Love Food Hate Waste – Meal Planning

Today’s post is dedicated to an amazing lady, my Gran – may you rest in peace x

Love Food Hate Waste – Meal Planning

Even the most organised meal planner sometimes ends up with far too much food in the fridge at the end of the week, life throws things at us that we can’t plan for.  I had decided that I would participate in Food Waste Friday over at The Frugal Girl this week – although I very rarely have much waste I thought that it may make me even more vigilant!

The plan this week had been to post a Simple Meal Plan on Wednesday on this blog, but this was the same day I got the call to say my Gran was very ill. So it was postponed,as meal planning does take time and energy and I didn’t really have either of those.

So not as to duck out of Food Waste Friday I have done a very early morning declutter of the fridge and what do I find – gosh lots of things:

2 x Aubergines

3 x Red Peppers

5 x Carrots

2 x Onions

6 x White Potatoes

1 x 500g pot of Vanilla Custard

9 x Dessert Apples

6 x Celery Hearts

This is very unusual for me! But as I said this week hasn’t really gone to plan…

Fortunately all of the vegetables above can used in an adapted recipe of my slow cooked vegetable curry, so that’s what I am going to do – there are more ingredients and a higher quantity than I’d normally use, so I will be using ‘Big Ben’ my large cooker and we can have it for dinner tonight with home-made chapatis.

The apples I will put in ‘Brenda’ my vegetarian slow cooker and make an apple crumble, which will be lovely with the vanilla custard.

Oops also forgot I have 3 lemons – which will be sliced, bagged and frozen and used as lemony ice cubes for drinks going forward.

Sorry celery hearts – that just leaves you guys! I would add you to the curry but you have gone soggy and mushy and I am pretty sure you are inedible.

So my contribution to Food Waste Friday this week is 6 x celery hearts

Not bad considering!

I will be meal planning today – I have to as my groceries are being delivered tomorrow first thing (booked the slot but haven’t selected the food yet!).  The plan will be posted later today with a simple chicken stock recipe.