Been to Lidl this morning for shopping, you need to get there very early if you want one of their wonky veg boxes at £1.50.
In the box today:-
Fruit
2 Braeburn apples
2 soft avocados that will need using quickly
7 bananas, 3 spotty but 4 still partly green
Veg
4 large vine tomatoes
6 baby cucumbers
1 large cucumber
A large Savoy cabbage that looks a bit sad
3 large potatoes
3 heads of broccoli - 1 limp, the other 2 fine
2 pieces of ginger root
A corn on the cob
2 red peppers
What you get for the money is extremely good value (the avocados alone would cost £1.50 or thereabouts), but you have to be prepared to either use up a lot of the stuff immediately, or process and freeze it. No problem, I'll spend this afternoon doing some cooking for the freezer.
I also got a pack of stir fry veg reduced to 20p as it's on today's date, so it'll be a pork stir fry tonight using a pork steak from the freezer. The limp broccoli will go in it too. The red peppers I'll use tomorrow, I'll stuff them with a mixture of brown rice, the corn stripped off the cob, grated carrot, chopped sun dried tomatoes and feta, we'll have them on a bed of steamed Savoy cabbage.
As husband has just been diagnosed as borderline diabetic, we have renewed motivation to carry on with the Mediterranean diet, with some adjustments. We do like the diet very much, but neither of us has so far lost any weight on it. In discussion with husband's diabetes nurse, we think it's because we've been eating too many carbs - wholewheat pasta, brown rice, grains, potatoes, homemade wholemeal and sourdough bread - all good stuff but we've just been eating too much of them. We'll carry on, but reduce them by half. And we need to watch our portion sizes too. I'm also going to cut my frothy coffee habit down too, just having 1 a day instead of 2, or sometimes 3 (it's so yummy, I could happily drink it all the time, but of course it's quite high in carbs/calories). I drink water or red bush tea the rest of the time, which is no hardship as I like both. Husband, who drinks tea with milk by the gallon, is going to try having less teas and more water.
Anybody got any suggestions as to what to do with fresh ginger root? I've got 5 or 6 pieces in the fridge now. I shall use one grated in the stir fry tonight, but can't think what to do with the rest - I'm not making cakes anymore....well, only on special occasions.
Hi there.....I freeze fresh ginger and grate it when I need it. My husband has just been diagnosed pre-diabetic too. He isnt overweight but is predisposed to it. He has lost half a stone because he has cut out his morning piece of toast and marmalade (after porridge) and also stopped eating fruit yogurts with granola every night! Would love to try the Med diet. Where do you get your recipes from? I read your other blog and we are so similar, anxieties....sleep etc. I make cards and it definitely relaxes me so hopefully when next door is finished you can get back to a bit of peace and quiet. Carol x
ReplyDeletePop a small bit into compost, water it and see if it grows, no shoots on mine as yet.
ReplyDeleteI would grate the ginger and open freeze it in useful sized little blobs before bagging.
ReplyDeleteThe Lidl boxes are amazing value and what a variety! You will have fun working out what to do with it all, I'm sure.
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Egg rolls.
ReplyDeleteI might have done soup and fresh salad with the whole shebang ,what was good enough .
i must try to get to my local Lidl to see if they have the veg boxes.
ReplyDeleteI used to grow ginger in a tub in the greenhouse in Tydd, I just covered a frame with bubble wrap and stood that over it in the winter. It makes a marvelous crop, my garden is far too small for that now.
I slice ginger into my teapot, add boiling water, let steep for at least five minutes, strain into my cup which has a third of a lemon squeezed into it plus a teaspoon of honey. I sometimes change the lemon for lime.
ReplyDeleteI freeze fresh Ginger s soon as I buy it. It freezes best wrapped very tightly in a couple of layers of foil. Once frozen it can be grated straight from the freezer and the rest popped back in until next time it's needed.
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