Reverse Meal Planning

zafiro1984

I've been missing for a while, due to the work at this time of year, but I must say I've sorely missed mse. Now things have calmed down a little I should have time to get back on board. The downside to being busy is that a lot of meals have been easy, quick and I hate to say more costly than I would have liked. hopefully I'll get quickly back on track. 

Lunch was scrambled egg on toast
Tonight is asparagus (from garden) and smoked salmon flan (salmon is left overs from our wedding anniversary last Thursday. We realise we have fewer anniversaries ahead of us than those which are now behind). I've some LO salad in the fridge which needs using up and pudding will be apple crumble with LO cream before it goes off. I'll use the most perishable items first over the next few days so hopefully nothing will be thrown away.

If you are looking at the time this was posted  - I still have to make tea and we haven't been eating until after 9pm most days - do I sound stressed!!! - sorry

crazybunnylady4

Further to my last post after getting all the shopping put away my lunch today was gf tiger bread with grated cheese and ham - and pringles.
Was absolutely lovely. dl

DW is now on from the massive dinner we have just eaten 🤣 probably roll up the stairs to bed tonight 

crazybunnylady4

Me again . Today's meal plan is:

Brekkie: Gf tiger bread with grated cheddar/mozzarella cheese mix.

Lunch: tuna salad with caesar dressing. Likely some cheese sprinkled on top 🤣😋

Dinner: gf ready meal with salad, probably one of the Kirstys pasta range (unless I see something in m&s today that takes my fancy 😬)

Suffolk_lass

I've been MIA for most of May and half of April. April we were away in the Highlands but May is all about bees. I'm hoping June is quieter...

I shopped yesterday (once a month is a bit of a stretch but we managed for May with a local coop top up for milk and cream.

I bought four good burgers yesterday so we will have two with salad tonight, including some leaves from a self-seeded cos lettuce

rtandon27

In the spirit of planning from what we have, our reverse plan for dinner tonight will be fish finger tacos!  Everything from the freezer/fridge/stores so making room in the house.

Reviewing our May budget, we did a whole lot of restocking and dining out (mostly due to commuter train dramas) and also quite a bit of planned socializing so all of those respective eating budgets went a tad over.  Other than my upcoming birthday weekend, which is budgeted for, we are doing our best to eat from home and reverse engineer our meals this month!  I'm determined to bring as many lunches as possible from the freezer stash, which is not always possible due to at least one business lunch a week, but I would like to stick to only getting meal deals when I'm paying with points & not actual cash iyswim!

zafiro1984

 rtandon27 it must be that time of year as I'm having a serious day with my budgets tomorrow. It's been a while since I reviewed what I am spending and I hope I'm not going to have  too much of a shock.

Lunch:- eggy bread or I think the posh word is 'French toast' - eggs from my girls and the last of a loaf. It would have to have been made into bread and butter pudding if I hadn't used it for lunch. We also had some mixed spice biscuits which I made. They only take about 8mins to cook from frozen, a good standby.
Tea:- Old fashioned pork chops with the rind on and bone still in them, and best of all, they were reduced. I'm looking forward to them. 
Pudding:- Some frozen fruit from last year set into jelly. An easy meal as I've only just come inside after watering some plants.

Mrs_Cheshire

Morning all, off to the local festival in a short while. My son is playing in the band that leads the procession. We'll have a walk around the stalls afterwards and try and avoid spending money on unnecessary items (the kids always like the tombola etc).
This afternoon I'll plan the meals for the week and write my shopping list. Will probably aim to go shopping after tea to avoid the weekend crowds. Want to check the freezer and base our meals from there as it's pretty full! 

zafiro1984

Mrs Mrs_Cheshire said:

Morning all, off to the local festival in a short while. My son is playing in the band that leads the procession. 

I gather you must be in the North. I used to love those festivals, carnivals, local summer shows when we lived up there. The best we get down here is a tractor 'parade' raising money for charity.

Yesterday:- Lunch soup from the freezer -parsnip and squash, 
Tea:- I found some frozen bits of turkey left from Easter. (the turkey was bought cheaply Christmas Eve and frozen), also some bits of ham from the same time. Made a giant vol-au-vent. 

I'm going to make some ice-cream today because I managed to pick up 2x5 litres of double cream reduced to £4 at the farm shop yesterday. I'm going to use up the fruit in the freezer mainly brambles and blueberries, all home grown and therefore no cost. Condensed milk 99p a tin which makes 1L. If I run out of fruit I'll I'll crush some mixed spice biscuits and fold that in for a bit of a crunch. I'm smiling

EssexHebridean

I will catch up on my missed time here in due course, but a quick glance looks like all are doing well on the reverse planning front! 

We came back from holiday with lots of cheese from makers that we can't get down south, so we should have a few months of buying more basic stuff to pad that out for a while on cheese & cracker nights. Lots of crackers and oatkcakes from local Hebridean bakeries as well.  A large Stornoway black pudding and a small fruit pudding from the same butcher will get sliced and frozen, and some tattie scones have already been popped in the freezer ready for use in fry-ups to come. A dozen duck eggs are a nice treat - we never see those locally!  As the cottage we stay in don't retain any foods left by previous stayers (aside from cooking oil) we also brought back a part pack of spaghetti, a part bag of rice, some bread, a couple of part-baked sourdough rolls, most of a pack of butter, the last of my skimmed milk, a punnet of mushrooms and some other odds and ends, so that will all go to bolster supplies for the next little while too. The final real treat was a tub of offcuts from one of the gorgeous smoked salmon makers up there - that's already been scoffed though in the form of salmon and cream cheese rolls for lunch on monday, and a delicious salad last night which also had new potatoes with it too. 

The salad also saw the first real use of our home grown stuff - the lettuce was from the garden, we each had a few radishes and I also had the first of  my little baby round carrots, although very few of them are really of a size to be pulled - those first thinnings are SO tasty though! 

Tonight will be omelettes - duck eggs with some chorizo, some mushrooms and cheese - I'm over-run with ordinary cheddar at the moment as I knew we had taken the last of a pack on holiday with us, so thought we needed more - having completely missed the big slab of Wyke Farms stuff that was in the  back of the fridge! 

the aim for next week will be a "basics only shop" I think - as I'd like to start stretching out the grocery spends a bit again! 

zafiro1984

Not a great deal of variety in the fridge, just some cheese which will do for lunch at the weekend, plenty of fruit and plenty of vegetables/salad so no shopping this weekend and I aim to live out of the stash in the freezers for the next week as well as today.

Lunch today pate, made made last week with lambs liver and a bit of bacon, + chocolate chip muffins 
Tea:- part of a venison casserole I made in March, I'll probably add a few small new potatoes and put a pastry topping on it, plenty of veg in the fridge, less mess and less tiding up. Pudding:- DH- LO apple crumble from yesterday, there's only enough for one so I'll have an apple or pear. 

 Today will be an awful day, - animals