Reverse Meal Planning

Spendywendywoo

How strange, our Al too is due to shut at some point over the next week for a refurb too… maybe they are rebranding hence why there are a few closing at the same time? Ours sometimes smells of mouldy fruit when you walk in, and it does leave me wondering how they clean under the fruit areas when they, I believe, don’t work outside of store opening hours… 

Yesterday was all from stores; boiled egg on toast, homemade soup for lunch and frozen pizzas instead of takeaway

Today will yet again be from stores for breakfast and lunch; cereal and homemade soup, but we are unsure of plans for dinner yet. We may go out (all from budget) or we may have something we already have in, not sure yet. 

Have a great day all x

EssexHebridean

Ooh that does sound like an Aldi rebrand doesn’t it - I wonder what they will do with the store near work which only opened in October but (so far as I can think, anyway) has the regular branding if that is the case. Hmm..I’m starting to wonder whether in fact there is a difference there that I’d not noticed! 

zafiro1984

Made a mistake - stupid me - We were meant to have friends here at the weekend and I had a large piece of gammon in the freezer from December. Got it out last Wednesday, put it in the fridge to defrost, and then on Friday they cancelled. I've now had to cook the gammon - it's big, far too much for the two of us so I'll have to slice it and refreeze it - what a waste of time. I also spent a full day on the house over and above what I normally do, - being tidy with everything in it's place is not my strongest point, I'd rather be outside.  Rant over.

Lunch;- turkey soup from the freezer made at the end of last year. It just needs a bit of stretching with a few more vegetables, frozen peas and sweetcorn will be easy to bulk it out.
Tea:- I'll wait until I've dealt with the cooked gammon and then use any bits to make a mushroom and gammon quiche as I've got everything else.  Pudding- I came across some black cherry granita I'd made before Xmas and used it over ice-cream the other day. It was quite delicious, maybe it was the added brandy.. There's some left!!!

Suffolk_lass

I've got a freezer full of salmon, bought for New Year before the pescatarian people cancelled on the day. Fortunately it was fresh so I froze it.

Here we had Cumberland whorls with mash, cabbage, carrots and sprouts. DH cooked. I almost choked and it turns out DH would have watched me rather than try the Heimlich manoeuvre! What possessed him to cut the (sweetheart) cabbage into 1cm squares is beyond me but one got caught in my airway and in the end I was over the toilet, to make myself bring it up, conscious I was not able to breathe. Sorry. I am still moderately furious with him as I now have the coughing I associate with asthma again after trying so hard to dislodge it.

The rest of this week will involve the world's most expensive chicken leftovers (him again!) - I was expecting a £4 SM job or a £10 local butcher. I got an £18.pp bird from the Fortnum & Mason's of butchers in the local tourist village. I suppose he was just too embarrassed to say, I'm sorry, I can't pay that for a chicken.

Spendywendywoo

@Suffolk_lass, I hope you are ok? That sounds scary! As for the chicken... £18?? Wow, that is very expensive but I don't think the old me would have been able to say no once I'd ordered it (different story now). Sounds like you got a few meals from it though, and I'm sure DH won't buy from there again..?

Today is all from food I have in / already prepped;

*boiled egg on toast
* hm soup
* leftover roast dinner that my friend kindly portioned up for us last night (she's a love). DH isn't a huge fan of roast dinners so will make him something from stores too

EssexHebridean

Oh jeez SL that sounds horrific - I hope you are OK and the cough is subsiding. 

Suffolk_lass

TBH I think all that is leftover is the grumpiness now. Three cups of coffee and I feel much better now.

Sorry to be such a drama queen but I was going blue around the mouth...

rtandon27

@Suffolk_lass - no harm in being a drama queen when warranted!  As to that outrageously expensive chicken (insert blue shrieky smiley here) - what did they rear it on? Gold pellets?  I hope you rubberize it to death to stretch over as many meals as possible!

I'm currently recovering from food poisoning, so though I have a meal plan for the week, not really wanting to focus on it for the moment, so may post it about mid-week!

Spendywendywoo

@rtandon27, sorry to hear you haven't been very well. Take care of yourself and hope you are feeling better soon

MissRikkiC

Ahh SL what a scary situation! Mr SL will know better next time, on 2 accounts. 

RT - I darent admit the amount of times I’ve had food poisoning over the last few years. It’s awful isn’t it. Sending you sips of water and plain toast.