Love Food, Hate Waste - Part II

Right, so then I looked at what was in the fridge so I could see what was there to make a weekly meal plan:

Top Shelf:

eggs and butter, organic lager, organic wine

Second Shelf:

cheese, butter, batter, tikka marsala paste, homemade applesauce, olives

Third Shelf:

beetroot (beets), mushrooms, Simon's Leek & Potato soup, Minestrone soup, chicken tikka marsala, side salad

Fourth Shelf:

Defrosting homemade pasta sauce (this is always in my fridge, never ever go without basic pasta sauce in the fridge), broccoli, 1/2 chicken crown, sausages, bacon, ham, defrosted homemade chicken stock

Bottom Left Crisper:

Lemons, grapefruit, cucumber, 1 leek

Bottom right Crisper:

carrots, cucumber

From this, here is the weekly meal plan:

Sunday dinner:

1/2 chicken crown, broccoli, cauliflower, a carrot, Yorkshire Puddings, gravy with the stock, stuffing (from a packet), side salad (sounds like a lot but we are making enough for two meals so portion sizes of individual bits are small)

Monday:

Breakfast: Pancakes

Lunch: Potato & Leek Soup

Dinner: Same as Sunday dinner (leftovers)

Tuesday:

Breakfast: Eggs, toast, sausage, mushrooms

Lunch: Minestrone soup with slice of bread with butter

Dinner: Chicken curry, side salad (using the salad growing from the windowsill, another beetroot, some more of the cucumber) and homemade naan bread (from the breadmaker)

Wednesday:

Breakfast: Oatmeal, homemade applesauce and cinnamon

Lunch: Minestrone soup, bread and butter

Dinner: Spaghetti and homemade pasta sauce (save 1/2 cup of it) and frozen peas

Thursday:

Breakfast: eggs on toast

Lunch: Ham sandwich

Dinner: Homemade pizza (dough made from breadmaker), 1/2 cup leftover pasta sauce, rest of mushrooms, frozen peas, frozen pineapple, leek, cheese and a side salad (with more salad from windowsill, last of the beetroot and cucumber)

Friday:

Breakfast: Cereal

Lunch: Leftover pizza

Dinner: fusilli pasta, sweetcorn (corn), cheese

So, as hopefully you can see, most of everything in the fridge will be used up by Friday leaving no wastage and that way, next week I start with all new foods.