A really good food site for you all to peruse!

[Lumpy]

I love this site - some of the recipes are a bit yuk! but it is brilliant for giving me ideas of what to do with a cabbage the size of a baby hippo that has to feed two of us!

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[Lisasbolt]

Thanks, looks like a good site. Might just have to try the creamy vegetable bake.

[Jeanied]

Thanks, Lumpy - duly bookmarked

[KevinM67]

Thank you for this.

We try hard, but I suppose we fall at the first hurdle - never really plan our shopping properly, and fall for 'impulse' buys which are shoved in the fridge, then forgotten about.

Anyway, just shown my better half the website - and we're up for giving it a bash. Cheers.

[Nicos]

We are really careful trying not to waste food...but it's good to see different and yummy recipes !
Thanks for sharing that....the more people who get the message, the better!

[Lumpy]

Good for you Kevin - - I tried to plan meals for 7 days in advance but it does'nt always work out that way so now I shop for eight meals and then see what we fancy that night. After a couple of weeks I don't get anything at all as I have a build up. Works for us.

[Nicos]

We have 3 freezers full of home produce and shelves full of preserves.

It's a bit like Ready Steady Cook here....always trying to invent a new recipe/ food combination!

When all else fails....usually soup, pasta sauce or a pizza topped with almost anything!

So long as it tastes yummy....

[Lumpy]

Go Nicos Go!

[mothhawk]

Well, I'm from a generation that was taught to scrape the butter wrapper after putting the butter in the butter dish, and then save the wrapper for greasing cake tins next baking day, so I have very little food waste. What's not eaten one day is finished the day after, stale bread becomes bread and butter pudding, fruit is never in the fruit bowl long enough to go bad, and with veggies, everything is eaten except the peelings, which are composted.

I'm always quite astonished at the amount of food people say they throw away, but I suppose I shouldn't be, as take-aways and processed products make up such a large portion of the diet of so many people.

Good site though, Lumpy, I liked the Advent calendar, especially number 17, the nut recipe

[Lumpy]

Good for you Mothawk. It is a shame that so much food is wasted. Like you we adapt what we have over into something else most of the time. Even veggie peelings are sometimes made into what I call scrap soup, My kids on the other hand, who are both grown up with their own family think nothing of throwing stuff away that could be used. Its a shame they don't teach more about waste control in schools.

[mothhawk]

It does help that there are only two of us, and I was brought up to eat what I was given. Many children nowadays are allowed to become fussy eaters, and grow up into fussy adults too. Too much choice, too much food on hand. It must be hard for a parent with say 4 children, all of whom eat or won't eat different things.

I firmly believe that growing your own helps do away with such faddiness, children love to eat what they've grown, whatever shape it is, and if kids have helped grow a lettuce, they won't freak out at the idea of an aphid walking on it.

[Lumpy]

I absolutely agree Mothawk. Thankfully our kids were bought up being told eat or starve. They have very good jobs - earning more money than God - it is now quite common for people who have that kind of money to care only in principalrather than lifestyle. They say they are always too busy to mess about - their loss.
Mind you saying that they don't mind coming here to eat one of my mystery put togethers and the grandkids do like helping and eating stuff out of the garden.