Glut of tomatoes

We are not able to keep up with eating all the tomatoes as they ripen so I picked some to go into the freezer.

After taking all the skins off I boiled them up and added some leftover passata that needed using up. I reckon I have the equivalent of 4 cans of tomatoes here. It's taken much longer to get to this stage with homegrown tomatoes. I could have just picked 4 cans off the shelf in the supermarket but I'm sure I wouldn't have the same satisfaction. I'll wait for them to cool and then put them in the freezer.

We also have smaller tomatoes which we will eat fresh, the yellow ones (Ildi) first as they split as soon as they are picked.

I've now picked and eaten 32 bunches of grapes and there are still more to go. These will be eaten today.

To clean the pan I use this brush. I would really like to have a wooden one but I'm not going to throw away a perfectly good plastic one so the wooden one will have to wait a bit longer.

 

This is saved from its eventual 'do harm to the environment' fate for now.

xx

Keep well

In order to keep a pineapple for as long as possible I slice it into discs, chop up the discs (discarding the centre bit) and then store the pieces in a lidded container in the fridge.

For carrots I peel and store the carrots in cold water in the fridge. The will last for a week this way and not shrivel or go mouldy.

Job done. Just got to find room in the fridge.

Keep well!

xx

So much ...

In the bin:-

1. cat food pouches

2. plastic wrap off the chicken

3. plastic bags off the veg.

4. edge of the plastic from the stuffing

5. butter wrapper

6. cake liner

7. cat treaty wrapper

8. foil that wrapped the beef that had been saved from a previous meal

9. grotty bits of left over cat food

10. grotty bits from the sink drainer

11. floor bits from sweeping the kitchen floor

12. plaster dust and bits from sweeping the newly plastered under stairs loo

13. 'sucked' bones from the chicken dinner

14. 'window' from an envelope (the paper was recycled)

I don't think that's all but it's all I can remember at the moment. The bin under the sink is nearly full.

So much for ...

zero waste.

I have a long way to go.

xx

PS  - the bin liner was a recycled plastic bag but than now ends up in landfill.