Cooking for one

Doom_and_Gloom

Hope everyone is okay.

Still drinking coffee, I'm a coffee addict if you haven't realised, hardly ever a day without it. Prefer real bean or ground coffee. Bought some recently for 50p 227g bag of beans as on clearance, got five of those.

I got two home made meals out of the freezer yesterday. One for lunch and one for dinner today. They are both tofu and vegetable curry. I have butternut squash noodles that I will have with it.
I've taken another two home made meals out of the freezer for lunch and dinner tomorrow, will be doing the same thing friday for Saturday also.
Basically I've run out of freezer space and to be honest these need to be eaten. I have 14 home made meals in one draw still!

Will snack on fruit and probably have a coconut and cherry flapjack. They are soo good. Only ended up putting 8 flapjacks in the freezer. The rest should be okay in the fridge, though not great for my waist line .

Hollyharvey

Afternoon all,


So far today I have had greek yoghurt and berries for breakfast. Far too many biscuits and some carrot cake at my volunteering job this morning and then a tuna salad sandwich when I got in.


Dinner tonight is going to be chicken with a salad and new potatoes. In case you haven't worked out the salad needs using up now! Having finished the veg off yesterday.


I will need to get some veg and salad bits and pieces tomorrow though.


I have run out of butter but I know that there are 4 sticks of it in the outside freezer, so I went out there, took half of the contents of the freezer out and still couldn't find it. By then I had had enough and have just given up on that one for now. The problem is, that I will need to buy butter tomorrow. I am determined not to buy anything at all that needs to go into the freezer until I have got some more room.


But...I want to cook, I'm in the mood to cook, I want to make, 4 apple and blackberry crumbles, 4 rhubarb and ginger crumbles, 4 bread and butter puddings and 9 to 12 blueberry muffins, and scones to use up the left over buttermilk from making the muffins, but if I do I will have one heck of a job to get them in the freezer, in fact I don't think I will


I will just have to settle on making the apple and blackberry crumbles.


Although I am having chicken tonight I found a half of a large chicken in the freezer so I liberated that and have put it in the inside freezer and will defrost that and have a roast with it on Sunday, chicken sandwiches for tea Sunday and chicken and salad on Monday. The other half is lurking in the freezer so I will do the same again next weekend. At least that way I clear two bulky things out of there.


Tomorrows dinner will be the largest thing that I can find in the freezer in the kitchen. I think some eating according to how much space it is taking up in the freezer may well become the norm around here for a while.

PasturesNew

Hollyharvey wrote: »

I think some eating according to how much space it is taking up in the freezer may well become the norm around here for a while.

I do that - eat the thing that's taking up the most room ....

Today I ate 150 grams of frozen veg as that was the biggest bag in there.... and a piece of frozen pie ... and some frozen roast spuds (more than I'd consider a portion).

So I pushed the boat out quantity wise, just to try to make a noticeable dent in freezer contents.... and then I added a little mash to the plate just because I can

All in all, it was nearly as big as my Xmas dinner to look at!

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

I do that - eat the thing that's taking up the most room ....

Today I ate 150 grams of frozen veg as that was the biggest bag in there.... and a piece of frozen pie ... and some frozen roast spuds (more than I'd consider a portion).

So I pushed the boat out quantity wise, just to try to make a noticeable dent in freezer contents.... and then I added a little mash to the plate just because I can

All in all, it was nearly as big as my Xmas dinner to look at!

Glad it's not just me that has to decide what to eat according to freezer room taken up


Your dinner does like it was nice, even if a bit bigger than you would usually have


You have given me an idea, there is some puff pastry in the freezer and some beef stew, lamb stew and coq au vin. I could turn a couple of those into pies next week. That would get rid of one block of pastry in addition to the meat portions :j

caronc

Good evening everyone,
I was later back than I expected so will catch up on the thread tomorrow.
I was really hungry when I got home so I've just had a chicken & mushroom pasty. It hit the spot!

PasturesNew

I opened the freezer and put my hand on the final pie quarter ... but then thought "No, I'll leave it for now. It's nice and I'd rather save it until I really fancy it rather than just eating it up because it's in the freezer".

Today I will try to cook something different.... but I've no idea what to be honest. I'll have to have a think. It'll be made from stuff I already have in the house ... so might be, say, a quorn chilli to use use up the last bit of quorn and more of the veggies. If I do that it'll be served with basmati rice.

For those who like quorn, I believe Sainsbobs have mince at half price at the moment. I bought this pack half price - and grabbed two - I think it's taken me about a year to get through it all.... so I won't be restocking I'll get some more in a year's time when it's cheap again.

I am still entirely out of: bread, eggs, potatoes. It's Friday, but it's raining. I might force myself out to 4ld1 later just to look at bread/rolls/muffins/crumpets to pick up a 36p loaf at least.
Can't buy them all, unless you freeze most of it ....

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looking at your posts and mine, its nearly always about using up stuff, I have just been doing that, making a clean sweep in my fridge. I am another who can`t live without my very full freezer and fridge, both are tall ones but I keep the likes of nuts and seeds in boxes in the fridge and it is always full

Celery soup is on the go, for tonight with a cheese scone. Easy one, using up red onion/garlic/celery, added marigold boullion and sauteed first in little olive oil/ghee, for taste. I washed all the celery and kept a few sticks back, now ready to use in a vac jar.

Half my frozen green beans are in the compost container, together with lettuce and going-off cucmber, I am fine with that as it goes into my own allotment compost. I had to clear a veg drawer as I have new fresh coming later. I kept a red pepper, garlic courgette and some red onion as I am getting aubergine and will cook slowly together to make a ratatouille type whatever

Lunch is prepared, cod/lemon/herbs in enamel dish and covered with foil, sweet potato in another enamel dish to bake, cooked skinned beetroot ready to heat up and washed broccoli ready in vac jar. I love those old fashioned white enamel dishes, you can still buy them and I freeze my ready meals in them and eg crumbles in smaller ones

PasturesNew

kittie wrote: »

I love those old fashioned white enamel dishes, you can still buy them ...

I've always loved the look of them, but never actually "owned" one until about 4 years ago when somebody bought me one as a new home gift. It's 19cm. (I just went and measured it)

Love using it, so handy.

Then, the other week, I was in Sainsbobs, just killing time - not looking to buy anything at all ... and I spotted they had some small ones, 15cm (that's 6" in old money!), at half price, so £1.50 instead of £3. So I seized the day and grabbed two.

One of those is the perfect size to reheat my quarter pies I think they'd fit a 1/3rd of a pie too, but not actually cut one into 1/3rds yet to test it.

I find 19cm is a bit too big for one portion, often too small (just) for two. 15cm makes a perfect one portion. It's a smidge over 15cm end to end, with the base section appearing about 10cm.

I do ALL my oven cooking in a worktop toaster oven, not a "real one". So they are a good fit. It takes a MAX of a 10" pizza... just (25 cm).

caronc

Good morning everyone,

Kittie - so glad your waffles turned out ok and didn't stick. PN - I think a true waffle is the type made with batter (which I think you'd like and most places sell them) and other just called that because of the shape.:)

I love enamel wear and have some of the traditional white & blue dishes and also a load of black enamel bake ware. I could use some more in smaller sizes as most of mine are more family sized.:)

Holly - I now what you mean about deciding a meal based on much room an item takes up in the freezer you are definitely not alone in this.;)

I'm not CFO tonight as my son is home this evening but we are having HM burgers which is a meal I do make for myself. Lunch is going to be eggs marie rose to use up the sauce I made the other day. I do need to have a good fridge sort out and freeze some bits including the sausages my Dad gave me. So my freezers will be packed again. Online shop has been delivered so I've a bread again and replenished the salad drawer for another week. Not sure foodwise about the next couple of days may or may not be CFO depending on my son's plans we''ll see.:)

Farway

kittie wrote: »

Celery soup is on the go, for tonight with a cheese scone. Easy one, using up red onion/garlic/celery, added marigold boullion and sauteed first in little olive oil/ghee, for taste. I washed all the celery and kept a few sticks back, now ready to use in a vac jar.

Soup sounds tasty, I know my version is, but not something I make a lot of, only when overload of celery, usually bought 'cos it was on offer or just looked scrummy

Now I want enamel pie tin. I do have some enamel dishes, pale blue with dark edges. Heirloom really, used to eat my childhood meals off them sometimes, and mum made rhubarb plate pies on them. Not used them but I do have them

Nil breakfast, but double biscuits dunked at volunteering this morning

Lidl was quite good this morning, cod fish cakes on offer this week, 90p for two, so got two packs, one for next few days and other I may freeze once I am fed up with fish

Also bread for the week, one sliced wholemeal, two slices a day does it now I have abandoned marmalade toast in deference to my expanding belly

Grabbed a YS Chicken Korma so that is dinner sorted, the veg lasagne & fish cakes will go on standby in fridge for the weekend

May polish off a banana later