Julie Bove wrote:
> "Ozgirl" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Its day before shopping day and I was clearing out the fridge ready
>> for the big shop and realised I had almost no salad veggies left and
>> no protein. I had a few bits and pieces in the vegetable line and
>> considered what I could have for lunch today.
>>
>> So I gathered the bits and pieces together (carrot, onion, garlic,
>> limp celery, a zucchini and a bit of fresh basil). I sautéed the
>> onion and garlic in olive oil and in a saucepan put the
>> onion/garlic, the veggies chopped up, a can of diced tomatoes, some
>> bottled V8 veggie juice and a can of 4 bean mix.
>>
>> It has been simmering for about an hour and the smell alone is
>> superb, the test taste was similar to minestrone. Will be even
>> better when I add a bit of dry parmesan and FGBP! Can't wait. Looks
>> like it might be my dinner as well as I can only see sausages left
>> in the freezer so the kids will get that - the soup is not the kind
>> they like.
>
> That's the best kind of soup! Angela doesn't really like it either
> but she will eat it.
>
> I am not looking forward to tomorrow night's dinner. Leftover pasta.
> I used to eat a lot of it and liked it. I don't know if it's just
> that the gluten free stuff tastes so much different or what. Or
> maybe because I can't have real cheese. I just don't want to eat it
> any more. Alas, it is one of Angela's favorite meals. I used a
> jarred sauce so there were 6 servings. I guess when my husband isn't
> here I will have to start making my own sauce and in a small quantity
> so I can make less pasta.
> I have to start being careful what I buy at Costco. I bought a 2
> pack of cooked chicken breast strips and a 3 pack of sliced turkey. Angela
> ate none of the chicken before it expired. I don't like it. And only one
> sandwich from the turkey. There are times when she
> grabs handfuls of meat, but this wasn't one of them. And I didn't
> eat any sandwiches. So it all got thrown out.
>
> I have used all of the meat in the fridge except for some pre-cooked
> bacon, bologna and the new turkey I bought.
>
> Now the big thing is to clean out the freezer. There's another
> package of pre-cooked chicken breast in there that I stuck in there
> rather than throw it out. I can't stand the stuff. For some reason
> they put sugar in it and when I eat it, that's all I taste. There's
> half a gluten free pizza. Can't get Angela to eat the other half. There's
> the giant package of uncooked chicken breasts. Some cooked
> hamburger, a few boxes of chicken nuggets and fish sticks and I'm not
> sure what all else. Angela keeps wanting ice cream but there is no
> room for it.

I gave away my chest freezer when I moved interstate so only have a small
fridge and freezer. Anything that comes in a container or packet I take out
then I divide what I took out into meal sizes. If I had a pizza in a box I
would toss the box and cut the pizza into serving sizes and freeze it. I
freeze just about everything I buy in the meat line as soon as I get home
from the shops. I don't buy in bulk anymore like when I had 4 kids at home
and a deep freeze but doing it the way I do it now works for me. If I get 6
chops I put 3 in a freezer bag and 3 in another. That way there is no
waste.

I can rarely fit ice cream in the fridge. I have my bread frozen because I
don't eat it quickly enough, I have a large bag of walnuts in there pluse
the flattened out meat in their portions. I don't need boxes or packages
anymore to know how to cook something but I mostly have just meat in there
and on the odd occasion something that came boxed that the kids like.