Reverse Meal Planning

Suffolk_lass

We had a quick lunch of soup and crisps! then for supper - defrosted a pot of the chard-pesto that @foxgloves makes and stirred that with some revived pot-grown basil (an old TGTG bag) and grated cheddar, through linguine. Yum!

Then fell off the wagon and had an ice-cream cornet each!

QueenJess

Lots sorted today. Lunch was ciabatta with red pesto, mozzarella, cherry tomatoes and basil (like a pizza) with a side salad. The red pesto is all finished now!

I cleaned out the fridge and put in the new veg box stuff. From last week I just have a kohlrabi, never ending potatoes, tiny amount of summer greens and a very old cooking apple. I cut the tops off the carrots and made them into a pesto using up the last of a bottle of olive oil and all the pine nuts. Using a green pesto up will now be my next mission 😂

Dinner tonight is fish and chips to get the freezer down a bit. Dessert is fruit salad as I still have melon, apples, more grapes and we are now onto the new in date pot of yogurt!

I did pop out earlier to pick up orange juice and grapes, but couldn’t resist some yellow sticker chocolate eclairs. I will have one as a treat this afternoon in between all my work calls!

Fridge is full, but not excessively so. Need to still work on getting it down alongside the freezer and cupboard stuff.

ruby_eskimo

Loving the pesto talk - I used a couple of cubes of our homemade one this week just, stirred through some pasta cooked with some courgettes from the garden 😋

Dinner tonight is a freezer dive for me as DH is out - found a portion of what I hope is sweet and sour chicken to have with rice and might be more like 1.5 portions but will still scoff it down anyway!  

zafiro1984

2 pks of chicken livers found in the freezer turned into pate, used the youtube simple pate recipe, I've done it before and it was good but a bit bland, however dh likes it bland.
Then fired with enthusiasm I made meat paste - a northern delicacy! - using some venison mince of which I have loads.

I always cook from scratch (dh is allergic to some flavourings/colourings found in processed food- he is such a nuisance!) and I'm low on ideas for tea in this hot weather. I find barbecues take ages to prepare, once in awhile is ok but every day?.... not for me.

ruby_eskimo said:

Dinner tonight is a freezer dive for me as DH is out - found a portion of what I hope is sweet and sour chicken to have with rice and might be more like 1.5 portions but will still scoff it down anyway!  

Hope it was sweet and sour chicken and not some freezer accident.

ruby_eskimo

ruby_eskimo said:

Dinner tonight is a freezer dive for me as DH is out - found a portion of what I hope is sweet and sour chicken to have with rice and might be more like 1.5 portions but will still scoff it down anyway!  

Now that it's defrosted a bit I can see that it's sweet and sour pork so no freezer disasters here yet!  

QueenJess

Lots of activity this lunchtime in preparation for the weekend.

I made chocolate chip cookies for the kids using up the end of two different chocolate bars and some of the loads of flour I have. I also made a crumble with the sad cooking apple from the fridge, a slightly soft eating apple from the fruit bowl, raspberries from the freezer and redcurrants from the garden. I’ll serve it for pudding later with some of the vegan cream that’s been in the fridge for a while.

Not content with that, I took pastry out the freezer last night with the last of the spinach and made spinach and cheese pasties for some easy lunches. 

Then I actually made my lunch and threw everything I liked into a large salad bowl. So, red onion, radishes, mixed salad leaves, the last of the pickled beetroot in the fridge, cherry tomatoes, sun dried tomatoes from the fridge, feta, micro greens from the window sill, some kohlrabi and cucumber from the garden.

Dinner tonight will be burgers and burger buns from the freezer, corn on the cob and sweet potato chips.

zafiro1984

QueenJess said:

Then I actually made my lunch and threw everything I liked into a large salad bowl. So, red onion, radishes, mixed salad leaves, the last of the pickled beetroot in the fridge, cherry tomatoes, sun dried tomatoes from the fridge, feta, micro greens from the window sill, some kohlrabi and cucumber from the garden.

Wonderful, quite envious here

I can't be bothered to cook, it's too hot.
Tea will be 3 x sausages rolled in bread for dh, followed by left over frozen roulade, a few strawberries, & LO cream. I'll just have the pudding.
I've found a bottle of non-alcoholic sparkling white wine,  It was lurking at the bottom of the rack!!!!. A good glug of orange juice might just make it palatable, we'll see.

Tea didn't work out as expected DH had one of his food attacks. It must have been something I put in the pate this morning, possibly oregano, is it related to tarragon? anyway another one to put on the 'avoidance' list. 

Suffolk_lass

I made elderflower fizz (and cordial) and we tasted it - not bad and no upset tummy! So the rest will come away with us in our van next weekend. No food saving here as we went fo the dirty burger take away in the next village last night.

I am cooking today though. I pre-cooked a chicken in the slow cooker yesterday and picked the meat off for a pie. The stock has been frozen in butter dish sized clip-lock boxes. For once it is in a batch size small enough for sensible use -so often I bung it in one container that rarely gets used!

The pie contents mix is in a bowl and the pastry is resting. I need to also cook the prawns for my platter sharing thingy I am doing as a starter now. The rest of the day will be housework (done none for months aside from bathroom and kitchen). Courgettes from the garden may get grilled with the prawns!

joedenise

Got a TGTG bag from the Italian deli last night so we ended up with some quiche which I'd cooked earlier in the day (was supposed to be for weekend lunches!), chips and various bits from the deli like roasted peppers and aubergine stack.  Wasn't very good value at £5, so probably the most expensive TGTG bag.  We also got a piece of pizza which we'll probably have for lunch today and a takeaway box size tub of pasta in a tomato sauce which also share for lunch today.

We also got 5 small packs of crackers which taste like cream crackers but lighter - we shared one pack last night the rest have gone in the cupboard for another day.

Suffolk_lass

Carluccio's are more expensive than £5 so don't worry @joedenise - not the most expensive. Sounds quite varied and sometimes, just mixing it up a bit is what you need. At lease it wasn't all bread!