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Larder App for Mobile Phone

Has anyone discovered an app that helps you plan meals by allowing you to enter the available food in your stores (cupboards, fridge, freezer) along with sell by dates? The aim would be to totally eradicate any waste and reduce the need to go out to shop to the absolute minimum.

Mark Evans ● 2188d2 Comments

It really is Ready Steady Cook just about every day!www.lovefoodhatewaste.com has lots of info on store cupboard ingredients, how to store food, ideas and recipes for leftovers.  It is very important to understand food labelling.  There is NO Sell By date.  There is Best Before which is a quality thing not a safety one and Use By which is the one to worry about with the eggception of eggs.  If you use these past their Best Before the advice is to cook them thoroughly eg bake a cake or hard boil them.You get to learn which vegetables keep best and which have to be used fast eg broccoli. Look out for the difference in labelling between prepared pillow pack salad leaves (Use By) and whole lettuce (Best Before).  Avocadoes and mangoes are often not ripe or overripe whatever they claim on the packaging. Tomatoes should not be stored in the fridge and they are often not ripe either.It was good to hear Prue Leith recommending cheese on toast the other day and Mary Berry this morning talking about how not to waste bread.With our food waste bins we should all be able to see exactly what we have wasted and what we need inspiration in storing/eating/buying differently.  For me one of the problems - no - challenges - is that it is Him Indoors doing the shopping and so I get some strange items arriving - so there is always something new to learn. (I didn't realise that turnip was so good as a raw vegetable in dips until I was presented with "mixed vegetables for a stew" instead of just the carrots on the list. It will taste even better next time when it is fresh!).I think you will find all the main supermarkets have recipes on their websites where you can enter one or more ingredients and get a list of recipes.  Whether you will have all the rest of the ingredients is something else!We could start a favourite suggestions for using up ingredients on here as Judi has suggested! 

Philippa Bond ● 2181d

Sorry no, but I'm a cookery writer and happy to make some suggestions if you let me know what needs using up!

Judi Rose ● 2186d