The age of thrift!

Make do and mend! Use your leftovers!
Wisdom indeed from a bygone age - words that we often ignore in our modern/post modern world! But in a climate of recession and environmental disaster they are words we need to take on board again.
In the UK we waste about 1/3rd of the food we buy - that is a shameful statistic but it gets worse - it rises to 80% over the Christmas period! 80%! 80%! That is disgusting! How can we have the brass neck to waste so much food when many around the world go hungry? http://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/
Anyway (puts soap box aside!) as mentioned in my Pressure Cooker post I made the annual turkey stock yesterday - another remnant of a bygone age it would seem. It is amazing how many folk look at you like you have 2 heads when you say you make your own stock. But what a waste of a carcass if you don't and once you taste home made stock shop bought stuff is never the same. So we made 7 pots of stock (about 500ml each which will need diluting before use as is very strong stuff!) and we eked out 8 meals from the meat (most are now frozen) so all in all this makes an organic free range turkey go a long long way and actually hugely economical.
We have made the conscious decision to only eat organic meat and the majority of this comes from a farm we support in the Scottish Borders (http://www.whitmuirorganics.co.uk/) and we feel that it is respectful to get the most out of each animal/cut of meat. It is amazing when you hear of people who only use the breast meat from a chicken and then throw the rest of the carcass in the bin! No wonder meat is too expensive then!!