Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

Hi all, I have been following the thread for a while but not been posting but can see there is a wealth of knowledge within regarding using up random items. i have a lot of random items..... am slowly sorting through a storage area where I have all sorts of interesting things that I have bought in the dim and distant past for a reason that currently escapes me. A few I have unearthed today and was hoping for some pearls of wisdom if possible please.

Dried Aduki beans
Linseed seeds
Blue poppy seeds
Sesame seeds
Dried vegetable suet

I have started making my own muesli and just made up my second big container as it turns out I have all the types of ingredients squirreled away, lol. Can I use those seeds in a future batch do you think?

Thanks for any ideas thrown my way!

The seeds would be great in hm bread.

Hi all you lovely people.

Today, in between cleaning & decluttering, I forgot to take pork chops out of the freezer so my menu plan was no good:(
What to do? Oh yes - make something up:o
Out came the black olives, (too much air had got into the jar so tipped them out, washed them & the jar & then kept half of the olives out & returned the rest to the jar & covered in olive oil - back into fridge:T), capers, sun dried tomatoes in oil, 1 mushroom, third of a green pepper + tomato pur!e, garlic granules, salt & pepper.
Finely chopped all the ingredients & thoroughly mixed & tasted - too bland, so added a couple of squirts of tomato pur!e, sprinkle of garlic granules - mixed thoroughly & tasted again,then salt & pepper to taste. Emptied a tin of tuna in oil into saucepan & added my concoction - gently warmed through whilst I cooked the spaghetti. Drained spaghetti & added to tuna sauce, mixed thoroughly & served. Absolutely delicious:drool::drool: (Wrote down the ingredients in my notebook but almost certainly will not be able to replicate:o))

From deciding what to cook to sitting down and eating - 35 mins:j

Back to the menu plan tomorrow - pork chops, use up last of my potatoes & finish carrots, parsnips & leeks. Thursday - lasagne & peperonata with two person portion for freezer.

Will soon have enough enough meals in the freezer to not have to cook from scratch for a week:j

:(DH has almost emptied the biscuit tin, so need to make more biscuits & probably an everyday fruit cake.

LFHW

MrsSD

just been reading back. Sounds lovely with the holiday - my friend and i used to do something similar but been missed out a few years due to work commitments - ah well can get back into it now. :P

Trying to use stuff up but have a confession to make- i don't have any herbs or spices at all in my cupboard. No flour. No eggs. Very few tinned veg.No lentils . No cooking oils.
Hoping to build this up but gradually in my budget so my question is what do people consider essential herbs and spices like if you had to pick say top 3 most used? sunflower oil or vegetable /olive oil - been using my dairy free spread on frying pan which works ok
Ive seen eggs 15 pack for £1 at farmfoods but its pretty miserable for walking that way so no eggs in meal plan next few weeks

Ma-ar-ella - it would depend on what sort of meals you like. For me it would be spices over herbs as we eat a lot of spicy food. I'd choose cumin, corriander & paprika.

Denise