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Our tips for Beansprouts

Great soup from fridge oddments

Submitted by Merryl Cook, Heaton Moor, Stockport

Gather up all the bits from your fridge - coarse outside lettuce leaves, that bendy carrot, bit of onion, green tops of leeks and spring onions, a few herbs, etc, etc. Put in a pan with water to cover and a stock cube or meat jelly or gravy if you have some leftover and boil until the veg are soft. Whizz in processor or liquidiser. The French call this 'Garbure' and it's almost always delicious and different each time. Can be thickened with leftover potato, or some small pasta shapes can be added, or a cooked chopped bacon rasher. Soy sauce and a slowly poured beaten egg will make it Chinese-ish. Curry paste,and garlic, or grated cheese, or mushroom ketchup ... almost any mixture you invent will taste better than a tin of soup, and it's practically cash- and additive-free!
Sprout your own seeds

Submitted by Gillian Hopkinson, Lancaster

To sprout your own seeds is minimal fuss, takes about five days, and can be done all year round. It means that you can have tasty and very nutritious additions to sandwiches, salads or whatever - and you sprout them in the quantities you will need. You can use them to get fresh flavours between shopping trips. You can buy a simple seed sprouter very cheaply. Seeds to try include alfalfa, radish, broccoli and most of the beans and lentils.
Salad storage

Submitted by Cath Marsland, Stockport

I threw away the drawers that came in the bottom of my fridge and replaced with long thin plastic sealable boxes now my salad ingredients stay fresher for days longer.
Beansprouts

Submitted by Olivia , Brisbane, Australia

Keep submerged in water in a container and refrigerate. Keeps for at least a week and they don't go slimy.
Beansprouts

Submitted by Neska, Manchester

Freeze them in a airtight container. Add to stir-fries or soups. This works perfectly.