What are you eating and drinking tonight?

[Gooner Girl]

At the moment I'm eating a 54 calorie slim a soup that actually tastes almost pleasant. Tonight it's a three bean chilli, no rice, no bread. I've decided my BMI is too high and after watching some TV programme last night about a fasting diet scheme am giving it a go. I'll give it a week.

Bollocks!

I'll take that as a compliment, but I'm finding the gut fat harder to keep off every year mate. I always said I didn't mind being bald, but I'd never let myself get bald and fat!

You're not fat hun!

[General Mannerheim]

pretty much exhausted the menu at Jamies Italian now, nowt beats the Turkey Milanese!

[Gary the Enfield]

pretty much exhausted the menu at Jamies Italian now, nowt beats the Turkey Milanese!

Passed that on the way back from Belgos last night. It was rammed!

I had the Mussells Espagnole last night followed by a Belgian Waffle washed down with Honey flavoured beer.

Yum.

[Bijou Bob]

[/quote] I'd never let myself get bald and fat![/quote]

[/quote]

You're not fat hun![/quote]

Just 'Cuddly'?

[thebish]

opinions sought...

moved to a new place - sussing out the shops... there is a big FarmFoods shop nearby - so went in to have a look..

as i thought - a bit like iceland - except..

they seem to specialize in flash-frozen veg - the kind you don't often see...

so - they had large bags of frozen broccoli spears, frozen sliced green beans, frozen chopped leeks, and frozen mushrooms...

these are some of the veg I most regularly buy and most regularly end up chucking away cos they go off before I eat them...

so... I have often heard it said that you don't lose any of the nutrition with these flash-frozen veg - but has anyone here tried them?

do you lose flavour?
do they go soggy? (which is my current impression - maybe unfair - of what happens to frozen veg.)

I almost always steam my veg.. what would be the best way to cook (say) frozen broccoli spears - from frozen in the steamer - or let it defrost first then steam???

they also have frozen chopped onion - £1 for a huge bag - which seems a bargain - but onions don't go off as easily as broccoli...

[Lord Kangana]

They go dead soggy and brown really quickly.

I remain unconvinced by the non-loss of nutrition argument, the f*cking plethora of (undisclosed usually) chemicals that are used in "fresh" veg is alarming. See also "washed and ready to eat salads". You might aswell eat a cold lump of cyanide.

[thebish]

They go dead soggy and brown really quickly.

what do? all frozen vegetables?

[Bruce Rioja]

What does it suggest is the best way to cook them on the packets, Bish? I only buy frozen peas, which I boil up.

[thebish]

What does it suggest is the best way to cook them on the packets, Bish? I only buy frozen peas, which I boil up.

I don't know - I didn't get as far as picking one up (and I didn't have my glasses so i wouldn't have been able to discern what it said anyway!) I will look next time I pass...

we haven't got a freezer at the moment - so I couldn't buy any...

[Bruce Rioja]

See also "washed and ready to eat salads". You might aswell eat a cold lump of cyanide.

I have "washed and ready to eat salad" pretty much every day for lunch. In fact, I've just finished one.

[thebish]

See also "washed and ready to eat salads". You might aswell eat a cold lump of cyanide.

I have "washed and ready to eat salad" pretty much every day for lunch. In fact, I've just finished one.

clock's ticking bruce... you'll be dead before dawn...

[Bruce Rioja]

See also "washed and ready to eat salads". You might aswell eat a cold lump of cyanide.

I have "washed and ready to eat salad" pretty much every day for lunch. In fact, I've just finished one.

clock's ticking bruce... you'll be dead before dawn...

Wine on a Wednesday it is then

[thebish]

See also "washed and ready to eat salads". You might aswell eat a cold lump of cyanide.

I have "washed and ready to eat salad" pretty much every day for lunch. In fact, I've just finished one.

clock's ticking bruce... you'll be dead before dawn...

Wine on a Wednesday it is then

I think that counteracts the cyanide.. you'll be reet!

[Lord Kangana]

They go dead soggy and brown really quickly.

what do? all frozen vegetables?

Most. The freezing process breaks down the cell walls of a lot of veg, so they piss water upon reheating. Peas don't do this, I can't remember why, but frozen broccoli is, in my humble experience, shit. Same with mushrooms. If you're going for them, try dried.

[Worthy4England]

They go dead soggy and brown really quickly.

what do? all frozen vegetables?

Most. The freezing process breaks down the cell walls of a lot of veg, so they piss water upon reheating. Peas don't do this, I can't remember why, but frozen broccoli is, in my humble experience, shit. Same with mushrooms. If you're going for them, try dried.

Pretty much matches my experience of frozen veg.

[thebish]

They go dead soggy and brown really quickly.

what do? all frozen vegetables?

Most. The freezing process breaks down the cell walls of a lot of veg, so they piss water upon reheating. Peas don't do this, I can't remember why, but frozen broccoli is, in my humble experience, shit. Same with mushrooms. If you're going for them, try dried.

Pretty much matches my experience of frozen veg.

mine too... I was hoping technology had moved on since the awful days of frozen (and then overboiled) cauliflower that my mother used to make...

[BWFC_Insane]

Forzen peas are supposed to be better than fresh. I think with the caveat of fresh being "supermarket" fresh rather than actually fresh!

[thebish]

some interesting info here...

http://www.clemson.edu/extension/hgic/f ... c3063.html

yes - cell wall damage - but a suggestion that fast-freezing causes less damage than slow-freezing...

I guess the only way to find out is to try some...

[Wandering Willy]

Frozen peas - best cooked in the microwave.

[Bijou Bob]

Bish, leave the veg, but grab handfuls of their frozen bags of fruit, raspberries, summer fruits etc. Great quality and dirt cheap.