Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Hi from France,

Trying to empty DSis’s freezer :eek: & get her on the LFHW bandwagon

Monday night’s dinner was three different meals for 4 people - Nephew finished the lo pork from Sunday’s roast dinner with chips from freezer & peas. DSis had a heated up Cornish Pasty (that DH brought from England as travel food but didn’t eat) with the lo boiled potatoes (from Sunday) which she fried. DH & I had battered fish (from freezer) with chips & peas.

Tuesday’s dinner was pasta bolognese - using 2 packets of mince from the freezer, finishing off a jar of dried mushrooms & also finishing off a jar of bolognese spices & using two jars of tomato passata. Four jars duly washed & recycled.

Freezer diving for tomorrow as well :rotfl:

LFHW

MrsSD

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Wednesday's dinner for four :-

2 steaks from freezer & 2 steaks bought in the a.m., all the potatoes peeled & mashed, & 3 more tins of vegetables used from the shelf. Trying to empty freezer & shelves so no food to be taken to England or binned

Tonight spaghetti bolognese again!

LFHW

MrsSD

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Morning chums as I am stuck at home for a couple of days I used my time productively and made a big pot of bendy carrot and coriander soup yesterday (even though the temperature outside was boiling ) and also made some melting moments biscuits .I may make some scones this morning as I still cannot go out in the hot sun just yet because of my poor arm.
Glad to see everyone is still hanging onto their pennies and using up odds and ends I had a chicken curry from the freezer last night and tonight its going to be a small bit of steak and salad for dinner.
Starting to get a bit of wriggle room in there at last

JackieO xxx

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

JackieO, glad the antibiotics are finally working

Friday's Dinner was frozen chips with ham for DH & DSis - I just had chips :rotfl:
Saturday we had boiled new potatoes, fried tomatoes, haricot beans & the smallest lamb chops I have ever seen :rotfl: However they were very tasty.

DSis has just cooked roast lamb & roast potatoes with a bag of stir fry veg & very tasty it was too :drool: especially the roasties :drool: Loads of lamb leftover so my DSis will be having lots over the next few days :rotfl: Lamb is always the last choice of a roast meat for DH & I - he loves pork with crackling of course:rotfl: & I love beef. Rarely have roast chicken as I prefer making meals with thighs or breasts of chicken :rotfl:

With the weather so hot, we have been having croissants or pain au raisin for breakfast, no lunch & then dinner. However DSis & I are drinking enough tea to sink a battleship & DH is drinking enough coffee to sink his own battleship :rotfl: Using up leftovers is not going well nor can we freeze them as trying to empty freezer (it also needs to be sold :rotfl:) Literally everything must go :rotfl: including the bed DH & I are sleeping on :rotfl:

Any unused tinned food will be donated to DNeph

I will revert to being a Love Food, Hate Waster when I am back in my own kitchen :rotfl: & cooking everything from scratch with a fluid weekly menu plan :T - my DSis tends to go for convenience freezer food as she really dislikes cooking & even more so when there is just her to cook for

Enough whingeing from me

MrsSD

crazytree

Just got back from THE BIG SHOP for the month. Tidied out the fridge and freezer as I put away. Plans to use most things in there BUT there is one of those pointy cabbages that I bought (no idea why). There is also the remains of a green cabbage that I can give to the hens but I don't want to give them two cabbages because it's me that has to clear up their poop!!!! (Sorry)
Any ideas on things to make with cabbage? Or can I freeze it until we're having a more gravy type of dinner that it'll go with?
Any help gratefully received....
Please?
Tx

bouicca21

It is my considered opinion that the best thing to do with cabbage is to add it to the compost heap. I still remember the over cooked soggy mess of my childhood. I don't give the stuff house room.

I suppose you could add it to a stir fry?

joedenise

crazytree - You can buy frozen cabbage so can't see why you wouldn't be able to freeze it to use at a later date.

Roasted a chicken yesterday and had for dinner. Have picked the rest of the meat off and will be using some for a stirfry tonight; some for sandwiches and the rest for a curry tomorrow. Have made the curry sauce today so will just need to reheat and and the chicken for just a couple of minutes at the end so it doesn't go stringy!

Denise

wort

The cabbage shredded finely in a salad, or stir fry. Also bits thrown in a stew or casserole . coleslaw? Wrapped in foil should keep well in salad drawer in fridge.

Pollycat

crazytree wrote: »

J
Any ideas on things to make with cabbage? Or can I freeze it until we're having a more gravy type of dinner that it'll go with?
Any help gratefully received....
Please?
Tx

I freeze any left over cabbage.

Use it in a dinner with other veg or I add it to mashed potatoes for a shepherd's pie topping.
Ups your 5 a day and gives a different texture.

bouicca21 wrote: »

It is my considered opinion that the best thing to do with cabbage is to add it to the compost heap. I still remember the over cooked soggy mess of my childhood. I don't give the stuff house room.

I suppose you could add it to a stir fry?

I can't really remember how the cabbage was cooked at school.
But my Mum used to overcook most vegetables - carrots, cauli, sprouts - but I don't see that as a reason not to eat it cooked as I like it now some 45 years later.

And yes, it goes well in a stir fry.

I also use cabbage in Kapuska which is a Middle-Eastern recipe.
I saw Rick Stein cook it on his Venice to Istanbul series.

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Wrap the cabbage in tin foil and put it in the salad drawer it will last for several weeks like that or take off the outer leavers shred and bag up in the freezer it freezes very well I do the fridge method only because I can cut and come again from it as and when I need it and a bag of shredded cabbage in the freezer will take up too much room