Reverse Meal Planning

EssexHebridean

Not much meal planning from me today as we’re away for the weekend heading off as soon as MrEH finishes work. I have just made cinnamon porridge for us both though - his topped with the last banana and mine with the spare apple, both caramelised in a little maple syrup and apple juice. That’s the maple syrup finished so will add a new bottle to the Al’s list - we use it a reasonable amount. 

CCW007

Hope you have a good weekend away EH.

Veg box is here and contains yet another cabbage!  So this weekend I will be making something with cabbage.  

Lunch today will be tomato soup to use up some on their way out tomatoes. 

Dinner will be calzone to use up some opened pepperoni and bacon for OH and the rest of my lentil bolognaise.  We got a free gift in the veg box which was three different cheeses so some of that will go in and have taken some mozzarella out of the freezer along.  Will serve with some crispy potato slices (out the freezer) and some part based sour dough baguettes with garlic butter.

rtandon27

We will be getting our veg box delivery again next week, after a two month break while we moved & got settled!  Thank goodness it's just plain everyday veg this time, so will fit nicely into our (hopefully) simple meal plan.  Have reduced our box delivery to every other week, as delivery costs have doubled.  We'll also be able to top up with the weekly grocery delivery if we ever run out.  Somehow I always remember struggling with how huge the veg are at this time of year, so we should be OK with that plan.

Yesterday was a late lunch of a store-bought sandwich & fastfood chicken and chips for dinner.  My only excuse is that I'm doing crazy overtime atm, working on aspects of 'that' conference up north and real life is a bit on the back burner!  Today will be sausages in rolls with some onions & salad - nice and easy dinner with very little effort!  Thank goodness for WFH Fridays

Herbyme

@CCW007 tyvm for the lentil bolognese recipe. And @EssexHebridean tyvm for the idea of caramelised apples on porridge. Unfortunately I find the only oats I have are the kind that dissolve into mush, not the jumbo kind I usually buy. So the fruit really helps, and did need eating up. Running on the fumes of October’s grocery budget atm, so all these things help!

Suffolk_lass

carolinerunner said:

@CCW007 tyvm for the lentil bolognese recipe. And @EssexHebridean tyvm for the idea of caramelised apples on porridge. Unfortunately I find the only oats I have are the kind that dissolve into mush, not the jumbo kind I usually buy. So the fruit really helps, and did need eating up. Running on the fumes of October’s grocery budget atm, so all these things help!

I know what you mean re those oats. I use them for making twinks hobnobs (recipes and its own thread!) and flapjacks. I even tried mixing them with some jumbos but it wasn't a huge success. The birds like them, when soaked to stop them swelling in their tummies...

Suffolk_lass

Just posted the wrong thing in the wrong thread. I meant to say I cooked and froze chick peas in can-sized portions

CCW007

Made a batch of bottom of the fridge veg curry with chickpeas for the freezer as well as some broth / soup using up soup mix. Soup will need something more when I come to use it but it's fine as a base.

6 peppers chopped and frozen - enough space in the fridge for the veg box haul.

Made a very random veggie braised cabbage / colcannon type affair for lunch using some "this isn't bacon" coming up to its UB date, onion, cabbage and potato cooked in veg stock - was actually pretty tasty!

Tomorrow will be roast - YS lamb for OH and something from the freezer for me with purple cauli, broccoli, roasties and parsnips.  Will also be pickling more courgettes tomorrow as well, time permitting.

Suffolk_lass

I've got the meat out to make chilli and a chicken to roast, in an effort to make room in the freezer. Then I went and had egg on toast this evening instead of eating more. My excuse is that the coffee I was going for with friends ended up being lunch so I just didn't need more. still full now!

Pixiehouse55

Living on a Narrowboat with not much storage for food, we have a fridge but no freezer. Still using up packet and tinned food that we bought with us when we moved out of our house. Lots of rice being eaten. Today was sausages cooked in a egg fried rice with sweetcorn, only the sausages were brought today
Tomorrow is chicken in a jar of sauce that was in the cupboard but we brought broccoli and carrots. Potatoes with it not rice.

Sorry not been about for a while. Sold our house. Mortgage free. Brought a motorhome to live in first. Found the narrowboat of our dreams  and moved in 4 weeks later. Motorhome up for sale now. 
Will still carry on eating what's in the cupboards and left overs. Internet is a bit hit and miss. Will call in when I can x 

Suffolk_lass

Blimey @Pixiehouse55 that is brave! I doubt the contents of my larder would fit in a motorhome (I've just stashed this year's butternut squashes in a paper bread-sack and wondering where that will fit!