Reverse Meal Planning

Pyxis

greenbee said:

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... 

😂😂😂
No wonder you resented the watercress in your box!
Can you see the chuff-chuffs from your garden?😁😁 

greenbee

Pyxis said:

greenbee said:

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... 

😂😂😂
No wonder you resented the watercress in your box!
Can you see the chuff-chuffs from your garden?😁😁 

Nope, but I can hear them!

Pyxis

greenbee said:

Pyxis said:

greenbee said:

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... 

😂😂😂
No wonder you resented the watercress in your box!
Can you see the chuff-chuffs from your garden?😁😁 

Nope, but I can hear them!

Nice!

Baileys_Babe

I enjoy orange and watercress salad, so it should  work with clementines.

Suffolk_lass

I don't have any boxes or SM deliveries - I was put off forever by one at Christmas that included four calabrese broccoli that were already yellow, delivered on 23rd December, necessitating a last minute swoop of three places to get enough green veg for my Christmas guests.

These days I make do and adapt. Last night we had avocado and egg salad with a jacket potato, followed by greek-style yogurt topped with a crumbled meringue and stewed rhubarb. It was the first of this season's rhubarb from our garden and characteristically mild and delicious. Three sticks of rhubarb, one heaped teaspoon of sugar and the remnants of the water I washed it in. So simple, but so good. 

I love the idea of rhubarb to cut through the oily fish. We don't have mackerel indoors, only when cooking outdoors and then I like to bake it stuffed with lemon zest, garlic, chilli, breadcrumbs and butter, wrapped in two layers of foil done on or in the BBQ

Rowan9

Your rhubarb pud sounds delicious. 

Tea tonight is an easy Friday on toast. Scrambled eggs and DH can also have the half tin of beans left from earlier in the week. Probably fruit and cheese and crackers after that. I’m enjoying feta at the moment. Bought it months ago. Nice and salty. Two of the apples are a bit soft now so I’ll stew them to add to porridge. I also have last night chicken bones to boil up for stock. 

greenbee

Suffolk_lass said:

I don't have any boxes or SM deliveries - I was put off forever by one at Christmas that included four calabrese broccoli that were already yellow, delivered on 23rd December, necessitating a last minute swoop of three places to get enough green veg for my Christmas guests.

These days I make do and adapt. Last night we had avocado and egg salad with a jacket potato, followed by greek-style yogurt topped with a crumbled meringue and stewed rhubarb. It was the first of this season's rhubarb from our garden and characteristically mild and delicious. Three sticks of rhubarb, one heaped teaspoon of sugar and the remnants of the water I washed it in. So simple, but so good. 

I love the idea of rhubarb to cut through the oily fish. We don't have mackerel indoors, only when cooking outdoors and then I like to bake it stuffed with lemon zest, garlic, chilli, breadcrumbs and butter, wrapped in two layers of foil done on or in the BBQ

I completely understand not cooking mackerel indoors! However, it's in the freezer and I have the rhubarb - and there is no way I'm cooking outside today! Like you I'm making do and adapting. I've been surviving on veg boxes, deliveries from the milkman, and the contents of my freezer (supplemented by 2 small shops of salad veg by a volunteer and occasional eggs from up the road) for two months now. Monday will be the first SM shop that I've managed to get in this time - I probably don't actually NEED anything but feel I should take advantage while I can (there are no more slots available as far ahead as I can see with any of the three supermarkets I'm signed up to). 

It's been really good for me to have to plan around what's delivered rather than shopping for what I want. I've also been working out protein/carb/fat content and calories, so have probably been eating better (most days) than I have in years. I'm amazed how long the contents of the freezer have lasted (the outside freezer still has a few bits in in - cranberries, the emergency frozen turkey from xmas, chicken carcasses and wings, bread, croissants, pain au chocolat, scones and ONE pizza which I'm contemplating having on saturday! But I've been prioritising using the fresh stuff and making sure I don't waste anything (hence all the carrot soup). 

I currently seem to have a glut of cherry tomatoes and yogurt, but I'm not sure whether there will be a milk delivery next Friday or not so I won't go overboard using it up. 

joedenise

Milkmen don't usually take bank holiday off, at least they didn't when my DH was a milkman years ago.  Can you not ask your milkman or leave him a note?

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Re Bank Holidays - I have milk delivered Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays. If there is a BH due, my milkman delivers early e.g. Monday BH would deliver previous Friday. HTH

greenbee

Last bank holiday there was no delivery, and although it said that they'd move it to the Wednesday, the order disappeared from the website. I'm certainly not going to bother him with a note as I know he's hugely stretched at the moment. It won't really matter if I don't get a delivery on Friday as I have plenty of yogurt and cherry toms which are what arrives on Friday, and I can make the milk last.