Sod’s law (fruit and veg deliveries)

This afternoon I made a huge dish of mixed veg, much of it decidedly tired, stirred in a tin of pinto beans and a good portion of wholemeal fusilli, then poured about 3/4 pint of cheese sauce over it before popping it in the oven.

In the meantime all the vegetable peelings, including onion skins, were popped in another pan, covered with water and have been simmering away for several hours, making a vegetable stock, which I will reduce right down once strained.

Feeling quite virtuous, not wasting anything in these challenging times

You’ll be like me in a couple weeks, Witzend. Tonight we’re having a soup made from sundry items of leftover veg garnered from the back of the fridge.

A meat company in Macclesfield will deliver fresh vegetables, some fruit, dairy products, and fish. Not a meat eater, but I tried an order last week and am very satisfied with the quality of the items I received. I made soup with some parsnips yesterday and processed a kilo of carrots for freezing as soon as they arrived. I need hardly add that I washed everything thoroughly and sprayed the packaging with bleach before I opened it.

I was already with Abel and Cole but ordered from the milkman too. Now I'm eating my way through a huge vegetable stew (I froze half in portions) with daily additions to make it 'different'.

Frustrating but more better than less!