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I don't care for bread sauce - it's a texture thing, I think. If I'm making a quick, midweek chilli, I have no problem using a packet mix. I can make it properly, though, honest! Anytime I make a casserole / stew I freeze half. Always have

We don't 'do' cranberry sauce Ana and it only occurred to me that lots of people do have it when our best SiL said, tentatively, 'Shall I get the cranberry sauce?' Mind you, his family have rice with Christmas lunch too. He's foreign you see.

Well yes, I knew that, I just meant that personally I don't go for any of these sauces with Chrismas dinner - just gravy.

And we have it in addition to gravy, not instead.

My bread sauce is legendary (at least in our family ). My recipe involves very finely chopped onions, which I leave in, clove infused milk and lots of butter and some cream. It takes ages but is well worth it. [modestemoticon]

Ana you have bread sauce and gravy.
I love bread sauce, the mix of onion and cloves. I agree with you Stansgran we don't have it often enough.

I like cloves.

Perhaps the reference to crap would be a good closing note for this particular thread.

I must admit I've never seen the point of bread sauce. Why would you make a sauce with bread in it? Give me gravy every time!

My DD makes ours at Christmas. I'm sure I've seen her sticking the cloves in the onion. It's a long drawn out process, I know that.

Crap it is j08

I make a delicious bread sauce even if I say so myself. I think it's a pity I don't have more opportunity to present it to the world. And I chop the onion finely and incorporate it into the sauce,more of a sauce Soubise with wellie.and it's easy to fish out the cloves .

typically British culinary abomination.?!!!

Crap.

absent you are obviously totally dedicated to the culinary arts. Good luck with that.

Yes. I use that "Luxury" one.

What is so arduous about sticking cloves in an onion? Mind you, I don't make bread sauce because I think it is a typically British culinary abomination.

I use a "Luxury" bread sauce mix (packet) and it's lovely.

Unlike another brand where it bears more than a passing resemblance to wallpaper paste.

I use a packet sauce for bread sauce, except for Christmas. Who would bother with sticking cloves in an onion every time you roast a chicken?! (Not saying which make of sauce though)

How hard is it to make a sauce? Put meat and veg in casserole dish. add a tin of tomatoes, stock cube, dash of wine and herbs to taste and the jobs done.

As for tips on not wasting food!!!! Our local council went over to collecting food waste separately about three years ago. It has to be put in a biodegradable plastic bag and then put in the bin. To get us started we were given a roll of 50 bags. As all my vegetable waste goes on the compost heat my only food waste is the occasional, fish skin, chop bone or meat trimming. It took me two and a half years to use up my free roll of 50 bags.

Why on earth Colemans could think that we need help and advice about saving on food waste and batch cooking I cannot imagine. The sensible thing would be to run this promotion on Mumsnet where they might find some mums glad of the advice.

Must stop, I want to turn some stale bread into breadcrumbs and put them in the freezer.

merlotgran I can honestly say my boys can put together a mean ommelete from bits they find in the fridge,DD would have to think about it for a while but the boys just put allsorts together.I can admit to using packet casserole mixes when necessary and don't really see any difference in any of them tbh.

Penstemmon, You are so right. Once food became an 'ology' teachers were between a rock and a hard place. We did a lot of practical cookery in Keystage 3 as well as teaching nutrition, hygiene and menu planning but once students had chosen their options and moved into KS4 it was all about design, manufacture and IT skills. Coursework involved the same dish being cooked four or five times and 'modified' which could just mean leaving butter out of mashed potato .

The only plus point was that boys were more interested in Food Tech than Home Ec., so there was often an even split and the boys were often the best cooks!

(other packet sauces are available)

Or it might be Schwartz!