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Does anyone, @Sweetgeek:), know....can you use stale cereal in recipes?

Like cornflakes in cornflake cookies or honey what's it's; and coco pops/rice bubbles in chocolate crackles?
I have few boxes I cleared out with half the box left - wasteful cereal eaters, :(

I made very weird burgers tonight.
I defrosted the mince too long so it was half cooked.
Trying to make that into rissoles/patties was murder, then they all fell apart - is that a slider.
Not too bad actually lots of nice crunchy browned bits.
 
kxk said:
Does anyone, @Sweetgeek:), know....can you use stale cereal in recipes?

Like cornflakes in cornflake cookies or honey what's it's; and coco pops/rice bubbles in chocolate crackles?
I have few boxes I cleared out with half the box left - wasteful cereal eaters, :(

I made very weird burgers tonight.
I defrosted the mince too long so it was half cooked.
Trying to make that into rissoles/patties was murder, then they all fell apart - is that a slider.
Not too bad actually lots of nice crunchy browned bits.
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stale cornflakes are the best for a crumb batter! put it in a food processer and let them become your crumbs. put some coconut in there if you want and make coconut prawn, or leave the cornflake crumbles and coat your chicken with them and bake. for dessert- in a saucepan make a cornflour cream filling and then place in bowls and let them cool, spread the flakes on top, cool again. make a citrus sugar syrup and spread over it with some strawberries. delicious stuff!

if you do use your stale cereals in cookies, add extra sweetness because the cereals would have lost the sweet edge.

@kxk, I forgot the crumbs will need to be mixed some butter for the dessert
 
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Thanks @Sweetgeek, you are such an encyclopedia of cookery tricks, much appreciate your tips and advice:)
the sweets sound a bit too much trouble and not my cup of tea.

I wonder if I baked them on trays in the oven or nuked them if they get the crunch back? They are not that old or I wouldn't bother so much, the waste annoys me.
 
kxk said:
Thanks @Sweetgeek, you are such an encyclopedia of cookery tricks, much appreciate your tips and advice:)
the sweets sound a bit too much trouble and not my cup of tea.

I wonder if I baked them on trays in the oven or nuked them if they get the crunch back? They are not that old or I wouldn't bother so much, the waste annoys me.
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They would be crunchy no doubt, but just like bread, they will lose that fresh crunchiness regardless I think, they will also go hard and not going to be very enjoyable to bite in to, unless eaten straight away. That's why I suggested crumbing some of them if you wanted it for different use

Cereal is just wheat at the end of the day so it can be used in cakes, cookies etc, just squeeze a bit more honey or a little more golden syrup and it will be good as new. You can buy crumbed cornflakes from the supermarkets that's how I know about it. they actually have recipes on the back of the box too I remember, one for crumbed fried chicken, another for a cheesecake where the crumbs become the base.

waste annoys me too
 
Following a common theme, tonight I had plain pasta and ice-cream. And since everyone is away for the week, I don't have to have a single vegetable! Woohoo!

@Inigo Montoya that dinner honestly sounds like my worst nightmare! But yay for growing things, I enjoy gardening, we have one here, and I grow things for everyone else, I have an abundance of amazing cabbages at the moment.
 
A very dear friend of mine (now sadly missed) once practiced his French on a patient of his and got a little overzealous when accidentally offering him a "jus de pomme de terre" (potato juice - potato is literally 'apple of the earth') instead of an apple juice. It became a standing joke and of couse 'jus de pomme de terre' now exists in my mind as a certain alcoholic beverage popular in Russia.

So I'm having jus de pomme de terre for dinner.

And cheers to my friend Brett.
 
shadow2 said:
My mum grows broccoli too, are u a vegetarian?
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Not a a vegetarian, although I did go a few months with out eating meat earlier this year. Sometimes I just feel like a big plate of veggies, do you know what I mean?
Are you a vegetarian?
 
Consuela said:
I don't think I could give up meat. I love it too much.
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Inigo Montoya said:
Not a a vegetarian, although I did go a few months with out eating meat earlier this year. Sometimes I just feel like a big plate of veggies, do you know what I mean?
Are you a vegetarian?
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No, But i have been considering it. Just so damn hard to give up something that I have been eating for so long
 
I was going to order a pizza from my local pizza place tonight but decided at the last minute to try out their calzone instead. It was god damned delicious.
 
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