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Picked up 3 bags off pickling onions all 'out of date' so 10p ... do onions go out of date? I always thought they were good till they rotted :-S

Peeled, soaked overnight in salt water, dried dropped into jars of pickling vinegar, some malt some white.

A tray of eggs from the farm shop had been sitting on the side for a few days, now boiled & put into jars of white pickling vinegar.

All should be ready for the Boxing Day Buffet :-D

My pickled eggs were never very good, I have to buy them.

The little green plums from out of the hedge are doing very well in brandy.

I have to hide them for a month or so or they get 'tested' :-D

Sausage, bacon & egg pie tonight... want to use up those eggs that split as I de shelled them.

I used to make sloe gin for one of the families I worked for & if there was a glut of strawberries they were dropped into brandy.

I have yet to strip off the last of the tomatoes in the greenhouse & look out Grannies chutney recipe.

Cooking apples are landing on my doorstep from all directions, so rather than preparing & freezing down raw as I usually do, I might cook & freeze them down in foil containers leaving room for crumble mix in some.

Someone I can relate to!!

All good stuff
Went out for a meal with a young couple last Sunday and the chap said he wouldn't eat anything if it was 2 days before sell by date .....good job they weren't around during my day...I said you've got eyes and a nose. Use common sense...

Loathe waste..

Well done Carol. :-) :-)

Bacon we had this morning was 2 days out, smelled and tasted fine.

Surely onions don't go out of date. No wonder the supermarkets have so much waste. Health and safety gone mad. Often buy mushrooms reduced as last day of best before. Nothing wrong with them.

Ann, I was watching Gordon & he said mushrooms were tastiest when they start to go 'waxy'.

There were no eat by dates on products as I was growing up.

LETS FACE IT WHEN WE WERE KIDS
THE PIES WERE MADE OF WINDFALLS,
AS ONIONS HAVING SELL BY DATES
DAD HUNG ONIONS IN HIS SHED USED
TO BRING A COUPLE EACH DAY FOR MUM
TO USE IN STEWS,PIES OR WITH CHEESE,

BUT DO YOU KNOW THE ONLY JOB I TRIED TO GET
OUT OF WAS TOPPING AND TAILING BLACKCURRANTS
OR GOOSEBERRIES, TOOK SO LONG AND SO BORING

DON'T FORGET TO SAVE ME SOME PICKLED ONIONS
PLEASE CAROL :-D

I made sponge and cut up some apples into it along with some dates that have been hanging around since I was young and foolish.

Baked it and cut it into squares to freeze for pudd'ns later.

The two years out of date lemon curd that came from the harvest festival went into lemon buns and a sponge for pudd'n.

I don't throw much away unless I have to chase it.

I´ve just pickled 2 jars of onions & 2 of red cabbage which had all been in the fridge for about 4 weeks. Have been ill & couidn´t raise the energy to do them before.
They look fine to me.
The cabbage was a bit tired, but by the time I had stripped the outer leaves & soaked it in cold water. it was as good as new.
Hubby is on an economy drive, so has taken over his friend´s allotment & is growing veg, so i asked him to make sure he grew some brussels sprouts as they are difficult to get here.
He couldn´t get plants, so bought a packet of seeds & sowed the lot. He now has several hundred seedlings, which he planted out last weekend. He was most surprised when I said he only needed about half a dozen.
He thought each plant produced 1 sprout :-D :-D :-D
Might have helped if he had read the packet.

lol

Perhaps he could swap some of them... or you could sell the sprouts
:-D

I fully agree with the old saying

Waste not, want not.

As they are not a particularly popular veg among the Spanish I reckon he could keep the whole British expat community supplied. :-D