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Reverse Meal Planning

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  • rtandon27
    rtandon27 Posts: 5,644 Forumite
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    It's a new week & we have a meal plan of sorts...

    Monday - veggie day - truffle tortellini with almond & red pepper pesto both from the freezer, some sliced chestnut mushrooms from the veg box & bacon in lieu of lardons (we'll pretend it's a veg)

    Tuesday - fish day - baked basa fillets with steamed snow peas, baby corn & baby potatoes from the veg box - tasty but we overcooked everything slightly!

    Wednesday - chicken day - baked chicken drums with roasted greek style veg - peppers, courgette, baby mushrooms, red onions, tossed with oregano or thyme and cubed feta

    Thursday - meat day - sharer steak, cooked spinach & oven chips

    Friday - pizza day - may have some home made wedges with it

    Saturday - bao & gyoza & pickety bits - low effort rest day

    Sunday - 'roast' - pork steaks & carrots & champ

    Lunch both yesterday and today has actually been brunch - eggs & toast & assorted bits that need finishing - for the rest of the week we will need to fend for ourselves!
    4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)
    (With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)
    ...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)
    New projection - 14 YEARS 10 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS (reduced by 15 mths)
    Psst...I may have started a diary!
  • Suffolk_lass
    Suffolk_lass Posts: 10,275 Forumite
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    edited 31 March at 10:03AM
    Making a combined soup. I sprinkled the wrong chilli flakes into my leek and potato soup last week and it was the too fiery ones. So this morning, that pot has been merged with the leftover chicken casserole from last night. I am off to whizz the two together for soup, today and tomorrow! I shall do something with sausages for supper, so will get them out of the freezer now
    Save £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
    OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
    I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
    My new diary is here
  • Suffolk_lass
    Suffolk_lass Posts: 10,275 Forumite
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    I've been dreadful at eating in the last week, only eating with Mr Sl twice because our diets are different. I am following the Michael Mosley 8-week LBS diet for a few weeks, in empathy for his fat free life. 5.4 pounds so far for me, just over a stone for him, with about half or a quarter pound off each time he weighs in. I had mostly nuts yesterday, as I needed some salt, many were salted. Soup for supper and a forbidden orange. We will have a chicken skewer (kebab) tonight, with salad and he can have rice. I have some plans to stir fry tomorrow, but we might swap. Hummus and veg sticks for lunch and a few olives for me (he can have a ham sandwich) today. I shall skip breakfast, I might have some yoghurt (full fat, Greek) with home-grown fruit if I am hungry at any point
    Save £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
    OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
    I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
    My new diary is here
  • rtandon27
    rtandon27 Posts: 5,644 Forumite
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    edited 13 April at 1:57PM
    @Suffolk_lass - well done to both of you on the weight loss, but so sorry to hear you are feeling less than enthused about your respective diets!

    This weekend has seen me decanting, rearranging & using up in true reverse plan style.
    • yesterday's breakfast was a Spanish omelette with chorizo from the freezer & also used up the last sausage & Mediterranean roast veg from a mid-week tray bake - we had whole-meal flatbreads from the freezer to accompany
    • for snacks between yesterday & today we've demolished the steamed prawn dim sum & 'lobster balls' that were in the freezer and finished off the stufed bao buns - there is currently some room in the freezer as we won't be replacing until the end of the month
    • oats have been decanted from the overflow in the stores to the glass decanter on the worktop, as OH has been noshing on a bowl of porridge before bed almost all week long
    • the last of the dark soy has been decanted form the giant catering container to our small kitchen bottle - I bought this huge container during pandemic & as it is a fermented product anyway, we were not worried about how long it lasted but am very happy for the space on the stores shelf
    • we used up all kinds of 'ends of' for breakfast this morning and successfully removed three tupperwares from the fridge
    • lunch was roasted root veg soup from the freezer & cream crackers from the stores with some saucisson sec on the side - 2 more pots of that soup are in the freezer, along with a non-roasted variety and a tub of chicken stock.  I also noticed two 500mL bags of whole milk in there as well, that OH uses for cauli-cheese, toad-in-hole batter and other oven baked comfort food concoctions that do not taste the same with our usual non-dairy milk.
    • have taken out a tupperware of red cabbage & red onion to have with our leftover pork roast from Friday - will also use up the pork roast juices & chopped onion trivit to make a gravy - looks like we will need to make roasties to go with it - On a whim I bought a clearance joint last week for Sunday roast, not realizing that it would also be short dated, so pizza went by-the by on Friday & a roast was made instead, served with steamed carrots & potatoes
    This week will see us planning from freezer, stores & fridge to help stretch the 4-week budget to a 5-week month!  We also seem to be getting less & less for a money these days, so time for a mini-challenge to use what we already have in the house!

    Going to give the meal plan some thought & return with a plan!
    4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)
    (With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)
    ...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)
    New projection - 14 YEARS 10 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS (reduced by 15 mths)
    Psst...I may have started a diary!
  • rtandon27
    rtandon27 Posts: 5,644 Forumite
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    Feeling inspired having used up so many odds & ends over the past few days...

    So this week's meal plan will use up what we've got...

    Monday - Veggie Day - Pizza & a side salad

    Tuesday - Fish Day - ginger & soy marinated Salmon & red cabbage with red onion & jasmine rice 

    Wednesday - Chicken Day - chicken, leek & mushroom pie with steamed carrots - leftovers will be used on a different day

    Thursday - Meat Day - Mince Fried Rice & cooked lettuce as we seem to have three heads of romaine in the fridge!

    Friday - Good Friday - in theory we should be having a fish super so may go to the chippy & pick up sometake-away but equally we could have leftover chicken pie or Waitflower yellow stickered something

    Saturday - Asian Noodles & bubble tea - fun food @ a fraction of the cost of eating out!

    Sunday - Roast - probably chicken or gammon, depending on what we pick up from Waitflower

    This weeks lunches as it's always a challenge when commuting to not default to the expensive sandwich shop!
    Monday - MrS meal deal using points
    Tuesday - B00ts meal deal using points
    Wednesday - will have to scout out a deal and avoid the expensive shop! - perhaps a salad from C0-0p
    Thursday - monthly ladies who lunch - no clue where - I'm hoping Chinatown, last time we had homestyle Japanese
    Friday - first day of my week long Easter break - as it's Good Friday, we'll have something fishy
    4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)
    (With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)
    ...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)
    New projection - 14 YEARS 10 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS (reduced by 15 mths)
    Psst...I may have started a diary!
  • Suffolk_lass
    Suffolk_lass Posts: 10,275 Forumite
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    Just popping by to say that in Exciting News from here freezer 2 is finally empty, defrosted and switched off! Naturally this means that freezer 1 in its turn ludicrously packed, but hey, ho, we'll work on that!

    I am very envious of that. We have all the freezers in action, including the bee freezer with brood frames in (to stop wax moth). The little one in the toolshed (under the beer fridge) has my pre-prepared soup base and pies), the barn has my chest freezer of meat (and pizzas for DS emergencies) and fish, the pig shed has the garden produce and the kitchen has the opened packs and a few bagged up portions, bread rolls I've made and so on. No ice cream but DH is allowed a water ice and likes the Sainsbugs Valencia orange lollies and the R White's lemonade ones. I can't have added sugar for another 7 weeks. I need to eat this morning before my Covid jab. Greek yogurt and fruit, I think with a sprinkle of oat bran to keep the cholesterol lower
    Save £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
    OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
    I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
    My new diary is here
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