Reverse Meal Planning

joedenise

Using up some sliced roast pork which we bought YS in a sandwich for lunch.  Dinner tonight will be LO chicken from yesterday's roast.  There is far too much so some of it will be frozen to use at some time in the future.

Edit:  Two lots of chicken have gone into the freezer.  Will need to use both lots if I want to make something like a curry but there is enough in each bag for something like chicken and chorizo rice or chicken & leek pasta.

ruby_eskimo

While I was cooking dinner last night and had the oven on anyway, I chucked in some tomatoes, a couple of leftover peppers and onions and roasted them down.  Will add to some vegetable stock later and blitz to make some soup for lunches over the next couple of days.  

Dinner tonight is going to be leek, mushroom and bacon risotto which will again use up quite a few things in the fridge and make more than one portion so I'll be having that for lunch / dinner as well over the next few days while DH is away for work.

Suffolk_lass

joedenise said:

Using up some sliced roast pork which we bought YS in a sandwich for lunch.  Dinner tonight will be LO chicken from yesterday's roast.  There is far too much so some of it will be frozen to use at some time in the future.

Edit:  Two lots of chicken have gone into the freezer.  Will need to use both lots if I want to make something like a curry but there is enough in each bag for something like chicken and chorizo rice or chicken & leek pasta.

Ooh hello @joedenise, why did I think you were away? I thought you were in France I think.

Suffolk_lass

Two chicken thighs made into a simple chicken casserole with onions and carrot and served with potatoes and peas. Lovely winter grub!

I think I will be roasting a tray of (increasingly sad) veg today with some sausage meat balls and maybe stirring through a sauce once it's cooked

EssexHebridean

Morning all! An unseasonable tuna salad for us tonight as we have masses of mixed leaves and spring onions from the veg box. Hopefully the last two avocados will be ripe enough to add in, and it'll use up the remaining half of a cucumber too.  then I need to remember to get the pulled pork and sauce from the freezer to defrost for tomorrow too. 

I might need to do some roast veg at some stage too I think - I've got sort of tentative plans for most of the veg box stuff but they gave us half a dozen green peppers which I find a bit less useful than red or yellow ones so it will be a challenge to work through those. We also got 2 small aubergines - sigh - ideally need to hope they will last until at last the weekend and then it'll probably be a deconstructed moussaka-ish thing which will use the remains of the lamb breast I'm planning for sunday too - see, who says I don't listen to you lot?!  

rtandon27

Sunday's dinner was a bit of a fail!  I'd planned in pork chops and kale champ with steamed carrots, only to discover we had no kale & no potatoes!  We found some languishing chinese leaf lettuce & mushrooms hanging about and managed to do a pan-fried veg concoction & a side of creamy pasta for the chops.

Last night was tortellini pasta with spinach, mushrooms & pancetta as planned - delicious and simple!

Tonight OH has a bit of a challenge to turn some chicken mince into pan-fried burgers of some sort.  Just over a week until the oven gets it's deep clean & we can bulk out our meals with yummy roast root-veg & potato wedges.  We've really come to the conclusion that stove-top cooking certainly does have it's limits!

joedenise

Suffolk_lass said:

joedenise said:

Using up some sliced roast pork which we bought YS in a sandwich for lunch.  Dinner tonight will be LO chicken from yesterday's roast.  There is far too much so some of it will be frozen to use at some time in the future.

Edit:  Two lots of chicken have gone into the freezer.  Will need to use both lots if I want to make something like a curry but there is enough in each bag for something like chicken and chorizo rice or chicken & leek pasta.

Ooh hello @joedenise, why did I think you were away? I thought you were in France I think.

Not yet; off in a couple of days time!

Having used up most of that is in the fridge decided that I'd make a mixed bean goulash with rice for dinner tonight so soaked some dried mixed beans overnight and pressure cooked them this morning but think I've probably done far too many so am going to bag up half of them and chuck them in the freezer for when we return in the new year!

ruby_eskimo

Turned out we didn't have any risotto rice when it came to making dinner last night so subbed that for some tagliatelle that was in the cupboard.  Lunch today is more roasted tomato and pepper soup and for dinner I'm making a fish pie using some YS fish pie mix and some potatoes that we had leftover - as DH's away I can eat the things I want to eat and not have to worry about him moaning!

EssexHebridean

Ruby I have an image now of you standing for 15 minutes stirring tagliatelle in the hope of it absorbing loads of stock! 😂

I’m still on plan - and have most of a plan for next week too, to attack yet MORE of the freezer space. Annoyingly though I also need to make a plain white loaf ready for bread sauce, so there will be more freezer space taken up with that, then the sauce once made, ahead of a Christmas too. Still think I’m on target for getting freezer 2 switched off though… 🤞🏼

I may have to have a think about veg needing used and consider making some soup at the weekend. 

rtandon27

Our veg box arrived yesterday & we are now stocked up on root veg, kale & red cabbage!  OH is still ribbing me about running out of potatoes over the weekend!  Even though we have several types of pasta & rice in the house, a lack of potatoes is unthinkable for him - lol

Tonight's dinner is a simple one, homemade celeriac soup from the freezer with either crackers or toasted bagels.  Good thing too as OH will be having his booster today & I'm a bit under the weather, so simple is the way to go.

Off to find out what creative things we can do with red cabbage & parsnips, though not necessarily together!