You all know that I don’t like to waste anything especially food. On Friday, I brought up a week’s worth of meals from the freezer and pantry. I also have been using up the refrigerator items.
For dinner on Friday night, we used up leftover filet mignon from our birthday celebration on Thursday night at Russell’s Steak and Chops.
Hubby had garlic and butter mashed potatoes left over too. He ate those with the leftover filet and I had a bag with just a few crispy crowns in the freezer. I ate those. No, we did not have a vegetable. It would have been too much food for us.
On Saturday night, I used up a bag of chopped cooked chicken that had been in the freezer for at least a month. I made a Chicken Stuffing Casserole that gave us each a dinner and a lunch for each of us yesterday. The cooked chicken got mixed into a can of cream of chicken soup. I put that in the bottom of a sprayed round casserole dish. Then I made a stuffing mix in my microwave. I spread it over the chicken mixture. I baked it in my small oven at 400 for 30 minutes. I cooked a bag of frozen broccoli and we had a delicious dinner.
Last night I made pork teriyaki stir fry. Hubby has gotten really fussy about his food. Many things he can no longer taste. So I made 2 different pans of stir fry. Enough for 2 meals and a lunch. Mine which is pictured in the bowl above was pork, leftover broccoli, and a small amount of stir fry veggies that were leftover in a bag in the freezer. Hubby’s pictured in the pan above, was onions, frozen peppers, frozen water chestnuts leftover from another meal, pork, and 3 pieces of pineapple slices left from a can that I froze. Both were cooked in teriyaki stir fry sauce and served on rice cooked in our rice cooker. I had 4 small pork loin chops that I cut into small pieces for these meals. Hubby no longer likes pork loin chops but if I cut them into small pieces, he will eat them. Waste not, want not! Tonight we will have the leftover stir fry and rice.
We still had a little bit of broccoli left, so I made an omelet with that and cheese for my brunch this morning. Yum! Hubby had two apple cider donuts.
FYI,
I just noticed that Walmart now has the Butterball turkeys posted online. They are $ .97 a lb. You had better believe as I empty my freezer, I will be getting some of these.
Are you cooking from what you already have at home? More on this tomorrow.