Friday 24 March 2023

What happened next

 What happened to the contents of that lovely "Waste not" box?

The onions, the chilli and the swede were perfectly sound and went into my general vegetable store.

Two onions plus the peppers, padron peppers, tomatoes and aubergine went into ratatouille.  No courgettes but that's OK by me.

The apples and plum were stewed to have with my breakfast porridge.

The satsumas have mostly gone into my fruit bowl.

I say mostly because I also made a fruit salad with the melon, a couple of the satsumas and a banana, an apple and a mango from elsewhere.  The juice of the lemon added a tang to it.

The lettuce will be in salad over the next couple of days.

And the mushrooms have been frozen.  

Well used loveliness, I think.

Thursday 23 March 2023

The Box

 It's a while since I shared a Lidl "Waste Not" box with you, but today I had time to weigh things and price them so here goes.  I've priced the stuff as though I had bought it at Sainsbury because the Lidl website doesn't help much.



Swede                             0.62

Onions                            0.6

Tomatoes                       0.74

Apple                               0.6

Plum                                0.40

Satsumas                        0.73

Honeydew melon            1.69

Little gem X2                 0.85

Red onion                       0.09

Sweet peppers              1.3

Mushrooms                   1.26

Padron peppers            0.30

Chilli                                0.10

Lemon                             0.30

Aubergine                      0.85

                   

                                    10.43


Having bought a "Waste Not" box for the princely sum of £1.50. I consider myself to be honour-bound not to waste it.  I don't waste food anyway but for this it seems doubly important.  So when I have sorted it even more, I will let you know the destiny of everything.  For now I will say that the only worrying item was the mushrooms so they have already been wiped, sliced and frozen.