Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

freyasmum

Small win for me today.

We were due to fly home but, due to the weather at the other end, decided against it for safety. Before going, we tried to eat as much of the food in the house as we could. As a result, there wasn't much in the house for dinner.

Cue stuffed pitta pockets (frozen pitta, that had been reduced) with a slice of smoked cheese with ham melted in (plain for dd), the last two slices of smoked bacon fried and torn in and the end of a box of mushrooms, sliced and dry-fried. It was a real hit! And dd asked if we could have it again :rotfl:

Also making fridge-bottom soup... yum :rotfl:

Last night, I used up a sachet of Maggi bbq chicken seasoning and a tub of creamy mash that I got for 10p. We had a tub of carrots to help clear the cupboards as well.

Florence_J

I don't always meal plan, but the times I don't I deeply regret it, so I always try to but I need to get OH to do it at the same time and he often gets distracted...

The meal plan is more in effect to prevent waste, so using up the short life products first.

In a bid to eat healthily I did an epic healthy food plan last weekend and bought so many different types of vegetables that OH didn't believe we would eat them all before they went off.

But we did, and I definitely feel like I have lost weight.

In the spirit of using things up I also finished a bottle of Gin.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Hev wrote: »

What a shame the old thread has been lost:( So many great ideas on there too! Thank you Jackie for this new one though:T

Starting to look at my stores the same way as pieces of lego :rotfl: I lay out on the counter all the items that need using up and then work out what meal I can make. Last night we had the family round so I managed to get some reduced price luxury caramelised onion sausages and put together a cauliflower and broccoli cheese topping it with whole meal breadcrumbs from the freezer and more grated cheese that needed using up, followed by a plum oaty crumble, very filling and tasty. Now I need to start on the pulses in the larder. I thought a nice warming lentil dhal to start with? For lunch we're going to use up some leftover mash and greens - bubble and squeak with eggs and baked beans.

Hev, what a great idea - laying out the items that need to be used & inventing a meal:T. Do you mind if I borrow the idea? I have some lo puff pastry & various bits of veg & soft cheese so I was thinking about a savoury flan.

LFHW

MrsSD:)

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

X_Duvessa_X wrote: »

I need help ladies i have the last of a turkey(still some decent meat left before it goes for stock) red cabbage carrots peppers and cooking bacon all that need using up. I have no idea what to make with that lot!!!!

Biryani perhaps?

purplevamp

Florence_J wrote: »

In the spirit of using things up I also finished a bottle of Gin.

That's the spirit :T:rotfl: Also well done on losing weight. I'm having a hard time losing any but can put it on just by looking at a cake. Although the KK donuts I bought today did NOT help

Lunch for me today was last nights l/o bol on top of some frozen mash found in the freezer. Wasn't really looking forward to it but once it had defrosted it seemed to have turned itself into a shepherd's pie, so yum!

Got 4 carrots from The Shelf at work today. Dinner was fish cakes from the freezer with peas and chips. I only ate one fish cake as they were so big and filling. I put the other one back in the freezer for a quick grab lunch.

I'm off to a memorial service tomorrow in a pub (:beer:) so hoping there'll be some food there which will save making dinner when we get home.

And another week of no takeaways. :A

crazytree

Those pita pockets sound great! I shall have to try that. I'm always looking for something different and easy to put on the meal plan.

I'm another one who needs to lose weight, Himself has actually requested smaller dinners. I find cooking less really hard to do, so I'm expecting loads of leftovers!

Tx

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I have a sad lonely green pepper in the fridge ideas please

purplevamp

JackieO wrote: »

I have a sad lonely green pepper in the fridge ideas please

If it's not "fresh" you could chop it up and freeze it ready to put into soups or curry if you don't feel like using it straight away. I find green peppers can sometimes be bitter and much prefer red ones. But when we get our peppers the majority are green. I use mine in stir fry, curry, sweet & sour chicken.

If it seems fine then how about chicken kebabs? Skewer alternate chicken, onion, pepper, cherry toms (if you have them) onto wooden skewers and coat in a HM bbq sauce.

freyasmum

I'd do pretty much what purplevamp suggested

Today I made soup out of a reduced celeriac I got a few weeks ago and hadn't gotten round to using. I added 3 broccoli stalks that I'd collected in the freezer (addicted to roasted broccoli at the moment), a handful of lentils for some body, a couple of carrots and some curry powder (expired last year).

I wasn't quite sure what to expect, but it's really quite pleasant!

MrsPear

I have a bag for the green peppers -chopped - in the freezer as we don’t like them raw in salads - too bitter. But they go nice in fajitas or a chicken tray bake.