I made chutney!

This weekend I made chutney.

I feel particularly pleased as I'm a bit of an 'ideas' person. I'm full of lots of ideas; many of which seldom ground into reality.

However, I am now the proud owner of 10 jars of marrow chutney. I've been doing a 'zero waste' journey with my family and this is a great step to further reduce food waste. It also helps us to avoid buying food that might get wasted too.

All the jars were old honey and jam jars which we had kept. The marrow and apples came from the garden. Next year I hope all the tomatoes and onions will as well. Cider vinegar came in glass jars, sugar in paper and spices I tied together in one of Dh's old holey t-shirts that I cut up LOL!

The only 'waste' was the packets from the sultanas. Given notice (I kinda had a 'I'm making chutney and I'm making it now' moment) I'm sure I could get around that.

It was frugal too. Between six and seven pounds for ten 440gm jars. As half the ingredients were organic, I felt this was a bargain.

So my chutney is sitting for 2 months and I promise not to peek, stick my finger in or lick. But I wanted to share my first adventure into real earth mama preserving with you all!

I followed the aptly named 'Glutney' recipe from River Cottage.

posted with love, by Starchild xx