Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

Noodle do let us know whether freezing the scone dough works.

Noodle99 wrote: »

I made some scones last week, baking half and putting the other half in the freezer (as dough all cut and ready to bake if you see what I mean) and will try baking them today. Works for rock cake mixture so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

bouicca21 wrote: »

Noodle do let us know whether freezing the scone dough works.

Scone dough freezes well and the good thing is you can just pop one or two scones in the oven when you have it on for something else. Always handy if you have unexpected visitors who will think you're a kitchen goddess for providing home-made at short notice.

A fair few bits and bobs used up over the last week - mint sauce, tartare sauce, ketchup (I have replacements in my pantry "shop"), the last flapjack, some ice cream with sweet waffles, crumpets and, best of all, have finally finished the huge tub of not-so-nice gravy granules. :j Not one of my better buys as it's taken almost 12 months to use it up, so it definitely won't be replaced!

This week's meals are all courtesy of the fridge, freezer and cupboards so I have nothing to buy until the weekend. That means I've achieved my goal of stretching 4 weeks' cash over 5 weeks and still have some money left in my purse. I'm thinking I could perhaps reduce my weekly grocery budget overall but tbh it's been more fun doing it this way so for April I'm trying 3 weeks cash over 4 weeks. Could be some interesting meals being served up. :cool:

Tonight is hm beef curry using up diced beef & 5 pots of takeaway red dipping sauce from freezer, plus parboiled potatoes, chopped leeks, cauliflower & broccoli from freezer + using the last of the curry paste from the fridge. Also naan from freezer. There will be enough for dinner tomorrow with the 2nd naan from the freezer.

I am now a woman on a mission to empty my freezers - menu is planned for the next six days which should empty the freezers apart from vegetables & icecreams :rotfl:. Now I just have to make a shopping list for the missing/cannot replace ingredients.

So menu is as follows:

Wed. Lo hm beef curry
Th. Hm lasagne
Fri. Mackerel fillets
Sat. Toad in the Hole
Sun. Full roast pork dinner (neither of us are fans of lamb)
Mon. Lo roast dinner
Tue. Fishcakes

Wish me luck

MrsSD
LFHW

Success with the hm beef curry - it was a tad spicy but fortunately had a pot of soured cream in the fridge. Very tasty & enough left for DH’s dinner tonight, I will have lo Chinese takeaway from freezer.

MrsSD

I've looked at that and the Instant Pot but just can't justify the price when I have 2 pressure cookers already (a large one and a small one). Also slow cooker, halogen oven with loads of accessories to do rotisserie chicken, sausage cage, chip cage etc; Remoska.

Denise