Reverse Meal Planning

EssexHebridean

Right - this week is being fully reverse planned. 

Today - had salad leaves and lettuce to use up so have had tuna salad for lunch, found burgers in the freezer so burgers and chips for tea.
Tomorrow - liver, mash, onion gravy (live from the freezer, potatoes from the ones we bought in Norfolk, and a mass of onions needing used as got lots in the veg box! This will also use the last of the veg box broccoli.
Monday will be sausage, wash & veg - I’ll make extra mash & onion gravy tomorrow. Sausages were in the freezer.
Tuesday - Sausage pasta - the last two sausages and a tub of pasta sauce bought YS’d and frozen a while ago.
Wednesday - probably chilli (from the freezer) and rice.
Thursday - I’m away - MrEH will have an omelette. (Eggs already in the larder) 

Quite impressed with that! 😁

zafiro1984

I'm getting a bit better at this reverse meal planning. I haven't done any serious shopping for over a week. The fridge is almost bare, and I'm using stuff from the freezer in preference to shopping. I'm going to see if I can hang on until next weekend before having to shop again. Bits and pieces from the plot are also helping.

So tea is out of the freezer tonight, neither of us is hungry but I have a chocolate meringue roulade which I made a few weeks ago so that will do. I've a non alcoholic bottle of sparkling white wine in the fridge which I got for D-in-law the last time it was very hot, never been opened but it could be made palatable if I added some orange juice - that's the theory.

Neither of us like this weather, far too hot, both of us are tired (and irritable), have an upset stomach and a headache which we can't shift. Not sure if we've overdone it or it's 'you know what'. See what tomorrow brings!

QueenJess

Today lunch was some of the cheese and spinach pasties I made yesterday with salad. Dinner was spag bol with all the mince I found in the freezer. The extra portions are now back there for a later date. Pudding is more crumble and vegan cream; the kids had chocolate chip cookies instead.

Stores are going down everywhere. The fridge is full, but under control. I feel a bit anxious about not stocking up again, but I really do need to get to the bottom of some of these stores first and I’m trying to stay strong 😂. I’ve just run out of DS’s favourite snack bars and I’ve got my fingers crossed that I can now get him to eat the other flavour he randomly decided not to have anymore as I have a few boxes of them.

Tomorrow’s dinner I think I’ll go for salmon stir fry and rice using up as much of the veg in the fridge as I can.

Primrose

Jess, if you have any spare freezer space have you tried storing some of the "out of favour" snack bars in the freezer?  Freezing can sometimes alter the flavour of some things and eating them straight from this source might make them taste a little more palatable.    Otherwise, could you break them up and use them as some kind of crumble topping where the flavour would be slightly disguised or blend in with the flavour of the fruit?

QueenJess

Primrose said:

Jess, if you have any spare freezer space have you tried storing some of the "out of favour" snack bars in the freezer?  Freezing can sometimes alter the flavour of some things and eating them straight from this source might make them taste a little more palatable.    Otherwise, could you break them up and use them as some kind of crumble topping where the flavour would be slightly disguised or blend in with the flavour of the fruit?

That’s a good idea, but I’ve discovered DD is happy enough to eat them so we should be able to get through them!

Suffolk_lass

Leftover prawns with garden-grown salad, leftover cold potatoes (made into potato salad), pink onions and avocado. Really easy and now the cucumbers are starting to outstrip our ability to keep up we might be sharing with our dog. I don't know what planet I was on when nine cucumber plants seemed a good idea. Or 11 courgette plants...

QueenJess

Suffolk_lass said:

Leftover prawns with garden-grown salad, leftover cold potatoes (made into potato salad), pink onions and avocado. Really easy and now the cucumbers are starting to outstrip our ability to keep up we might be sharing with our dog. I don't know what planet I was on when nine cucumber plants seemed a good idea. Or 11 courgette plants...

11 courgette plants?! You’ll be eating them for the rest of your life 😂

ruby_eskimo

Think we have 6 courgette plants this year and can see A LOT coming our way already!  Haven't been to the supermarket yet this week as went to MiL's for a BBQ yesterday so need to pop along tonight.  Have a few little bits left over so have planned around those where I can.  

Having the last egg on toast for lunch today and then dinner tonight is salmon from the freezer with a potato gratin (using homegrown's) and a bit of mixed green veg on the side (also from the freezer).  Can pretty much just chuck it in the oven and leave it so minimal time required standing near the oven.

Primrose

I smiled about the cucumber & courgette plants.  Only 2 of us here. I sowed two cucumber seeds in case  one didn,t germinate but both did and already we,re overwhelmed with them. Can,t bear  to throw plants away! 

Acquaintances  of ours, newbie gardeners got an allotment  and planted about 14 courgettes because they thought each plant  only bore one fruit.  We couldn't help laughing. They gave up their plot after the first. year. Think they ran out of doorsteps to drop courgettes on at midnight!,    

Suffolk_lass

Primrose said:

I smiled about the cucumber & courgette plants.  Only 2 of us here. I sowed two cucumber seeds in case  one didn,t germinate but both did and already we,re overwhelmed with them. Can,t bear  to throw plants away! 

Acquaintances  of ours, newbie gardeners got an allotment  and planted about 14 courgettes because they thought each plant  only bore one fruit.  We couldn't help laughing. They gave up their plot after the first. year. Think they ran out of doorsteps to drop courgettes on at midnight!,    

Poor DH almost spat out his cereal when I read him that. Only two of us too

I do use lots - I have three bags left from last year in the freezer - I am going to make a courgette soup that can be eaten cold today, a bit like gazpatcho, with cucumber and courgettes. Mercifully, the cucumbers are mini-munch so only 10cm or so each, and we both like them. I'll see if I can post a pic. I am like you though. I couldn't bear to compost them (so I have enough butternuts for the Village and at least three crown prince pumpkin plants too)