Reverse Meal Planning

ruby_eskimo

Using up one of the portions of chilli from the freezer with some potato wedges and cheese for dinner tonight and will bake it all in the oven and will serve it with a little salad on the side.

zafiro1984

I'm not sure what has happened this last day or two but I've an unbelievable amount of food in the fridge. I'm going to have to be careful to use everything up without wasting things.
I'm going to freeze what I can starting with a YS pork shoulder joint and some YS garlic bread. There's plenty of half used things, half a tin of corned beef, half a packet of goat cheese and pesto in pasta (previously frozen) half a packet of crispy potatoes. I think I'll be ok on the veg side except what can I do with two and a half swedes?

Serves me right for taking my eye off things for a couple of days and taking the easy way.
 

Brambling

Zafiro if you have room in the freezer cook and mash the swede and freeze it, just make sure it isn't too wet when you freeze.  Although swede will last a long time in the fridge, although it may get a little winkled 

Primrose

I suppose you could always cook the swedes down and mash in with some potatoes and fried onions to make a savoury topping of some kind for a meat pie or mix this mixture in with potatoes and corned beef to make a corned beef hash.
The joy (!!) of swedes is that they do store for quite a long time while you use them up or try to make up your mind what to do with them.   We always tend to have a least half of one lurking in the vegetable section in the fridge..

joedenise

I had a load of carrots which needed to be used plus a swede so made a load of swede and carrot mash.  Also made up some savoury mince and made a cottage pie topped with swede and carrot mash.  There are also 2 x 2 portions in the freezer.

We'll have the cottage pie for dinner tomorrow night with some green veg.

MissRikkiC

We always use half a swede as a pasta sauce for Jack Munroes Mac and Swede. 

Sorry I don’t know how to link but if you google you’ll find it

@QueenJess if mash them with lemon juice, garlic, tahini if you have it and make a dip like humous or similar 

QueenJess

MissRikkiC said:

We always use half a swede as a pasta sauce for Jack Munroes Mac and Swede. 

Sorry I don’t know how to link but if you google you’ll find it

@QueenJess if mash them with lemon juice, garlic, tahini if you have it and make a dip like humous or similar 

Ooh - what a fantastic idea!  I do have a jar of tahini lurking in the cupboard somewhere.  Thanks!

zafiro1984

swede now cooked mashed and frozen in single portions, also added some bendy carrots to some of the swede - thankyou.

Found some chunky fish fingers in the freezer that I'd forgotten about so that's tea sorted.
I think I'm in a bit of a rut at the moment as I produced a similar meal last night as to the past two days. I need to shake myself up a bit and look to doing something different, even radical, but it has to be no pasta and no rice as Mr Z thinks they're too foreign except for rice pudding!! Such is life

MissRikkiC

No pasta or rice?! Goodness me that’s a tall order @zafiro1984

Grabbed a magic bag for collection tonight which I’ve not been able to nab in weeks. 

They seriously are such fantastic value in Morrrisons, if you can get your hands on them, similarly to the Liidl boxes. 

Id already prepped dinner but the bag will certainly help out over the next week or so. 

Raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, grapes, plums and potatoes all in abundance. Apples, avocado, figs, radish, onions and sprouts. I’ll probably not make use of the sprouts as they do look past their best already but genuinely would have bought onions, and soft fruit which would have cost me close to £3 mark anyway so im really pleased. 

I made flapjacks, cauliflower cheese bake, parsnip and apple soup all for the freezer today along with 4 jacket potatoes whilst the oven was on;  with tonight’s dinner of bacon and pea pasta as well. The cauliflower was HG, the apples were past their best and the parsnips were 10p. A pack of cooking bacon helped the meals out a lot with flavour plus some fridge herbs too. A happy day of reverse planning

v1ckyt

We have a day off tomorrow, and are heading out for a walk. Usually we might grab lunch out, but budget squeezed so an going to do brunch here before we go. Lots of eggs in currently, so thinking scrambled eggs on toast with a scrap of smoked salmon from the freezer left over from Christmas, then just a coffee while we are out. 

Will put dinner in the slow cooker before we go out, lamb stew, using up all the odd bits of stewing lamb I have accumulated in the freezer from ys butcher counter purchases, now have enough to make up a decent stew. With some mash or jacket potatoes should be tasty.