Challenge Seven - The Leftovers Challenge - Day Five

Breakfast - Peanut Butter on Toast

After yesterdays luscious foody shots, todays photos (when there are photos) seem positively boring.  That's not to say the food was.

It was just a simple food day, taking things easy and not over-thinking things too much.

Lunch - Coleslaw and Jacket Potato.

Unfortunately, I forgot to photograph our plates before I shared my food once again with my lovely hubby.  I grated the carrot, finely sliced the onion and after keeping back a couple of lettuce leaves I shredded all the rest of the Iceberg.  Mixing everything with a couple of tablespoons of mayonnaise and some salt and pepper, made a big bowl of nice simple and crunchy coleslaw.

Tea - Potato and Chickpea Curry with Brown Rice

Once again I forgot to photograph our meal before we got stuck in, so this photo is shamelessly stolen from yesterday's post.  It was even more delicious second time around.  I do find stews and curries mellow nicely after a night in the fridge.

Dessert - Mandarin Oranges and Ice-cream

Having a smaller portion of the curry this time, we had room for dessert.  As I don't eat any dairy (I'm dairy intolerant) this is my preferred ice-cream, luckily Alan loves it too, although at home he has a freezer full of Magnums … he thinks I don't know - but I do  😉

Left in the Leftovers:

orange juice

6 onions

2 leaves of iceberg lettuce

4 apples 

600g porridge oats

375g spaghetti

250g red lentils

600g brown rice

tub of gravy mix

Today's  Up to 5 Items:

Peanut Butter

Ice-cream

Mayonnaise

A much easier day of cooking and eating today.  And as you can see the leftovers from last weeks Challenge are going down nicely.

Sue xx

Challenge Seven - The Leftovers Challenge - Day Four

Breakfast for Two - Peaches and Porridge

There were enough peaches left to be able to share, and of course there are lots of porridge oats left as well.

The ingredients for lunch.

I saved a few of the chickpeas to add to our evening meal.

Dinner - Homemade Hummus and Crackers

Gosh this was so delicious … and so garlicky

Getting the ingredients laid out to make our tea.

I decided to rinse the leftover baked beans and add them to the curry too.

This is my largest pan, as you can see all those ingredients made a very generous amount of curry.

Tea - Potato and Chickpea Curry

Tea for both us looked like this one.

And there was still lots left over.

Left in the Leftovers:

orange juice

1 carrot

7 onions

3/4 iceberg lettuce

4 apples 

600g porridge oats

375g spaghetti

250g red lentils

700g brown rice

tub of gravy mix

1 tin mandarin orange segments

1 potato

Today's  Up to 5 Items:

Tahini

Garlic Paste

Cumin

1/2 box Crackers

A very successful day, with lots of lovely food.  This using up the leftovers really gets me thinking, sometimes over-thinking, but it's good to get the old grey cells working again.

Sue xx

Challenge Seven - The Leftovers Challenge - Day Three

Breakfast - Porridge and 1/3 tin Peaches

Served with cup of hot lemon water.

Dinner - Beans on toast with one and a half stuffing patties.

 Very yummy … and SO filling!!

I was going to peel and cook just two of the remaining potatoes, but decided to peel three of them as I had a plan in mind for tomorrows tea. 

The ingredients for tea.

I had decided to make a pasty with my final little piece of ready rolled puff pastry.  An ideal time to use up lots of bits and bobs.

Once they were all finally chopped, I rolled the pastry out a bit bigger than this.  And set to assembling the pasty.  Ooh I do love a bit of pastry, and this one sheet of ready rolled pastry has done me for three meals.  😃  

I couldn't quite fit all of the stuffing patties into the pasty, so this one will be eaten with it instead.

Tea - Potato, stuffing, cheese and onion pasty with stuffing patty and gravy.

Left in the Leftovers:

orange juice

1 carrot

9 onions

3/4 iceberg lettuce

4 apples 

700g porridge oats

375g spaghetti

250g red lentils

800g brown rice

tub of gravy mix

1 tin tomatoes

1 tin chickpeas

1 tin mandarin orange segments

1/3 tin peaches

1 potato

Added to the Stash:

2 cooked potatoes

Todays 'Up to Five Items' Were:

None used, all food eaten was from the leftovers of last weeks Challenge.

Sue xx