Cutting back on home cooked

[Natalie]

I'm stopping proper cooking from today. I've got some complementary wet food, a tin of sardines a week and chicken wings. However, is there any value in cooking up the veggie left overs I'm not cooking for us? Broccoli stems, cauliflower leaves and a Swede? Just to add a bit of fibre

 

[Cupcase]

If it will go to waste, cook it. You could always freeze it once cooked.

 

[Cupcase]

Turnip freezes if you chop it up. Not sure about cauliflower without cooking.

 

[Natalie]

I'm blanching the cauliflower for us to freeze, and the broccoli. I don't know whether I'm taking it to an extreme trying to use up the stalk and leaves on Monty? Don't like Swede so he can have that ( it was part of a stew pack reduced)

 

[Candy]

Joy absolutely loves raw broccoli stalks.

 

[Cupcase]

I actually like turnips/ swede but mashed with lots of butter and pepper. It's one of the few veg I do eat. I would never be able to change to vegetarian, I would starve.

 

[MellowYellow]

I’d definitely cook up the broccoli stems and the swede, but I’d forget about the cauliflower leaves (they give Merlin awful wind!).

 

[Natalie]

Thanks all, I'll cook up all the thick stems as well as some lettuce I've got. Feels like a time not to waste anything.

 

[MellowYellow]

Yes I agree. I’ve started collecting any leftover bits and pieces that I don’t give the dogs (onion ends, cauliflower leaves, the tough end parts of leeks, cooked chicken bones etc) in a bowl in the freezer, and when I have enough I boil it all up for a wonderful stock. NOTHING gets wasted in our house!

 

[kateincornwall]

When I lived on my own with three children , money was very tight .I remember making the best soup ever . It was made from well washed potato peelings , then all the leaves of sprouts , cabbage and carrot peelings , all done in the pressure cooker , we had it with home made bread , make do and mend xx

 

[Natalie]

Leek and potato soup is next on my list today , maybe with a few bacon and mixed beans.

 

[Aitch]

Toby needs a low purine diet so all stems, leaves etc go into what I cook for him. No waste and a happy little dog!

 

[Jacqui-S]

Sue @edzbird would have that whipped into a delicious soup in no time!!

I know you can but frozen cauliflower rice, I was wondering about blitzing it raw and freezing it. Though you may not be a fan?

 

[snowbunny]

Toby needs a low purine diet so all stems, leaves etc go into what I cook for him. No waste and a happy little dog!

Watch this... dark greens are high in purine, as well as all brassicas. No cauliflower, broccoli, kale, spinach etc...

 

[Aitch]

Watch this... dark greens are high in purine, as well as all brassicas. No cauliflower, broccoli, kale, spinach etc...

AAARRRRGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

 

[snowbunny]

AAARRRRGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Just feed a diet that is based on chicken/white fish, and veggies that aren't brassicas or dark greens. Easy
My mix is about 50%-75% (by volume) chicken and fish (I use hake and catfish generally, as they're low in mercury, and have included monkfish more recently as I've struggled to find the others). Then I use courgette, butternut squash, carrot, green beans, turnip, parsnip...

 

[snowbunny]

Oh, and also, it's not like "zOMG, I can never feed these things", just don't feed them most of the time. You're just trying to avoid the Xanthine crystals forming - which isn't a given anyway.