Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Another hm soup: lo mash & green beans, pot of passata from freezer, hg parsley & hg chillies from freezer, red lentils & stock pots & some Worcestershire sauce from stores, mushrooms, turkey chorizo slices & lo beef from fridge. Will zizz & taste test.

Naan breads from freezer with the last of the sausage casserole meant 6 meals all told

Trying to empty freezer for defrosting & restocking

Living_proof

I have a green smoothie for breakfast every morning and thought I would share how I do it for next to nothing.

I buy the 20p bags of salad in Lidl and freeze them. What does it matter? they are going into a smoothie! I bag up and freeze left over uncooked spinach and other greens, the stalks cut off from asparagus and leftover parsley and coriander if I already have enough chopped. I also freeze very cheap fruit and dehydrate apple leathers etc. which I can chop up into a smoothie. As a result I have a breakfast absolutely brimming with vitamins and minerals, for next to nothing. The only downside is that my freezer is full of 'bits' and sometimes I forget to label said bits with rather unexpected results.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Pot of hm soup from freezer for lunch. Bolognese sauce from freezer with rigatoni for dinner - only half eaten so the los put into baking dish & will be topped with mozzarella & baked for Thursday’s dinner.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Another hm soup - small amount of lo hm soup + from the freezer - 2 portions of cottage pie, bag of boiled potatoes, 2 hg chillies + from stores - 2 sweet potatoes, paprika, 2 beef stock cubes. Has been zizzed & taste tested & is delicious 🤤 Should be enough for 3 lunches (with crusty bread) for DH & me :T

The freezer is emptying nicely. May get it defrosted by next weekend :rotfl: 🤞

YorksLass

Have been MIA for a while but the LFHW continues!

Today I made the Xmas sausage rolls; two types - traditional sage & onion plus cheese & apple. I shall have to play freezer tetris otherwise they won't last until Xmas. I've taken out a tub of hm soup but somehow I don't think that will be enough.

I was going to make mince pies tomorrow but - in view of the above - they will have to wait until next week.

I had a small piece of pastry and some grated apple left over so they made a small pudding for us. Apple mixed with a few sultanas, a drizzle of crab apple jelly, a sprinkle of cinnamon, a pastry lid and served warm with a good splosh of low-fat yogurt. Yummy.

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Hi chums I am getting better after my nasty fall but its slow going and luckily I have ,now I am back at home again, been eating from my freezer.Just as well it was fairly full so owing to being almost one handed for 4 weeks it was a case of out of the freezer ,defrost and microwaved
But virtually no waste whatsoever.I have cut right back on buying much as I am not driving and can't carry very much either. The resulting change in eating habits has lost me half a stone so there is an upside to everything .
Luckily in my freezer I have a big bag of sausage rolls I made ages ago so they will go to DDs towards Christmas plus a few other things.

Tonight I have some left over cottage pie which my son-in-law made last night and my DD texted me to say pick it up for your dinner tonight Mum. so tonight's dinner is sorted I only have some veg to steam.
As I will be too-ing and fro-ing between my Dds during Christmas and new year I am already starting to eat down the fresh stuff as much as possible. Its times like this when I have been so glad I had a good stock of stuff to fall back on indoors.

I have a feeling I have some pastry in the freezer so I am hoping I too shall be able to defrost and make some mince pies as well.
DGS Jack and Henry devour them and they will be home on their Christmas break from Uni soon.Plus DGS Ben is coming home for Christmas one his school breaks up next week.He lives in London now so we don't get to see so much of him as his busy life as a primary school teacher takes up a lot of his time.
Two week to go until Christmas Day, and its going to fly by I bet

Hope everyone has a great Christmas and manages to keep the food waste down, one good reason my freezer is getting more wriggle room at the moment ,but I bet it will get fuller over the holiday .My eldest is dreadful for binning stuff ,but I normally get her left over bits for my freezer

Keep warm and dry chums

JackieO xx

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

The current hm soup is chicken based. Lots of bits from freezer, los from fridge & half a bag of fresh egg pasta. Has been zizzed & is very thick :rotfl: Quite tasty but I do prefer my mince/beef based soups

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I snaffled some leeks at a reasonable price 5 for 79p in the SM and made a large vat of leek and potato soup which will do me for lunches all this week.using up ods and ends as much as possible as I will be at DDs house from next Tuesday until after New Year. Tonight is the last of my 29p a bag brussels with left over mash and a bit of pork fillet from the freezer already coated in dry sage and onion stuffing mix and the last of my carrots.Only really got salady bits to use up Tomorrow I am out to dinner with the family as its my youngest DDs 50th birthday so what I have left in the fridge will cover me for Friday night.Saturday night ,out Sunday and Monday night and at DDs on Tuesday.So only really two more dinners to cook before Christmas. Plenty of bits in the freezer to use as building blocks for two dinners

I peeled ,boiled and mashed and portioned up all the potatoes in my vegetable rack, and the cabbage I had left I diced, bagged and froze as well.So no waste at all.In my fridge I have a cucumber,6 tomatoes and half a lettuce and a pepper ,so they will be making me a couple of big salads I think, Three rashers of bacon which can be wrapped and frozen if I haven't used them. I am doing my best to have nil wastage at all if I can.. The mince pies I made with the frozen pastry from my freezer went down very well with the boys I think I may have to make a few more The mincemeat was from a jar I bought in January this year it was Robertsons and had been reduced to 10p so a bargain I thought .I may make a mincemeat tart with a lattice top for a change as a slice of that with thick custard is a good filler up for hungry young men, and my DD has four of them at home over the holidays

Right time to get a move on tempus fugit etc

Take care all

JackieO xx

YorksLass

After a couple of disappointing Stollen bread purchases over the last couple of years (including one last year that didn't have any marzipan in it at all ), I decided to make my own last week. I used the dough cycle on my bread maker first and then finished it off in the oven. Carefully wrapped and [STRIKE]ignored[/STRIKE] left for a week to mature, we had a slice each today with a cuppa. The verdict? Put it this way, give me a home-made one any day. Another bonus was that I already had all the ingredients in store, apart from blanched chopped almonds, but I substituted those with half a carton of glace cherries which we prefer anyway.

This weekend I'll do mince pies (snap Jackie, I too have a couple of jars of 10p mincemeat bought in January), vol-au-vent cases and the fillings for them and then I'm all done. Food, presents, wrapping, cards, decorations etc all sorted - good job too, I feel I'm running out of steam now!

On a Friday we normally have a battered fish from the fish shop that DH goes for but not tonight, thanks to buses running late or not turning up at all. Not to worry, instead we've had fish fingers, hm mushy peas and some lo cooked potatoes, sliced and lightly fried. Thank goodness for having plenty in!

I've already decided to make January a "spend as little as possible" month to make a thrifty start to 2020 - but no doubt I will be popping out over the Xmas/NY break to see if I can find any bargains.

Keep warm and dry and enjoy the festivities; who knows what next year will bring!

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left in my fridge at the moment is 6 tomatoes,3 rashers of bacon ,4 sausages,a red pepper and 5 eggs.so tomorrows brunch will be bacon egg,and a sausage, then I go to DDs for dinner late afternoon Monday I will have cereal for breakfast then something at Dds as I am looking after my four grandsons during the day in the evening I will have the other three sausages with scrambled eggs for my evening meal, tuesday morning I will have a spanish omelette mid morning and use up the last of the eggs and the red pepper and some diced onion from the freezer and then mid afternoon I am off to eldest DDs and for the next ten days or so I too and fro between my two daughters until 4-5 january before I am allowed to come back home So my fridge will be bare and nothing will have been wasted and I am really pleased that my planning and using up odds and ends has worked out so well.The tomatoes I will peel and reduce down with some herbs and lazy garlic in a small saucepan then once cooled bag up and freeze to use in a spag bol sauce

New decade when I come home so more forward planning as I want to really get the freezer defrosted if possible There is a lot more room in it now but I still have a good few odds and ends to use up ,plus I normally end up bringing stuff home with me from my DDs as well to use up as they both know that I hate to see food wasted

I hope everyone has an excellent Christmas and make your freezer your best friend and try not to bin anything if possible .I usually end up bringing fancy cheeses home from their houses which if I haven't eaten gets frozen for another day

No wonder my DDs call me Mum-the squirrel

Happy Christmas everyone

JackieOxx