Not really a complaint as much as a quandry...

[lisamoe]

I have ended up with too much food all at once. I went out yesterday with Jesse and we bought meat to grill out over the weekend. We ended up with 4 huge butterflied pork chops, 4 ribeye steaks, 7 lbs of chicken (it was on sale in bulk), and some hot dogs for Dingo. That is too much stuff for one cookout just for us. So I'm marinating 2 chops and all the steaks and 4 chicken breast halves. I froze the other chops and I crockpotted the rest of the chicken and made chicken and noodles and chicken salad with it. We ate the chicken and noodles, and I have something like 3 lbs of chicken salad now. WTF? Who's going to eat that much chicken salad? I'm pawning off food on my parents, but my mom doesn't even eat meat, so that's not helping much.

SO the same day that this happened, I got a large bag of produce from Naturalfarms with fresh corn, leaf lettuce, crimini mushrooms, bell peppers, butternut squash, limes, red onions, and mangos. Plus I had already gotten strawberries and and grapes. I cooked the squash into a casserole with pineapple and brown sugar and nuts and I used half an onion and some grapes on the chicken salad, but I still have all that other stuff and we are SO FULL ALREADY!! How am I going to use all that produce too? And we're not even going to be home for lunch tomorrow.

We shall have to redouble our eating efforts tomorrow night and all day Monday!

Comments

[msbyn.livejournal.com]

We've had that issue before and it drives me crazy. I hate for food to waste! I usually cook up a bunch of dishes of things that can be frozen well (soups, stews, veggie lasagna) or cook it up to freeze as separate ingredients. I LOVE having the easy to use already cut up veggies or already cooked meats to add to dishes.