Stocking up (and Sprouting 101)

[blissful]

@larry_stewart I'll have to give lentils a try at sprouting. I haven't sprouted those yet.

@taxlady I was telling you the blackberries cooked up red, but when reduced by half the puree/jam is black. Here's what they look like steaming in the roaster.

 

[larry_stewart]

@larry_stewart I'll have to give lentils a try at sprouting. I haven't sprouted those yet.

@taxlady I was telling you the blackberries cooked up red, but when reduced by half the puree/jam is black. Here's what they look like steaming in the roaster.

Those look so good !!

I never thought much about sprouting lentils, until years ago ( more like decades ago) I had no sprouting seeds left in stock, so I used what I had. Just regular , everyday brown lentils. Worked like a charm.

 

[blissful]

Yesterday's reduced produce was only 1/2 a grocery paper bag of bananas, 99 cents for 25 bananas.
Today 9 bags, mostly fruit 3-4 lbs each, 99 cents each:
apples
tangerines
pomelos w/limes
lemons
oranges
pomelos w/grapefruit
a large head of cauliflower
2 bags of chopped salad
I have sliced lemons and limes in the dehydrator for teas, the sliced off ends in the freezer for me to use first in my herbal teas. The cauliflower is cleaned and prepped for cauliflower wings in the next couple days. We'll eat a lot of fruit this week.
PItted dates went down to $5.99/2 lbs, so I wrapped brasil nuts in dates to keep in the freezer, we eat two brazil nuts the first two sundays of each month, for selenium.

 

[blissful]

Today's $4 produce lottery gave us tomatoes, asian pears, tangelos, and apples.
$4 doesn't buy much these days but I'm happy with this!
I'm dehydrating some tomatoes (in winter!), some apples, and bananas from last week. We eat a LOT of produce from fresh when we can get it but there is a little too much hanging around so I dehydrate.

 

[blissful]

Our Grocery store again had the blackberries from Mexico in the reduced produce area, 33 cents/6 ounces. We bought $36 worth, so over 36 lbs. (40ish lbs) We put them in two 18 qt roasters last night in the garage, and plugged them in, in the house, this morning. They are heavy.
I prepped 36 8-oz canning jars running them through the dishwasher last night.
We cook them down to half, there is usually little liquid and it mounds on the spoon. Depending on sweetness we'll add the least amount of sugar/or honey, for our taste. These will be gifts for Christmas.

 

[dragnlaw]

May i be on your Christmas List?
I can't eat fresh raspberries or blackberries but I can have them cooked.