Lets play Fridge frenzy ….

You know those times?, normally around the wee small hours of the night?, When anyone with half ounce of sanity and a dash of common sense, are fast asleep? ….Well then there’s the rest of us raving lunatic insomniacs, …On many of these occasions my brain decides oh 3am this is the perfect time to go over everything last thing that’s wrong in your tiny corner of the looniverse…last week’s conundrum…how shall we loose this 6lb, gained since learning to bake the practically perfect gooey treble chocolate chip cookie? 🍪, that was fatal…..but in my defence they really were utterly divine., Trouble was each one was also sighs!. So how to loose this excess weight?……At the same time I’m also doing my online groceey shop….well doesn’t everyone do their shopping in the night while half asleep?….what do you mean not normally!!!!!! That will be just me then.😐

Just as I was ready to go through to checkout, I decided to check my list to make sure I had everything…..And boy did I have everything…there was that stray large packet of cashew nuts, vegetable crisps, French fancy cakes, oven fries, fish fingers, ect ECT ECT🙄 ……Not one solitary morsel of green stuff in sight….this on the whole isn’t me, I’m normally a very good eater(don’t sayyyyyy it)…I love fruit and veg…ok I also love cake, but I do try to avoid it where humanely possible😊, ….

Feeling deeply ashamed of my sudden onslaught of gluttony, I release all the goodies or is that baddies from my cart back into the wild😊, then i begin all over again by adding those things I know I should be having…Until my trolley is a positive rainbow of the vegetable variety…I have covered every root,vine,and pod, I sit back feeling all smug, thinking to myself when my delivery guy brings this little haul ain’t he going to be impressed😊, I check out then promptly fall into a deep comatose sleep ….see it’s working already…

That was last week, and I must confess a lot of the fresh vegetables still lurked untouched, looking at me accusingly each time I opened the fridge door….I tried shutting my eyes and wildly grabbing for the milk but ended up with mayonnaise…erm nope even my pallet won’t stretch to that in my morning coffee…..over the weekend I decided these veggies were trouble and had vegged out in my fridge quite long enough thankyou….I was sick of them doing a song and dance each time the spot light went on in the fridge…I was going to show them…huh!! …so here’s how you play along with Fridge frenzy….

Thousand vegetable soup….

Ok maybe not quite, but any you have to hand, and if those vegetroubles have any manky bits on them trying to get you to avoid eating them …..chop it off ouchhhhhhh!😊

My recipe….5 carrots or there abouts, .1. slightly manky red onion, green sprouting, I even used this chopped, .1. Leek, .1. Courgette.1. Parsnip.1. Potato, eyes enough to see in the dark. Any old frozen veg you have left over in the freezer..Garlic, tin of chopped toms, tin of French onion soup,.2. Stock cubes of choice,.1. teaspoon of ginger powder,.1. tablespoon of mixed herbs, parsley, basil and celery salt….I put this all in for four hours on low heat, in the slow cooker/crock pot, set about doing real chores, when it was virtually cooked, say the last 30 minutes…I made a slurry of corn flour and tomato ketchup, stir this well, add a ladle of your soup mix, stir some more then add to your crock pot, allowing it to cook on for another 30 minutes……when it was done I liberally added several glugs of worcheshire sauce to add a kick….. It turned out super thick, full of flavour and perfect for a cheap healthy lunch….if you want it thinner for your taste just add more water or stock……Bon appetite!!! Mon petits fleurs……until next time look after yourselves…..stay safe🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻x