Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

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Tonight's dinner is my slow cooked lamb shank, with cheesey mash and steamed veg, dug from the depths of the back of my freezer yesterday :)the left over gravy will be cooled, and put in the fridge in a jug to go into a casserole on Friday.Todays left over stuff is the building block for something else

suki1964

Whilst cooking dinner I decided to give the fridge a clear out

Saved a butternut squash bought around November and just going mouldy on the stem, and a wizened red pepper , chopped and roasted with some smoked paprika and chilli powder, they are now a really tasty soup which will do my dinner as I'm not hungry enough for dinner. And enough for my lunch in work Thursday and Friday

I've cooked a gammon for tonight, with roasties and veg. I've got just under half a chicken sat in the fridge so tomorrow will be chicken and ham pie and Friday ham , egg and chips

So this week, I've fed the three of us for 4 nights on £5 (£2 chicken and £3 gammon) excluding the veg of which I had mostly in already and the eggs that the hens lay

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at Dobbies coffee morning I saw in the shop a shelf huge gammons that they are reducing to £10.00 from £21 left over from Christmas no doubt,the end date is 8 February, and my problem is do I go back at the weekend and buy one and cook ,slice and freeze it ,or as I am trying to work down my freezer do I just forget about it and not bother ? its an awfully good bargain and I know ,even if I cut the joint in half and froze both bits there is more than enough meat there for a good few meals .What would my lovely pals do ?? :):)

VJsmum

Same, Suki - I was putting shopping away and fetched out some stuff to use up.

I found an onion that is a few weeks old, a courgette, some wrinkly baby peppers and wrinkly cherry tomatoes. So I made a tomato sauce to go with some meatballs that DS had bought (who has now gone back to uni) that I had on 'courgetti' (though I added some carrot). The remaining going over carrots were frozen for soup.

OH will have the remaining meatballs and some of the sauce with pasta tonight as i am out and any leftover sauce will be frozen...

Cappella

I added the jelly from underneath the lamb fat, the leftover peas and carrots, the leftover gravy and a crumbled slice of black pudding to the leftover lamb and did make a sort of hotpot. It was unexpectedly very good indeed and not at all wishy washy as I’d feared

JackieO - a few months ago I’d have gone back for the reduced gammon you saw but now I’d leave it and carry on emptying the freezer. I’m finding that I prefer have a cooking day every so often, and to cook and freeze our own ‘ready meals’ rather than freezing uncooked meat. I like to leave room for things like chopped peppers, and leftovers I’ll incorporate into future meals, or bread if the freezer gets too empty.

bouicca21

JackieO I'm also trying to run down my freezer, but I'd find it difficult to pass up such a huge reduction.

suki1964

Jackie what I would do is to go back and buy it, and take it to daughter for Sunday dinner so a lot gets used. Then freeze the rest

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suki1964 seriously considering doing that as DD has a big family i.e. three teenage boys who eat for six as they have hollow legs I will see if its still on offer next tuesday when I go there and if it is I may buy it,but if they are all gone then what will be will be :)plus if I do get it she has a whizzy wonderful electric carver that will carve it up beautifully,any odds and ends will do for pasta bakes etc

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I've just used a bag of leeks from the allotment with a home grown onion and some bay leaves from my tree along with a carrot and a large potato to make us a lovely pan of leek and potato soup for our lunches for a few days.

VJsmum

Tonight I am using up some of the squash I previously froze, together with some kale that needs using to make a moroccan chick pea and kale stew. Since DD has come back we have been eating far more veggie food and I am enjoying the challenge of it.