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Reverse Meal Planning

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  • joedenise
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    Suffolk_lass said:
    itsthelittlethings said:
    I cook for a family but am a single person, that’s my problem.
    sounds complicated - as a housekeeper, do you mean?
    I read that as cooking family sized meals but then having to eat themselves!
  • Suffolk_lass
    Suffolk_lass Posts: 10,424 Forumite
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    Doh! yes! Sorry, I was on planet zog this morning!

    I portion things down when I buy them so I don't cook too much. I think @joedenise does that too. It's a good way of getting some portion control. Except the chilli we have left from Saturday!
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    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
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  • rtandon27
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    We often cook family size recipes and view it as meal prep - the extra gets portioned and frozen for low effort meals for busy days. So a chicken and mushroom pie for 6 does us three meals.
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  • EssexHebridean
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    Yep - we do similar particularly with things like curry, daal, stews etc. Works a treat and there are some days when a home made "ready meal" is just what's needed! 

    Last night's frittata style omelette used up 5/7 remining eggs, some of the mushrooms, a couple of rashers of delicious but OH MY GOODNESS SALTY bacon and a bit of cheddar, and we had a portion of home grown runner beans alongside mainly because I would prefer not to put any more in the freezer now. 

    This evening will be the usual tuesday couscous - halloumi for protein, and then the veg part will be peppers and mushrooms, plus a tin of some sort of beans I think. That bit is up for debate as I'm undecided whether to simply take it the "cold salad" route.

    Tomorrow will indeed be a HM ready meal kinda night - and that will see a nice large tub of stew departing from the frozen annals of freezer 2... 
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  • Primrose
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    What a benefit freezers are for allowing us to freeze these surplus leftovers and how our grandparents would have bitten our hands off to have this facility.  And washing machines!
  • EssexHebridean
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    I'll add an off topic vote for vacuum cleaners to that list! 
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    Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
    Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
    Balance as at 31/08/25 = £ 95,450.00
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