What are you cooking?

[jaylach]

I finally made my husband baked beans, potato salad & hot dogs he's been wanting.. A bit disappointing there was no Phillies baseball today. But leftovers & Philly ball tomorrow could be good!

Now you just need to get him to put some of the beans on a hotdog. Sort of like a chili dog but with beans instead of chili. Think of beans and weenies as a kid but all on a bun.

 

[fishorama]

Oh, yes, we do that sometimes. Or I skip the bun & have better beans & weenies My family didn't grill but I do!

Well, Philly baseball is over, we won! & I bought $.07/ears of local corn today so not exactly yesterday's dinner. I ate my share of potato salad as an appetizer already, lol.

 

[jaylach]

Finished off the bison tonight. May sound a bit odd but I cut up everything and made a hash with a couple of runny yolk eggs on top. It was REALLY good.

 

[Beastije]

Another one of my rabbit meals. With tahini lemon dressing and chickpeas... but delicious!!!
Hard to imagine I guess )

 

[MaloK]

Where's the rabbit ?

 

[Beastije]

Where's the rabbit ?

Is that not the saying in English? That is how we call the salad and crunchy things, rabbit food aka food only a rabbit would eat. So I guess I am the rabbit. I have eaten a few in my life. My mother in law has a free ranging bunnies now and there are some darn cute little ones. Am so not going to eat those cause aww those ears ! (I don't eat things I have named)

 

[Essjay]

It is a saying in the UK - my father always referred to salad as rabbit food.

 

[fishorama]

We're having meat cakes & mashed potatoes (again) with corn on the cob. With enough mashed potatoes for soup, 1 of my favorites.

I need to refill the freezer soon. We're running out of staples like spaghetti sauce, black beans, chili, multi-beans, etc. There are some steaks both for grilling & stir fry, some chicken breasts, meat loaves? maybe...time for an inventory.

 

[jaylach]

We're having meat cakes & mashed potatoes (again) with corn on the cob. With enough mashed potatoes for soup, 1 of my favorites.

I need to refill the freezer soon. We're running out of staples like spaghetti sauce, black beans, chili, multi-beans, etc. There are some steaks both for grilling & stir fry, some chicken breasts, meat loaves? maybe...time for an inventory.

I have a chest freezer with a sliding basket at the top. The basket is for meat only. The meat I get from Omaha Steaks normally comes in boxes of four. I'll leave two of the four-packs in the box and put the other two in the basket. When last of an item goes in the basket know to order more. I take about a week's worth and put in the freezer part of my fridge. Keeps me organized and knowing what I have at all times. I'll also put a few days worth in the actual fridge. So my end result is the freezer in the fridge feeds the fridge and the chest freezer basket feeds the fridge's freezer and the boxes that still have items feed the basket. Hey, it works for me. Also, when I make large batches of stuff and bag, the bags have their own area in the chest freezer. May sound convoluted but it really isn't. I'm just rotating items between storage methods which also helps me make sure that I'm using older stuff first.

Tonight it looks like either a BBQ chicken breast of a double cheese smash burger. Both are thawed in my fridge.

 

[fishorama]

We have 2 fridges, kitchen & garage. The garage freezer is for quanties of stuff or extra of what's open or older in the kitchen. The garage fridge is for things like unopened cheese, brown & red rice, beverages, odd flours like chick pea & lentil. It can be hard to keep track sometimes when my husband brings in garage items. The last spag sauce or just the front 1?

 

[Beastije]

I sometimes wish I knew how to shop and stockpile like this. I am a very terrible grocery shopper. Granted I live in a city, and always did so, where there are shops opened all day long in a walking distance. But I literally shop every three days and my fridge is either super full or basically empty. I have a full cupboard because I found an online store that sells in bulk so I bought 1kg of every color of beans, all three lentils and several nuts per 1kg each so I have jars and boxes of these. And side dishes , especially the strange ones. Buckwheat and pearl barley and so. But fridge is weird. Half of it its condiments I think. Vegetable drawer is always full. I keep running out of yoghurts because we have too many or none ...
I also shop in a bulk store for my garage freezer but I buy frozen cut vegetables in 2,5kg bags so I have less trash, cause vegetables here are usually sold In a 400g package and that is what, two meals? So my freezer is full of peas, corns on the cob, bell peppers, cauliflower and broccoli)

 

[jaylach]

I sometimes wish I knew how to shop and stockpile like this. I am a very terrible grocery shopper. Granted I live in a city, and always did so, where there are shops opened all day long in a walking distance. But I literally shop every three days and my fridge is either super full or basically empty. I have a full cupboard because I found an online store that sells in bulk so I bought 1kg of every color of beans, all three lentils and several nuts per 1kg each so I have jars and boxes of these. And side dishes , especially the strange ones. Buckwheat and pearl barley and so. But fridge is weird. Half of it its condiments I think. Vegetable drawer is always full. I keep running out of yoghurts because we have too many or none ...
I also shop in a bulk store for my garage freezer but I buy frozen cut vegetables in 2,5kg bags so I have less trash, cause vegetables here are usually sold In a 400g package and that is what, two meals? So my freezer is full of peas, corns on the cob, bell peppers, cauliflower and broccoli)

Being organized is actually easier than not being organized. The hard part is getting used to being organized. I can't tell how to do it as everyone is different as to what works. Being organized is a habit no different than any other habit as it just becomes the norm.

Here is something you could try for a start. You have two freezers. If one is an upright, with shelves, designate just one shelf for a specific type of item. That specific type of item only goes on that shelf and no other type of item goes on that shelf. That shelf just became the start of being organized as you now know exactly where to go.

It also helps as to buying. Say that the organized shelf we just made is for meat. Arrange the meat packs in rows by type. When a row starts to get short you know to buy. If a row is fine you know what not to buy. Once you are used to it, and it is habit, you can see what is needed at a glance.

 

[fishorama]

LOL @Beastije, I have almost half a refrigerator full of condiments too! I often feel like I have ingredients that don't add up to a dinner that I want to have or to make. My husband & I have a "bargaining for dinner" game. 1 suggests something that we have all the stuff for. The other can say no but also must have a valid counteroffer. He thinks if he says mac & cheese every day, I'll make it when I wear down. If I suggest that (or tacos, spaghetti or burgers) game over! I know him too well.

We're both retired & probably shop as almost often as you do. But we stock on sales & have favorites for certain items like bread, milk, veggies, etc., & some are only once in a while. He has certain stores, I have others. Somehow, he almost always comes home with things not on the list.