Reverse Meal Planning

ruby_eskimo

You've inspired me @CCW007 to look up one of my most favourite soup recipes for next week - a swede, carrot, potato and lentil concoction, so have added the missing ingredients to the shopping list.

Today's lunch is another portion of veggie soup I found in the freezer and then dinner is LO beef stew, again from the freezer.  Slowly getting there!

rtandon27

We finished off the last of our celariac soup from the freezer yesterday, today will most probably be soup from a tin & duck bao from the freezer.  We've yet to make the parsnip ginger soup as yesterday got away from us!

At long last, the oven cleaner will be here this afternoon which means tonight we will 'christen' the clean oven by cooking some store-bought pizza in it for dinner.  I'm looking forward to oven roast root veg & potato wedges which have be absent from our meal planning for months!

Suffolk_lass

My go-to limp lettuce meal is lettuce soup, with a swirl of cream on top and sprinkled with chilli flakes, salt and pepper, as well as some parsley

ruby_eskimo

In a bid to use up veg, I made a big batch of lentil soup yesterday with swede, carrot and potato.  Didn't really think it through and have way more than I anticipated, so the freezer is looking quite full again!  Still it's lunches for the week sorted.  I'm all about easy and quick meals this week before Saturday so dinner tonight is a jacket potato with beans and cheese and some salad on the side.

CCW007

Chocolate porridge for breakfast using up some rather old blueberries I found lurking in the fridge, minestrone soup for lunch using up some grated carrot and kale from Olio and dinner will be mozzarella and roasted veg pasta bake.  Out tomorrow so it will just be breakfast and dinner to sort out.  

rtandon27

We often cook up lettuce & season with soy as a side for stir-fry with rice - a lighter cooked green than the usual spinach or kale.

Friday we had pizza as planned - they were super tasty, but each was barely enough for one person, so we ended up having crackers and cheese for afters!  OH swears they have succumbed to shrinkflation!
Saturday - neither of us were the least bit hungry for dinner so soup & toast was had - planned lamb rogan josh can be made and eaten another time - the meat & veg is still in the freezer
Sunday  - we finally made the parsnip soup - absolutely delicious - there were eight portions total & 5 are now in the freezer for another time - 3 portions were had between us with toast for dinner last night. - again the planned pork chops with mash & veg are to be re-planned for another day

Today bagels & eggs for breakfast, freezer dive quiche for lunch and tortellini with mushrooms & spinach for dinner.

I've yet to do up this week's meal plan in full - we have a Christmas veg box arriving tomorrow, so I foresee meals planned around the contents for the next couple of weeks.  A fairly large chicken is also due to arrive - to be roasted up either on the 24th or 25th.  We have almost run out of cheese/ham/bread/bagels which are staples in our house, so much as I'd like to avoid the shops, we will probably have to do a top up on Wednesday after my booster.

Suffolk_lass

We are still working our way through the humungous piece of beef I roasted on Sunday. It was a rolled sirloin with the fillet inside. Absolutely the most extravagant cut but just beautiful, and with DS doing a Christmas postie job, he was ravenous and eat twice as much as normal. Such a pleasure to cook for.

Last night we had a really light meal - sharing a buttered bread roll with DH having smoked haddock poached in milk, and me a couple of scallops gently sauteed in beurre noisette. It was needed. The beef roll he made at lunchtime was so thick it made my jaw ache!

Today I have popped some oxtail in the slow oven and will remove the bones and decide then if it will be chilli or pie. We also have more sliced beef, and a squash soup I made yesterday morning.

I also shopped, getting the Christmas fizz and most of the veg, with carrots and parsnips, broccoli, cabbage and Brussel sprouts included. Apart from the butcher's (meat and cheese to be collected at 06.00 on Thursday)

I am done now. Just as well. I had to move money back from my TT account to the running costs account which was down to under £10!

ruby_eskimo

I'm almost drooling on my keyboard at the sound of your food @Suffolk_lass - haven't had scallops for ages!

Dinner tonight is mushroom and pea orzotto which will get rid of the handful of chestnut mushrooms hanging out in the fridge and the few peas left in the open bag in the freezer.

EssexHebridean

One of my favourite things about a Hebrides trip is the seafood - scallops to die for, some WILL be consumed while we are there (assuming we make it, usual caveats, blah blah blah!)  

All sounding delicious aside from - sorry RT - cooked lettuce. I can literally feel my stomach stirring uneasily at the very thought. It currently feels as though every second recipe anywhere features chargrilled gem lettuce - they can absolutely keep it!  

We have couscous with roast veg and halloumi planned for tonight, and tomorrow if I remember rightly is sausage and  mushroom pasta. I might roast the full punnet of 'shrooms tonight to shorten tomorrow night's process. 

rtandon27

LOL - @EssexHebridean - that made me laugh EH - I promise it's delicious! This recipe is similar to what we do, but with soy sauce instead of oyster sauce,

I'm loving the thought of your roast veg with couscous!  Our Christmas veg box arrived today - it will probably feed us for the next month!  I thought it was meant to be twice what we usually get, but it appears we have at least three if not four times - an overabundance of root veg means we will be looking for creative ways to use them up!

Last night's dinner was freezer box fish & freezer chips with some steamed carrots on the side.  Our planned pasta will have to happen this evening instead.  Lunch is about to be tortilla toasties (quesadillas) and soup - simple but tasty for a cold winter's day!