Reverse Meal Planning

CCW007

Change of plans tonight - we had fajitas to use up the jar of chicken (OH) with beans for me.  Used up mushrooms and a frozen pepper as well as a fajita kit which was BBE this month.  Sausage casserole tomorrow then! 

Made mushroom and rice soup at lunchtime with coconut milk - was lush and quite filling. 

joedenise

We came back from holiday this afternoon so I had no idea what we were going to be eating tonight and over the weekend!

Quick trip to MrTs and bought a gammon joint, some bacon and a bag of carrots plus a couple of other bits not for meals.  Already have onions and potatoes; plenty of rice and pasta.

So plan is:

Fry up for breakfast tomorrow and Sunday and bacon sandwich for Monday
Lunches will be sandwiches or soups from freezer
Dinner:
Fri:  pasta, prawns from freezer, smoked salmon brought home from holiday with a cheese sauce made with cheese triangles and Primula
Sat:  Chickpea and squash tagine (from freezer)
Sun:  boiled gammon, potatoes, carrots & onions.  Stock will be used for soups.
Mon:  cold gammon, chips and beans

Need to check what's in the freezer and do meal plan over the weekend and will go shopping on Tuesday.

Suffolk_lass

We were out for the Village lunch yesterday but were hungry so had a load of chopped veg with a mini pot of hummus I picked up (3 in a stack) when I collected my TGTG bag. Too much bread means we will have to give them a miss for a while. I also got yet more potatoes in the bag - they seem to be a bit of a regular filler. Another thing we are not eating at the moment.

I may have to shove some of the sprouty potatoes in the short end of a grow bag. I've got a small trug I can tip some of it into then top it up as they grow.

I think we might have sausagement in some form (maybe with roasted veg and an egg or two on top for supper)

joedenise

A phone call from DD1 this afternoon and plans have now changed for tomorrow!  She and her partner are taking DH and me plus her partners parents out for dinner as it's the first opportunity everyone has been able to get together for a Mother's Day meal!

Tomorrow night's gammon joint will now move to Monday night and so on.

My month's meal plan has been done and I have almost everything I need in the freezers.  Only things I need to buy are some sausages from the butchers and some salmon and smoked haddock from the fishmongers.  Unfortunately they are in opposite directions.  Will probably leave the fish until next week as need to go to the SM which is roughly in the same direction as the butcher!

QueenJess

Got lots of fresh stuff to use up and have full cupboards and freezer. Hoping to stretch the veg box an extra week, although we will need to buy fruit.

So today I made sweetcorn and spinach fritters for lunch (from frozen veg), with boiled potatoes and peas. Never made them before, but they were really nice and so will go on the list of meals to rotate. Pudding was yogurt.

Dinner tonight was slow cooker chicken thigh casserole with leeks, parsnips, carrots, butter beans (stretches the chicken) and hm veggie suet dumplings. Carrot cake for pudding as we still have loads of it left! Very happy I made less casserole than usual as we normally have a bit too much and then feel too full. Means I have more veg left to hopefully stretch out a bit longer.

EssexHebridean

Welcome back Joedenise - hope your trip was good!

Weekly shop done here today but only a relatively small one - just under £24 spent. That means we’re well under the grocery budget for the past month which is good news. I’ll do the full maths on that one in a few days. The shop today included a couple of storecupboard items too. 

Got a pack of chicken thighs and drumsticks which can get cooked at the same time as the lamb for tomorrow’s lunch - those will then do two meals. The lamb will do a meal in the week and hopefully another portion for the freezer. Meal plan all done and ready.

had to smile in the supermarket - we’d agreed on jacket tatties so I asked MrEH what he fancied on them. He thought for a second then, straight faced, said “pizza!” - his bluff was called, I added a pack of pepperoni slices to the trolley, and we had beans, pepperoni and cheese! 😂 Actually really tasty, I’d do that again! 

joedenise

Thanks EH.  Yes had a great holiday, even had fairly good weather with no rain or snow, that is until we hit the M25 on the way home!

The jacket potato topping was different but won't be trying it as not a lover of pepperoni!

MissRikkiC

Dinner was the lamb koftas purchased on a whim from the butcher the other day with homemade flatbreads, chopped salad, rice, spiced carrots, pepper sauce and the Greek yoghurt cucumber and mint dip I can’t spell. Absolutely delicious and really felt like a weekend meal. 

It was funny, we pulled up outside Lidl hub clearly expecting me to know the accompanying bits we were having to go with the kebabs and when I didn’t because I’d purposely not thought about it we ended up at the pub to think about it instead. Whilst my daughter was in soft play, I came up with the list and had a very modest list of required items. We got home, he cooked and hardly used anything for its original purpose 🙃 besides this, there are now no leftovers for tomorrow (because his ideas were eating tonight type things). Ugh. 

joedenise

Only had a pack of sausages in the freezer so have changed the menu plan already!  Today's gammon joint is now being moved to Tuesday night!

Half pack of sausages for breakfast and the other half pack will be turned into toad in the hole tomorrow night.

Suffolk_lass

I forgot we were out last night with chicken and chips provided. As I was the quiz-master and DH was the scorer (Rachel Riley, eat your heart out!) ours was free. We brought home three quarters of the chicken and I will make a pie and treat pup with the leftovers. I will have to freeze the pie as pastry is off limits until Easter.

In the meantime there is a stick of sausagemeat still to use. I think squashed flat discs dusted with flour and cooked for a crisp crust in the (always-on) oven, served with salad tonight