Reverse Meal Planning

zafiro1984

EssexHebridean:- What happened to the turkey carass??, enjoy your campng - weather looks good.

4 days into my new strategy

Lunches, used up the cheese, cheese on toast for me, cheese and biscuits for him. biscuit dough used as were the unbaked buns, 1 lot of soup used today, Still got the cooking bacon, pate, bread and eggs left so that we should be ok for another 2-3 days with no worries.

Teas, Chicken in breadcrumbs gone, the venison hock was too big for one and not enough for two so kept the LO's to make soup, DH was a little off song yesterday (he's ok now) so that meant the fish, sausages wrapped in (cooking) bacon tonight - does anyone else use 'cooking bacon'? I find if I look carefully at the pack I can usually see if it's going to yield rashers or lumps, sometimes I get quite lucky and can wrap it around sausages or use it in bacon sandwiches - another DH favourite. Just left with the pork mince and small beef joint - plenty to last into the weekend.

Puddings:- used the granita, crumble and ice-cream so more than enough to last to the weekend

I haven't been to the supemarket at all this week, need to go soon, mainly for coffee, non-food items and fruit as the fruit in the bowl is looking lonely.

Suffolk_lass

I missed the community lunch due to bees swarming yesterday (not mine) and four hours helping someone sort all their hives out, but the lovely women organising it sent Mr Sl home with 3 takeaway boxes - chicken curry with rice and cucumber raita (very tasty, no heat) - and a trifle - my second pudding (a ginger and lime cheesecake) went to Mr Sl as he knows (but they don't) that cheesecake is just not my thing. ANyway, happy days. No cooking!

Not sure about today yet.

Suffolk_lass

I freezer-dived into the chest freezer and we now have a box of long (premium) fish fingers in the kitchen freezer. So last night, after a long day we had fish fingers, chips, peas and beans. Just what was needed! Followed by Greek-style yogurt and blackcurrant curd for dessert.

Our exciting evening was watching an episode of "A Taste for Murder", which we are enjoying

Suffolk_lass

Well we were going to have something with mince but now we are having the chicken thighs that were £2.31 for 5 in the Coop when I went for milk. I refused to pay £1.75 (reduced!!) for a single layer of raspberries though! 😲

EssexHebridean

The turkey carcass got squished into a gap that was nearly big enough for it! Complications since returning have been spare bread - I bought a delicious sourdough while away from a favourite baker, we had half a loaf left over from breakfasts while camping, and then I got a Lil's free bakery item randomly, so claimed a Rye sourdough (not really sourdough but tasty) from that too…and of course the freezer was already full to bursting! Some of the posh sourdough and the leftover bread got used over the weekend, MrEH created a little bit of space by eating lunch from the freezer when I was out yesterday, and then I got ruthless last night and got out anything I could think of for the next couple of days, and JUST managed to cram the bread into the gaps!

Tonight will be pasta with turkey and previously roasted veg, the sauce will be soft cheese I think.

Tomorrow is planned to be the usual couscous - probably with halloumi and assorted veg, I've got some roast mushrooms out of the freezer for that.

Puddings for me this week will look like fruit compote with skyr I think - I bet we can all guess where the compote came from!

Need to freezer-dive again tomorrow for wednesday night's tea, although I may yet turn the easter parsnips into soup then we can use up some of the bread for toast to have alongside!

Suffolk_lass

Turned out to be 6 chicken thighs in that YS chicken pack so Mr Sl had two to my one last night and I shall make the rest into a pie ready for this evening, or later in the week. I used all five leeks up - 3 in L&P soup with celery and the Easter parsnips (and some of the said milk I went for), while the other two went in a simple casserole with the chicken thighs, served with the baby corn, carrots and potatoes.

fionaandphil

Great value pack with the chicken thighs and a good range of meals there.

EssexHebridean

That's excellent YS'd value isn't it! Nice one!

MrEH tells me he will be making lunchtime rolls today so I'll need to do another round of freezer tetris this evening! I need to be more brutal about just finding a thing and then creating a use for it I think. The bigger batches of mince might do simple burgers for tomorrow served with salad - that would also deal with some of a pack of olio rolls as well. At some point later in the week curry and rice will be on the agenda too - there's three tubs of curry in the depths somewhere!

Suffolk_lass

We are a bit quiet over here! - We have been so busy I have just left the cooking to Mr Sl so more meat than usual has been eaten!

Last evening they lit the fire pit in the Community Garden and put the BBQ rack frame over it - about 20 of us, it was good fun - we shared the garlic and coriander naans I had frozen and my bottom of the fridge coleslaw - just red onion, the browning end of some sort of cabbage and a carrot with the soggy end removed - and two frozen chillies, chopped as finely as I could. sauce of a tablespoon of may with the juice of a mean half lemon to slacken it, and the fresh pickled other half of the red onion, sprinkled with sugar and then vinegar and tossed a bit - it's lovely as it takes the hot edge off the onion but they are still crisp and they are great instead of fried onions with a burger or sausage in a bun - I struggled to sleep after that though (wine, potatoes and late food) and am slow-start today. I think the rather sad leeks might be supper, either steamed and buttered or in a cheesy gratin. I have two baking potatoes left too (I really must shop tomorrow or Tuesday).

Happy days, lots of salads and stir-fry!

EssexHebridean

Goodness yes - things ARE quiet!

I'm starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel on the freezer - although it looks quite full at the moment there is a loaf to be used this weekend (Lil's freebie) and nearly a fortnight's worth of lunchtime rolls so those are taking a fair bit of space.

I bought two packs of chicken thighs when I shopped at the weekend then used Sunday's negative electricity pricing to turn them into a tray of indian spiced roasted and a dish of chicken, broccoli & orzo bake - the bake meant I was able to use up the half tubs of creme fraiche (well over its date but we're both still alive) and soft cheese that were kicking around in the fridge, plus another slosh of the sun-dried tomato oil. That fed us sunday and yesterday. The indian spiced thighs will be going into action this evening with couscous and then I'll probably freeze the remainder to use next week.

Lots of salad in the fridge (and leaves starting to get to pickable stage in the garden - hurrah!), so might do salmon pasta salad as a nice light tea tomorrow.

Reminding myself that there is a small cheesy tear and share bread that needs using up so that will get factored in for the weekend (maybe sliced and pizza-style topped/grilled?)

If there is negative or very low pricing at the weekend again (possible) then I think I'll drag that turkey carcass out (finally!) and make some form of soup…(I might not though - doesn't quite feel like soup weather does it!)