Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

Living_proof

I found a pack of Italian style barley and lentil veg which just needed 10 minutes to simmer. Oh, and the use by date was August 2014. Perfectly edible, no waste!

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Hi fellow LFHWrs,

Nothing thrown out today :j

Lunch today - DSis Italian tomato soup & crustybread, DH crusty bread with pate, potato salad & ham, me a pain au raisin & finished my plate of beetroot, potato salad & mortadella from yesterday

Dinner - DSis fried eggs, ham & sautee potatoes, DH fried eggs, pate & crusty bread, me lo pasta bolognese (fried) with lots of grated parmesan. We have a French custard tart for afters or yummy lemon cheesecake which I made on Thursday as a treat or my DSis :A

Tomorrow DSis is cooking shoulder of lamb with roast potatoes & lots of veg.

LFHW
MrsSD

ScarletRibbons

I made some leek and potato soup from some YS leeks, and have done very little shopping for the past few weeks. Apart from veg and bread we can live out of the freezer for a bit. I have a few sprouty spuds - I'll cook, mash and freeze them.

YorksLass

YorksLass wrote: »

Tomorrow I'm planning on making a mushroom & chickpea pate to use up some mushrooms that are going somewhat wrinkly

Didn't happen as DH fancied a bacon & mushroom sarnie meaning not enough left for pate, but I used the rest up with other odds & ends to make 4 portions of mushroom soup, so nothing wasted.

This morning I've made 4 individual pots of lime jelly and fruit salad; now in the fridge and just waiting for them to set. There's half a tin of evaporated milk for a topping instead of custard or cream, so that's desserts sorted for a couple of days.

When I was rootling around in the cupboard for the jelly, I found half a packet of flaked almonds that I'm unlikely to use, so I've whizzed them up in the coffee grinder and now have ground almonds to add to the biscuit base the next time I make cheesecake.

Mrs SD: I hope DSis is feeling better now - it's probably a good thing you've got rid of the OOD/furry stuff from the fridge.

JackieO: Thoughts on using up the damson jam - tarts; a spoonful in rice pudding, yogurt or porridge; as a "surprise" in buns; folded through ice cream; as a filling for sweet pancakes. Mix with red wine to make a pan sauce for steak. Brush over chicken drumsticks for a sweet, sticky glaze. In barbecue sauce.

Hope everyone's enjoying the Bank Holiday - all the better with the much awaited sunshine!

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YorksLass folded into vanilla ice cream sounds a plan, make a nice change from strawberry or blackberry also maybe in the middle of muffins perhaps

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Very frugal Monday :rotfl:

Brunch - lo bread with cheese & tomatoes from fridge for DSis, lo pain au raisin for DH & I

Dinner - lo slow cooked lamb in gravy & saut!ed lo boiled potatoes for DSis, ditto lo lamb for DH with saut!ed lo roast potatoes & I had lo pasta bolognese.

MrsSD

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

:j Yippee :j DH is cooking dinner tonight - cheesey pasta :drool: using up various cheeses from the fridge & one of the many boxes of pasta :T

MrsSD

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Still feeding from my freezer at the moment and as yet haven't had to buy very much this month. Tonight is quiz night at the pub so no cooking for me as we get a meal chucked in with the price of the quiz

I have enough salad stuff for tomorrow, so will have a salad of pilchards,lettuce tomato cucumber,grated cheese, new potatoes and diced beetroot, with some onon chutney That should more than fill me up and it saves me going to the shops until hopefully Thursday or Friday.

Using up what I have in stock is certainly paying off .On my shopping list at the moment I only have bran flakes and UHT milk to buy so far this week. I had a good root around the freezer and I still have a good few meals in there to use up

JackieO xx

Gem-gem

Finally defrosted the freezer in the shed. Most of the food left in it was stewed fruit from last year, bread and a duck. After went down to the town and picked up fresh cod, mince, chicken and bread all ys down to 1/4 of the original price. Into the newly cleaned freezer it went with the frozen fruit.

Lunch ys rolls and ham with ys hot cross bun
Dinner - left over hm lamb and mint gravy pie with three veg and lashing of left over gravy.

Tomorrow I am going to made a batch of bolognaise sauce with the ys button mushrooms and ys extra lean mince. Ready to turn into lasagna or have with linguine.

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Yay well done Gem-gem, the hardest thing to do is get the blooming freezer emptied enough to defrost it I am about halfway there and still have a good way to go and when shopping I have to say in my head 'emptying freezer do not buy' as I walk past the y/s bargains . Jolly hard work though as they all look tempting but so fat over the past month I have resisted them :)I have two new drawers to replace the cracked ones in my freezer and they have been sitting in my spare room for months but they are definitely going to be in there by the summer (fingers crossed and purse firmly shut )

Today I am using up odds and ends of salady bits and will go food shopping possibly tomorrow ,or if I can manage it on Friday I haven't much to buy thank goodness as I shall try and get some more wriggle room in the freezer first.
I SHALL empty this blooming freezer :):)