Ooo, do I have?

I'm pretty organised at work but my home life is a little less organised.  I suppose I suffer from the 'well-it-is-cheap' syndrome,  so as I wander around the supermarket, I pick up the market-down meat to freeze and if something I need is on offer, I pick up a few packets.  I also can't resist a new ethnic food - something I don't know how to cook but really do want to try.

This tends to mean that in addition to the fresh food in my kitchen, I have random pasta, odd pots of chili sauce, lots of chickpeas and loads of herbs.   As I shop on a daily or weekly basis as I walk past the supermarket on the way home, am horribly indecisive about food and don't actually have a car, I find that eventually I get to a stage when my cupboards are full.

Not only that but I also find that occasionally, I over buy on fruit and vegetables so they start to wilt before I manage to eat them.  It just seems to wrong to throw-away good food - especially when food inflation is sky rocketing and we are all merrily trooping to Lidl to cut costs.

Well for the veg, I cook and either make sauces or simply just freeze frozen. Nothing as nice as realising that you've got a lovely tomato sauce in the freezer when you trudge home from a long day.

And for the contents of the cupboards and freezer?  Well, one day a week, I take three ingredients out of the cupboard and 'free-style' a meal.  My favourites have been:

• Chickpea surprise - tomato, chili, onion and mushrooms cooked down with a tin of chickpeas added and cooked.  I've also added bacon in the past which was lovely.
• Lemon, egg, garlic and oil = garlic mayonnaise which is lovely fresh and makes chicken magic.
• Cauliflower, chili, garlic and a bit of oil - roast cauliflower which is potentially one of my most amazing free styles.

A bit of creativity and not only is my cupboard much easier to get into but I can now try that unidentifiable fruit, I keep walking past.

L x

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