Minimal Shopping - A Use It Up Week

 

Aldi Shopping - £18.01

Microwave Rice - 2 x 45p

Tomatoes - £1.59

Salmon - 2 x £2.49

Half a side of Fresh Salmon - £7.69

Breaded Haddock Fillets - £2.85

I didn't really need to go shopping, in fact when Alan came over and asked me if I wanted to go shopping to Aldi with him earlier I had said 'no thanks'.  Then he turned up a few hours later clutching his shopping bags, car keys in his hand and said 'are you ready?' ... talk about forgetful.  He then asked if I fancied a coffee at Booths first, so that swung my decision and off I went.  😄

My plan this week is to use up what I have in the fridge in the way of salad stuff and vegetables, so with this in mind I decided that this weeks Sunday prep work was going to be a big batch of Mediterranean vegetables using up as much as I could from what I already had, hence me not buying many vegetables this time.

A bit of time spent chopping and soon I had two trays of veggies, the salmon was split into five portions and the thinner end that had been partly folded over in the pack, was topped with some sundried tomato pesto ... from a jar not homemade.

The salmon was cooked in just over twenty minutes but the vegetables needed a bit longer, so I filled the gap with a quick dish of rhubarb crumble, the base taken out of the freezer and the crumble quickly mixed up and added on top.

I couldn't resist, and the sundried tomato salmon made for a delicious lunch while I watched some television and had a relaxing afternoon.

Now I just need to make a bit of a menu plan to work out how I'm going to use up all those luscious, garlicky vegetables, the remaining cooked salmon fillets and those tasty looking haddock fillets.  But there's no need for me to rush to use up the microwave rice that I bought for emergency use, or the tins of salmon that I bought to top up the stacks I already have in the cupboard.  

Fish and rice ...  good store cupboard staples.

Sue xx