Post by sooliz on Aug 7, 2017 9:21:08 GMT
I thought we could come up with ideas to make the food we buy or grow go further, to eliminate waste, save money and time and create more meals/servings. The idea of the rubber chicken, for example.
When I'm cooking a mince dish now, I routinely add a couple of tablespoons of lentils or pearl barley, and lots of veg - we've had a couple of huge courgettes recently which I grated and added to a panful of mince, I often grate carrots into the mince too.
I read a blog recently where the author said she often buys one of the supermarket ready cooked chickens from the rotisserie counter. Instead of eating it as it is with roast veggies, she waits for it to cool and then strips off all the meat to use in other dishes. I thought this sounded a good idea but, rather than paying the premium for a ready cooked rotisserie chicken, I'd simply buy a raw chicken and cook it myself (ok, so i'm using fuel to cook it, but still reckon it's cheaper to cook it myself, especially if I've got other stuff in the oven at the same time). I'm sure I could get lots of meals out of all the meat stripped off the bones, plus using the bones for stock/soup of course, so that's what I'm going to do tomorrow, having bought a raw chicken last week.
So what are your ideas for stretching food?
When I'm cooking a mince dish now, I routinely add a couple of tablespoons of lentils or pearl barley, and lots of veg - we've had a couple of huge courgettes recently which I grated and added to a panful of mince, I often grate carrots into the mince too.
I read a blog recently where the author said she often buys one of the supermarket ready cooked chickens from the rotisserie counter. Instead of eating it as it is with roast veggies, she waits for it to cool and then strips off all the meat to use in other dishes. I thought this sounded a good idea but, rather than paying the premium for a ready cooked rotisserie chicken, I'd simply buy a raw chicken and cook it myself (ok, so i'm using fuel to cook it, but still reckon it's cheaper to cook it myself, especially if I've got other stuff in the oven at the same time). I'm sure I could get lots of meals out of all the meat stripped off the bones, plus using the bones for stock/soup of course, so that's what I'm going to do tomorrow, having bought a raw chicken last week.
So what are your ideas for stretching food?
