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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 113742" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Only send food they wouldn't like, if it's food YOU like. And it shouldn't be needed to do this too often anyway. It's still a cheaper option than keeping on going like this.</p><p></p><p>I suggested pickled octopus because we LOVE pickled octopus, and it's cheap. My other suggestion, to over-fry say, gravy beef and serve it up - what doesn't get eaten, YOU turn into a slow-cooked stew for yourself or your family. </p><p></p><p>So no food need be wasted.</p><p></p><p>Healthy, inexpensive options:</p><p></p><p>1) red lentils (and most pulses). Leftovers can be put into salads, soups, stews. Chickpeas can be made into hommous, put into salads, I put them in my Moroccan bread recipe (very tasty). Refried beans with lots of chilli - these can be easily recycled by being added to ground beef recipes.</p><p></p><p>2) extremely culturally different food such as seaweed (nori sheets, toasted and sprinkled over miso soup), tofu (plain, of course), sashimi. Don't use expensive tuna, you can use salmon fillets much more cheaply, just slice them raw. You can always cook it later, when they return it. I freeze the sashimi salmon and use it on a home-made seafood pizza. It cooks on the pizza.</p><p></p><p>3) Avoid offal. People of their generation learned to live on offal.</p><p></p><p>4) Any chance they suffered deprivation in Europe in WWII? If so, a single bowl of well-made home-made potato soup should sever ties permanently. Doesn't matter how meticulously you make it, how carefully you ensure only the finest ingredients - I don't know anybody who lived through a wartime European winter who can face potato soup without throwing a tantrum.</p><p></p><p>4) Any food which is difficult physically for them to eat. Fresh, raw vegetables, for example, which can be a challenge to bite and chew if you have false teeth. Lots of garlic and onion (especially raw). These can always be cooked later - put the leftovers into a stir-fry, or a stew.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Chris, I also can't abide waste. But to keep feeding her own meal to these leeches IS waste, in my opinion. </p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 113742, member: 1991"] Only send food they wouldn't like, if it's food YOU like. And it shouldn't be needed to do this too often anyway. It's still a cheaper option than keeping on going like this. I suggested pickled octopus because we LOVE pickled octopus, and it's cheap. My other suggestion, to over-fry say, gravy beef and serve it up - what doesn't get eaten, YOU turn into a slow-cooked stew for yourself or your family. So no food need be wasted. Healthy, inexpensive options: 1) red lentils (and most pulses). Leftovers can be put into salads, soups, stews. Chickpeas can be made into hommous, put into salads, I put them in my Moroccan bread recipe (very tasty). Refried beans with lots of chilli - these can be easily recycled by being added to ground beef recipes. 2) extremely culturally different food such as seaweed (nori sheets, toasted and sprinkled over miso soup), tofu (plain, of course), sashimi. Don't use expensive tuna, you can use salmon fillets much more cheaply, just slice them raw. You can always cook it later, when they return it. I freeze the sashimi salmon and use it on a home-made seafood pizza. It cooks on the pizza. 3) Avoid offal. People of their generation learned to live on offal. 4) Any chance they suffered deprivation in Europe in WWII? If so, a single bowl of well-made home-made potato soup should sever ties permanently. Doesn't matter how meticulously you make it, how carefully you ensure only the finest ingredients - I don't know anybody who lived through a wartime European winter who can face potato soup without throwing a tantrum. 4) Any food which is difficult physically for them to eat. Fresh, raw vegetables, for example, which can be a challenge to bite and chew if you have false teeth. Lots of garlic and onion (especially raw). These can always be cooked later - put the leftovers into a stir-fry, or a stew. Chris, I also can't abide waste. But to keep feeding her own meal to these leeches IS waste, in my opinion. Marg [/QUOTE]
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