Reverse Meal Planning

-taff

Aliliva said:

This sounds amazing! have to wait for the new box in a few days for the potatoes...but I guess the cabbage will survive another few days in the fridge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN7inXFbmUs

vitaweat

Aliliva said:

Hi everyone!
I came here looking for some ideas on how to use veggies: OH and I get one of those veggie boxes every week and sometimes are a bit pressed for ideas on how to use things - last week we had to call both our sets of parents just to figure out what one of the veggies was, let alone how to use it! 
Yesterday we used the last dregs of last week's box for a nasi goreng (swapping shallots for spring onions and adding some rogue peppers) and a potatoes + leeks + carrots soup. This means we have just one white cabbage left to use - any of you has any idea how to use it? I'm a bit bored of steamed cabbage but don't really know what else to do

Stir fry it with bacon and/or pine nuts and soy sauce.  Works really well with brussels sprouts too.

Rowan9

Taff I really enjoyed watching that clip. Thanks. Will definitely make!
i always have cabbage in. Add it to lentil soup, add loads to minestrone and to pasta sauces. 

rtandon27

Hello Taff - if you are feeling adventourus, how about a Friday night Fake-away?

Keralan Coconut, Cabbage & Carrot Curry is easy & tasty or Easy Okonomiyaki if you want something that in our house always disappears faster than it was made!

greenbee

My veg box has arrived ... more potatoes, apples and clementines to find homes for! Some of the rhubarb will be cooked with mackerel tomorrow night. Lots of watercress (I wonder whether watercress and clementine salad would work?), mushrooms and kale again as well as cherry toms and shallots. 

Tonight I'm using stuff from previous weeks - sweet potato, BNS, onion, garlic, carrot, courgette - in a tray bake with sausages from the freezer. 

I've had a bit of a sort out of the freezers, and have one drawer of 'ingredients' (cod, haddock, salmon, mackerel, smoked salmon, prawns, mince, ham, halloumi, mozzarella, ricotta, mascarpone, chillies, sweetcorn, peas, spinach plus 3 fishcakes), one draw of 'meals' (veg thai green curry, bolognese, lamb tagine, carrot soup, green soup, beef stew, beef shortrib) and another with a couple of bits of fruit and some icecream. So I need to bring in some more stuff from the outside freezer - the ready-to-eat stuff (probably bread, scone, croissants that I really need to ration) and then defrost the chicken carcasses/wings to make stock and the turkey to roast and re-freeze as cold meat. 

I do have a supermarket delivery slot for Monday, so need to top up on the greenery, which seems to have been a bit lacking in this week's veg box. Then again, it isn't exactly salad weather right now!

Pyxis

I had a bit of a problem with my veg box delivery today.☹️ Probably a new/substitute chap, and he didn’t leave it where it should have been left, and I didn’t find it until 3pm!

I would love your clementines and your watercress!

I got more apples, ☹️, but some oranges and nectarines too.
I obviously had a different box from you.
Was pleased with the courgettes, mushrooms and sprouting broccoli, though.
Plus, the Prosecco,arrived, so that was the first thing to get soaped and rinsed and opened! 😁

Rhubarb with mackerel? That sounds interesting!

However, I used up some sad veg from last week......French beans and asparagus stalks that had got forgotten, some soft cherry toms, and sad carrots and a potato, all chopped up and stir-fried with fresh and dried herbs, onion, garlic and some left-over tomato paste and chilli pesto. Then chucked in some diced paneer. Yum yum!

Rowan9

Loving the veg box stories and your freezer sounds fab Greenbee. 

My veg box is a local seasonal so I top up with my Sains shop. I’m adding to it next week though as I’m getting the hang of the order form. Definitely ordering rhubarb as I really fancy some 

greenbee

I'll swap you half my watercress for a courgette @Pyxis. And clementines for broccoli ...  I'm really feeling the lack of green after last week and this week!

Rhubarb should cut through the oiliness of the mackerel - and it is a vegetable after all! Any I don't do with the mackerel I'll stew in some ginger cordial left over from Christmas. 

Pyxis

greenbee said:

I'll swap you half my watercress for a courgette @Pyxis. And clementines for broccoli ...  I'm really feeling the lack of green after last week and this week!

Rhubarb should cut through the oiliness of the mackerel - and it is a vegetable after all! Any I don't do with the mackerel I'll stew in some ginger cordial left over from Christmas. 

If I still ate fish I would try that. Sounds good.
Rhubarb in ginger cordial also sounds good!

Where did you say you lived again? 😁😁

greenbee

Pyxis said:

greenbee said:

I'll swap you half my watercress for a courgette @Pyxis. And clementines for broccoli ...  I'm really feeling the lack of green after last week and this week!

Rhubarb should cut through the oiliness of the mackerel - and it is a vegetable after all! Any I don't do with the mackerel I'll stew in some ginger cordial left over from Christmas. 

If I still ate fish I would try that. Sounds good.
Rhubarb in ginger cordial also sounds good!

Where did you say you lived again? 😁😁

On an old watercress bed in Hampshire...