Reverse Meal Planning

Suffolk_lass

Hmm. Time to look at electric tariffs again as mine expires in a month. We now have the refitted and functioning solar system with one 10kw battery charging up overnight. I'm just not that organised to use a supercheap period. This morning I have the oven on, gently warming a bucket of honey, a heater on to warm that room, so it flows better, the dishwasher is rinsing and warming jars, the dishwasher ran a whole cycle this morning as Mr forgot to set it last night (9.6p/kwh overnight) - at least the panels are generating and the battery is being depleted - I am drawing over 4.2kw currently! - just under 1kw from the panels, just over 2.5 from the battery, 600w from the grid! - I could turn the electric heater under my desk off but it is lovely and warm, and my fingers are not dead!

I cunningly redeployed the slow cooker casserole dish into the oven, as that was on, and melted the plastic handle on the lid last week. Hmm!

I shall stick to simple food today. Bread made yesterday with soup and a salad this evening!

zafiro1984

We had our usual visitor at the weekend. I try to plan ahead but it doesn't always work out and I end up freezing what I can in the small freezer under the fridge. It can get a bit chaotic in the three small drawers so on Monday in an effort to be frugal I emptied everything onto the worktop and sorted out what (or as I like the think - planned) what meals I could make.

Quite pleased with myself:- so far we've had for lunch:- toasted ham sandwiches - a bit frugal on the ham but I stretched it with cheese. LO butternut and parsnip soup, I had a couple of slices of brioche bread so that made eggy bread today. I've still got some LO roast lamb leg and the bones - not enough for a tea but I'll use the slow cooker and turn it into soup this evening ready for tomorrow's lunch.

Tea has been - Monday - a bit of the ham with some cooked chicken thighs, turned into a pie, I had frozen in ice cubes some Campbells concentrated chicken soup, so made the sauce using that. veg added out of the main freezer. I found four unused sausages, so with roasted carrots, butternut squash, onion and potatoes I made a Yorkshire pudding type of tea yesterday. The only effort I had to make was making onion gravy, the rest cooked itself. Tea tonight is salmon that somehow escaped my attention and hid in the bottom drawer, DH will have chips, I'll find some veg to go with mine. DH always has to have a pudding:- too sweet a tooth. LO crumble on Monday, Tuesday was LO choc cake with custard, Tonight is a couple of LO orange and sultana buns reheated in the microwave with more custard.

I've still got quite a lot of bits and bobs still in the freezer but It's starting to have some space and the best thing is I've not really visited he main freezer this week, a win win week

Suffolk_lass

My fridge is rammed. My body is bigger. I need to go light but the food needs using. I am going for baked salmon tonight, with simple, plain steamed veg, and a minced beef ragu in a pasta bake tomorrow. I did do a main chest freezer dive on Monday and brought all sorts in. I just need to keep plodding away. I have two pots (one and a half really) of soup in the fridge - courgette. My favourite for lunch with a slice of buttered toasted hm sourdough

fionaandphil

Salmon is obviously very popular this week - maybe the brighter days. We too are having some leftover salmon tonight, for us cooked up with pasta to make a fishy carbonara. DH and DS also have a sweet tooth so I am thinking more apple crumble to use up the apples we are still working through from last summer - they seem never ending despite sharing with family, friends and neighbours. I like to think our freezers are clearning but I would be lying 😄