Reverse Meal Planning

ajmoney

I am about to start working away through the week and commuting home for a couple of weekends a month.  I really don't want to waste and food so am going to be asking many questions on here as to what I can freeze.  First question... spring, red and brown onions, can I chop them and put them in the freezer?

zafiro1984

ajmoney said:

 First question... spring, red and brown onions, can I chop them and put them in the freezer?

Red and brown onions can be stored for several weeks, even months if kept cold and airy. However, if chopped and frozen they are best used afterwards in cooking, I would imagine spring onions are the same but I don't tend to use them. 

Hope everyone had a good Christmas

Suffolk_lass

Yes, Spring Onions freeze well (whole, like chillies here, I chop them to make the braised lettuce dish, with peas, stock and cream)

ajmoney

Suffolk_lass said:

Yes, Spring Onions freeze well (whole, like chillies here, I chop them to make the braised lettuce dish, with peas, stock and cream)

I hadn't thought to freeze them whole, thanks.

joedenise

The final reverse planned meal of the Christmas meat with gammon, chips and beans for dinner tonight.

zafiro1984

Serious thinking here
All left overs from Christmas, as far as possible, have been frozen which just leaves a few items in the fridge, mainly salad, dairy and a few veg.
Also in the freezer are bits of left over casseroles, pies, flans both savoury and sweet, not to mention cakes and puddings from the past few months. Who knows what is lurking at the bottom of the freezers.  

So after careful thought I have decided to do some serious Reverse Meal Planning. To use up all frozen leftovers and to have a no spend January as far as possible. My hens are still laying so that should help as well. It will be an interesting month.

DH had another scan before Christmas, his neck is healing but not as it should be. There is no lay down of bone just fibrous tissue. Apparently, this is not uncommon, but also, not the best mend. He can take his frame off in the house and no longer has to sleep in it. Looks like it will be a long progress. The extended family had been helpful........ you would have to know the type of humour in our family to realise 'Reverse Meal Planning' has nothing on 'Reverse  Humour'  

A Happy New Year to all and do take care.

EssexHebridean

I think I can get a vibe of that sort of humour zafiro - I come from a family where we tend to thrive on black humour - it's a rare situation where Mum and I can't find at least something funny in it, something which we've been really grateful for over the years, but yes, it can come across as a bit odd to others! Sorry to hear your OH's neck isn't quite behaving itself - fingers crossed the next scan will show far better healing. I bet he's hugely glad not to have to wear the frame so much though! 

It's going to be reverse planning full steam ahead here too for this month I think. The freezers are well stocked - two double portions of the ham got frozen, and we have various different lots of turkey frozen too - including several which will give us tasty "christmas dinners" to look forwards to! I've got breadcrumbs frozen too in good quantity so will probably even make some more bread sauce at some stage - I even found my original recipe I used to use the other day so might try a batch using that! 

Tonight is stir fry using a pack of YS'd cooked chicken bought yesterday, and tomorrow will be char sui marinated pork steaks with some form of veg.

To my shame I had to bin a load of tatties which had simply gone too far with sprouting - I need to work out why they seem to go so fast as they are stored in the dark so it's not entirely logical. Can't even cut our losses and plant them at the moment as we're starting to plan for a house move! 

HNY all! 

ruby_eskimo

Happy new year all.  Christmas leftovers are currently on their last legs, with the turkey finally used up yesterday and the gammon will be gone by the end of the week.

Yesterday I took all the leftover carrots from Christmas week and made a very nice batch of carrot and coriander soup that will do most of my lunches for the week.  Dinner tonight is kimchi friend rice for me as I need to start making headway in the last jar from the last batch I made a few months ago - it's at the lovely sour ripeness but if it sticks around any longer it may be too sour.  Will chuck in some of the leftover gammon as well for some protein and top with a fried egg.  DH will probably have soup and a sandwich as he usually does on Tuesdays.

joedenise

Last of the Christmas veg plus some chickpeas have been turned into 6 portions of vegetable curry.  4 portions into the freezer and 2 portions left in the fridge for dinner tonight.

Have got some lamb chops out of the freezer for dinner tomorrow night.

EssexHebridean

Stir fry - the pack of reduced chicken pieces we got last night for 75p, plus used up plenty of veg, including….drum roll please… finishing one of the cabbages - yay! 😆