Reverse Meal Planning

joedenise

I love beans with a fried egg on top - used to eat that loads when I was growing up!  I even used to ask for it in cafe when we were on holiday!  I'm sure it must have been embarrassing for my parents.

I've taken a couple of chicken breasts out of the freezer and will do a tray bake with some new potatoes, peppers, butternut squash, onion and anything else I can find in the fridge!  Will smear the chicken breasts with some graining mustard for a bit of flavour!

Suffolk_lass

Best laid plans and all that... DH was fiddling about with the tow-bar electrics on my car until after 8pm so we had pizza from the supply in the freezer, with a small salad. Def beans tonight though

joedenise

joedenise said:

I love beans with a fried egg on top - used to eat that loads when I was growing up!  I even used to ask for it in cafe when we were on holiday!  I'm sure it must have been embarrassing for my parents.

I've taken a couple of chicken breasts out of the freezer and will do a tray bake with some new potatoes, peppers, butternut squash, onion and anything else I can find in the fridge!  Will smear the chicken breasts with some graining mustard for a bit of flavour!

It wasn't chicken breasts I'd got out but thighs!!!  Still made a good tray bake.  Didn't put the new potatoes in with everything else as not enough room!  Just boiled them.  There was potatoes and veg leftover so used this morning chopped up and topped with a couple of fried eggs for breakfast - very nice it was too!

We're having pork chops from the freezer tonight with more new potatoes & green veg, also from freezer.

Have taken some more chicken thighs out for tomorrow night and will be making Fakeaway KFC with HM oven chips, corn on the cob from freezer and the LO half tin of beans in the fridge!

rtandon27

Tonight's dinner will be an easy freezer meal, as it's a long day at the office in the city for me - breaded chicken breast burgers & oven fries - we may have some token lettuce & tomato on the burgers

OH got to fend for himself for lunch with ham salad wraps.  I picked up a treat of some Vietnamese beef of salad - a cold meal perfect for a hot sticky day!

Pixiehouse55

A quiche from the freezer tonight, used up the salad and baby potatoes.  I've already got the chicken out to make a curry for tomorrow night. Jacket potato beans and cheese for our 2 people that live with us, they don't like curry.. ive got a load of chapatti flour to use up too. Any suggestions?

joedenise

Forgot to say when I posted yesterday I also got out some more chicken to make butter chicken so needed it defrosted today so that I can marinade it ready to make the curry tomorrow.  Will make it during the day and then reheat in the evening probably as curry usually tastes better reheated.

rtandon27

oooooo - I harvested my first potatoes today - Bambino variety - a whole pound!  Also one very small onion.  Most of the peas have been eaten in stirfried rice, but I did glimpse a few stragglers which have suddenly fattened up in the heat.

Tonight's dinner will be our usual of baked marinated salmon, steamed potatoes (bambino today!) and green veg (pak choi this week).  Lunch is whatever we can scrounge up, possibly noodles, as it's a bit bare in the fridge - groceries will arrive late afternoon.

ruby_eskimo

Sorry Pixihouse55, no suggestions for the chapatti flour, other than making a whole bunch of them and chucking in the freezer perhaps?

Having jacket potatoes here for dinner with probably tuna but maybe beans, just depends on what we fancy when it comes to raiding the cupboards later!

rtandon27

@Pixiehouse55 - in the past I've mixed chapati flour 50/50 with strong white Canadian flour & used in my bread-maker on the wholemeal setting - it produced a lovely, if a bit heavy, loaf that toasted up beautifully.  We stored it sliced in the freezer & then just pulled out what we needed for breakfast.

Suffolk_lass

We shopped yesterday. Lots of bits were missing or no longer on offer and came away thinking I will need to shop again before the cupboard is bare.

@Pixiehouse55 you could make tortilla wraps with chapatti flour (just make them bigger than normal and have them cold, or there is a stuffed dish if you have a sweet potato and onions or leeks around - it is here. Or you could sieve it as use it as you would wholemeal flour (I mix that with white flour to make it lighter).

DH made homemade burgers last night, which we had with garden grown potatoes and beans