Money Saving gone TOO far?

Meanymoo

fletch3163 wrote: »

I've just been given merry hell because I have thrown out two of the baked potatoes I previously retrieved to bake. DH comments that surely I ended up using more that 50p worth of gas cooking the two that I threw away. Hey ho .................

:rotfl:
I was going to say that your husband needs a serious talking to about wasting perfectly good food...
but now I think it must be something in the water where you live!

Why did you throw them out? :eek: Surely they can't have gone off in one day? Baked potatoes will keep for days quite happily in the fridge. (I believe you can even freeze them.) Lovely sliced up and fried with a bit of garlic and whatever herbs you fancy. Or scoop out the insides for mash. Or reheat them and eat as...baked potatoes!

pigpen

Gryfon wrote: »

I tend to look at the following:

Has it grown legs?
Does the smell rise to great you and make you want to run?
Is it mostly green/red/brown/yellow etc when it should be white.

and also the thickness of the pile on the fur coat!!

I have furry onions which are to be eaten tomorrow..
The parsley sauce we had tonight dated.. sept 01..
the salmon we had tonight June 07 (it had been frozen!)
the butternut squash I am dicing, cooking and freezing for later use.. BB 15 Dec.. one side is a bit squishy where it was against the fridge radiator.. but the other half is fine
The bendy parsnip went in the mash on the top of the fish pie tonight

And I found some other bits with dates of june 2002, october 2001, november 2001, february 2000!! :eek: sept 2000!! another :eek: dec 2002 march and february 2006.. I think I should use them all up soon.. don't you!!?? lol

fletch3163

Pigpen.............MY GOODNESS!

My DH would have to take a lie down if you presented him with a furry onion:rotfl: . That's hilarious! And the squishy bit of the squash? Hystrical!

He's such a stickler for abiding by the rules, as is DS. They're both an advertisers dream I tell you. Once when DS was about 8 he asked for something from Santa. I asked him where to get it and he said "all good retailers" DH goes mental that I never put the whole washing powder tablet in the machine and I bring home my tin foil. He a lost cause and I feel like Ebeneezer here.

Meanymoo in my defence the potatoes had been in my oven since the Saturday night and were a bit squishy (one seemed full of air under the skin :eek: )

Calleyw I once watched a children's programme with Auntie Mabel (Gladys Emanuelle from Open All Hours) and her dog watching Worcestershire sauce being made. Certainly didn't inspire me but I do love the stuff. Does more than it says on the tin.

Skint_Catt

Ephemera wrote: »

erm...bug eggs already in the oats??

You'd be amazed how many bugs you eat in a year. Or maybe not.

Just don't look too closely and you won't see it moving...that's why ship's biscuits were apparently eaten in the dark on board ship in Nelson's time...and on the bright side it's added protein...

:eek: now I know why only OH eats porridge! Thats gross :eek: :eek:

pigpen

fletch3163 wrote: »

Pigpen.............MY GOODNESS!

My DH would have to take a lie down if you presented him with a furry onion:rotfl: . That's hilarious! And the squishy bit of the squash? Hystrical!

He's such a stickler for abiding by the rules, as is DS. They're both an advertisers dream I tell you. Once when DS was about 8 he asked for something from Santa. I asked him where to get it and he said "all good retailers" DH goes mental that I never put the whole washing powder tablet in the machine and I bring home my tin foil. He a lost cause and I feel like Ebeneezer here.

The squishy squash, providing it is still edible.. I won't know until I cut it open.. will be cooked and frozen the same... if it is unusable (which knowing me is unlikely) I'll put it in the composter.. so it will still do some good somewhere!

I use 1/4 of a scoop of wash powder.. tesco value of course!! I told the children off for not bringing home their sandwich bags.. the ones I'd nicked from the fruit and veg bit in tesco.. so hadn't even paid for them!

I reuse foil until it falls to pieces and has to fo in the recycle box.

My hubby is quite used to me.. thinks I am off my crumpet and the fact half my christmas shopping is done already apparently just compounds his little bit of knowledge about my questionable sanity.

Austin_Allegro

LOL I keep potatoes for months! Most of them look like Gordon Ramsey's face by the time I eat them.

Nowadays we are sooooooo brainwashed by the big stores and the health and safety industry it is unbelievable. People implicitly believe anything past its sell by date is rotten and poisonous...anything 'value' is cheap and nasty...any 'real' food from the ground or the hedgerows is dirty and unsafe...anything not shrink wrapped in cellophane and cardboard is unclean...anything home made is dangerous and against health and safety, etc etc...

I don't blame the stores/government for these guidelines, in fact they can be useful - I just blame people for taking them as gospel and not using the evidence of their senses which their forefathers relied on since the dawn of time!

VickyM_2

We are still eating potatoes that OH dug up in July and we seem to be still here...

AUNTMAGPIE

If I've had spuds for more than a week they are generally starting to sprout. I remove the sprouts before baking them, does anyone know if they're safe to eat?

There was a story by Dorothy L Sayers about a child being poisoned with potato flowers... can't remember the name. It involved a firm called Smith, Removals and a leopard lady. Except I can't remember the title and am not even sure she was the autor

angelavdavis

Hi AuntMagpie,

Potato flowers are poisonous - they are related to deadly nightshade!

But as long as you remove the shoots and any green bits on the potato, you are OK.

pigpen

bit late but.. one pic of my furry onions which I fed everyone.. heeheehee... they were absolutely fine inside