on veg! Potatoes went to the person who brought my last lot of shopping (along with loo roll and honey which she couldn’t get) but I have unripe pears and kiwis to deal with. 

Apples I would either chop into a big mixed salad, or grate into porridge or yogurt. 

Pyxis

greenbee said:

I had the same problem @Pyxis so suspect we have the same supplier. I don’t usually get potatoes or fruit so am a bit short on veg! Potatoes went to the person who brought my last lot of shopping (along with loo roll and honey which she couldn’t get) but I have unripe pears and kiwis to deal with. 

Apples I would either chop into a big mixed salad, or grate into porridge or yogurt. 

Into porridge might be an idea. I don’t drink milk but make it with almond or oat milk, although I only have two or three cartons of those.
No salad, only cucumber, and no yogurt! 


Edit......I would have hugged the delivery driver if I could have got close to him, as I was so glad to get the stuff! 😁 

Brambling

Pyxis not sure if you're a cake maker but if you look on the Wartime recipes thread MrsLurcherwalker added a recipe yesterday for apple sponge 

Pyxis

Brambling said:

Pyxis not sure if you're a cake maker but if you look on the Wartime recipes thread MrsLurcherwalker added a recipe yesterday for apple sponge 

I’m not usually a cake maker, but I think I have some flour. However, I am really trying to limit my sugar intake.
I have tried making a crumble with dessert apples in the past, but again, unless the apples already have a strong flavour, it can be a bit insipid, and these ones don’t have a very strong flavour.

What do you think about the the drying idea?