Reverse Meal Planning

joedenise

First bit of reverse meal planning today for ages! Popped into the Co-op and managed to get one of their steak and chips deals so we're having that tonight. Was reduced to £4 for members and I also had a £1 your shop so just £3 for steak of chips - can't be bad! We'll have it with some onions and mushrooms. The mushrooms definitely need using up!

Suffolk_lass

Still freezer diving here. Chicken thighs with salad and new potatoes tonight. Left over ragu for tomorrow in a mean lasagne

Suffolk_lass

That's proper bargain @joedenise - I'm about to dive for more of last year's courgettes to add to celery for a veg soup

EssexHebridean

Nice deal there joedenise! I too had a punnet of mushrooms heading to past their best territory so cooked the lot last night - two thirds of them were eaten with our couscous and the balance have been popped into the freezer.

Salmon out of the freezer for tonight - I'll cook a portion of pasta to go with, and then that will use up the remaining lettuce plus some home grown leaves too in a tossed salad.

I need to give some thought to tomorrow - I have a hunch that the meal plan is currently blank. Might go for an easy cheaty option of soup and toasted crumpets though. I like a no effort thursday night tea!

joedenise

Using up the LO fajita mix from yesterday's lunch for lunch today by stirring it through pasta and adding some sweet chilli sauce! It's a very tasty dish and I make it quite often.

rtandon27

I thought we'd not been doing reverse planning here for a while, but somehow when I went to put away some ice cream sticks today there was plenty of room in the freezer! - a drawer's worth of space over three drawers!) I've also been really careful not to replace anything that has been sitting in there for a while when it gets used - only what we eat regularly so that might be helping as well.

My latest trick to get OH to eat what we have in the house, is to give him an either/or option between two things I want us to use up - last Sunday it was Confit duck legs or Lamb steaks - we had duck. This week I'll say to him Pork or Lamb. I'm not replacing any of those things until we've made our way through what is there - if he really does not fancy a meal we have toasted bagels instead with boiled eggs and cheese - those items get replaced weekly so it is a strategy that is helping us make our way through the stores.

Suffolk_lass

I used up Christmas frozen carrots and leeks with a big bag of prepped squash to make veg soup that will feed me lunches until Mr Sl gets back from his bike thing, this morning. Just sitting still for a minute before I whizz it with a blender. The kitchen frozen veg drawer feels properly spacious, until I bring the next lot in!

Suffolk_lass

A month of silence on here. I thought a small update might be in order. I am not having any leftovers because apart from a few joints of meat in the big chest freezer, ready for winter, all the protein is portioned (multipacks are split up and stashed singly or in smaller multiples - and eggs and avocado come on portion sized packages.

The garden is providing some produce now (a few beans, lots of fruit and mostly mini cucumbers so far) with a few bolting lettuces making a really nice soup! I am slightly regretting doing away with the asparagus bed but hey ho, it has gone.

joedenise

Another here not having many leftovers and what there has been has been used the following day rather than going into the freezer to be used later.

I've now received a date for an operation on my thumb for the end of the month so I'm now trying to get some home made ready meals into the freezer to make life easier for DH after when I won't be able to use it for at least a couple of weeks.

So far I've managed to freeze a chana masala and today I'll be portioning up the leftovers from last night's keema curry - think there's probably enough for at least 2 meals. I'm making another curry later this week - butternut squash and sweet potato and they'll be at least one if not 2 meals of leftovers to freeze.

I need to do some more shopping so that I can get some batch cooking done and more meals into the freezer which aren't just curries, although we do enjoy them and eat them regularly.

rtandon27

We've been doing smaller as needed delivery shops for the past few months, so have not even looked at the freezer for anything other than ice cubes and ice cream lollies! We've mostly eaten everything we'vve bought with a few overripe bananas from the heat not making the cut! So not a lot of food planning either forward or reverse atm!