When I create a meal plan, I still find I have waste because I'm not using the left-over ingredients. This is because I'm buying a jar of this or that and not using it all in the week. Does anyone know of a meal plan app or pre-made plans that can help me use all of the ingredients I buy in a week? I need to be able to cook different dishes using the same base ingredients. I have found one here for an example http://thestonesoup.com/blog/2011/02...menu-planning/
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sea witch
- Oct 2005
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- relational theophysis and bioregional witchery
- coastal Georgia
- *a little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika*
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Why can't you repeat some of those recipes the next week and not buy that product?Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of HistoryPagan Devotionals, because the wind and the rain is our Bible
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That's a good suggestion, part of it is because I don't go back and make it and end up with bits and bobs and the other part is because it goes off.
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That's a good suggestion, part of it is because I don't go back and make it and end up with bits and bobs and the other part is because it goes off.
I suppose it doesn't really matter.. it all comes down to how much I buy in the first place.
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I guess I don't really do meal planning anymore. I did a few years back, but I found that after the first couple of meals I chose it ended up not really being time or cost efficient (convenient) in the end. So mostly I plan a couple of my meals for the month and then stock up on staples and then get inventive with the ingredients I do have on the day or the day before. We actually don't end up with much waste, as long as the leftovers are rooted out of the fridge for lunches.
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I hate wasting food. So the first thing I do is work out what can be done with whatever I have available. For example, today I'm making an apple crumble with cream. But I bought the cream close to its sell-by date, brought it home on the bus on a hot day so there's a good chance it's gone off. That means I'll make up some custard to go with the crumble (or tinned cream which I happen to like.) Meanwhile the sour cream will be added to chives for the garden and a small amount of finely grated strong cheese and used as a topping for a jacket potato.
When milk goes sour, I add some salt, hang it in a muslin/fine cheesecloth bag and make soft cheese out of it.
Just get inventive - and enjoy it!
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- Phantom Turnips never die. They just get stewed occasionally....
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Originally posted by Azvanna View PostI had no idea you could do anything with homogenised and pasteurised milk once it goes off!
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sea witch
- Oct 2005
- 11651
- relational theophysis and bioregional witchery
- coastal Georgia
- *a little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika*
Re: Meal planning
Originally posted by Azvanna View PostI had no idea you could do anything with homogenised and pasteurised milk once it goes off!Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of HistoryPagan Devotionals, because the wind and the rain is our Bible
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The Gaze of the Abyss
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Originally posted by thalassa View PostWhy can't you repeat some of those recipes the next week and not buy that product?
OK - I let her experiment, and spoiled her terribly... but she went to the grocery store with me, and we had fun.
Does anybody need flaxseed, by the way?Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.
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- solitary pagan witch with a strong interest in Anglo Saxons
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- Phantom Turnips never die. They just get stewed occasionally....
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Originally posted by B. de Corbin View Post
Does anybody need flaxseed, by the way?
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