Reverse Meal Planning

Pyxis

Spendless said:

Nothing cooked today apart from breakfast this morning (sausage sandwiches for us, scrambled egg on toast for DD).
This is because we had some fantastc news. Earlier this year DD auditioned for National Youth Thetre (NYT) for the first time. Around 5,000 apply for 500 places. Some famous people have started out with them eg Helen Mirren, Matt Smith (Dr Who) David Walliams, Catherine Tate. Anyway an email confirmed she'd got in. 

What fantastic news! 👏👏👏👏👏👏

Pyxis

Suffolk_lass said:

 
I eat two strips of chocolate from the huge bar DS bought us and everything is a bit creaky and achy this morning. That will teach me to be greedy!

Is that an allergy to something in chocolate?

Suffolk_lass

Pyxis said:

Suffolk_lass said:

 
I eat two strips of chocolate from the huge bar DS bought us and everything is a bit creaky and achy this morning. That will teach me to be greedy!

Is that an allergy to something in chocolate?

Goodness no - it is just the impact sugar has on my joints. Years of high impact exercise and my knees and ankles are officially knackered and creaky. Sugar makes it audible and if I keep eating it, they start hurting. A low carb, low sugar diet is my aim, but not all the time. Clearly my body is not a temple!

Suffolk_lass

Spendless said:

Nothing cooked today apart from breakfast this morning (sausage sandwiches for us, scrambled egg on toast for DD).
This is because we had some fantastc news. Earlier this year DD auditioned for National Youth Thetre (NYT) for the first time. Around 5,000 apply for 500 places. Some famous people have started out with them eg Helen Mirren, Matt Smith (Dr Who) David Walliams, Catherine Tate. Anyway an email confirmed she'd got in. 

So if things had been normal we'd have gone out to eat. Instead we did chippy tea, as our local re-opened recently - one in at a time, perspex screen.
Tomorrow the task is to clear out of the freezer all the oddments including things DH keeps buying because #they're vegetarian with no thought to does DD like the stuff (no duck rolls come to mind - you can tell it's usually me who shops!). I've also got a cake mix to use. It was bought for DD's 17th birthday not long into lockdown when the shelves were bare and no flour to be had but we got  her a cake at the last minute. These will all be used for a 'buffet style' party for the BH on Friday

Ooh, congratulations 🎉🎉🎉

PipneyJane

Spendless said:

Nothing cooked today apart from breakfast this morning (sausage sandwiches for us, scrambled egg on toast for DD).
This is because we had some fantastc news. Earlier this year DD auditioned for National Youth Thetre (NYT) for the first time. Around 5,000 apply for 500 places. Some famous people have started out with them eg Helen Mirren, Matt Smith (Dr Who) David Walliams, Catherine Tate. Anyway an email confirmed she'd got in. 

So if things had been normal we'd have gone out to eat. Instead we did chippy tea, as our local re-opened recently - one in at a time, perspex screen.
Tomorrow the task is to clear out of the freezer all the oddments including things DH keeps buying because #they're vegetarian with no thought to does DD like the stuff (no duck rolls come to mind - you can tell it's usually me who shops!). I've also got a cake mix to use. It was bought for DD's 17th birthday not long into lockdown when the shelves were bare and no flour to be had but we got  her a cake at the last minute. These will all be used for a 'buffet style' party for the BH on Friday

Congratulations to your DD!  She must be well chuffed!

- Pip

Rowan9

Spendless that’s great news about your DD. So delighted for you all x

Suffolk_lass

We had lamb chops from the freezer, with asparagus (from the garden), Jersey Royal new potatoes, cabbage and carrots last night. Good old fashioned, simple fare.

This morning I have been making scones, shortbread and lemon cakes, ready to pop a few round to a neighbour and have some ready for afternoon tea. My friend five miles away is coming to collect eggs and will sit in the garden for a drink before she cycles back, so she can have a cake of some sort. I might freeze one of the (2) lemon cakes (used the Mary Berry traybake recipe but baked in lined 1lb loaf tins). We have bunting out too!

Spendless

Aww thank you all. She's very excited. A bit disappointing that this year it will have to be delivered on-line instead of her going to London, but they've said they'll put other things on to make up for it.

Today's plan is to get all the stuff I want gone out of the freezer and present it as a buffet treat (hahaha). When the kids were young and I didn't work and it was a few days before payday and I'd not have enough stuff in to make full meals. If Mr S was away with work, I'd cook off the odd fish finger, handful of chicken nuggets, jacket potato halves and add egg mayo, cheese, bread that sort of thing as a 'buffet' for tea. Recently DD was reminising and told me that was her favourite meal gowing up. I revealed the reason andshe tld me I'd jsut ruined her childhood 

One of the things to be cooked today for me and DH iis some beef. This is the last of 3 joints and the other two have been tough. 1 I did in a roasting bag in the oven, the other in gravy in the slow cooker. Usually both methods would give me melt in the mouth meat but not these. They were bought at the very start of the current situation in the week before lockdown when food was scarce from one of the  butchers in our market who normally have excellent meat but I wonder if the quality was affected because supplies were low. I asked DH what cut he'd bought, so I could look for sugestions on cooking but he very helpfully told me 'beef joint'  Today I think I'll try the roasting bag and oven again but on a ver low heat, hoping the combination of methods will work!

greenbee

I need to do some serious planning today, as I have vast amounts of veg to eat, so need to focus on eating it in the right order. Thankfully today and tomorrow look like being salad weather, so I can finish the watercress and use the salad mix that came yesterday. More rhubarb, so will have mackerel again for supper with that, PSB and spinach (I think the spinach probably needs eating). Lunch will be asparagus and salad. I also have lots of yogurt, so have had grapefruit and yogurt with mint for breakfast (I don't usually eat breakfast, so this was a real treat). 

Veg box yesterday included blueberries which have gone in the freezer, bayleaves (not very exciting, although my bay tree isn't in very good condition so probably needed), rhubarb, salad leaves, avocado, asapargus, flat beans, jersey royals (I love them, but I've only just finished the last lot!) and turmeric. LOTS of turmeric. So I'm expecting @Pyxis to come up with some suggestions as to how to use it all!

Pyxis

greenbee said:

I need to do some serious planning today, as I have vast amounts of veg to eat, so need to focus on eating it in the right order. Thankfully today and tomorrow look like being salad weather, so I can finish the watercress and use the salad mix that came yesterday. More rhubarb, so will have mackerel again for supper with that, PSB and spinach (I think the spinach probably needs eating). Lunch will be asparagus and salad. I also have lots of yogurt, so have had grapefruit and yogurt with mint for breakfast (I don't usually eat breakfast, so this was a real treat). 

Veg box yesterday included blueberries which have gone in the freezer, bayleaves (not very exciting, although my bay tree isn't in very good condition so probably needed), rhubarb, salad leaves, avocado, asapargus, flat beans, jersey royals (I love them, but I've only just finished the last lot!) and turmeric. LOTS of turmeric. So I'm expecting @Pyxis to come up with some suggestions as to how to use it all!

Hahahahaha! My default method for using up stuff is just to bung it all in a stir-fry! 😁
Even salad leaves, if necessary! Although I usually eat the stir-fry on a bed of salad leaves dressed with a good olive oil.

The stir-fry can be eaten as just that, a stir-fry, or you can add some stock, meat or veggie, or some pasta sauce - my favourite is Sacla as they do a good range of pestos and stir-in sauces, Or I might add tomato puree.

Then, I eat it on salad, or with rice or pasta. You could cook the Jersey Royals and add them to the salad too.

I have some  parsley sauce, so my next stir-fry will have that added to it. Not tried that before, so it will be interesting!

If you want more bite, you could add Tabasco or chilli powder, or even a spoon of marmite!

As regards the turmeric, I’ve been chopping it up and adding it to everything regardless, along with all the other herbs, even to ready meals, just to get the nutrients into me!