Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

A butternut squash had been lurking in the potato box for ages, yesterday I got OH to cut it up for me and I roasted it in the Remoska, than also (sort of) roasted a large batch of cherry tomatoes that I got for £1 off the veg stall at the hospital, now have several portions of yummy tomato soup, although I think I need to add a touch of sugar to reduce the acidity a little.

OH and I have both been a little off colour and not wanted proper meals for a couple of days, so I think that half a cauli may have gone a bit too far to reclaim, but I will check today and salvedge it if possible. I need to grate a batch of cheddar, so may get a cauli cheese from it:(

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Thank you for re-starting the thread Jackie.

I'm afraid we're seeing a lot of good threads being accidentally removed by the spam button - we think people are hitting it on their phones instead of the thanks button.

We're working on a solution.

Keep sharing your food waste saving efforts. We're putting this thread out on twitter

Couple of ideas - make the Spam button a different colour from the thanks button - maybe make it red?
Have an "Are you sure?" stage, so that the person reporting Spam hits the Spam button, then has to hit another button to confirm they actually wanted to report Spam.
I don't know how practical these would be, as I'm not a coder, but it's my two pennyworth, fwiw.

Re: LFHW - I am pleased to say we are still managing ZERO food waste in this house; mainly I think due to careful measuring (even if it's by eye) to ensure correct portions for Mr LW and myself, c/w Mr LW's ability to eat up anything on my plate that I find I can't manage.

We're both a bit under the weather at present (I have lupus-related nausea and he has a poorly back) so not sure what tonight's dins will be; something easy I think, as I have another meet'n'greet visit tonight, a little Shih Tzu coming to visit at 20:00.

I recently rescued a couple of slightly geriatric bananas by making them into banana cake (added bonus - it's one where you chuck all the ingredients in the food processor and wuzz it) which did us for dessert for a few days.

The Moroccan vegetable casserole I made on Sunday was from an ‘Eat Well for Less’ cookery book from the local library. I haven’t watched the series but was really pleased with this recipe, it used up lots of veg that’s been hanging around a while: three wrinkly peppers, 5 very large carrots from the pantry, 2 tins of out of date chick peas, a bag of frozen courgette chunks from the summer allotment courgette glut, a bag of out of date dried apricots, a good amount of spices I already had and one of MrC’s squashes. It made a huge amount of food, served 6 of us easily on Sunday, two of us for tea yesterday and I have frozen two generous portions.
If I’d had to buy ingredients it could have been expensive, but they were already lurking in various cupboards.
I served it with cous cous (spelling?) and wilted lemon and garlic spinach as I bought a big packet of cots cous earlier this year and hadn’t used it all, but it would have been equally good with rice. The spinach was our own, frozen earlier this year. Made a lovely change from our usual Sunday roast and used up a lot of odds and ends of veg.
We certainly ate our 5-a-day as well
I’d recommend looking through the indexes of cookery books in your library, as well as searching online if you have something to use up. I was looking for ways of using chick peas. I often find inexpensive recipes in the books there for ingredients I want to use up and I find that onlinerecipes often seem to involve buying MORE ingredients rather than using what you already have.