Help!!! What did I just buy at the grocery store??

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  • foxyforce
    foxyforce Posts: 3,078 Member
    cut the cucumbers in half, lengthwise,scoop seeds, and make sandwhiches out of them (fill with meat or egg salad or etc.)
    eggplants: awesome if stuffed, look up recipe, i don't have a good one
    salads salads salads
  • zrmac804
    zrmac804 Posts: 369 Member
    Avocados don't last very long....like 2 days max. Use that first! :)

    Mmm, I love avocados! They would definitely be the first thing I ate! :happy:

    If you think you've bought too many veggies, look for freezer-friendly recipes and freeze some of what you cook. And congratulations on making the commitment to vegetables!
  • 6spdeg
    6spdeg Posts: 394 Member
    sorry but i just had to laugh.
  • heidikat72
    heidikat72 Posts: 42 Member
    everyone thinks of eating radishes raw as a salad ingredient but try them braised in a little stock. mixed veggie sautees are often a go to dinner for me - add your leeks, squashes, carrots, tomatoes cabbage anything really. Try the parsnips roasted.
  • blondie0942
    blondie0942 Posts: 146 Member
    allrecipes.com


    it's been said before, but needs to be said again. Just type in what you want to prepare (ex: leeks) and they'll pull up all sorts of different recipes you can use!
  • rextcat
    rextcat Posts: 1,408 Member
    go to allrecipys.com and see what they got for you
  • fleerik
    fleerik Posts: 29 Member
    Way to go, you're a go getter! May I recommend planning your meals before going out to buy $100 of any kind of food.
  • monicalosesweight
    monicalosesweight Posts: 1,173 Member
    leeks, turnips, eggplant, zucchini, cucumber, a green squash, cherry tomatoes, parsnip, tomatillos, jalapeno pepper, radishes lemons, onions, spinach, avocados, blueberries, oranges, apples.
    I also bought tahini paste and garbanzo beans to make hummus!

    Pizza with onions would taste pretty good.

    You can make a salad with the spinach, avocados, blueberries and cherry tomatoes.

    Tomatillos and jalapenos are trickier. They are really spicy. I know my Mexican friends generally boil the tomatillos at a high temp to remove the skins. They puree the tomatillo with the jalapenos and make a sauce. You can put that on top of things like chunks of chicken or pork. I would try to look up a recipe that's Mexican as I'm going by memory mostly. I remember that soft crumbly cheese they sell at Walmart in some places that's Mexican going on top to cut the flavor.

    Garbanzo beans - well - I have no idea. I think some people put them on salads. Some puree them and make Humus. That might be the best idea. If you take the cherry tomatoes, onions and dice them and add diced jalapeno (both sauteed), it might make for a great sauce for the humus.

    Lemons - well you can use that as a marinade for EVERYTHING. Ironically, putting lemon all over your avocado is delicious and you can just munch down on it raw after you drown it in lemon. We eat it that way a lot around here.

    Oranges. I'd dice and eat them up. They are great that way.

    Onions - sauteed and put on top of a meat. You can add a bit of butter and turn them candy like. I'm assuming they are yellow onions. If red, chop tiny slices and put them on the salad. Oh, you can also chop them into tiny pieces and freeze them for use as needed. :)

    I'd say make a lasagna with the zucchini and cucumber.

    Leeks are great in oriental stir fries with soy sauce and meats.

    As for turnips, parsnips and radishes, I have no idea. The only thing I vaguely remember is something about turnips (I stand corrected) and cooking them and smashing them into a type of mashed like potatoes. I could be wrong so you'll want to look those up. I'm not familiar with those at all.

    I would dice up the apple or keep it whole. You might be able to find a recipe for cooking the apple to make a desert.

    Some of the fruits like the blueberries can be frozen if you're worried about not getting to them. I know my mom has squeezed lemons before and put the juice in a freezer container (or you can use an ice cube tray and do mini-portions) to defrost small amounts as needed for marinades, drinks or cooking.

    Have fun!
  • kreuzen
    kreuzen Posts: 188 Member
    There is a Weight Watcher turkey chili recipe that is mostly veggies. You should look it up. You can probably even sub out turkey for tofu or something else if you wanted.
  • HoneySunlight
    HoneySunlight Posts: 25
    Use http://www.supercook.com/. You put in the ingredients you have and gives you all the recipes you could make with them! :D And you could freeze some of the veggies that are freezeble! Hope that helps!
  • I_love_frogs
    I_love_frogs Posts: 340 Member


    I just don't know what to do with most of them.

    I have leeks, turnips, eggplant, zucchini, cucumber, a green squash, cherry tomatoes, parsnip, tomatillos, jalapeno pepper, radishes lemons, onions, spinach, avacados, blueberries, oranges, apples.
    I also bought tahini paste and garbanzo beans to make hummus!

    Can someone please tell me how I can eat or prepare all this?
    I don't want to waste this food, but I don't know how to eat it.


    Well, lets see...leeks can be made into an amazing chicken soup called Cockaleekie. (you can look up the recipes online...)

    I roast the zucchini, squash and parsnip. They are also good in a stirfry type of deal too. I use parsnips in soup and mashed in potatoes <to bring the potato mass down>.

    Lemons or oranges can be used with fish. They are sooo good together!!
    **I also quarter an orange, a lemon, an half onion, add some star anise and a cinnamon stick and stuff my whole chicken with it. It smells sooo good and flavors the meat as well a little. I also throw in chunked carrots, the other 1/2 onion, potatoes and turnips and parsnips around the chicken to cook with it...they pick up the chicken flavor and its sooo yummy!

    Cucumber, radishes, and cherry tomatoes go well in a green salad.

    Blueberries go well in oatmeal, as do the apples.

    Eggplant can be used as a lasagna noodle substitute...and a bunch of different uses as well!

    Avocado can be used in a salad OR once it is really soft and ripe, can be used on a sandwich instead of mayo.

    Never used tomatillos...and I don't care for jalepenos so can't help you there.

    Good luck and have fun!!
  • stepgingerly
    stepgingerly Posts: 15
    Cucumbers -super thin sliced with thin sliced onion. Put in a huge sealed jar with 12oz rice vinegar, 1can FF evaporated Milk, and One small FF Greek Yogurt, Salt and Pepper to taste and LOTS of chopped Dill. Let it marinate overnight and it makes a great cucumber salad (half pickled) that lasts for at least a couple weeks in the fridge. I just keep adding cucumber to the jar as I go along. I lost like 20 pounds eating this for snacks since it was handy in the fridge.

    Take the cooking veggies and dice small to put into a couple of quiche. Or you can slice them semi-thin and layer them into a veggie lasagna. I sauteed a couple peppers, onions and mushrooms today with a few drops of olive oil and layered it with cheese in a low-cal tortilla folded in half and put back in the pan to grill for a couple of minutes on each side to make a veggie quesodilla. You can do that with almost any veggie and it tastes great.

    Use the fruits for the refrigerator oatmeal everyone's talking about, or in morning smoothies!
  • ZoeyRobinson
    ZoeyRobinson Posts: 301
    www.ohsheglows.com has so many great recipes. They are moslty vegan and filled with veggies you might want to snoop and find one that tickles your fancy.
  • monicalosesweight
    monicalosesweight Posts: 1,173 Member
    http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1045.pdf

    Here's a nice link on how to freeze and prepare veggies and fruits. It's a quick helpful document. :)

    Monica

    P.S. I just thought I should add this link: http://www.organicgardening.com/cook/freezing-basics

    It has a list of veggies that are appropriate for freezing. Apparently, not everything is good frozen.
  • Gidzmo
    Gidzmo Posts: 905 Member
    I just spent $100, Yes, I said $100 on ALL VEGETABLES from the produce store!

    I just don't know what to do with most of them.

    I have leeks, turnips, eggplant, zucchini, cucumber, a green squash, cherry tomatoes, parsnip, tomatillos, jalapeno pepper, radishes lemons, onions, spinach, avacados, blueberries, oranges, apples.
    I also bought tahini paste and garbanzo beans to make hummus!

    Can someone please tell me how I can eat or prepare all this? I don't want to waste this food, but I don't know how to eat it.
    I figured if I bought it, I would be forced to learn how to eat cleaner. Now I have a kitchen full of stuff I'm too uneducated to eat.

    Leeks--related to onions. Can be used in a soup.

    Cucumber, onions, spinach, avacadoes, tomatoes, and radishes--can be used in salads.
    Jalapeno pepper--can be used in salsa (along with the tomatoes and onions). Less heat: take out the ribs and seeds.

    Tomatillos--did see a recipe once that used them.

    Oranges--can be eaten raw or as a juice. Lemons--lemonade.
    **If you can't use citrus soon after you get it home, juice the fruit. The resulting juice can be frozen in ice-cube trays. Once frozen, store in ziptop bags in the freezer and take out what you need (the juice can be used for maranades).

    Apples--if not eaten right out of the bag, get a dehydrator and make apple chips (other fruits and veggies can also be dehydrated for later munching).

    Blueberries--can be frozen, if not used immediately. Simply place in a single layer on a cookie sheet and freeze. When frozen, store in a ziptop bag.

    Zucchini--can be steamed (I posted a veggie plate recipe over in the recipe section).
    Eggplant--could possibly be used in a stirfry.
    Green squash--did you mean zucchini?

    Turnips--not sure what to make with them, except as an additional veggie in a stirfry or soup.

    Glad to see that you're going to try to make hummus (very good with pita bread)! We've used the canned garbanzo beans for salads.
  • ThatGrl32
    ThatGrl32 Posts: 20
    I can say from experience, DON'T just throw the eggplant in the blender and DON'T eat it raw, lol. It really taste terrible raw! I have not found a good way to eat eggplant that doesn't involve salt :/

    Also, tomatillos are usually used in Mexican cooking, I make sauce with them. Soooo tasty, wish I could get them in Italy!

    I agree with checking out allrecipes.com !

    Good luck :)
  • Mdin1029
    Mdin1029 Posts: 456 Member
    Great job on getting lots of veggies and fruit!

    Grilled zucchini is great-just slice in half the long way, put a touch of garlic and if you want olive oil, and if you have a George Forman grill or other grill it will grill in a few minutes :) green squash can be used the same way

    Jalapeno pepper can be tasty on a sandwich, as can avocado

    Avocado-you can make guac with lemon and chili or just eat 1/4 of it at a time by itself as a snack. Squeeze lemon on the rest to keep it green longer

    Spinach, cucumber, and cherry tomatoes= very tasty salad! Use a little olive oil, balsalmic vinegar, and lemon juice

    onions can be chopped and added to anything you cook

    blueberries are best in a smoothie for me

    apples with peanutbutter are great, or alone of course as well as the oranges, but I like to sometimes put either in a salad as well as the radishes. Leftover garbanzo beans can also be used for salad. Radish can be dipped into the hummus.

    I don't know how to cook leeks or turnips, parsnip, tomatillos,

    I have leeks, turnips, eggplant, zucchini, cucumber, a green squash, cherry tomatoes, parsnip, tomatillos, jalapeno pepper, radishes lemons, onions, spinach, avacados, blueberries, oranges, apples.
    I also bought tahini paste and garbanzo beans to make hummus!

    Enjoy!

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