Another cheap meal cooking on the stove. Yesterday I had a change to go and get those leftover foods, and I did get quite a haul! I paid 7 euros and got:
-2,1kg of ground chicken
-2 herring filets (they are heavily salted, so need to soak them before use)
-container of button mushrooms
-3 containers of sushi
-3 containers of breaded pork pieces
-1 chicken panini
-2 bags of coleslaw mix with leeks (leek is an onion, so I took those to my mom)
-5 bags of different salad mixes
-2 peeled pineapples
-2 jars of tomatillo salsa
-3 jars of roasted tomato salsa
-2 containers (they are actually in bags) of curry paste
-2 bags of jelly dounughts (10 pcs)
-1 white bread
-1 bag of white buns
- french bread (full grain)
-3 garlic and cheese breads
-half a dozen of croissants
-some cheese bakes/buns/whatsoeverthingies
-1 bottle of garlic vegan mayo
Some things went straight to the freezer: panini, herrings, pork, and those baked goods and one container of sushi. I sliced all bread before freezing. I cooked all ground chicken, and put four bags to the freezer and one in to a container in the fridge. Salsas and currypastes to the fridge, as well as salad mixes, mushrooms and pineapples.
Now I don't have to bake bread or buns in a long long time. Chicken was still good quality, but because it was already past it's use by date, I cooked it right away before freezing. I and sys ate both one container of sushi, and os and ys ate jelly doughnuts.
Because the food I get is leftovers, not from foodbank, it's not planned to make complete meals. But it is ok, I use all I can in all ways I can.
Today I made chicken curry. The curry paste was really hot, so I used only third of one pack, and mellowed it a bit with coconut milk from my freezer. I also used one of salad mix bags as vegetables (red cabbage, iceberg lettuce and shredded carrot). Boys loved it! So note to myself - you can use salad mixes in cooking hot meals.
On sunday I made potato mash and pork gravy, I had only 400g of minced pork, so I added a handful on tvp made from peas, and some soy tvp. And yes, I make gravy all by myself, not from mix (because they have onions).
Yesterday, before I got the resque/leftover/rejects haul, I made smoked salmon pasta, salmon was from one of the earlier hauls. Pasta, smoked salmon in reamy sauce, fried foraged mushrooms and green beans and broccoli from the freezer.
Now I have several containers of leftovers: potato mash, pasta (I always keep pasta and sauce separately because os will not eat mixed things apart from pasta carbonara), pork gravy and salmon sauce and ciiked rice and chicken curry.
No need to cook tomorrow!
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