Lessons Learned - Pickled Beetroot…
11 months on and I’m still ploughing through last winter’s pickled beetroot.
I really love the pickled beetroot recipe we have on the main VegBox-Recipes.co.uk site. But why haven’t I eaten it all yet???
Because I made a quadruple batch. At least.
I was pregnant with Theo at the time and remembered that, in my pre-veg-box-not-quite-so-organic days, when I was expecting Louis, I craved up to a kilo of supermarket pickled beetroot a week. Not having found a reliable organic source of what beetroot purists would consider a travesty to their favourite vegetable, I set about making my own.
Aside: Any idea how big a canvas shopping bag you need for 10 kilos of raw beetroot…?
Anyway, my pickling operation was highly productive and I proudly stowed my army of purple-filled jars in the designated cool, dark place, expecting them to fly off the shelves when the cravings returned.
But this time I craved ginger.
In fact, I couldn’t face pickled beetroot for most of the pregnancy and it’s only now that Theo is nearly four months old that I’m rediscovering the stuff.
So the moral of the story is… isn’t it great that pickled beetroot lasts so long!
Anyone for a pickled beetroot sandwich?!? 
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