Reverse Meal Planning

Primrose

Love joints of gammon.  Some can be a little salty but we soak in cold water overnight and then pressure cook the.  The water in whixh they cook makes lovely stock, especially for any soup using lentils or split peas.

v1ckyt

Primrose said:

Love joints of gammon.  Some can be a little salty but we soak in cold water overnight and then pressure cook the.  The water in whixh they cook makes lovely stock, especially for any soup using lentils or split peas.

Love a lentil and veg stew, made in the gammon stock. Tasty, cheap and filling. Must get some of the last batch out the freezer for work lunches this week. 

ruby_eskimo

I always make my lentil soups with gammon / ham stock where I can, just adds so much warming flavour to it.

Visit to the supermarket last night to set us up for the week and didn't really need a lot which was nice.  Decided to make a tray bake with some of the sweet potatoes from my parents, plus a pepper and red onion in the fridge and some broccoli I picked up and chopped a couple of chicken sausages into it too so that's lunches for me sorted for the rest of the week.  Dinner tonight I have no idea as it's DH's fasting day so he sorts his own thing out.  Hoping that inspiration will strike me!  

As I was making dinner last night I found the last of the celery in the fridge leftover from the chicken stew I made last week so chopped that up and chucked it in the freezer ready for next time.  Might push the boat out and make an apple and raisin cake using the russet apples the we were given too, and then drop it off a friend who's having a bit of a hard time at the moment.

joedenise

Using up the LO roast beef chopped up to make a beef stroganoff for dinner tonight.  It was a bit chewy so hoping cooking it a bit longer will be better!

QueenJess

Needed to use up veg and the leftover pizza sauce from the weekend.  So tonight's dinner was roasted onion, parsnip, carrots, garlic, cauliflower and broccoli with pasta and the tomato sauce.  Loads of roasted veg leftover to use with lunches/dinners later in the week (tbd).

Suffolk_lass

We had sausage and mash last night, which is particularly lovely for me as DH is very good at this (cooks the potatoes with a veg stock cube in, giving them much more flavour), and used up some sad sweetheart cabbage and slightly wrinkled carrots. We had two sausages each, leaving one each to have for lunch today in a sausage and marmalade roll (highly recommended!)

ruby_eskimo

Oh sausage and marmalade sounds like a great combination @Suffolk_lass

Stuffed peppers for us tonight which I'll stuff with vegetable rice which will also help use up some more veg from the fridge.

Suffolk_lass

I also bought Peppers when I shopped in order to stuff them. A really good, light supper, for the days when we are eating light

Primrose

Wally thinking twice now about stuffed and roasted veg given the power our electric oven needs and the rest cost of fuel  but microwaving them Doesn,t give the same nice crispy edged finish, does it.

perhaps  we need a new thread for low energy cost meals but I can,t remember how to start a new thread!

QueenJess

Trying to use up stuff in the fridge for lunch, so had garlic flatbreads made from the yogurt that is going out of date (rest in the freezer) and more coleslaw, followed by some chocolate ice cream that’s nearly finished up.

Still got lots of hm coleslaw (vinegar not mayo) and so considering stir frying it with some beans into a wrap for my next lunch. Other suggestions welcome! I could probably freeze it as well.