Reverse Meal Planning

rtandon27

Butternut squash last for an amazingly long time! We just ate our last one from last year with our Sunday dinner - sliced into semi circles and sheet pan roasted with olive oil, salt & pepper

greent

I used to make a courgette chocolate cake - I think someone put the recipe from my post in the files on the grocery challenge on the OS board. Makes for a very moist cake and I always add more cocoa (or choc chios if I have them) than the recipe says, as my brood like very chocolatey chocolate cake!

ruby_eskimo

I think we're at the end of the courgette harvest here, but it looks like we're going to have LOTS of jalapeno's so plenty of mexican themed meals coming soon I think.  

Tonight we're having a chicken curry, using some chicken thighs from the freezer with a random spice blend and the last of the coconut milk that I froze a while ago plus a tin of chopped tomatoes and will bulk it out with some peppers and an onion so I might be having the leftovers for lunch tomorrow!

Suffolk_lass

Ooh, I might look for that @greent, I still have them coming in thick and fast from the yellow courgette and the tromboncinos. My tomatoes are at an end. Far fewer than last year, I really should process them all into preserving jars but other priorities today. I have eaten out in proper restaurants the last two nights and my waistline shows it. I got on the scales this morning. Hurumph! Soup and omelette for me today!

Mrs_Cheshire

Evening all, Eating from stores is going well. I've got a few bags of Quorn pieces in the freezer which hubby isn't keen on so will have to have a think about how to use them. The kids and I do eat it but I dislike having to make separate meals. Think I'll get some mince and my homemade tomato & basil sauce out of the freezer for tomorrow's tea. 

CCW007

Fakeaway tonight - portugese pork curry for OH (Olio pork), same curry base but vegetable for me (Olio baby corn and yellow beans) with saag aloo and pilau rice.  Will be enough for a few meals too.  Overrun with bread at the moment and no freezer space.  May turn more into breadcrumbs and dehydrate for using on scotch eggs.

Got a week off now so inventory and defrosting the freezer definitely planned for one day!

joedenise

Managed to get my chest freezer defrosted and inventoried a couple of days ago so much more organised now.  Still need to do an inventory of the indoor freezer (part of the fridge/freezer) so not as much to sort in there but I already know I need to buy more frozen peas, beans and mixed veg as all bags are virtually empty!

Roasted a good size chicken for dinner tonight and there are plenty of leftovers to deal with but not sure exactly what I'm going to do with it all.  Will be using some for lunch tomorrow as DH is probably going to be out will also use some on Tuesday night to make a chicken & chorizo risotto.  Think there will be more so may make some curry to use up the rest of it and then freeze in portions for next month.  This month's menu plan is already sorted mainly using HM ready meals and cupboard stores.

ruby_eskimo

Morning all - we're going away next week so operation use up everything in the fridge is a go!  Doesn't help that DH harvested a whole bunch of vegetables from the garden too over the weekend so had to rejig the meal plan quite a bit.  

This morning I had 2 boiled eggs for breakfast as they were going to go out of date tomorrow so that's one thing ticked off the list.  Lunch today is going to be some cheat's sushi bowls but instead of rice, you use cottage cheese as a base and then top with seafood sticks, cucumber and shredded seaweed.  Had them last week and loved it but didn't use up all the seafood sticks or the cucumber so that's lunch for the next couple of days sorted and again, a few things gone from the fridge.  Dinner tonight is homemade pizza as we a) had dough in the freezer and b) had lots of odds and ends of cooked meat and veggies that would make good toppings so again, that will be a few less things to worry about after tonight 👍

EssexHebridean

More courgettes over the weekend....thanks for recipes all who've shared, I've noted those for use! More flowers coming as well....

One tip - both courgettes and butternut and similar squashes secret a slightly sticky juice/sap once cut that you can then use a finger to spread across the cut surface and that does a decent job of sealing the cut bit from the air for a few days.

Yesterday was veg box day. Thankfully it didn't contain any more kale (I have a large stay-fresh bag lurking in the fridge stuff FULL of the stuff!). It did bring another cabbage though.. I have three now...sigh! A stir fry is on the meal plan for this evening - hoisin beef I think - as that will use a big chunk of the savoy cabbage, AND some kale, veg-box spinach, a carrot, a courgette (of course!) and probably some other bits too. Oh some more runner beans - those are still producing like crazy! Tomorrow is going to be a couscous based concoction with plenty of roast veggies and probably eggs as the protein element. Wednesday - needs to be a quick solution as I'm in the office, I've got lamb chops to use though so those may well suit, possibly with a salad of some sort as we have a big bag of rocket, and a cucumber to use too. Thursday - I wouldn't bet against spinach & courgette pasta.... 

joedenise

Lots of LOs from yesterday's roast chicken so will be having some with salad for lunch today.  Have bagged up the smaller pieces into 3 bags which are each enough for one meal for the 2 of us.  These will make a Spanish rice, a chicken, chorizo and prawn risotto and a chicken curry.  Two out of the 3 will be on the menu plan this month and the other one next month.

Really pleased with this as that's 10 portions out of a chicken which cost less than £4.