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

Cherryfudge

I'm soaking yellow split peas (BB 2018!) for a curry and will use up the sweet potatoes at the same time.

For lunch I finished the mayo and some tuna, but those will be replaced.

Yesterday I used my 'free veg' coupon from L1dl to buy a big bag of potatoes. We don't eat potatoes very often! However, a nice baked potato on a cold lunchtime... that sounds like a plan. Also diced and roasted in spices, which I did recently and it made a good change.

I've also made a cuppa using a stray chamomile tea bag that's been cluttering the place up, and last night I used long life milk (admittedly OOD), some of the three opened packets of plain flour and a couple of eggs to make toad in the hole with some half price sausages.

I'm counting that all as progress - including the tea bag.  

greent

Cherryfudge said:

I'm counting that all as progress - including the tea bag.  

As they say, every little helps! 😜

Cherryfudge

I made the curry but ran out of time to eat any before work! I have a feeling it's going to be too hot for me though I reduced the spices. We will have it for lunch tomorrow.

Instead of a 'proper' meal tonight I've just finished up some leftovers: roast veg, fried onions and yogurt with greengage jam. I can see the rosehips that I was going to turn into a syrup have started to go off: I just ran out of time and energy for that project. There are also a few greengages in the fridge that have gone beyond use, sadly - thought I worked very hard to process as many as possible and gave lots away too! I will just have to add them to the compost and draw a line under that.

I've brought in my tiny harvest of garlic - all 40g of it! I think I'll try again with 'proper' garlic rather than just the odds and ends of cloves that were drying up in the fridge, but although these were tiny, it's hardly their fault as I planted them at the wrong time. They are wonderfully juicy compared to shop-bought.

We are having family over on Sunday so I've a couple of days to tidy out the fridge and restock for a bun fight!

Watty1

The beluga lentils made into a pasta sauce with some tomatoes and red wine and carrots and celery.  Smelt lovely, but wont need to repeat that one.   Tonight fish from the freezer with roast veggies, using up stray veggies, peppers onions and courgettes and so on.  Fridge round up and chuck in a roasting pan with some potatoes.  Quick and no fuss.

Frugalistamama

Have done a rather large beginning of month stock up so I'll be on the use up part of the cycle for the rest of the month I think!? Oops

Got some milk on the turn so will make some pancakes. Last night we had a stir-fry with a bag of purpose veg. Chucked in some wilting salad leaves that acted a bit like spinach. I have very little chicken maybe 1 breast between 4 of us so I stir-fry it separately and put it on top when serving. No one noticed either! 

greent

Ate the last portion of lentil soup for lunch today - not my finest, but totally edible.

 Pulled most of a pack of chicken/ginger/spring onion YS sausages from the freezer and airfried them on low - split them into 2 and have made lunch for tomorrow and Tues with those, 1/3 of pack of microwave rice each day and lots of (ood) tenderstem broccoli. 

Have processed all of the apples and pears, so these are now in the freezer and I need to make sure I'm using some of them most weeks to free up space....

greent

Took the last crumpet out of the freezer this morning - I don't usually have breakfast at home. Instead I eat a yogurt and fruit mid morning at work. Today, though, I woke up early and hungry - and carbs and fat just seemed more appealing than fat free yogurt!

No idea what we will eat for dinner tonight- 3 of 4 of us are still getting over Covid, so appetite isn't quite back. It may be a case of random leftovers - all helpful in emptying the freezer!

Cherryfudge

Once again I have a full fridge - yogurt features largely, as does chickpea tikka. Somehow the freezer is packed with bits again... we did finish up some salmon but there are so many small bags of stuff that I bought a new piece of ginger instead of pulling everything out to find what I'm fairly sure we already have.

The latest bag of rice doesn't seem to have cooked properly and I'm wondering if I picked up the wrong packet and got one that takes longer to cook? Its nearly finished so I will probably give the last of it an additional 15 minutes then top up using one from stores which, I have just carefully noted, takes 25 minutes to cook. (We eat brown rice as neither of us gets on with white).

There's some long life lacto-free milk to finish so I will look out the pudding rice - which doesn't seem to affect us like savoury rice. Odd.

My L1dl free veg was a big bag of potatoes so we will ring the changes by using a couple of those with the tikka for dinner.

Other than that, there are carrots and celery, loads of onions and there's chicken in the freezer, so I might do a casserole tomorrow.