Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

Blue_Doggy

Yesterday I made a rice and lentil salad from a new-to-me recipe which calls for the rice and lentils to be cooked together with an onion, some carrot and celery. Then, it says, “discard the vegetables”.

Well, I didn’t, I blended them with my stick blender and have four portions of useful soup in the freezer. The fifth one I’ve just had as a first course with my dinner. Yum!

The actual r+l salad (which is completed with chopped onion, red peppers, carrots and celery) made 4 very generous portions and was very tasty.

mariana1990

Last night, I had rice that i had cooked 2 days before, 1 sad carrot, half onion and some decent mushrooms. I cooked the onioen together with the carrots and mushrooms. I mixed it all with the rice. Made mini balls, fried them. Tasted veeery good, like rice falafel 😂

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Tuna and sweetcorn salad forme tonight as I want to use up the fresh stuff in the fridge before I go to Devon next week.

Fruit is going down well with only a couple of bananas and half a box of grapes left

Right must get a wriggle on as such a lot to do today
Have a good one chums

JackieO xx

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Have been using hm los from the freezer - Fish pie, steak & ale pie, chicken dish, spare ribs - only really enough of each for 2 people but have stretched to 3 by dint of lots of potatoes & vegetables. Also from the freezer - hm apple & blackberry crumble with custard. I am trying to empty the freezer in order to defrost

nosuperwoman

Thanks for your replies. Thought I would update: I out the peeled pears in the slow cooker with 2 tsp of sugar dissolved in half a mug of warm eater. 5 hours on low and they are lovely - very tasty and sweet. I froze some in the syrup and others on a tray. The rest i am having with breakfast this week. I have a recipe for a chocolate cake sweetened with pears in juice so I might use it for that
Thanks again

joedenise

Using up LO mash & cabbage to make bubble and squeak for tonight's dinner. Will have with gammon steak from freezer, beans from cupboard and fried eggs.

Denise

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Hopefully home back to Kent before its too late for shopping ,the journey down to Devon was a looong one. But I have enough in the cupboard to keep me going for a day or three at least

See you soon chums
JackieO xx

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Monday made a bolognese sauce & had with fresh penne. Tuesday used the lo bolognese sauce & made a pasta bake topped with mozzarella. DSis had the lo pasta bake for dinner Wednesday.
The good news is that I used lots of red lentils to pad out the mince, so still have half ,the mince in the freezer

YorksLass

YorksLass wrote: »

The meat has been stripped from the drumsticks that I cooked last night and that's for tonight's chicken curry with oven chips. The bones, skin etc went in a pan to make the obligatory stock so now I have to decide whether to use it as the base for the next batch of soup (some kind of minestrone type) or keep it for risotto.

Did neither in the end - it's in the freezer!

Blue_Doggy wrote: »

Yesterday I made a rice and lentil salad from a new-to-me recipe which calls for the rice and lentils to be cooked together with an onion, some carrot and celery. Then, it says, “discard the vegetables”. Well, I didn’t, I blended them with my stick blender and have four portions of useful soup in the freezer. The fifth one I’ve just had as a first course with my dinner. Yum!

No, I wouldn't have either!

Yesterday I emptied one of the store cupboards to give it a clean and found a small box of organic chocolate granola that I got earlier in the year as a freebie with an online grocery delivery. We weren't overly keen on it so that's probably how it ended up at the back of the cupboard. Even though it was a freebie I didn't want to waste it, so I put my LFHW head on and have blitzed it up in the FP (the granola, not my head!). It's now in a lidded box and I'll use it up by adding it to flapjack/cookie/muffin mixture.

Today's dinner is mustardy beef hotpot that I did in the SC yesterday, with mash and green veg. There'll be some left that can go in the freezer for another day; I'll add cooked diced potato to pad it out and use it as a pie filling. I have ys puff pastry in the freezer too for the top of the pie so a quick and easy meal on the cards.

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Got all my food shopping yesterday for around £23 odd.Lots of fruit and veg and a few essentials. Today I have my slow cooker on with some braising beef from my freezer along with some diced onions,carrots and mushroom stalks and a few diced green peppers.my kitchen smells delicious and once cooked will be portioned up for several meals. I also snaffled 4 cooking apples reduced to 70p which I cooked in honey and covered with thick custard.so several dinners and a good few puddings.
Still using up stuff from the freezer