Reverse Meal Planning

Paspatur

Delurking to say this is very nice and uses cream cheese - Spinach stuffed chicken breasts - https://thatlowcarblife.com/spinach-stuffed-chicken-2/

Primrose

Can also use the cream cheese to make a sauce in a cheese & Swiss chard or spinach pasta. If you have some spare space in your  garden I really recommend growing Swiss chard, especially the Fordhook Giant variety which has large green glossy leaves and is a decorative plant I. It's own right.  Odd plants can be dotted amongst flowers if you don't have a dedicated vegetable plot. 

joedenise

I've used cream cheese to make the white sauce in a lasagne, usually grate in some parmesan to give it a bit more cheesy flavour.

greent

Philly type cream cheese? Can stir into pasta for a quick sauce - thin with a small spoon of the pasta water if necessary. Add a tsp of pesto for added flavour/ colour and chopped bacon. 

Also nice as a jacket potato topping with crispy bacon and lots of pepper

If its more like dairyman then that can also be stirred into pasta, but would probably thin with a little milk if necessary. Or spread thickly onto digestive biscuits- yum! 

Suffolk_lass

Haha, all suggesting similar things - for me, slackening off the cream cheese by adding the water and flavourings and beating it together before stirring it into the sauce/pasta works best.

Of course cream cheese also works really well substituted for butter and added to icing sugar as a topping (frosting) or filling for cakes, large or individual, and my Mum's original baked cheesecake recipe used it (expensive) too. 

Suffolk_lass

Roast chicken last night.

It was needed after the inspection of our bees. Poor DH got stung on the arm through his suit and then several were attracted to that area and managed to get into his glove - about 5 stings as we were putting it back together - I think we took too long and it was probably a couple of degrees colder than they would have more happily tolerated. I administered water and anti-histamine and he had a sit outside to cool off, only for another to circle him and then sting him on the face! He had a shower then and I washed his suit as we need to go in again this week. 

greent

Ooh- that sounds painful for DH, S_l - hope he's not suffering too much today

We also had  roast chicken last night (still have another 4 or 5 in the freezer...) - but with salad veg, rice salad,  hot potato salad (with lardons in) and baguette slices. Loads of chicken left so will strip that off later for sandwiches and use the carcass for stock. Will probably use the small scraps as sandwich filling with mayo, sweetcorn and lots of black pepper

2 lots of dough proving this morning - 1 for a seeded wholemeal loaf and 1 for a batch of soft white rolls:) Also made a fridge cake to use up stale choc chip muffins and a rock hard brownie that had been forgotten about for a couple of weeks - chopped/ crumbled these up into the usual choc/ syrup/ marshmallow/ cheap digestive biscuits and rice crispie mix Not my thing at all, but will keep the big children happy. Might make flapjacks later to use up a small pack of mixed dried fruits and yogurt coated berries and a very overripe banana

ruby_eskimo

Another one who had roast chicken yesterday!  Carcass is stripped and the leftover meat will be used between fajitas on Wednesday and my snacking between then and now.  Didn't use the bones for broth / stock as I already have a bunch of leftover stock in the freezer and not a lot of room in there now!

Lunch today is going to be the last of the lentil soup from said freezer, although it might be enough for 2 portions so will have to wait and see.  Dinner is going to be some leftover chilli from Saturday served with some potato wedges.

joedenise

Have some keema curry from yesterday left over so we're having that on jacket potatoes for lunch.  Have got a T-bone steak from the freezer for dinner tonight.  Will serve with some of the potatoes which need using up as chips; the last of the mushrooms plus an onion for dinner tonight.

Mrs_Cheshire

Hi all, had roast beef/chicken from the freezer on sunday. sausages from the freezer in a pasta bake on monday, Tuesday OH and I have duck Confit ( from the freezer) with a bag of casserole veg rescued from Olio. Kids had pesto pasta with broccoli and chicken. I rescued 3 finest corn fed chickens from Olio so slow cooked them and removed the meat from them. Need to rearrange the freezer and pop the majority of the meat in there. 

Tonight we had chicken & bacon pies rescued from Olio with mash and veg. Will have a pork stir fry and egg fried rice tomorrow.