Ideas for using up fresh fruit and veg here

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If you have overbought fresh fruit and veg, here's what you can do.

1. Chop onion and freeze in freezer bags.

1. Chop and blanch green veg and freeze in freezer bags.

1. Boil potatoes, or boil ± mash then freeze or refrigerate in containers. Sweet potato makes great mash too, or carrot and swede.

1. Stew fruit eg apples, pears, berries. Chop and add to a saucepan with a little sugar and water. Simmer until soft. Freeze or refrigerate.

1. Freeze bananas in their skins.

Alternatively, use veg in a meal eg if you make a fish pie, add spinach to use it up and freeze or refrigerate in portions.

Butter and cheese can be frozen too.

Please don't throw away fresh food when it's unavailable to many of us.

I believe eggs can be frozen too but am unsure how.

Please add other ideas below.

Use veg to make soup, eat some freeze some.
Pick the shoots off old potatoes, bake them in the oven and freeze.

Yy to soup. Broccoli stems plus odds and ends of other veg make dreat soup!

Squishy fruit and bananas can be blitzed into a smoothie and frozen.

Great thread. After my order last week was just cancelled on the day, I assumed the same would happen today- but it did turn up- although 4hrs late. I now have a glut of eggs as already got some yesterday.
Any ideas for them?

We have food supplies of egg and milk, but no yogurt, which used to be a bit of a staple. So I'm making baked egg custard.

I chop carrots, onions and celery and freeze it altogether to make sofrito. Makes a great base for bolognade, cottage pie - any stew really.

• Carrot cake, beetroot cake, banana cake, courgette cake

• Veg cut into long, thin slices can replace pasta sheets in lasagne

• Potatoes- potato cakes, make gnocchi and freeze, rosti or hash browns