No more food purchases for a week...

Waste not want not, eh River

I assume you know that left over wine can be frozen in ice cube trays and used in cooking!

Or, you could donate it to soops kitchen if you can't manage it all!

River , have you been peekin" through my letterbox ??
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Flickety you are so right about knowing what will be eaten!

I have loads of leftover cheese, chicken, sourdough bread, etc, but no eggs, baked beans, and fruit juice (the grandchildren had to drink water this morning!)

I'm currently polishing-off opened bottles of wine

I had seven of us, including 2 children, to cater for, for 5 days. The problem then is not so much over catering but knowing what will be eaten.

In previous years very little bread was eaten. This year the two loaves of white bread I bought went in two days and no one would eat the brown granary bread (my favourite). Spare vegs are never very much of a problem in our household as all of us, including children, love vegetables. What were left were put in the soup made when I stewed the turkey carcase. However this year I have far more turkey and gammon left than previous years and an awful lot of fruit juice. Fortunately the turkey and ham can go in the freezer and the fruit juice is in long life cartons.

Trouble is none of this is a guide to what they will all eat next Christmas. If I buy more bread and a smaller turkey. I will have loaves left in the freezer for months and run out of meat by the 27th.

My food cupboard is full to bursting cheeses, leg of lamb, piece of uncooked Ham, smoked salmon, cakes, cream and fruit and veg Plus tins and jars there's no room in my big chest freezer. There's only the two of us. I don't know why I do it. I think it's a bit like people who hoard clothes and stuff. I keep telling myself to stop. My husband keeps begging me to stop. My sister tells me I'm wasting money and resources as well and making my daily life stressful because everything is stuffed full and I can't find anything. They are all right. I recollect my mother doing it so perhaps that explains it. I'v just made soup to use up a mountain of spoiling vegetables.

I have said the same thing apart from milk bread and potatoes , oh and a bit of fresh salad.. I need nothing else..