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Christmas Chutney Gifts

(16 Posts)
BlueBelle Fri 02-Jan-26 18:49:47

I like chutney you can send them here 🤣🤣🤣

Chocolatelovinggran Fri 02-Jan-26 18:34:27

Another voice to encourage you to drop the chutney off for a food bank. Many supermarkets have a collection point.
The little " extras" are much appreciated by the recipients of our parcels.

Retread Fri 02-Jan-26 15:12:46

I’m with Keepingquiet and SueDonim and others. We love chutney:

Added to a curry when it’s cooking
Sloshed on and stirred/swirled into cream cheese for a dip
In a cold meat sandwich with cheese.

So yes, donate them, give them away to neighbours…

Norah Fri 02-Jan-26 14:23:54

Our excess in-date food is donated to our Church.

M0nica Fri 02-Jan-26 14:21:15

The food is wasted just as effectively by putting it on a shelf and not using it as if you got rid if it the following day.

Donating it to a food bank is a very sensible idea. people do not live just on beans on toast. The odd extra or treat is good fo people and someone may be delighted by your pot of apricot and sprout chutney. Let them have it before it goes out of date.

SueDonim Fri 02-Jan-26 14:08:23

We do eat chutney but when I get near the bottom of a jar I’ll often use the remains in a casserole. You can’t really taste it but it gives the gravy more body.

vegansrock Fri 02-Jan-26 13:34:12

olioapp.com/en/

vegansrock Fri 02-Jan-26 13:32:17

There’s an app called Olio where you can share unwanted food - even homemade, opened or fresh fruit/ veg , chocolates etc which foodbanks wouldn’t take. Also you could try an app called Trash Nothing where people give stuff away for free.

DamaskRose Fri 02-Jan-26 13:23:37

Food bank - in date and unopened - would be grateful for them. Some people only get “cold” parcels because they have no means of cooking anything, so chutney can be a good addition to sandwiches.

keepingquiet Fri 02-Jan-26 13:06:58

You can send them here! I didn't get a single jar this year and was very disappointed. I love chutney with cheese and cold meat so I guess I have to use up my Autumn chutney and then go buy some more!

NotAGran55 Fri 02-Jan-26 12:34:47

A food bank will take them provided they are unopened, in date and not home made.

ferry23 Fri 02-Jan-26 11:10:50

I know that feeling. I could start my own personal chutney distribution depot. hmm

keepcalmandcavachon Fri 02-Jan-26 11:07:54

Sometimes a little chutney added to the sausage filling for sausage rolls or a quiche recipe is nice even if you don't eat chutney 'naked'grin
May be worth a try, you never know!

theworriedwell Fri 02-Jan-26 10:38:03

I've had some this year and chocolate biscuits that we won't eat. I'm dropping them off to food bank.

ginny Fri 02-Jan-26 10:36:18

I would think a food bank would take in date chutney. They would add a nice change to a plain sandwich.

ExDancer Fri 02-Jan-26 10:32:39

What do you do with gifts of chutney?
Over the years I've gathered a shelf full of small jars of preserves and chutneys that we'll never eat (neither of us likes chutney anyway).
I don't go to coffee mornings or places where we can donate them, but I hate waste so am reluctant to throw them in the bin.
Would a food bank be able to use them? They are hardly a necessary item.