Reverse Meal Planning

joedenise

Had planned to make carrot and lentil soup but the carrots have run out!  So a dig around in the freezer and found a minestrone soup base (tomato & veg sauce) and a bag of cooked cannellini beans.  Just need to add some small pasta to those and minestrone soup for lunch.

Florenceem

Using Pork Mince up today.

rtandon27

Made a batch of Split Pea soup with liquid from our new year's gammon & it's far too salty - Will have to use all the usual tricks to rebalance it...boil a potato in it, dilute, add some vinegar & then some salt - grrr - I hate when a low effort meal turns into a faff! 🤣

Primrose

Been there with the over salty gammon stock!   Makes a big difference if you can soak the joint first in a large pan of cold water overnight and throw the water away.  Even soaking for a couple of hours can make a difference.

Primrose

Been there with the over salty gammon stock!   Makes a big difference if you can soak it in a large pan of cold water overnight and throw the water away.  Even soaking for a couple of hours can make a difference.

ajmoney

I have quite a few brown and red onions, can I freeze them chopped up and if so do you put them in bags etc?  I am not entirely sure they will all last until I can eat them but I couldn't get them unless I bought them in bags before Christmas.

ruby_eskimo

ajmoney said:

I have quite a few brown and red onions, can I freeze them chopped up and if so do you put them in bags etc?  I am not entirely sure they will all last until I can eat them but I couldn't get them unless I bought them in bags before Christmas.

You definitely can do this - I've done it before and also with celery and works a treat. 

Wicked_Lady

We chop and open freeze onions on trays, then store them in bags in the freezer. Works well with leeks too and means I always have a handful to sling into soups or stews.
For some reason the celery I froze came out slimy so I've not tried again.

MrsStepford

Two ways of using up dribs and drabs of veg are pot au feu or frittata.

We discovered the Mlekovita Gouda and Tylzycki cheese slice twin pack 250g of each for £3 in Morrisons. As well as being handy for roll-ups and sandwiches, the cheese slices are awesome, like Mozzarella, in frittata. Some cheeses don't taste salty when 'raw' but are really salty when cooked. The Gouda and Tylzycki slices aren't so they would be good sliced into strips on home-made pizza or used in toasted cheese sandwiches. £3 for half a kilo is a really good price. 

Denser veg will freeze better than celery and cucumber. They have a high water content and their cell structure gets destroyed. Celery keeps for weeks in the salad drawer. 

joedenise

I wrap celery in foil in the fridge and keeps for about 3 weeks.  I only ever use one or two sticks at a time.