Getting to the Bottom of Things

 

This made me happy.  😀

You'd think that getting right to the bottom of the fridge drawer and having nothing left in there might have been a worrying thing to do, in fact years ago I would have been horrified.  But the way my mind is working at the moment it was actually a relief to use everything up and especially not to waste any of it.

The last three things in the drawer had been most of a kilo of carrots, bought during the 'cheap veg wars' of the Easter weekend, a few sticks of trimmed and chopped celery and the single brown onion that I 'borrowed' off Alan.

The carrots were topped, tailed and peeled and added to a baking tray with some cumin, mixed herbs and olive oil and then roasted in the oven for about thirty minutes or so.

I served some of them with a piece of fish that had been in the freezer for far too long for my lunch.  The fish was awful, but the carrots were delicious.  So basically I had carrots for lunch and Ginger had a surprise fish snack!!

The rest of the carrots, and the onion were whizzed up in the Nutribullet and have made a large portion of soup for a lunch on another day.

 The final bit of that red onion, also cadged the other day, was mixed with the remaining half tin of tuna and a big dollop of mayo and went into the two remaining white bread rolls from M&S.  The white rolls were so insignificant in texture that I managed to eat two of them for my lunch, something I can rarely do with brown bread rolls.

The celery had it's browning ends trimmed off and was served for another lunch, with the last of my Aldi 'Ritz' crackers and a tub of homemade hummus dug from the freezer

And then just like in the top photo ... the bottom drawer of the fridge was empty.  😀

So I celebrated by giving it a good wipe out, a clean tea towel and bought it three new red onions.

Although I didn't need anymore shopping I did need some onions to help me carry on using up the rest of the contents of the fridge, including the cheese drawer, after all what is cheese without onion.  🧀🧅

So my shopping this week was just three red onions for 95p from Booths, and while I was there I picked up this weeks freebie, which was a Meringue Bar, which on getting it home I sadly discovered has milk in it, so it was gifted to Alan to say thank you for the two borrowed onions.

Sue xx