Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

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I shall be having a salad for dinner tonight with some pichards as I like them and I have a couple of tiny tins in the cupboard. One mashed up with a dollop of sweet chilli sauce for sparkle with lettuce,tomato,cucumber, beetroot, grated cheese and carrot and a bit of diced up red pepper will give me a colourful and healthy meal, and all from my stores.I will probably make some semolina for pudding as I have plenty of UHT milk and a box of it in the cupboard, a dab of apricot jam in the middle and voila a nice pud for pennies with enough left for tomorrow to go in the fridge .

Lunch was carrot and coriander soup and cheese and crackers so everything coming from my stores this week

Hope everyone is warm and dry as the weather looks like its turning quite horrible over the next few days

Take care chums


JackieO xx

VJsmum

Just DD and i for dinner tonight as OH and DS have gone to mother in law's.

DD will take care of herself as she turned her nose up at my offering, so i shall be alone in having broccoli soup followed by a christmas brioche pud they were selling off in Aldi. I'd have liked something other than broccoli as i know there's other soups in the freezer, but i just can't get to them at the moment.

DS is going back to uni tomorrow, i think - so i don't have to worry as much about feeding a pure carnivore. Tomorrow I shall get out a beef casserole from the freezer and OH and i will have that with some need to use up veg. DD can have the veg with something veggie (DS detests onions so is always reluctant to eat casserole). Hopefully this will start to ease the fridge contents a little.

Mummy2cheekymonkeys

OH bought a YS double cream that needed using up so I've now used that to make some toffee sauce that will last for weeks in the fridge until I decide to make a sticky toffee pudding. It's always a nice treat for a indulgent winter pudding so not something we have very often.

ninnoodle

Smoothie for breakfast this morning as I find them hard to stomach at suppertime. A cold smoothie seems wrong when it's a howling gale outside and the fire is on. it was far more palatable this morning - almond milk, some frozen berries, a frozen banana and two balls of frozen spinach.
Lunch was a portion of the cottage pie I made the other day. Tonight's supper will be a cheese omelette. I've still got eggs to use up from NYE when I bought some for my friend's breakfast as they were staying over. They're near the UBD so guess I need to use them.
Snacks in between: shortbread from Christmas and some crispbreads with cheese and pickle.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Today DH & I had pulled pork slices (bought for DSis) for lunch - only 2 days past their use by date. Very tasty they were too.
Tonight was fish fingers, last of the oven chips from freezer & a tin of baked beans from the Br*xit cupboard

I have also made a soup from wilting peppers, a bag of y/s soup veg, the last: salad, onion, mushrooms, lardons & potatoes + made a gravy in the frying pan (after dry frying bacon) using last slug of red wine & boiling water + a small pot of sweet chilli dip & a big handful of red lentils.
It has been zizzed & taste tested by DH & I - delish 😋 Tomorrow I will bake the last bag of hm croutons. At least two days lunch & hopefully enough lo to freeze a portion.

Tomorrow I need to empty & clean fridge - make sure nothing is lurking :rotfl: & check/update my freezers lists.

So nothing binned :j

MrsSD

Mummy2cheekymonkeys

ninnoodle wrote: »

Lunch was a portion of the cottage pie I made the other day. Tonight's supper will be a cheese omelette. I've still got eggs to use up from NYE when I bought some for my friend's breakfast as they were staying over. They're near the UBD so guess I need to use them.

The eggs will be fine for ages. We had some recently that were still OK a month past the date. Put them in a jug of water. If they sink they are fine. Once they start getting less fresh they will stand on their end and when they are off they will float. It really does work.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

I always test my eggs his way, even newly bought ones! After a rather unpleasant experience with supposedly fresh eggs from ndn in France :eek:

ninnoodle

Mummy2cheekymonkeys wrote: »

The eggs will be fine for ages. We had some recently that were still OK a month past the date. Put them in a jug of water. If they sink they are fine. Once they start getting less fresh they will stand on their end and when they are off they will float. It really does work.

Thanks, I was a little bit wary as I am away all next week and wouldn't have had a chance to use them then. Still, the cheese omelette was very nice!

Well today I woke up to several inches of snow here in the Highlands. I really wanted a hot bowl of comforting porridge for breakfast, but I'm out of oats and am trying to use up things in the cupboard, freezer & fridge. So freezing cold smoothie it was - actually it was very nice, once I managed to stop my teeth from chattering.
Today's lunch is a portion of h/m chickpea and peach curry out the freezer with some rice. Tonight will be a cheese omelette again. I also have a slab of carrot cake my boyfriend's mum sent round that her friend had baked, so will have that for elevenses

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gosh chickpea and peach curry sounds delicious, any chance of the recipe I love alternate currys and am always on the lookout for something different to use up tins with I have three tins of chickpeas in my cupboard two were donated from a friend and one I had forgotten about (used to stick them in large bowls of salad stuff back in the summer) Eating from my stock is going well and today I have a lamb shank slow cooking at the moment It is quite meaty so will do at least two days hopefully

ninnoodle

JackieO wrote: »

gosh chickpea and peach curry sounds delicious, any chance of the recipe I love alternate currys and am always on the lookout for something different to use up tins with I have three tins of chickpeas in my cupboard two were donated from a friend and one I had forgotten about (used to stick them in large bowls of salad stuff back in the summer)

I was the same - had a tin of peaches and some tins of chickpeas to use. It's from a Girl Called Jack's website: https://cookingonabootstrap.com/2018/07/21/peach-chickpea-curry-recipe/

I found it had a bit too much sauce and not enough filling so put in some other frozen veggies - diced sweet potato and some peppers I think it was. It's delicious with the peaches!