Reverse Meal Planning

natlie

Had a lovely veggie sausage dinner tonight with mash and lots of veg, froze the leftover mash and gravy for another meal - I always make too much mash. 
I used up leftover coleslaw from lunch too so no waste from that it was out of date yesterday but tasted fine. 
tomorrow we are out visiting our parents in the afternoon for the first time since Feb, will have lunch before we go and maybe chippy when we get back, its a 140 mile round trip 

rtandon27

Lunch today was leftovers from two nights ago - fish and rice for me - grilled veg and cheese wrap for OH

Dinner tonight - our tried and true recipe for glazed pork loin with cavalo nero champ - all the ingredients from the freezer & store cupboard & window sill herb garden.

Our veg box delivery comes tomorrow - small very veggie box and a summer salad box - finally, at long last we'll have a week of greens with every meal instead of root veg!  Very happy with that thought😁

MrsStepford

Used up the last Chicken Tonight Spanish chicken sauce, for organic diced pork, with added organic onions, mushrooms and walnuts. Veg frozen organic green beans for me, fresh broad beans for husband, from a Kent farm which he shucked, earlier this evening.  

StickyTheStickInsect

I've been lurking but haven't posted before, I've been trying to get back into cooking from scratch and reducing our waste. We had our grocery delivery on Monday this week which prompted me to have a sort out in the fridge. Some sad looking courgettes, sweet potatoes, carrots and parsnips and a wrinkly pepper I grated down and added some tinned tomatoes, mushrooms,tomato puree and stock and seasoning and made a hidden vegetable tomato sauce. I used to make it a lot but haven't for ages. It makes a great base for meatballs and spag bol and the kids have no idea they are eating any vegetables ! It made enough for 6 portions that will feed 6 people each time, I've popped them in the freezer.
I decided to try and use the vegetable peelings to make soup, some tins of tomatoes, puree and litres of stock later, I ended up with a pretty decent tomato soup which we had the following day for lunch and the kids hoovered up which is half the battle and I had enough left over to freeze another meals worth of portions for us.

PipneyJane

jinnyisacat said:

I've been lurking but haven't posted before, I've been trying to get back into cooking from scratch and reducing our waste. We had our grocery delivery on Monday this week which prompted me to have a sort out in the fridge. Some sad looking courgettes, sweet potatoes, carrots and parsnips and a wrinkly pepper I grated down and added some tinned tomatoes, mushrooms,tomato puree and stock and seasoning and made a hidden vegetable tomato sauce. I used to make it a lot but haven't for ages. It makes a great base for meatballs and spag bol and the kids have no idea they are eating any vegetables ! It made enough for 6 portions that will feed 6 people each time, I've popped them in the freezer.
I decided to try and use the vegetable peelings to make soup, some tins of tomatoes, puree and litres of stock later, I ended up with a pretty decent tomato soup which we had the following day for lunch and the kids hoovered up which is half the battle and I had enough left over to freeze another meals worth of portions for us.

That sounds lovely!  I am most impressed with your use of vegetable peelings to make Tomato Soup, @jinnyisacat.  Please take recipe notes for next time.

- Pip

missychrissy

I did post this on the slow cooker thread this morning but it is a ‘reverse meal planning‘ subject. I had a chicken carcass ( cooked 2 days ago), a couple of carrots and a leek that needed using up. I added an onion, 2 sticks of celery, the jelly from the roast chicken (poured into a mug, put in fridge then fat skimmed) and a packet of Asda broth mix (80p). It will make approx 8 good portions of chicken and veg broth for just over a £1.

-taff

I did a similar thing with a gammon joint I found in the freezer [forgot it was there] and used up the wobbly celery, carrots, manky toms, some lentils that were best before 2013 and chucked it all in the slow cooker yesterday. I've just taken the meat out now and had a slice or two, oops, but nom, and put the lentils and juice back on the cooker with addition of a three peppers that were going a bit yuk.

ajmoney

Steak fajitas this evening with enough left over for lunch tomorrow.

joedenise

Went out for lunch yesterday and had the slow cooked shoulder of lamb dinner.  Was far too much so asked for a "doggy bag" to take home. Shredded the meat and was enough  for DH and I to have in rolls for dinner last night and for lunch today.

Suffolk_lass

jinnyisacat said:

I've been lurking but haven't posted before, I've been trying to get back into cooking from scratch and reducing our waste. We had our grocery delivery on Monday this week which prompted me to have a sort out in the fridge. Some sad looking courgettes, sweet potatoes, carrots and parsnips and a wrinkly pepper I grated down and added some tinned tomatoes, mushrooms,tomato puree and stock and seasoning and made a hidden vegetable tomato sauce. I used to make it a lot but haven't for ages. It makes a great base for meatballs and spag bol and the kids have no idea they are eating any vegetables ! It made enough for 6 portions that will feed 6 people each time, I've popped them in the freezer.
I decided to try and use the vegetable peelings to make soup, some tins of tomatoes, puree and litres of stock later, I ended up with a pretty decent tomato soup which we had the following day for lunch and the kids hoovered up which is half the battle and I had enough left over to freeze another meals worth of portions for us.

Ooh welcome, we like new people and new ideas (and the long-standing people and their ideas too!) - this sounds great.

I made a chilli yesterday, using one of the small divided packs of mince that I froze, really to use up a sad carrot and some on-the-way garlic. Just half a bulb left now from a garlic pot full (I planted the ones that were shooting so we will see what they do!) following DH's first shopping foray - he bought a rope(!!!) for two of us. I seriously considered roasting it as a vegetable, but we have got through it - just about. A couple of small onions and the rest of last year's (frozen) borlotti beans, an actual tin of tomatoes (finished out last year's now) and some baked beans, together with the usual seasonings. I feel the chilli glut in the greenhouse needs attention and our bubble friend covets them, I know. I really do need to pick the cayenne's because they are pulling the plant over!