Reverse Meal Planning

QueenJess

The duck went down ok, but grumbling from DH that it wasn’t real duck… maybe I should have told him it was to see if his reaction was different! 

Got some stuff to use up in the fridge, so dinner today will be pasta with the last of the cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, some of the big bag of chard, the last of the pesto and the last of the Parmesan. The fridge is starting to look very bare now!

Pudding will be the jam muffins I made or ice cream.

zafiro1984

Son arrived Sunday night for 3 days. So we're living on the remains of the things in the fridge. Lunch was just melon as it was so hot, tonight it's bits of cooked ham with a salad from bits in the fridge, dessert is a LO sponge cake and cream, I can't be bothered to do custard. I'll certainly get tomorrow's meals out of what is left and hopefully Saturday I'll try to stretch it that far.

Suffolk_lass

It's a bit chaotic here. Bees (wasps) and hedging are taking most of our energy. We filled 8 of those aggregate bags (completely packed in) with the product of one large hedge (not ours) that involved taking the height down by roughly half at the front. Village volunteering; huh! Still, it is done now. The upshot was beans on cheese on toast with poached eggs on top (sublime!) followed by a scoop of homemade gooseberry ice-cream at just before 8pm last night then the pair of us sat wilting until early bed at ten.

With DH off away for the weekend I plan to eat simply. DS is also away so a bit of gardening, visiting and dog care will dominate proceedings and I will take the opportunity to eat simply. There is soup in the fridge and fruit too, along with some sad salad that needs using.

Garden produce is mostly being frozen as I go, to see us through the winter months. I foresee lots of French bean curries!

Suffolk_lass

Brambling said:

I can recommend courgette cake - I make this in a loaf tin and it freezes really well without the icing one year I started the winter with about 5 in the freezer every visitor for months were force fed offered a slice Carrot, courgette & orange cakes recipe | BBC Good Food lock down working from home meant I was unable to share there

I meant to say, I loved the courgette stories. I think I might make this one today @Brambling - but it will include lemon instead of orange (as that is what we have in, in true RMP style). It is my Aunt's 91st birthday and I'm going to pop in later

zafiro1984

I feel is if I'm doing a double backward flip with the items in the fridge. I'm going to race and freeze what I can before the mould lands. It will be a close contest but I hate to be beaten.

Suffolk_lass said:

It's a bit chaotic here. Bees (wasps) and hedging are taking most of our energy. 

The other day DH decided to fill one of the machines with diesel - we call it the beast - an old articulated army JCB.
On removing the casing at the back, he broke open a live wasps nest. Boy, were they angry. Three days later he's still suffering - hands/wrist mainly.

Left over cooked barbeque meat tonight, lettuce (again) followed by things in the fruit bowl. Really, really exciting!!!

Brambling

Suffolk_lass said:

Brambling said:

I can recommend courgette cake - I make this in a loaf tin and it freezes really well without the icing one year I started the winter with about 5 in the freezer every visitor for months were force fed offered a slice Carrot, courgette & orange cakes recipe | BBC Good Food lock down working from home meant I was unable to share there

I meant to say, I loved the courgette stories. I think I might make this one today @Brambling - but it will include lemon instead of orange (as that is what we have in, in true RMP style). It is my Aunt's 91st birthday and I'm going to pop in later

TBH I often miss the orange but not the mix spice.  I hope your aunt had a good birthday whichever cake you made  personally It's lemon drizzle for me 

Suffolk_lass

I feel slightly as though I have lost my mojo at the the moment; can't be bothered to cook, really suffering with a reaction to around 90 bites from clearing up hedging that we cut last week, watering and picking, I should be in the midst of a rich choice of homegrown produce but instead I can't be bothered!

So on Monday, four of us, my cousin and his partner, and DH & I started a small WhatsApp group to follow a Mediterranean diet and track our weightloss for the next two months. I am too fat, DH is rather achy, cousin has large beer-belly and his partner is technically diabetic but lost around 6 stone and just needs to reverse the creeping gains trend a bit.

So Monday was soup, with a small bag of crisps (leftovers from the trip away), and evening was chuck steak burger from Morries with lots of salad including potato. We drank only water and coffee. The same basically yesterday except the soup was freshly made Gazpacho with bread croutons and the protein with the salad was cheese. Weaning DH off his snacking is the hardest thing. He still eats like his metabolism was with regular gym visits when allowed to.

I've slow cooked a chicken overnight (on 18p per unit electricity!) and got mince and chicken thighs out of the freezer. We have loads of homegrown French beans and a few runners to  eat with them

Suffolk_lass

Brambling said:

Suffolk_lass said:

Brambling said:

I can recommend courgette cake - I make this in a loaf tin and it freezes really well without the icing one year I started the winter with about 5 in the freezer every visitor for months were force fed offered a slice Carrot, courgette & orange cakes recipe | BBC Good Food lock down working from home meant I was unable to share there

I meant to say, I loved the courgette stories. I think I might make this one today @Brambling - but it will include lemon instead of orange (as that is what we have in, in true RMP style). It is my Aunt's 91st birthday and I'm going to pop in later

TBH I often miss the orange but not the mix spice.  I hope your aunt had a good birthday whichever cake you made  personally It's lemon drizzle for me 

Auntie was thrilled with the cake. I did include the spice as I had it and simply substituted the lemon for orange, but I also reduced the sugar by 20g in the cake itself. By the time I left, it was half eaten and not too sweet, I made it in a paper lined 1lb loaf tin and I made half the recipe (2 small instead of 3 large eggs as one of the review comments suggested). I will definitely make it again so many thanks!

MissRikkiC

I’m gonna make this tomorrow I think! Thanks for the recipe! 

We have been mostly RMPing this week. There are still lots of potatoes but everything else is nearly gone! 

I didn’t help matters by picking up a TGTG bag from the local farm shop, not on the app but basically fill a large brown paper bag with selected fruit/veg bits for £1?! So I couldn’t really argue with that. 

We got 4 large beetroots, 6 field mushrooms, 6 very soft and squishy heritage tomatoes and a pointed cabbage. Only a few leaves of the cabbage were composted, but the rest was eaten! 

I roasted the beetroot but now stuck with what to do with it, can I freeze it now I’ve cooked it? I thought of grating it for cake but now not sure if i needed to roast it to do that? 

We’ve got left, peppers, avocado, onion, and spuds! Thankfully a whole heap of freezer stuff to help out with the random concoction of what’s left in the fridge! 

joedenise

You could pickle some of the beetroot.  Slice it to the thickness you like and pack into sterilised jars, sprinkle a tsp of sea salt into the jar and then cover with hot pickling vinegar.

That sounds a good bag from your local farm shop and you can't go wrong for £1!