Reverse Meal Planning

natlie

Hi
Today is sorting day/stock check so going to sort the fridge and freezer and organise my cupboards. I bought some amazing cake in a selection box so some of that is going to be frozen, so I don't eat it all and because there was a lot in the box. Tonights lunch will be a bagel or sandwich and dinner will be Sweet Potato, Pineapple and Red Pepper stew with homemade wedges 
Nat

Rowan9

I’ve been keeping a beans and greens dish going, adding more to it. I’ve needed to tweak it as it needed more sauce but that was easily done. 

Is anyone else happy to eat the same thing for a few days? We don’t mind this at all. 

Suffolk_lass

wmf said:

I’ve been keeping a beans and greens dish going, adding more to it. I’ve needed to tweak it as it needed more sauce but that was easily done. 

Is anyone else happy to eat the same thing for a few days? We don’t mind this at all. 

I could happily have soup every day and when I first stopped work DH was still working so for six months I had soup four out of five work days (fasting on the fifth)

rtandon27

wmf said:

...Is anyone else happy to eat the same thing for a few days? We don’t mind this at all...

I don't mind one bit, but OH is more fussy about 'leftovers' - we've taken to 'cook once, eat twice' which means the second portion goes into the freezer for an easy meal at a later date.  By the time we revisit the frozen portions, OH has forgotten how much he liked it the first time round & is always pleasantly surprised! (As long as I don't use the word leftovers he's quite happy to eat it 😉)

Often if we have only one portion left of a dinner, I eat it for lunch the next day, while the OH has a (boring) ham & cheese wrap or two egg omelette - lol

PipneyJane

@Suffolk_lass, garlic is a vegetable in this house and roasted as a part of most roast dinners.  You will need one per person.

To roast it, peel away the outside, paper-like skin, so that you just have the cloves in their skins.  If you can twist out the central stem, remove that too.  Place in the centre of a square of foil - one for each bulb - and pour a teaspoon of olive oil/roasting-pan-fat into the void left by the removed stem.  Wrap up and roast in the oven for at least an hour.  It can go in the roasting pan with your joint/roast potatoes.

To eat it, either use a fork to hook the cloves out of their skin or use your fingers to remove one clove at a time and suck the garlic out of the bottom.

- Pip

ETA:  any cloves that are leftover are lovely smooshed onto a sliced baguette and eaten as garlic bread.  (You can mash them into butter, too, to make garlic butter if there aren’t enough to cover an entire baguette.)

natlie

We have the makings of a roast dinner so that's the plan for this evening except we had no carrots in our veg box, which was weird so we'll be having swede, roast parsnips, cabbage, roast potatoes and gravy with veggie sausages or something like that. 
Added carrots to my shopping list for next week 

Suffolk_lass

I have roasted garlic before but I admit to being far less diligent in the preparation than you Pip - I do peel the paper off the bulb but after that they just go in the roasting pan with everything else. I have a number growing in the garden that are likely to be rounds (a single large clove that resembles a bulb, where the frost has not got them) because I planted them so late. If they are, they will go back in the ground in October - I am told this will result in very large bulbs next summer.

Last night I roasted the sheet of pork back ribs (that DH bought) in a hm BBQ sauce - they were lovely with homegrown peas, dwarf beans and new potatoes. I love it when the veg is all free!

natlie

My roast dinner was amazing last night, but still feel full and bloated now!
I am not sure what to make for dinner tonight, it is either going to be a curry or a big salad with leftover roast potatoes 

rtandon27

Our reverse plan dinner last night was chicken pot pie from the freezer stash with fresh sprouting broccoli from the veg box.  OH made that pie so many weeks ago, that he completely forgot about it! 😉

natlie

Hi,
Lunch today is free Pret sandwiches rescued from the OLIO app (its a neighbourhood food sharing app) 
Dinner is going to be a brazilian curry called Xim Xim, I have had the pack of sauce mix in the cupboard for a while and Im going to use some vegan chicken style pieces from the freezer
Nat