Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

I haven't posted for a while but LFHW has been ongoing chez nous and I've been using up quite a lot of odds and ends this week. On Monday we had a salad for dinner that took care of the last bit of hm potato salad plus the last few slices of pickled beetroot from a large jar we got at Xmas. Jar duly washed out and awaiting re-cycling.

Last night's dinner was paella that used up x6 large tiger prawns, x2 chicken thighs and a handful of garden peas from the freezer. With bits from the fridge - chopped onion, the last 2 sweet pointed red peppers, diced chorizo plus a packet mix and risotto rice from the store cupboard - they produced a tasty and filling meal. :)

Tonight we're having sausages in onion gravy, mashed potato and the last bit of cauliflower from the fridge. There's a fair few of the green leaves left from the cauli and I'm loath to waste them, so I think I'll shred those and add them into tomorrow's chicken & broccoli bake.

I've also dealt with a head of celery by standing the tender, inner stalks in a glass of water in the fridge to keep them firm and have chopped/bagged/frozen the outer stalks. For once, the green leaves hadn't been trimmed off and they've also been chopped up fine and frozen in small pots of water to add to casseroles/soups.

Tomorrow I'm planning on making a mushroom & chickpea pate to use up some mushrooms that are going somewhat wrinkly. It's a new-to-me recipe I found on the BBC Good Food website, seems simple enough and I have all the ingredients needed. Unlike a lot of pate recipes, it doesn't use cream cheese but it does need baking in the oven. No problem, as I can make it up beforehand and bung it in the oven with tomorrow's chicken & broccoli bake.

bouicca21 wrote: »

I foolishly bought loads of grapes in the market. Foolish because I am off on holiday and still have loads left. Short of taking them with me (doubt they would survive the journey), what can I do with them?

You can freeze grapes

Hi fellow LFHWrs

Yesterday’s lunch was different for each of us so lots of leftovers from previous days used up

Made a large pan of bolognese sauce last night and lots of pasta + we had a very nice garlic bread.

Overnight DSis was extremely ill so today she was on dry bread but managed some soup tonight.
DH & I had more leftovers for lunch & some of last night’s bolognese + enough lo for lunch tomorrow :money: + I put enough bolognese sauce in the freezer for 4 people (so when DB arrives in a couple of weeks we know what we are having for one dinner :rotfl:)

Unfortunately now for the non MSE part of today - I went through my DSis’s fridge & had to bin 4 well ood creme caramels, 2 well ood pots of cream, 5 mostly empty Robinson’s squash shots, 3 jars of furry jam (glass jars washed out & recycled) & a glass jar of furry prawn cocktail sauce (again jar washed & recycled). At least the fridge is now a safe zone :rotfl:

See you all soon

MrsSD

I'm busy emptying my fridge of stuff that won't keep, in preparation for our holiday. We go next Friday, and will be away for til the Sunday after (ie just over a week).

I think I've cracked it; any remaining bread can be sliced and frozen, and if there are any tomatoes left I'll halve and freeze them - they can always be used in soup at a later date then.

I have to be careful how much I put in the freezer though, as I have Buddy and Indi coming to stay for 17 days halfway through July, and I'll need quite a bit of freezer space for their grub as they have the BARF (Biologically Appropriate Raw Food) diet.