Taste not waste

I hate to waste food and try to think up ways of using left-overs whenever possible. You can type your list of sad and lonely ingredients into Google and it will come up with a recipe.

The things I throw out the most are soft, sprouting potatoes, bags of half eaten lettuce and bread! I try to make breadcrumbs when the bread is stale but sometimes it becomes a race against mould! The other problem is that I still shop for a family of four, forgetting that my children have (temporarily) flown the nest to University.

And then there are the things I hang on to. This week I performed a cull on my dried herbs and spices. Like the Michael McIntyre sketch, they sit there at the back of the cupboard waiting to be used whilst "arrogant" salt and pepper sit on the kitchen table. There were many out of date culprits, the worst being cayenne pepper dated December 1998! OMG! That one has moved house with us ... twice!