[Food] 'On the turn' meals

[Herr Tubthumper]

I love an omelette for my lunch.

Often with fillings of items others have turned their noses up in the fridge eg ham, mushrooms no longer at their best.

As others have said above, I hate food waste.

Omelettes are brilliant. You can elevate most things in the bottom of the fridge into something edible, reasonably nutritional and tasty.

 

[zefarelly]

Fair play to those intrepid and inventive ‘anti-wasters’ on here. Although my parents were very much of the same ilk, I have to say I am the complete opposite and have absolutely no qualms or guilty conscience about lobbing out food that’s even a bit iffy.

I just don’t have the time, inclination, imagination or risk-appetite to use ingredients that come with the associated jeopardy of spending the next 3 days running to the bog to squit liquid that looks like it’s been drained from a rusty radiator.

Given the relative abundance of everything, I just don’t get the slightly masochistic attraction of living like it’s still post-war Britain.

Do you work for Amex? Or Bupa?

 

[BevBHA]

Tonight, a pack of smoked salmon that had a 21 August use date (it passed the sniff test) and some bread and Philly cheese that had separated (till I rejoined it).

Delicious.

(Ms T just reminded me something something something toilet brush. Whatevers.)

(I regard it as a violation of the human contract to buy food and chuck it out.)

Fair play. I tend to ignore dates on things like fruit and veg and simply go by what it looks like, but I will never eat meat or fish even a day out of date. Over 2 week old smoked Salmon turns my stomach even thinking about it

 

[Bakero]

I hate food waste too. It is extremely rare that anything goes in the bin in Casa Bakero. Almost all my fruit and veg comes from Too Good to Go (3 Euro for 7 or 8kg from the market).

I don't think it's a generational thing. My partner's grandparents used to have a roast every single night and, if it were chicken, they'd just eat the breasts and bin the rest Apparently, grandad absolutely refused to eat leftovers.

 

[zefarelly]

I will happpily eat stuff that the label suggests is past its best, BUT. I do look and sniff carefully . . . . And if its something high on the squit scale, I'm out. It's not rocket science.

Green meat - no
green bread - no
green veg - ok, or I won't get pudding

now pudding . . .thats another subject

 

[Coldeanseagull]

Luckily, I have iron guts and not a great sense of smell. Thank the sky fairy for stir frying
The missus, however, could shit herself just by thinking out of date and has the nose of a bloodhound(not literally)

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

I too am of the generation where food waste is unacceptable.

Not sure if it was last night or this morning but I must have eaten something on the edge as at 4pm this afternoon it took 6-7 chunders to totally empty the contents of my stomach down the pan.

Was right as rain after and for tea had ostrich and venison.

Has to seriously wiff or be the wrong colour for me to bin it. Bread seems to only last a few days now.

 

[Blue3]

I do that, but then Mrs Wz comes home saying I fancied a bit of salmon tonight and bought a huge tub of sour cream to go with it, of which she'll use 3 teaspoons full

Then I will turn to the internet and list all the stock ingredients I can find in the freezer or tins and type recipes using, usually someone has posted a recipe that probable eatable I will then freeze the result and add it to a future meal plan

 

[Arthritic Toe]

I never throw food away. I don’t get why anyone would buy food and then not eat it. Round here (and probably everywhere) we have a food waste recycling collection. I dont eat meat and any veg waste, e.g potato peelings, outer cabbage leaves etc go in the compost bin. Do people actually buy a bit extra just to put in the food waste? I just don’t get it.

 

[Coalburner]

I ate some out of date ham once never again

Depends on whether you're going on "sell by" date or "use by" date

 

[shingle]

Earlier on in the week, couldn't get to Tesco so checked the fridge. pulled out 2 onions (both had shoots growing out, dont know the sell by date but think it was sometime in June. Chopped em up and fried em in olive oil, added 3 colourful red and yellow peppers left over from last week, again chopped up and added them to onions, added 3 cloves of garlic that my sister in law hade given me from her allotment, again chopped up and added. Then added some frozen green beans and then added 2 small bags of defrosted frozen chicken breast fillets and then, and heres the dodgy bit, added half a jar of thai green curry paste. I dont know when i originally opened it, but it now had a 'furry' top layer, I scraped it away and chucked said furry bit, then added 2 tins of low fat coconut milk and 2tbs of lime juice and salt and pepper. Cooked it for a further 15 mins and served it up to an unsuspecting Mrs Shingle. Got to say it was delich. Any thought that we might be on our way to A&E with Ecoli was tempered by the knowledge that I didnt have to source more food for dinner that night.

 

[Skaville]

Had a nice ‘past it’ lunch this week.

I had a Bonne Manan strawberry yoghurt that was out of date and some iffy looking raspberries. I picked out the non mouldy berries, added some slightly on the turn strawberries (cut out the slimy bits) and some blueberries, poured over the yoghurt and sprinkled some oat granola on the top.

LUSH

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Anyone who throws away cauliflower / broccoli which is merely looking a little sorry for itself rather than making a cauliflower / broccoli cheese out of it deserves prison

The art of making soup is lost to many.

It's easy, tasty and freezable. Absolutely no excuse for throwing away any on the turn vegetables.

 

[A mex eyecan]

Reading all these death defying meals I am glad that I live purely on Vesta packet curries, paella etc.
Never had a bad one yet

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Tonight, a pack of smoked salmon that had a 21 August use date (it passed the sniff test) and some bread and Philly cheese that had separated (till I rejoined it).

Delicious.

(Ms T just reminded me something something something toilet brush. Whatevers.)

(I regard it as a violation of the human contract to buy food and chuck it out.)

Update: there was no gastrointestinal 'legacy', so my culinary choice was well-founded.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Fair play. I tend to ignore dates on things like fruit and veg and simply go by what it looks like, but I will never eat meat or fish even a day out of date. Over 2 week old smoked Salmon turns my stomach even thinking about it

I have been on lactose free milk for a couple of years and can confirm that it lasts much longer than regular milk. It seems that nasty bacteria love lactose.

The shelf life of lactose free milk is the give away - stuff I bought recently is 'best by' some time in November. And this is 'ordinary' lactose free milk, not UHT.

And at 99p a litre in Aldi, I recon everyone should buy it. Tastes exactly the same as ordinary semi skimmed.

And if you spill a bit, you never get that vomit small a few days later because you missed a microlitre drop when cleaning up.

 

[jackanada]

I don't think it's a generational thing. My partner's grandparents used to have a roast every single night and, if it were chicken, they'd just eat the breasts and bin the rest Apparently, grandad absolutely refused to eat leftovers.

Immediately post war my granddad and a few others of the guards band had a gig playing for the royals at a Christmas lunch. There were several dozen birds roasted and the chefs took off the first slice with skin on off the breast of each bird, plated the second slice and set the rest aside.
Many of them weren't wasted through as my grandad returned the next day to ask for the return of his double bass he'd somehow left behind a curtain just taking the now suspiciously grease stained and aromatic case home.

 

[happypig]

I have been on lactose free milk for a couple of years and can confirm that it lasts much longer than regular milk. It seems that nasty bacteria love lactose.

The shelf life of lactose free milk is the give away - stuff I bought recently is 'best by' some time in November. And this is 'ordinary' lactose free milk, not UHT.

And at 99p a litre in Aldi, I recon everyone should buy it. Tastes exactly the same as ordinary semi skimmed.

And if you spill a bit, you never get that vomit small a few days later because you missed a microlitre drop when cleaning up.

There's something about milk that gives me what I can only describe as "funny guts" (thats a medical term, a real one) but only sometimes. If I have a bowl of Rice Krispies or Cornflakes for breakfast, every couple of times I will get a bit of a shifting in the basement and need to "go".
50% of the time I'm perfectly ok.
It's the same with lactose free too. Might try sheep milk or even oak milk (not really milk though is it).

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

There's something about milk that gives me what I can only describe as "funny guts" (thats a medical term, a real one) but only sometimes. If I have a bowl of Rice Krispies or Cornflakes for breakfast, every couple of times I will get a bit of a shifting in the basement and need to "go".
50% of the time I'm perfectly ok.
It's the same with lactose free too. Might try sheep milk or even oak milk (not really milk though is it).

That's odd (that it happens with lactose-free too).

I discovered last year that although I may well be benefitting from lactose free (and gluten free), at least 80% of my 'basement jerks' is due to anxiety.

(I spent 2 weeks where all my decisions were taken by my host - I was lecturing overseas - and despite eating all sorts of exotica, I had no 'issues'; no anxiety, no food intolerance. Fancy that!)

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

The Rottingdean restaurant I worked in as a teen used to proudly display a poached salmon in a cabinet. When the salmon started to turn it was removed and turned into salmon mousse.

Seems The Coach House is still there, 40 years on, but more a pub these days.