No more food purchases for a week...

Actually went to Waitrose today for my free coffee, a dozen eggs and a bag of oven chips for that well known post Christmas staple - ham egg and chips!!

I agree with the leftover wine queries - not a problem I ever encounter!

But the fridges are full - DDiL brought a huge amd wonderful cheese selection with her a couple of days ago, and doesn't want to take it back. I have three cartons of cream (but it freezes quite well) and some soon to expire packs of meat for the carnivores.

We just ate an omelette and it was delicious. (DS and DDiL having anniversary dinner with DD. we are babysitting.)

Mmmm. Am tired.

I have just had another Tesco delivery today, only ordered what I needed for Christmas and as I have a Tesco delivery saver I ordered only what I needed for the week, the fridge and freezer were not overflowing, and I had a glut of wine so didnt need to order any for today but I am now chilling with a glassortwo.

Where is he driving to? News to me!!

Hi dee hi SOUTRA , I do not demo"s , rather retiring me .
Re my Christmas may I refer you to ;
"Is anyone glad it"s over . 30/12 17.19.
Cannot type any more for the minute as we are working our way through the half empties .
Do hope you and Mr S not doing the same, he has a long drive ahead of him --bless

I too love having all the leftovers, and not having to go out shopping if I don't feel like it. I don't think it's overbuying unless it's going to be thrown out, and nothing gets thrown out in this house. My daughter&Co have left, complete with a bag of cold meats and salad to feed the children on when they get in, and I have a big pot of meat and veg soup bubbling away containing the remains of roasts from the past four days. The fridge is full of cold meats, salads and cheeses and there are all sorts of cakes and sweets and breads and I look upon this as a time of rest from having to plan meals, we will all just help ourselves as we fancy it.

Maybe we could have a demonstration Nonu? Anyway, nice to see you back - had a lovely Christmas?

Soutra , how long you got ?
chuckle

Can someone explain the concept of left over wine please?

I enjoy making meals with just the leftovers - won't buy anything but milk for a while. I really like clearing out the last of something - oh look .....the last chocolate biscuit!

Enjoy it Nonu, it sounds like fun. I'm not being a gooseberry!

A twosome evening is where you eat nice food then sit and hold hands .
Especially as we after 43 years of marriage 10/1/14 , DO.

Stick out tongue emotion . {why won"t they allow us one of those}
Perhaps they think we would get carried away !!

TEE HEE

Golly oh gosh you gals have a lot of front , {bit like Selfridges}
I DID SAY HIM AND ME in a shouty voice.
Okay then if you have nothing more appealing , come along .
Thing is though I need to know as I will have get more fillet as butcher may run out .
Still you may be as well staying in your own home , what with the weather being like it is !!

{tchsmile]
xx

The thing is that the leftovers are very random. We have

Stilton
Another blue cheese - don't ask me what - that's DH's dept
Turkey - very dry now
Pork - still going strong
Mince pies
Stollen
Another cakey type thing that I have no knowledge of buying
Satsumas I forgot I'd bought them and bought some more.

We have no

bread
potatoes
veg - except two very withered red peppers and some red onions that seem to have been around for weeks.

Tonight we are having chicken thighs (thawed), roasted with slightly withered peppers, elderly red onions and freshly bought new potatoes.

Tomorrow we are having Nigel Slater's Christmas Quakers and champagne.

We have quite a few jelly babies and quite a bit of chocolate!

Can anyone come Nonu?

I don't mean to over buy and complain about those who pile their trolleys up but it just sort of happens. We go to my sister's Christmas Day and stay the whole day and then everyone comes to us for Boxing Night. I find myself thinking 'so and so likes that and so and so likes that' and before I know it I've enough to feed an army. Trying too hard to please folks. I try to use what's left though, or freeze it.

Fillet steak, Nonu?

You should be eating leftover turkey/gammon/chippolatas like the rest of us!

BTW what's a 'twosome' evening? Sounds very decadent

What's a twosome evening, Nonu? Is it naughty?

I am not buying anymore for a week , Except two fillet steaks for tomorrow evening .
We are going to a twosome evening , will be refreshing . Have the smoked salmon & champagne already , so what else it there to worry about ?

What threw me this year was that my daughter was put in charge of puddings; my son turned up at pudding time not wanting to eat any [although we thought the arrangement was that he would have his pudding here] and then the last minute donation of a trifle meant we all ate the trifle instead of everything else. I've ate more puddingy things over the past few days than I've ate all year.

Why do people overbuy? The shops are only shut for a couple of days at a time. Unless you live at the back of beyond there's no need for it.

I think I've just realised what I dislike most about this time of year: excess.

Followed by diets, exercise regimes, detoxes, etc, etc, etc.

Bonkers.

No more food purchases for me either this week. We have a ridiculous amount left. Every year I say I won't buy so much but still do.

Left-over wine?

I must get on ..... need to get the bottles in the re-cycle bin!

Happy New year to you also Annie.
May it be a good one for us all !

I agree entirely - I always seem to have piles of stuff left. Each year I try and get as far into January as possible without buying anything other than staples like milk, bread and potatoes. Last year I almost got into Feb - this year it might even be March!!! (possibly slight exageration- just looks like it at the moment!)
Happy New Year everyone
Annie