Reverse Meal Planning

MissRikkiC

Managed to remember to get dinner from the freezer today, which was the base for cottage pie. There was a few teeny tiny potatoes in the fridge (do these just drive anyone else totally nuts) so I painstakingly peeled these and roasted them to go with dinner along with some parsnips. I could have honestly eaten it all again! 

Then the last strawberry yogurt which we collected from an olio volunteer about 2 weeks ago for pud. 

New fridge freezer arrives tomorrow and I’m super excited! 

joedenise

I don't bother peeling those really small potatoes just give them a good scrub and then cook them in their skins, boiled or roasted works well.

Have got out burgers, sliced cheese and burger buns for lunch tomorrow and some lardons to go in a Carbonara for dinner tomorrow night.

Bought some stewing beef and loads of veg and going to make a big pan of stew/casserole.  Hoping for plenty of meals to go in the freezer from the amount I've bought!

ruby_eskimo

Using the last of the tomatoes for lunch today on toast, with a some cream cheese that DH picked up.  Dinner tonight is cottage pie using mince from the freezer, the last of the carrots which are looking a bit sorry for themselves and might chuck a tin of peas in there to use some up from the store.  Will have some broccoli and cauliflower on the side as well just to make sure we're getting the veg in.

joedenise

Got my huge casserole dish out (30 cm diameter!) and filled it with veg and about lb of seasoned beef cubes.  Have only used about half the veg so put the other half of beef I bought into the freezer.  Planning on chopping up the rest of the veg and freezing as stew packs.

There will still be loads of carrots left over plus a leek so will also make some leek and potato soup and a carrot and lentil soup so a few lunches to go in the freezer.

CCW007

Got half a pack of quorn cocktail sausages out the freezer which I will chop up and add to some LO cooked rice, tinned tomatoes and whatever other veg I can find as a sort of risotto.

Lovely neighbour (who collects Olio bits from me) is dropping off a trout fillet from a huge fish her husband caught so it's one in one out for the freezer today!  

Glad

I'd really love to (and need to) join in
I moved house last summer and between having a lot of DIY to do, children that have come home then left again (leaving various food items) and now living in walking distance of a small Co op that has wonderful reductions every evening, I'm drowning in food but not meals

so tonight's dinner has been leftover frozen takeaway pizza with some homemade slaw 
brunch tomorrow will be mushroom omelette, orange stickered mushrooms I picked up last night, I'll cook them all and save half for Sunday brunch

I'll have a rummage in the morning to see what I can find for dinner  

QueenJess

Made lots of candied citrus peel today (I keep it in the freezer whenever I have oranges etc to not waste it) and will dip it in dark chocolate tomorrow (yummy!).  To not waste the syrup I used it to make orange and chocolate chip muffins, which are now in the freezer.

Also roasted a huge amount of parsnips, beetroot, carrots and garlic from my veg box to reappear in veggie toad in the hole with hm onion gravy for dinner tomorrow, chicken thigh casserole with veggie suet balls and leeks on Sunday and a chilli pasta on Monday (which also uses the rest of the tomato sauce from the pizza we had for dinner tonight).  Just got a few carrots left, 1 sweet potato and some leeks from the veg box now (next delivery Thurs).

MissRikkiC

@QueenJess can you tell more about the candied peel? We have a whole basket of satsumas and would like to do similar for a little snack!

QueenJess

MissRikkiC said:

@QueenJess can you tell more about the candied peel? We have a whole basket of satsumas and would like to do similar for a little snack!

It’s a bit of a faff, so I don’t do it that often, but just save all my peels (pre cut to save time later) in the freezer for it. I follow this recipe: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/candied-citrus-peel

I usually leave it to dry for longer than it says at the end and the part where you are meant to coat it in sugar on baking parchment, I instead throw it in a box with the sugar and shake it. It’s much faster!

I also always do the chocolate the next day so it can have another drying session to stop it getting wet and sticky.

 It’s less of a snack and more like sweets really. Very moreish!

I would be tempted to still put yours in the freezer as you eat them and defrost once you are ready to make them. Otherwise the peels are really hard when you start and not sure if that affects the taste at the end.

Suffolk_lass

Our alternative use for citrus peel is to really dry it (in or on a cooling oven is good) and then we use it as firelighters, with some in the lounge in an old tin for the woodburner and a bag in the motorhome for when we take the Firepit, it is really good (especially with some chopped off fronds from the Christmas tree as the oil in both of them is great and smells great too.

We've been MIA for a few days as we had a last minute SM sandwich and soup when we ran out of time on Wednesday and picked these up to have after the meeting we had to attend. Then we elected to have a Chinese takeaway on Thursday,  and yesterday was the Village light lunch (cottage pie and broccoli then cake and ice cream) so a quick mix to use up some back bacon, with fried eggs and onion bhaji - a bit of a strange addition but it was OK.

Something HM with mince tonight I think