Reverse Meal Planning

Primrose

My husband , who's on a diet and who often likes to prepare his own food, regularly saves cooked vegetable leftovers to use up for breakfast, usually mixing them with an egg and perhaps a little grated cheese or a couple of chopped mushrooms , to prepare a microwaved omelette.  It's a good way of using things up.

Porridgecat

Thursday night we had peri peri chicken wings, using up most of a bottle of very ood peri peri sauce, I made sweet potato fritters with them with the sad sweet potato I saved the other day. Last night was steak and chips and tonight is a Chinese takeaway sponsored by MIL (she's in our bubble) We had our usual cooked breakfast this morning - we used to go out for breakfast before shopping but obviously can't at the moment so I'm making our own. MrPorridge did a minimal shop this morning as he had to do MIL's daily fruit and veg and some of the L*dl Greek antipasti that he likes for his lunches in the week. 

joedenise

Got a lamb tagine out of the freezer for dinner tonight and made some herby couscous to go with it.  Very nice it was too

Holmefarm

Hello everyone! I really enjoy all your ideas and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions how I could use up 3 iceberg lettuce before they go yucky. Thank you

Brambling

Holmefarm I make braised lettuce and peas, sometimes call French style made with or without bacon. You can also make soup with lettuce although I usually add it to other veg when making a one from the bottom of the fridge, but there are recipes for lettuce soup.

rtandon27

@Holmefarm - we often make stir-fried lettuce to serve along with black-bean beef/chicken/pork and sticky rice

Suffolk_lass

@Holmefarm - with the third lettuce I would make lettuce soup. Pull of any really sad brown bits first then I make this BBC recipe. I have tried several. Don't make the one with pea pods. That can never have been made by the person putting it forward as it was full of cellulose strips and had to be binned

ruby_eskimo

Morning all.  Made cottage pie for dinner last night and have a little bit left over so have nabbed that for my lunch today.  Dinner is going to be carbonara as I have some eggs and parmesan that need to be used up, plus spaghetti in the cupboard and bacon in the freezer - all in all a lovely quick and cheap meal.

Suffolk_lass

We had a quick ratatouille with garlic flat bread last night, using up the sad aubergine and one courgette, I added red onions, garlic, yellow pepper, a jar of passata and a couple of handfuls of cherry tomatoes, with lemon zest and dried herbs, salt pepper and a sprinkle of chilli flakes. 

Tonight we have our online course so will be having the remnants of the veg chilli and ratatouille with jacket potatoes so we are ready to go in good time. Happy days

joedenise

Have got some red lentil dahl left from yesterday so will have that for lunch with a little rice.

Got a cauliflower in the fridge so will be making cauliflower cheese with that.