Reverse Meal Planning

joedenise

Going to make a beef stew using some marinaded beef from the freezer plus veg I bought last week, some of which needs using up.  That will be dinner for tomorrow night though as I always think stew tastes better when it's reheated.

Went to farm shop today to get a cabbage and celeriac and they had some really nice looking cauliflowers so I bought one so tonight's dinner will be a big cauliflower cheese with chips!  It's a huge cauliflower so suspect I'll only need to use half of it as there are only 2 of us so the other half will get used later in the week.

rtandon27

Last night's dinner was a new recipe for us - giant couscous with roasted squash & toasted pepitas topped with some crumbled feta & a couple of soft-boiled eggs.  It was tasty & filing and best of all there is another portion each of leftovers, to be had for lunch today!

Groceries arriving this evening - surprisingly little missing (cheese & evaporated milk) & only one substitution (sale meatballs) - though there were limits on eggs and the flavoured still water that OH is partial to.  Guess we will have to do without toasties & pumpkin pie until the next shop in two weeks!

Suffolk_lass

We had a humungous cauliflower too @joedenise and had cauliflower cheese - he had hm sourdough bread and butter with his. I don't need the extra carbs. As it was his birthday we had ice cream afterwards - over crushed ginger biscuits and a squirt of ready-made chocolate sauce and a dribble of runny cream. - I highly recommend ginger biscuits over wafers (and that's why I didn't have bread too!)

I've got courgette soup in the oven, simmering and I think I will go for moussaka tonight - continuing the sloppy food thing and using up some of the cold lamb

joedenise

Unfortunately I don't like ginger biscuits @Suffolk_lass and in fact don't often eat biscuits at all (apart from when we're on holiday in France when I eat the caramel biscuits which come with your coffee!).  If I have biscuits at home it has to be shortbread!

Suffolk_lass

Bit of a sweep up supper - a cold sausage and a left-over hard boiled egg salad for me and DH pinched two sausages out of the package from the butcher and had them hot with salad. Simple and yummy. Then had greek-style yogurt with a drizzle of local honey

joedenise

Have got a large chicken out of the freezer so will do a roast dinner tomorrow and then it will be LOs for a couple of days after that but not sure what they'll be yet!

Teapot55

Mushrooms, if you like them, are amazing. You can cook them then keep them in the fridge (in a container) for several days & they reheat quickly & easily. 

So we buy them & cook them gently in a pan with the lid on but without adding anything, no fat or oil & definitely no water
then cool, store & reheat as needed. Haven’t tried freezing cooked mushrooms but suspect they’d be okay. 

peb

Cooked mushrooms are ok frozen but not great. I frequently freeze them in things (and as soup) but the texture does break down a little so not great with my weekend bacon sandwich sadly, fine to go on a sauce though.

Suffolk_lass

I don't get involved in mushroom discussions because I can't eat them.

We had HM courgette soup and then used up 7 eggs (3 dozen in the fridge!) on a sort of frittata - I fried diced onion and potato in veg oil in a shallow cast iron pot then poured the beaten egg, well seasoned (the chilli-flakes slipped!) and with grated strong cheddar, over the potato and onion mix and bunged it on the floor of the hot oven for 20 minutes with a bit more cheese on top. Had it with a really simple salad of iceberg lettuce, shop bought coleslaw and radishes - it was lovely! Had a bit of simple unadorned (sounds like Nigella!) greek-style yogurt afterwards (or the cheese gives me mouth ulcers!)

joedenise

Plenty of left over roast chicken here so going to do some in gravy for tonight plus 2 x 2 portions for the freezer.  The rest will be used for sweet and sour tomorrow night!  Such a bargain from a reduced chicken which I think was £2 or thereabouts!

Do wish my DH would eat things like quiche and frittata but he just doesn't like the texture of them.  He'll eat eggs most ways - fried, boiled, scrambled just not baked!