Eating more healthy, reducing food waste, saving a little money - it's all good! Whatever the motivation, I'm just always amazed and thrilled by the longevity of this thread. :-)
Because I'm not necessarily trying to use up everything in my cupboards, fridge and freezer, I didn't mind doing some shopping over the weekend. Stocked up mostly on canned goods, freezer food (frozen veggies, etc) and other staples, with just a few vegetables and a couple of "treat" foods. Hopefully this will help me mostly stay out of the grocery store for the next month or two, when I'm really busy, because when I'm stressed, I tend to buy lots of non-essentials, or, to buy an unrealistic amount of "cook from scratch" food that ends up going to waste. I did do a pretty big shop, but I paid with points, not cash! So now my cupboards are extra full, and my freezer has been reorganized to have the oldest stuff at the front, and it didn't cost me anything, in terms of cash.
Now, I need to process some of the stuff!
So tonight I threw some long grain brown rice in the rice cooker, just plain. Then, I figured out which can of canned beans was the oldest. Turned out to be lentils, which I've probably overlooked because I usually just use dry lentils. I actually think my mom might have given me that can, after it had been kicking around in her cupboards for a while!
To the can of lentils I added some diced and sautéed onions and carrots, plus a small baggie of some kind of chopped greens from the freezer. I think it was bok choy, and honestly, pretty sure it was from *last* summer, not this year! For flavour, I had a packet of seasoning from an "herb and wild rice" mix. Actually surprised at how tasty it all turned out to be - I really wasn't expecting much! Pretty sure most of the flavouring mix was just salt though.
My late night snack tonight will be some fruit they sent me home from church with on Sunday, and either one of the pumpkin corn muffins I made last week, or a blueberry muffin left over from a work meeting last week. Froze some to keep them fresh.
The other thing I want to do tonight is cube a couple of blocks of extra firm tofu, then add some packaged sauces I picked up. I'll make two containers with different flavour sauces, and throw them in the freezer, so that "future me" can grab some pre-marinated tofu out of the freezer and cook something up.