Reverse Meal Planning

MissRikkiC

Fake hunters chicken tonight with wedges. 

Fake chicken steaks and ham from the freezer with garden peas, potatoes from the veg box. 

Spicy sausage and chicken out for jambalaya tomorrow night, celery will be from the veg box. Scotch pancakes out for breakfast too. 

Pleased with how the food prep plans are going this week!

zafiro1984

Came across this thread the other day, it's the way we tend to live on a day to day basis.

I've some smoked haddock in the fridge which needs using up. so tonight it's smoked haddock and a poached egg. I'm running a bit short on potatoes so I'll peel, slice and par boil a few before covering them in batter and cooking. 2 potatoes should be enough.

I'm looking at the contents of the fridge with 'new eyes' after reading several pages of this thread.

joedenise

Got some chicken thighs out of the freezer and did a tray bake with most of the veg left in the fridge, just added a bit of chicken stock and covered in foil and baked for 40 minutes or so.

MissRikkiC

Does the chicken stock not make everything a bit soggy @joedenise

Welcome @zafiro1984
Everyone has a bit of advice to offer here it’s great! 

joedenise

No, it just steams everything.  I thought it might make everything a bit soggy but it was fine.   Put too many potatoes in it so they are on a plate in the fridge and will get fried up tomorrow morning as part of our fry up!

MissRikkiC

Really wish I’d got some Herby bangers in now which I prefer to normal sausages for a fry up for the morning! Probably crumpets for us here instead 

Suffolk_lass

Welcome @zafiro1984 it's good to see you here - you are more self-sufficient with your set up than most of us and I'm sure your ideas will inspire others!

I was wondering how many of you also twist sausages into smaller ones when doing a try bake with them!? I always do. The local butcher here does fantastic sausages and I bought four jumbos yesterday.  

We had baked trout with broccoli, mash and peas for supper. I baked them with chopped fennel stalks, butter, salt and pepper in foil. What a treat

missmoneywatch

Ended up with a glut of eggs and potatoes as given eggs and bought too many potatoes....any ideas?preferably family friendly got two kids aged 5 and 8 don't do spicy....am already thinking make some doing cakes for freezer quiches?

rtandon27

@missmoneywatch - How about a Spanish tortilla? - tastes a bit like crustless quiche and does well at room temperature in a lunch packup.  This recipe is fairly easy to prepare.

CCW007

No reverse planning yesterday as went to a local vegan café for lunch (soup and roll followed by brownie for me, sausage roll followed by flapjack for OH) and then had chinese for dinner - oops, very decadent!

Back on it today, OH will have homemade pizza tonight to use up some tapas type meat and I'll have mushroom and lentil goulash to use up mushrooms and cooked lentils. Lunch will be stuffed mushrooms to use up two big field mushrooms from the fridge.

Tomorrow I'll probably go for aubergine and tomato stew or shakshuka to use up a couple of aubergines which are looking a bit wrinkly.

Going to go to the greengrocer later to top up fruit and veg as had nothing in my Olio collection - I'm definitely feeling a "shop local" vibe and they have put out posts on FB to say they are struggling so use it or lose it.  Going to pop into the florist / pet shop next door as OH got some lovely flowers for his mum's birthday recently and they were really reasonable so want to support them but suspect Valentine's weekend might not be a great weekend to buy flowers!