Is M&S Overusing Do not Suitable For Freezing.

kimwp

Blue_Doggy said:

Emmia said:

Going to be honest, I'm into proper food but I can't really abide bones - so chicken breast or boned thighs not wings or drumsticks. No ribs. I really don't like gnawing things.

It's not silly, it's a preference, just as some people don't like tomatoes or beans or anything else.

I understand your dislike of bones is a preference. I like meat on the bone as the flavour is better. I just cut the meat away from the bone (yes, even chicken wings) with my ordinary table knife. My mother was
very much against gnawing of bones, as she always said “you’ve got a knife, so there’s no need to eat like a dog”.
 

@singhini interesting that you eat banana and kiwi skins: do you cook them? and if so, how do you prepare them? Do you just rinse them first, or scrub them as one would an apple?

I went through a phase of eating kiwi skins for the fibre- I just ate the whole thing (apart from the hard end) like an apple. I did choose the less hairy ones when I did this and a lot of people stared if I ate them like this in public. I've not eaten banana skins, though I think they can be cooked.

joedenise

There's a Nigella recipe using banana skins in a curry!  Not tried it but who knows it might be good!

banana skin curry nigella recipe

singhini

Blue_Doggy said:

Emmia said:

Going to be honest, I'm into proper food but I can't really abide bones - so chicken breast or boned thighs not wings or drumsticks. No ribs. I really don't like gnawing things.

It's not silly, it's a preference, just as some people don't like tomatoes or beans or anything else.

I understand your dislike of bones is a preference. I like meat on the bone as the flavour is better. I just cut the meat away from the bone (yes, even chicken wings) with my ordinary table knife. My mother was
very much against gnawing of bones, as she always said “you’ve got a knife, so there’s no need to eat like a dog”.
 

@singhini interesting that you eat banana and kiwi skins: do you cook them? and if so, how do you prepare them? Do you just rinse them first, or scrub them as one would an apple?

Kiwi - just eat the kiwi with the skin on (i cut off the tiny head and tail bit and give them a wipe with my hands but thats it).

Banana skin - again cut the head and tail out and you can just eat them (they can be a little tough if the banana is not over ripe). If the banana is ripe or very ripe i blend the skin and fruit in a food processor and either add it to my oats or put it into a basic cake mix and bake as a cake (flour/butter/sugar/egg mix) 

singhini

just seen kimwp and joedenise posts 

I will look at the curry recipe (never though of that) 

Rosa_Damascena

singhini said:

Blue_Doggy said:

Emmia said:

Going to be honest, I'm into proper food but I can't really abide bones - so chicken breast or boned thighs not wings or drumsticks. No ribs. I really don't like gnawing things.

It's not silly, it's a preference, just as some people don't like tomatoes or beans or anything else.

I understand your dislike of bones is a preference. I like meat on the bone as the flavour is better. I just cut the meat away from the bone (yes, even chicken wings) with my ordinary table knife. My mother was
very much against gnawing of bones, as she always said “you’ve got a knife, so there’s no need to eat like a dog”.
 

@singhini interesting that you eat banana and kiwi skins: do you cook them? and if so, how do you prepare them? Do you just rinse them first, or scrub them as one would an apple?

Kiwi - just eat the kiwi with the skin on (i cut off the tiny head and tail bit and give them a wipe with my hands but thats it).

Banana skin - again cut the head and tail out and you can just eat them (they can be a little tough if the banana is not over ripe). If the banana is ripe or very ripe i blend the skin and fruit in a food processor and either add it to my oats or put it into a basic cake mix and bake as a cake (flour/butter/sugar/egg mix) 

But why would you want to? It must be like eating a load of hessian, not for me!

purpleivy

Most of my food dislikes are textural and banana skin and kiwi skin would be there with those, I can manage peach skin but prefer nectarines!  'Hairy fruit' my daughter calls them.  

MyRealNameToo

Feels like something that needs an update like expiry dates... "best before" you can eat it after but may not be as good and "use by" eat at your own caution afterwards. 

Most "do not freeze" are a textural thing and not a safety thing. In my opinion they should carry a different warning to those where it'd be unsafe to freeze for some reason. 

Dont remember by but my mother bought some precooked baby spuds that came in a flat vac pack thing. Whatever they were bought for didnt happen so they were put in the freezer for however long. Took them out at some point, left them to defrost on the side and they looked like little potatoes just like before they were frozen, until I picked up the packet at which point they all disintegrated into watery mush

I'm not sure what cannot actually be refrozen for anything other than texture reasons? I know the principle is about freezing doesnt kill bacteria so they will have been present before freezing, then multiplied after defrosting, then will continue to multiple after defrosting a second time and people lose track of it but dont see how thats any different from the pack of sausages you throw in the freezer on their use by date and then take out to defrost not remembering if these were the ones you froze straight away or the ones that were sitting around 5 days first and shouldn't be left another few days before using. 

singhini

Rosa_Damascena said:

But why would you want to? It must be like eating a load of hessian, not for me!

Reduce food waste. 

Blue_Doggy

@singhini @kimwp @joedenise thank you for the hints and links to recipes. I rather think though that they’re not for me, although if you’re shredding banana skins for curry I suppose you could shred and use them in stir-fry. It sounds rather like a famine food. I’m not too keen on kiwi fruit, and if I had to eat the peels as well I’d give up on the whole fruit altogether.
 

I don’t waste my banana skins, though, I put them at the roots of my roses and they seem to like them.

Blue_Doggy

Back on topic, if something I buy says it can’t be frozen I either cook it first (either on its own or in a pie or sauce of some sort), or channel my inner anarchist and put it in the freezer anyway, but in its original unopened packaging to minimise potential for contamination.