what can i do??

zippychick

Hi Chaos-is-home:hello:

I'm not going to point out the obvious of that being a LOT of meat:p.You have had some really excellent advice already. I feeel sorry for your OH as the butcher made him an offer he couldn't refuse Don't give him too hard a time!:beer:

Really hard to know where to start with threads, but I will see how this search goes

Sausages recipes please

Chicken legs - inspiration needed

Cooking thin slices frying steak

Leftover turkey & turkey leg recipes & Turkey escalopes meal ideas?

Pork chops

what to do with bacon

Chicken thigh recipes (or get inspiration from the chicken legs thread )

Leftover gammon & exciting things with gammon

There is no BBQ ribs thread, but i would just eat them as ribs with salad or potatoes and veg I am drooling thinking about them !

roast pork shoulder & pork steaks need using up


Leftover chicken recipes please & Rubber chicken & new ways with rubber chicken & bored with rubber chicken

For middle bacon see above bacon linky

Beef steaks in SC

Lamb chops in a SC or Lamb Chops

Ideas for using braising steak

Beef stew in SC or slow cooker beef casserole

Now I'm going to preview that list and see how long it looks! :eek:

Important thing is - DON'T PANIC OR BE OVERWHELMED!

Can i ask - would it be reasonable to split that into 3 months or am I taking it too far? I guess it depends on how much meat you eat and how often ?

You could do it various ways. You could

meal plan right down to the very last detail

Batch cook up a storm and freeze

Apportion chicken to last for those two dinners on Sunday, and sausages for monday and tues for example.

Just take your time with it and you will find the way that best suits you and your family. Don't panic and really make the best out of the remaining budget. For this a general plan of how to use up each ingredient would be good - as you will know you need x y and z.

Get hubby involved as well?

Right, that's enough from me for now. So sorry if the links are daunting but i wanted to give you all the links in one place x

Edit - also portion sizes

greenbee

wssla00 wrote: »

Oh wait forgot if no pasta or beans, just !!!!! the pastry with a fork a good few times to stop the bottom rising and bake in the oven for 10 mins without the parchment

You can also put a sheet of greaseproof over the pastry and then cover it with copper coins (which conduct heat so make it crispy)

Bitsy_Beans

chaos-is-home wrote: »

could i please have your recipe for sausage and lentil hotpot bitsy?

sure - here it is:

750g Sausages (but honestly I allocate two per person)
1 large onion finely chopped
3 carrots, thinkly slices
2 leeks sliced
3 tbsp flour
400ml stock
2 tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
1 cup of lentils (can be red split ones or green doesn't really matter)

Brown sausages along with onion, carrots and leeks. Stir in flour and cook on low heat for few mins. Slowly add stock and bring to the boil, stir until sauce thickens, add Worcestershire sauce and pre cooked lentils.
Transfer to slow cooker and cook on medium fro 5-8 hours.

If you don't have a slow cooker I guess then as long as the lentils are thoroughly cooked you can simmer all the rest until it's cooked.

I also have recipe for Somerset Sausage Casserole:

450g sausage (again I just allocate two per person)
2 medium leeks slices
2 celery sticks sliced
2 carrots sliced
1 green pepper sliced and de-seeded
400g chopped tomatoes
1 tbsp tomato puree
150ml dry cider or normal apple juice
1 tbsp cornflour
175g sliced mushrooms
1 tsp dried sage

Brown sausages, leeks, celery, carrots and pepper.
Add tomatoes and puree and cider or apple juice.
Bring to the boil and simmer for for 10 mins.
Blend in cornflour with 3 tbsp of water and stir into casserole with mushrooms and sage.
Simmer for further 10 mins or until veg is softened and sausage cooked.

I also cook pasta, sausages, onion, broccoli and cover with tinned tomatoes for a quick pasta bake.

Hope that's given you a little bit of inspiration LOL!

chaos-is-home

WOW! thanks for all your great advice, links and recipes. what could i use instead of cider/apple juice in the Somerset Sausage Casserole bitsy?

zippychick

I would guess you could just use vegetable stock - see what Bitsy says though

Bitsy_Beans

chaos-is-home wrote: »

WOW! thanks for all your great advice, links and recipes. what could i use instead of cider/apple juice in the Somerset Sausage Casserole bitsy?

I did use fruit squash once (something like apple and blackcurrant that sort of thing - not orange LOL!).

As for an alternative I guess it would be Somerset Casserole if it didn't contain some sort of apple related juice.

chaos-is-home

my son is allergic to apple but the recipe sounds really yummy

bitsandpieces

That's a lot of meat - seems a good price! Can you freeze some for next month? Or any friends/neighbours where you could trade it for some veg?

One thing I'd suggest is getting some beans. You can get a 500g bag of haricot or cannellini beans from Tesco for around the 70p mark. Soak it overnight, boil for 10mins (no salt), drain, then stew in slow cooker with meat, garlic and onions. The beans will turn into a huge bowl of very cheap veg - tasty, too!

If you can't get any good reduced veg, try tescos frozen veg. Their Value frozen broccoli and cauliflower tastes fine. Also, think about tinned veg - value kidney beans, say, are under 15p/tin.

chaos-is-home

quick update---? little 1 just got back from nannys and she has given me 60eggs that she has bought for 15p in asda reduced!! ive portioned up most of the meat, 1/2 the stewing steak is going to be put into slow cooker with veges tomorrow for dinner which should last a couple of days. also nanny gave him roulades for his tea which he is now asking for again. does anyone know how to make them?

BitterAndTwisted

60 eggs! That's lucky. I could just eat a couple of soft-boiled ones with toast soldiers right now. Mmmm, frittata, onelette, bread and butter pudding, yorkshire puddings, even some beaten eggs poured over fried boiled potoatoes with crumbled crispy bacon on the top.

What sort of roulades did granny make? A sweet or a savoury one? I think this should entail a phone call to gran to ask for her recipe. People LOVE being asked for their recipes so just ask her for hers.