Reverse Meal Planning

natlie

Too good to go is great.
I rescues some more Pret wraps last night so had one with chips for dinner and will have one for lunch today.

joedenise

Just lost my post - so annoying!

Soaked some chickpeas overnight and cooked them this morning.  Made a veggie chilli using up veg from the fridge, some onions & garlic.  Has made a big SC full.  Think there will be 10 portions for the freezer.

Still have half a butternut squash in the fridge so will soak some more chickpeas tonight and cook in the morning.  Will then make a butternut squash and chickpea curry tomorrow and freeze.  Should make at least 6-8 portions.

These 2 lots of batch cooking will use up most of the veg in the fridge, apart from mushrooms which will mostly get used for fry up Sat and Sun breakfasts!

Still have a couple of courgettes from the garden but only picked today so they'll be OK for a few days yet and there will be more to pick tomorrow no doubt!

rtandon27

Last night's dinner was another part forward plan & part reverse plan meal!  Chicken burgers from our delivery on Mon, bought just so we could use up some brioche buns we had in the cupboard, accompanied by freezer chips & a cucumber/tomato/grape/ basil salad to use up the rest of last week's veggie box.

Lookafterthepennies2020

Just stumbled across this thread and will be following along I am reverse meal planning on a weekly basis, however it all tends to go to pot on a weeknight if I forget to stick the slow cooker on in the morning or take the meat out the night before.  I will be following along to get some meal ideas and also now off to google Too Good to go as I've never even heard of this

Pyxis

Had a veg delivery which included rainbow chard and woodland mushrooms. They have to be eaten relatively quickly, so I steamed the chard, cooking some new potatoes in the water below, added some old grated cheese to the chard and the last tablespoon of the Aivar red pepper condiment thing to the potatoes, and topped the lot with the fried mushrooms.

Yum Yum!
 Dessert was the remains of some soured cream mixed with some old sunflower seeds and mango and passion fruit coulis. Yum yum! 

rtandon27

No exotic veg for us this week - the chard & wild mushrooms sound yummy Pyxis!

We ordered cantelope, cavalo nero & mushrooms to 'round out' the standard small box - am so thankful they are now doing top-ups so we can stick to veg we love & use up quickly. Still have another black garlic to finish up and have frozen the fresh turmeric from the last time we had a cook's box.  We ended up reducing the frequency of that box to once a month which gives us the adventure of new ingredients, but also a bit more time to incorporate them into our plans.

About to map out a 'reverse plan' for the week centered around our yummy new veg box delivery!

darrannah

Wow, just found this thread, I will certainly be trying reverse planning, I tend to throw a lot of stuff away, so hopefully this will help me, starting with the 2 courgettes in the fridge that need using up, I'm thinking stuffed with a tomatoey sauce topped with mozzarella? mmmm

rtandon27

Tonight's dinner of roast chicken & root veg sat on a bed of 'use it up' vegetable mirpoix - finely diced onion, celery, green leaves/stems from a cauliflower, two tomatoes and some garlic cloves. Tomorrow will use the some of the leftover bits of chicken, mirpoix & juices from the chicken to make a chicken & veg soup.  One whole chicken breast has been cubed and popped into the freezer until we get some leeks in the veg box & then will be turned into pot pie. The chicken bones are in the freezer until I've got 3 or four chickens worth and then will be turned into bone broth.  Love our biweekly roast as it always stretches into four or 5 meals, sometimes more!

StickyTheStickInsect

I had a medium chicken in the fridge that was due to be a roast tomorrow but I looked at it this afternoon and realised it went out of date today, so we cooked it and used it for chicken, tomato, onion and pesto pasta for dinner. It fed 3 adults, 4 children and a cat and I still have enough left over in the fridge for another meal. I also boiled down the bones and the skin for the first time and made stock. It is the first time for a long time, that I've completely stripped the chicken and used absolutely all of its parts, I was surprised by how much meat I actually got. I think the only one more impressed than me is the cat, who had consumed so much chicken she had to be carried up the stairs at bedtime !!

natlie

Hi
Meat free sausages for us tonight, I have a sack of potatoes and root veg so will probably do a roast dinner, I have some nectarines in the fridge that need using so might us them and the plums to make a compote to serve with the cake and some vegan vanilla ice cream

Nat