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Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

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  • phizzimum
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    silver-oldie wrote: »
    Suggestions please,
    I have a bag of pears, about 4 WEEKS past the sell by date and still rock hard.
    Do I wait and see if they will ever be soft enough to eat or do you think cooking them is the best option?

    Thanks

    When we get pears like that I chop them finely and make muffins with them. Lovely with chopped stem ginger in too
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  • silver-oldie
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    JackieO wrote: »
    if you have the patience then wait ,personally I would probably turn them into a crumble I would peel and slice and put into a little water with a dollop of honey and a dash of cinnamon and cook until just soft then drain and either use in a crumble or a pie (but then I am a pie/crumble sort of lady :)

    JackieO

    DH loves pies and crumbles so I think I will cook them and make a crumble
    Never thought of muffins lovely idea

    Thank you for all suggestions
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  • Gem-gem
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    Hello everyone. I have been lurking and enjoying reading all your posts.
    Hubby and I hate to throw any food away.

    I have a pear every morning in my porridge.
    35g porridge
    225g soya milk
    1 pear chopped up ( core taken out, skin kept on).
    Microwaved for 3 minutes stirred and then for another 30sec to a minute.
    Delicious, it is like having pudding every morning for breakfast.

    I have also made apple and pear crumble.
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  • Gem-gem
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    Carrots in coleslaw peeled.
    Carrots in stew or toasted not peeled.

    Broccoli stalk ( main stalk) otter but cut off and then chopped into batons and cooked with the florets.

    Cauliflower out leaves taken off the stalks and cooked with the florists.

    Parsnips - small and young / early season - not always peeled and less of the core removed. Later on in the season - peeled and cited.

    Does anyone else other bits to the vegetables / other vegetables that are usually discarded?
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    Lemon drizzle tray bake made today with two lemons left over from Christmas.

    Tomorrow I shall turn some going over veg into a curry for Monday
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  • phizzimum
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    My kids prefer the brocolli stalks to the florets GemGem!
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  • YorksLass
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    Gem-gem wrote: »
    Does anyone else other bits to the vegetables / other vegetables that are usually discarded?

    No waste here - our motto is to use all parts of veggies in some way or other. I keep any peelings, stalks etc in a box in the fridge and cook them up to make vegetable stock.

    Meal plan done for the coming week and I won't be shopping at all. True, the freezer and cupboards will be taking a hit, but I'd rather that than risk breaking my neck on the ice! :D

    Sun - Beef * & veg casserole (cooking now in the SC), savoy cabbage, mashed potatoes
    Mon - Hm porkburgers * with sweet chilli sauce, baked courgette slice, hm chunky chips
    Tue - Liver, bacon & onion casserole *, edamame beans *, mashed potato
    Wed - White fish fillet * baked in a foil parcel, broccoli, dauphinoise potatoes
    Thu - Cornish pasty *, sweetcorn, mashed potatoes
    Fri - Battered haddock & mushy peas
    Sat - Seafood * platter with brown bread & butter

    * From freezer.

    Some baking may be on the cards this week as the treats tins are looking very forlorn! ;)
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    Gem-gem wrote: »
    ...Cauliflower out leaves taken off the stalks and cooked with the florists...

    :eek: It must be like Sweeney Todd in your house.

    "No thanks Gem-gem, I couldn't possibly eat a pie. I ate before I got here. Thanks awfully though". :)
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    Big cooking day today for me.

    Using up lots of odd and ends and cooking ahead for next week. I made:

    - Red pepper and tomato soup for the freezer

    - Two sweet potato pies (one for the freezer and one for tea). We had the one for tea with carrots, leeks and roast potatoes. We will eat the rest tomorrow.

    - Leftovers soup (leeks, onion, potato, cannellini beans, lettuce, kale etc). We can have some of this tomorrow and I will make some nice bread to go with it

    - Fruit scones

    There is also a cauliflower curry type dish in the freezer and some leek, celery and potato soup. Everything in the freezer will be eaten next week so I can defrost the damn thing! This means very little cooking to do next week (which is great as it is looking like it will be a very busy week).
  • MMF007
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    Spider_In_The_Bath wrote: »
    :eek: It must be like Sweeney Todd in your house.

    "No thanks Gem-gem, I couldn't possibly eat a pie. I ate before I got here. Thanks awfully though". :)

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