FAVOURITE INGREDIENTS

[MrRigatoni]

Favourite Ingredients I use all the time.

Hope these help give people members some ideas.

Some are cheats short cuts simple time savers.

Available some on line worth buying we all lead stressful lives.

Mothers and families my heart those trying to cook meals.

Italian ingredients.

Roasted Red Peppers in a jar.

Passata jars with herbs some with chilli.

Dried herbs use a variety but always have Fennel Seeds, Oregano, Rosemary all the time.

Use Sage, Thyme, Basil.

Can get chilli mixes spicy sauce mixes worth it if your just starting out.

Spices Paprika, Chilli Flakes, Cinnamon, all the time.

Plus others Cumin, Turmeric.

Garlic Powder and Onion Powder seasonings.

Make instant Pasta Sauce add in blender blitz.

Pasta whole meal types short shapes.

Fridge I buy Soffrito mix vegetables many supermarkets sell this buy lots bases Soups Ragu.

Freeze Ragu sauce and bases for many Soups have a tub packet ready to go in the freezer.

With Pasta Sauce,instant time saver.

Buy Pasta sauces and tins good quality many can not get in stores lot cheaper on line.

In bulk, excellent quality.

Fridge I use also Gnocci Potato Pasta and Tortelleni all for using up any sauces from meals.

Simple soup .

Stores my cupboards have certain ingredients use all the time for health reasons.

Olive Oil and Rapeseed . All organic.

Honey and Peanut Butter . Use PNB a snack attack with Apple and Glass of Milk, filling and energises.

Plus it is an healthy option.

Has monounsaturated fat . We need that although 50 %.

Good source of Protein.

Beans Pulses Cannellini Chickpeas get organic or buy jars if bulk buying.

Useful additions to my repetiore.

Easy Simple meals.

FREEZER

It depends what every one uses the freezer for I make a lot of meals for myself .

Have also the following all the time need to helps mentally and wellbeing.

Good quality bread products. Crumpets, Muffins and so on easy breakfast snack attack.

Use Tin foil to wrap all meat.

Buy on line ready cut to size timesaver.

Advise here buy Chicken thighs cheap.

Breast short of space and expensive.

Also good quality sausages 87% minimum meat .

Pork Shoulder Steaks long slow cook Sunday or weekend.

Buying good meat and products need to thinking of means good quality meals and to cook with.

Frozen fruit berries.

Frozen veggies Spinach, frozen Med mix has diced Courgette, Aubergine, Peppers.

Peppers frozen red yellow.

Courgettes.

Should I be ashamed no it is veg frozen, fresh and there you use it.

Hate chopping have frozen Onions.

In kitchens been in blanche veggies and chill ready for service customers. So they using frozen chilled veggies.

Nothing snobby.

Buy latest one frozen Herbs chopped ready to use.

Some of the products use.

Any one want to share favourite ones happy to listen read.

Thank you

[Zest]

Hi MrRigatoni

I enjoyed reading your post - I wondered what Soffrito mix vegetables is?

For some reason, I seem to be able to chop onions and not be affected by them anymore - whereas when I was much younger, I would be really affected. I am wondering why that is.

Zest

[MrRigatoni in reply to Zest]

Apologies the chef in me.

Soffrito is the basic vegetable mix of Onions, Carrots and Celery all diced ready to use.

Waitrose sell this frozen, fresh, Cooks Ingredients company sell this.

TESCO do CHEFS mix they call it fresh and frozen.

Most supermarkets sell it. Please have a look on websites.

Or buy another one can be useful.

Soup roots mix.

Has diced Potatoes, Carrots, Swede in it and Parsley ASDA, TESCO others sell this.

I can advise if you do buy any of the mixes suggested can add Leeks or Celery if not in them.

Additional mixes many are available.

Forget these as well.

Butternut Squash diced with Sweet Potato great time saver. Regarding the cost of Butternut Squash.

Buy frozen, fresh.

Please if can make a suggestion sit down laptop piece of paper type in words products.

See what comes up makes some notes reference to use on shopping list.

I do most days just helps.

OCADO new shopping website has thousands of food items so if wishing to purchase buy need to find them.

Short cuts cheats.

I have problems chopping too pain and old age getting there.

Need time savers.

Easy to recommend products Food processors many out there good to use chopping slicer attachments.

Look at this website WHICH help you.

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Consumer reviews sub £10 plus a month best ever saved me lots of money.

On low income can not afford to lose money.

Hope this helps wishing you well.

[MrRigatoni in reply to Zest]

Hello did the cooking bit.

Answer below.

When we get older, the brain registers that you are using a product may given you problems before.

Now can identify that so recognised this stops prevents tears.

Quick tip put Onions in the fridge salad drawer.

Cold kills the problems we cut an Onion.

Also cook Onions seperate cook oil and then let them cook down slowly.

Means little problem reduced that we all have with Onions.

Pleasure to help.

[Zest in reply to MrRigatoni]

Hi MrRigatoni

Both your replies much appreciated, and I do keep my onions in the fridge - so I suspect that's part of the reason. I hadn't realised that made a difference.

Hope you have an enjoyable evening.

Zest