🥣 Freezer & Pantry Friday
Use up those odds and ends and turn them into something delicious!

Today’s recipe: Use-It-Up Soup
✅ Nourishing bone broth base
✅ Frozen veg & pantry beans
✅ Those random pasta shapes from the back of the cupboard

One pot, minimal waste, maximum flavour. Perfect for cosy nights and budget-friendly meal prep.

#FreezerFriday #UseItUp #NoWasteCooking #PantryMeals #BudgetFriendlyMeals #GutHealthyCooking #FamilyMealIdeas #SoupSeason #HomeCooking

https://athomewithmrse.com/2025/09/05/use-it-up-soup-bone-broth-frozen-veg-beans-pantry-pasta/

It's been an evening of food-making, and now we have pasta bake, pumpkin and feta tart, chorizo and bean soup and I'm waiting on a plum-bread-and-butter pudding that's still in the oven. Let me know if you want the pumpkin feta tart recipe and I'll post it -- it's pretty good, and I think I'll make another version later in the week with walnuts this time.

I've been struggling with food waste lately which I really hate, but I'm feeling happy about having used up some bits and pieces in the meals tonight, plus adding in some extra vegies and legumes in the pasta bake that the Rabble are surprisingly fine with now.

So now I've got lunches sorted for Adam and me until at least Wednesday and the Rabble at least until Tuesday.

This does mean that the kitchen is still a mess, and it's 8.30 and I don't want to clean it up. Why are we living in the timeline where all our art is being stolen to train AI instead of having a robot in the kitchen to clean up after us?

#food #thoughts #Sunday #UseItUp

Our duvet cover wore out - the fabric near our faces thinned and tore. I used an old top-sheet whose matching fitted sheet had worn out and fashioned a pocket with which to replace the entire upper foot of the duvet cover. The cover is toasty warm and you can’t even tell where it had shredded.

#useitup #makeitlast #RepairReuseRecycle

2 days to go on my #UseItUp experiment. Working from home means I can bake bread - this is the last of that buy nothing bread flour + the last of the hemp seeds, topped with canned herring in mustard sauce that I bought on a whim, and parsley from the garden.

I've ordered my grocery deliveries for the weekend (produce box + regular) and forcing some creative cooking has been good, but I'm really looking forward to not having to think as much about what I'm gonna eat.

#UseItUp food prep for this week:

- barley bread
- nettle toum
- hummus
- chop veg into sticks
- overnight oats w/ dried jujubes
- hard-boiled eggs
- lilac jello w/ frozen blueberries

Pasta w/ kale, mushrooms & beans for dinner tonight maybe. If we can keep ourselves from devouring the bread + toum.

I'm a bachelor for the week, my partner is taking off to be with his dad in the hospital.

I think that means I make squash soup and eat it all week. With daylily bulbs, cheez powder, and moth beans (#UseItUp). Sardine salad for lunches? I didn't end up making that last week.

More breakfast cookies, no caffeine this time.

I want a dessert, if I'm not too tired after the rest of it. Preserved lemon bars sound amazing, with a less fussy crust tho. https://www.teaandfog.com/home/2018/4/preserved-lemon-bars