Reverse Meal Planning

ruby_eskimo

Definitely had to RMP this morning as we didn't get a chance to food shop over the weekend and now have to get through today until we can go to the supermarket this evening 😆  Had some yogurt left in the fridge and blueberries in the freezer so that was breakfast and lunch can be the last of the mushrooms with a scrambled egg and a toasted pitta I found in the freezer.  Dinner tonight, I want a sausage tray bake which will dispatch the lonely sweet potato we have along with some kale from the freezer too.

MissRikkiC

I created the meal plan for this week and then picked up some bits from olio so on account of that changed it! 

Tonight was a chicken in red wine stew with little carrots and dumplings. Very much a winter dish in summer! 🫣 however it went very nicely with runner beans cooked with chorizo (instead of bacon) and pine nuts (instead of hazelnuts!) 

2 casserole bags got chucked in the freezer. It’s likely they will only come back out for soup later in the year. 

It’ll need to be a stir fry tomorrow to use up remaining carrots, half a pepper/tomato, 2 solitary spring onions and some salad leaves. I’d have them for my lunch but finishing off a tub of olio bagged butternut squash soup instead!

zafiro1984

I really stepped off the wagon over the weekend. Son and DIL came - we hadn't seen them for a couple of years. They phoned Sat to see if they could come Sunday and did a round trip of almost 600miles in a day. We do keep in touch by zoom. Anyway, I had very little in the house so went out to the nearest supermarket and shopped - and shopped - I don't need to go out again until well into July!! 
The fridges are heaving, I will freeze what I can but I need to keep an eagle eye on the fresh stuff so it's used up before going off.
I was so unprepared, spent a lot but it was lovely to see them.

Lunch will be cold meat and salad. (the geese can have the outer leaves of the lettuces and any other limp green stuff - I try not to have much waste)
Dinner:- I'll make an asparagus and smoked salmon flan with more salad and then some form of fruit salad probably strawberries and raspberries with a chocolate and cream sauce. (Again when I've made the flan case and trim off the excess pastry the geese get the bits plus the ends of the asparagus - good day for Gertie and Bertie)

zafiro1984

Still eating out of the fridge.
Lunch was salad and cheese. That's most of the goat cheese finished, I can have the rest on toast tomorrow, still plenty of cheddar, which I can't eat and DH wont have it cooked, so I'll freeze that. There was a bit of very limp 'bistro salad' left, so that went to Gertie/Bertie, two lettuces left and they both seem ok plus plenty of other salad things - good job its hot weather so there'll be few complaints about yet another salad tomorrow.

Dinner was a toasted ham sandwich with salad for me and crisps for DH, I made a fruit salad for afterwards with bits of fruit from the fridge, 1 nectarine, a banana, a few blueberries lurking, and a couple of kiwi fruit, nothing too exciting but added some leftover white wine and leftover sparkling water, we ate it with the dregs of cream left from Sunday. 

I need to assess the vegetables tomorrow and do something with any bendy ones - probably soup which I could freeze.

EssexHebridean

Morning all - the leftover lamb from Sunday was divided last night - three tubs of it in the end - it won't do a Sunday lunch because it wouldn't really "slice" - I've chunked it in the end - but as it will make a further three meals it justifies its pricey existence. One lot is in the fridge to go with couscous etc this evening. 

Still need to check through the fridge thoroughly - finding the time to do anything at the moment is a challenge. 

Suffolk_lass

I made these BBC Good Food "The best salmon fishcakes" for supper. I nearly stuck to the recipe. The potato was M&S from TGTG so had added butter, cream and water from freezing, and I fried off a little finely diced onion, crumbed the crust of a loaf of sliced wheatgerm bread, and added a sprinkle and twist of chilli flakes and seeds. The salmon were the cheapy frozen ones from Morries and I used two instead of three. They were a bit sloppy to handle and I swear most of the flour-egg-breadcrumbs were on my fingers but they were tasty, and I might make something similar. Size wise this quantity made 6 and two filled me up with no salad. I had the fresh herbs from my last TGTG bag from nearly a fortnight ago (cut bunches) but they had lasted well. All from stores.

MissRikkiC

I have well and truly emptied the fridge this week. 

A stir fry used up the odds and ends of veg. 

My LG had skin on mash with 3 piddly potatoes that were left. 

The remaining shallots from a TGTG bag from about a month ago went into a ragu sauce along with half a carton of passata and half a tin of chopped tomatoes. 

The squisht cherry toms and the squiddly bit of cucumber went into salad. 

There was then a courgette, a pepper, 2 red onions and half a block of tofu left (other than condiments etc) which went into tofu fajitas last night (marinated with half a jar of leftover salsa crisp dip!). 

Shopping day today and ideally could do with cleaning the shelves but not sure I’ll get chance!

zafiro1984

MissRikkiC said:

I have well and truly emptied the fridge this week. 

Impressive,
I'm trying to emulate that but not getting very far

MissRikkiC

I fought urges to shop every single day I’m not kidding but there is just stuff that will last left in there now. It helped I had a little meat in the freezer but everything else is gone! Well, it was just I’ve just been shopping for July! 😬

zafiro1984

Lunch, bacon sandwiches for DH, the last of the cheese and tomatoes with toast for me.  
Dinner in 30mins -  2 portions of venison casserole from freezer, all meat in fridge now used up. mash pots, carrots and beans. Pudding- LO roulade from last night plus raspberries from the plot
I'm also in the mood to open a bottle after a couple of paracetamol - feet hurt and I've another hour or so work outside after tea, setting up various wild life cameras and automatic solar motion lighting to see what is trying (but as yet not succeeding) getting into the hens, plus I've found a couple of active holes in a bank in the wood so I want to see what has taken up residence.