Reverse Meal Planning

happydenial

There’s always something to use up @joedenise 😆

I also had a jacket potato for lunch (just me at home today, woooooo!) and finished off a bit of coleslaw and the bottom of a bag of salad leaves. Not sure about dinner yet - veg box came yesterday, so probably either veggie burgers and salad, or veggie curry. Depends how much energy I’ve got left later on! 

EssexHebridean

Great inventorying, planning, using up and bee attendance going on here!

Our couscous last night used half a courgette, a tub of chickpeas from the freezer, half the remaining mushrooms, one sweet potato and a chunk of halloumi plus some toasted seeds and a big handful of coriander. Very tasty and lovely and filling. 

In the continued interest of freezer clearing I have extracted a tub of keema & sweet potato curry from the freezer for this evening - it's been defrosting in the fridge since last night so doing its bit to drive down energy use too! 

joedenise

happydenial said:

There’s always something to use up @joedenise 😆

I also had a jacket potato for lunch (just me at home today, woooooo!) and finished off a bit of coleslaw and the bottom of a bag of salad leaves. Not sure about dinner yet - veg box came yesterday, so probably either veggie burgers and salad, or veggie curry. Depends how much energy I’ve got left later on! 

No leftovers as DH decided to have a sandwich and not the jacket potatoes!!!

rtandon27

So tonight's reverse planned dinner was a bit of a disaster - sweet potato coins for me & wedges for OH, with battered freezer fish, halloumi fries & freezer broc/cauli. Sounds like it should have been a hit but...

...all the potatoes were undercooked, batter and breading soggy and steamed veg tasted very odd! - I'm not loving our gas oven at all & firmly convinced we need to upgrade to one with a gas hob but an electric oven! I excused my self to the kitchen removed breading & batter & nuked the rest of my plate!  OH said his was OK but has sworn we shall never buy ready chopped veg again and wants 'real' broc from now on from the fridge only! - LOL

zafiro1984

EssexHebridean said:

In the continued interest of freezer clearing I have extracted a tub of keema & sweet potato curry from the freezer for this evening - it's been defrosting in the fridge since last night so doing its bit to drive down energy use too! 

That's reminded me, I've just got tonight's offerings out of the freezer and put them on the side to defrost. I'm now going to move them to he fridge.
At the moment I'm having on a grocery monetary diet. I'm over my budget so I'm doing something about it before it get's out of hand. Luckily the freezers are brimming with food so that's where I'll head for the time being.

Today's lunch Cold HM chicken and gammon pie, frozen a couple of weeks ago
Tea:- venison, mushroom and chestnut casserole with mash all frozen in Feb, plus the rest of the carrots and broccoli from the fridge. Then rice pudding made with the remainder of the milk in the fridge for DH (I can't tolerate cow's milk) and an apple for me.

I'm hoping to use enough food from the freezers over the next few weeks so one becomes empty  then I'll have space for fruit and veg from the plot later in the summer

Suffolk_lass

We had chicken (convenience) pie too, with a hot meal on Tuesday (half the pie, and the other half for lunch yesterday, cold. Ours was with a tin of sweetcorn. The last of the chicken (some of the sweetcorn mix with tinned soup) and the carcass pickings after making stock will go with pasta and broccoli this evening. Half a tub of philli stirred through should do it

EssexHebridean

I love soft cheese for a pasta sauce SL! Such an easy cheaty way of creating a nice quick dish! 

RT that made me laugh about the frozen broccoli - I confess I struggle with it too - although other frozen veg I love - somehow though frozen cauli/broc always seems to end up soggy on the outside before its heated through to the middle - very annoying!  

Zafiro I'm with you on trying to go on a grocery money diet  - Ideally I want some of the money in the grocery account to be declared as surplus ready to use for shopping on holiday, at the moment it is looking possible but obviously the less I spend over the next couple of weeks, the better that situation will be!   

Very tasty curry and rice last night, and I remembered to get the sausages out ready for this evening as well (again - fridge defrosting), we'll have those with baked beans and mash - with the mash almost certainly being a mix of sweet and regular tatties. I must get the parsnips converted to soup over the weekend - that might happen tomorrow, which then means we can eat some of it for lunch on Saturday. 

MissRikkiC

Having meal planned from the freezer yesterday, I followed my plan and had Quorn meatballs with mash and veg. 

A small portion of red cabbage was removed from the freezer with the meatballs, half a pointed cabbage was braised in a a stock cube based gravy which was cooking the meatballs along with the leaves and stems from a kohlrabi that arrived with the veg box. It was really tasty and I will often buy those meatballs!

I haven’t any pudding type stuff and would like to have so need to think what I can make for ease that would satisfy a sweet craving. 

Tonight isn’t a freezer meal, it’s Spanish omelette with asparagus in a bid to use a glut of spuds. We’ve now got 3 veg boxes worth because I can’t use them up quick enough!

joedenise

We popped to the garden centre earlier so ended up having a meal in their cafe!  Not sure if we're going to have the planned scotch egg salad for dinner instead or whether we'll still have the planned fish pie.  I haven't actually got anything out of the freezer for tomorrow's dinner yet so think we may well have the fish pie for dinner tomorrow night and we'll just have the scotch egg for dinner tonight.

Suffolk_lass

The pasta was yummy and most importantly, it was quick (as we were consumed by bee activities yesterday, as my diary details - a bit of a nightmare!). I have half a lemon jelly with sliced peaches ready for supper and have got two frozen SM "the best" burgers out to defrost to have with the last of the salad and a bag of new potatoes (the rest will become potato salad). Busy times!