Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

YorksLass

Last night's dinner was a "use up" of fridge LOs (diced roast lamb, chickpea dahl, half an orange pepper) and a handful of peas from the freezer to make a lamb curry-type topping for jacket potato. Sliced banana and cream for afters. Win-win, bits used up and no spend.

While the oven was on I cooked some chicken drumsticks and picked the meat off the bones last night while I was watching TV. Most of it has been earmarked for tonight's dinner of honey & mustard chicken with mash and broccoli. Pudding will be a tin of rice pudding (hoicked out from the back of the cupboard) with a swirl of lemon curd and the last bit of cream. There was enough chicken meat left to make a pot of Coronation chicken to go on crackers/toast for a lunchtime break.

I normally make my own rice pudding but I seem to remember this came as a bogof when we had a local Netto store - now closed. The offer was really for a tin of ready-made custard (always handy to have in) but they didn't have any left so I was a bit cheeky and asked if I could have rice pudding instead. Nice young man said yes. Well, if you don't ask, you don't get! And yes, it's gone past its bbe date but it's passed the smell & taste test.

Not too much snow here (yet) and today has been quite sunny with intermittent flurries but it's bitterly cold with temperatures not getting above freezing. So glad we're well stocked up as I hate going out in snow and ice. Unless forced, I'll be staying indoors all week.

bouicca21

The pie sounds yummy. As a CFO I'll have to cut it down pretty drastically. Don't drink bitter, but presumably it will be ok with some lager.

ma-ri-ella

been sticking quite well to meal plans and have got up to next week sorted :P small 1.40 spend today - i got a frozen fruit bag,a banana and cheap lemonade to use up some pf the gin in the house rather than buying more alcohol
made my soup and turned out nice which am surprised about ! not got as far as the frozen meat drawer i think some of that will disappear next week

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

bouicca21, perhaps try an Indian Pale Ale rather than lager. I used to drink lager but as I have got older I have moved to Pale Ales (except in France when it is small bottles of lager:) as they do not really do pale ales).

MrsSD

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Mrs_Salad_Dodger wrote: »

Any ideas what I can do with 3/4 jar of pickled red cabbage & 3/4 jar of silver skin onions & 1/2 jar of curry paste?

MrsSD:)
LFHW

Hi everyone,

Re above, the pickled red cabbage was used up a while ago with sausage & mash, the curry paste is earmarked for a beef curry (using cooked beef from the freezer stocks) & I finally started using the silver skin onions.

Our lunch today was hm pizza using lo shortcrust pastry, chicken gravy paste & tomato pur!e, finely chopped silver skin onions + sun dried tomatoes + capers + black olives with a bit of salt & pepper, slices of ham, thin slices of chorizo, the last of the St Augur, a thinly sliced mushroom & grated cheddar. It was absolutely delicious !!!128523; although DH did point out that we could have done with a slightly thicker pastry base (need more than 130g :rotfl:) !

Tonight finishing off yesterday’s mushroom & lentil pie with swede & potato mash & petit pois.

Thank you all for great ideas & giving me the confidence to experiment:T

LFHW

MrsSD

bouicca21

Ooh, desert my Budvar for pale ale? I'll have to cogitate.

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tonights dinner was cheesy mash from the freezer plus a couple of sausages and some mixed veg ,all from the freezer. Thick snow outside so I am staying indoors in the warm. Plenty of freezer stuff and only thing I am running a little short of is perhaps cheese but I can use soft cheese as a substitute on my crackers at lunchtime

maddiemay

I have been trying to run down my freezer stocks, spurred on by a meat delivery scheduled for today, doing quite well so far. Last evening I pulled out some chopped celery, leek and spring onion that had been stashed in there since last week to stop it going off, some sliced mushrooms saved from a ys bargain and a portion of mushroom rice (Remoska recipe) as I always over cater, as soon as kitchen cleared and DW emptied the soup maker will be pressed into action and hopefully tasty soup for lunch and the next couple of days produced:D:money:

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I am making celery/veg soup today from the very clapped out bits left in the fridge and some veggie odds and ends from the freezer, I make throw some broken bits of pasta in as well to bulk it out a bit. I found a recipe for cheesey/chilli scones which I quite fancy so I may knock some of those up as well. I have half a sweet pointed pepper in the fridge so that will get chucked into the soup I think, I may dice a little bit off to go into the scones first though I like to think of ways to use up the odds and ends if I can

JackieO xx

Ginmonster

I stuck to my meal plan for yesterday but there was too much veg dhansak and naan bread dough for me to finish it off last night so I'll be having that for lunch today. I still have some veggie Bolognese to eat as well so that will have to be tea as I don't think it's going to last much longer. I'll have it with the last tiny bit of pizza dough which isn't even big enough to make a child's pizza from. That should sort the urgent stuff and I'll make the 5 year old some fishcakes for his tea and serve with broccoli and peas.

I got a Tesco delivery today and am annoyed to find that the fresh stuff all has really short dates on it. Some tomorrow and most of the rest Friday. Now I ignore those dates but it does mean they're likely to go off quicker and might not last the week. Grrr!