The all new using what you have from your Freezer, Cupboard or Shed (Barn)

rtandon27

Have a lovely time away @Cherryfudge!

Nelliegrace

We have half price leg of lamb in the freezer still, @oceandreamer. To take less space I cut it off the bone into smaller roasting joints to pot roast, and some chunks for a casserole. 

LotsOfTea

I've made a start on finishing off the tins from the zombie apocalypse stores again and dug out a tin of rhubarb to have with my oats and yoghurt for breakfast. I have to say, it's a bit bland compared to the fresh stuff. I shall have to add a shake of ginger or mixed spice tomorrow to give it a lift as the tin was massive so it's going to take a good few days of breakfasts to see it off.

oceandreamer

That's a good idea @Nelliegrace - I only ever buy legs of lamb on offer but they are far to big and I end up with more leftovers that we have eaten!  Cherryfudge, I can only begin to imagine how many greengages you have!  I've been overrun with just what I rescued from the pigeons.  I have been away for a couple of days but did manage to  use up a chicken breast and some frozen peppers in a curry plus some curry paste and the last of the rice. I've made a   menu plan for next week based on what I found in the freezer and I'm going to see how many things I can eat during September.  I don't think I could empty the freezer in a month but I could maybe go for one or two shelves.  

Cherryfudge

We had fishcakes for our main meal with cous cous, and a home made ratatouille that used up some courgette, pepper and cherry tomatoes from the freezer. With the resulting space I've been able to freeze a lot of greengage puree and I've also discovered it's delicious in plain yogurt.

I picked up around 230g more greengages this morning - a real slow down in production!

oceandreamer

Found a packet of smoked salmon when I was doing my freezer inventory (reduced of course) so used it in a creamy lemon sauce with spinnach and pasta.  Found some chicken thighs so have taken them out for tomorrow, probably to make a traybake using up the bottom of the fridge veg.

Cherryfudge

We are officially on holiday, staying in a relative's house at the other end of the country, and there was a note from our hosts (themselves away on holiday) to say 'help yourselves from the fridge etc'. It was very kind of them and very practical, as they've not needed to do the finishing up dash before leaving, and we have planned for today around using up a pepper and some tomatoes. We did, however, brave our first ever trip to Waitrose: there's quite a decent-sized one in walking distance. Yes, it was more expensive but we didn't need to go over the top. We got oranges and ingredients for tuna pasta.

So here's my challenge to myself - and it's limited by DH being lactose-intolerant and disliking eggs, and us only being here till Friday:
2 bagels
2 Scots pancakes
11 eggs
lots of carrots
5 pints milk (4 go OOD on 4th)
2 Little Gem lettuces
Fresh coriander
Mixed salad leaves
Half a pepper
Half a cucumber
Couple of spring onions
Couple of new potatoes
2 bananas
2 limes
One and a half lemons (aha - lemon curd, lime curd, use up eggs...!)
1 pear
4 apples

To which we have already added 2 grapefruit, a bowl of tinned sweetcorn, a big handful of damsons (found on a walk this evening) and the greengages we brought with us.

I suspect I may be eating Spanish omelette with salad for lunch quite soon...

Cherryfudge

A little progress made: I have eaten a bagel.

I also had an inspiration and poured off a cup of milk from the short-dated 4 pints (used it for hot chocolate) then froze the rest and wrote a note for our hosts to let them know it has 2 days from defrosting.

That vastly simplifies the rest of the use-up challenge.

C_J

Cherryfudge said:

We are officially on holiday, staying in a relative's house at the other end of the country, and there was a note from our hosts (themselves away on holiday) to say 'help yourselves from the fridge etc'. It was very kind of them and very practical, as they've not needed to do the finishing up dash before leaving, and we have planned for today around using up a pepper and some tomatoes. We did, however, brave our first ever trip to Waitrose: there's quite a decent-sized one in walking distance. Yes, it was more expensive but we didn't need to go over the top. We got oranges and ingredients for tuna pasta.

So here's my challenge to myself - and it's limited by DH being lactose-intolerant and disliking eggs, and us only being here till Friday:
2 bagels
2 Scots pancakes
11 eggs
lots of carrots
5 pints milk (4 go OOD on 4th)
2 Little Gem lettuces
Fresh coriander
Mixed salad leaves
Half a pepper
Half a cucumber
Couple of spring onions
Couple of new potatoes
2 bananas
2 limes
One and a half lemons (aha - lemon curd, lime curd, use up eggs...!)
1 pear
4 apples

To which we have already added 2 grapefruit, a bowl of tinned sweetcorn, a big handful of damsons (found on a walk this evening) and the greengages we brought with us.

I suspect I may be eating Spanish omelette with salad for lunch quite soon...

The carrots, half pepper, spring onions and new potatoes could make a pan of soup. The bananas, pear and apples could be stewed together and served on top of scotch pancakes. A bagel each with salad leaves, grated carrot, cucumber and tomato for lunch?

Cherryfudge

The list looks like this now (we leave in a few hours):

2 bagels - eaten with cheese and salad
2 Scots pancakes - alas, binned
11 eggs - six will still be in date when out hosts return and four are used.
lots of carrots - mostly used
5 pints milk (4 go OOD on 4th) - four frozen, the rest used up
2 Little Gem lettuces - put in fridge in cold water 
Fresh coriander
Mixed salad leaves - used
Half a pepper - going in our lunch today
Half a cucumber - lunch today, and will take the rest home or it will be a mush when hosts return
Couple of spring onions - some used, will take the rest or add to today's lunch
Couple of new potatoes - in good condition, so will leave for hosts
2 bananas - eaten
2 limes - leaving one, made lime curd with the other
One and a half lemons (aha - lemon curd, lime curd, use up eggs...!) - half used on fish, leaving the other in fridge
1 pear - eaten
4 apples - eaten