How long does your Xmas food last?

[Miss Mousetrousers]

With all the stuff my OH made plus other things we bought in, there is enough food to last us until November! He came from a farming family and was also a chef, so he doesn't waste a thing and knows how to make foods last as long as you know how and where to keep them so they can be safely used. The guinea fowl we had on Xmas Day has been transformed into a hearty broth which used up all the left-over veg along with the stock made from its carcass. Other delicious dishes will no doubt follow. Anyone else do the same?

[Nannysally99]

Not this year, just bought what we needed for the two dinners
Mind you, I only threw out the ham remains yesterday .....

[JanieB]

Still got frozen stock and turkey and ham soup from Christmas 2015.

[alldigging]

A bit of turkey was left in the fridge and the cat had it in the end.

The diet starts today.

[Mrs Bee]

I didn't go overboard on the cooking this year and got things out of the freezer as I needed them. There is still stuff left in the freezers, but not as much as last year.

I am very good at food stock control, know how long things will last, use the freezers to good effect so that nothing is wasted.

There are mince pies in the freezer but the human dustbin will see them off. The oat cakes and homemade truffles that are in the freezer will be trotted out at my birthday party in February.

The scraggy bits of left over turkey are in the freezer with the stock from the carcass and the left over gravy and they will be made into soup soon. Probably 12th night supper.

We have used up all the fresh veg I bought for Christmas, apart from some broccoli and cauli which is tonight's supper.

Any left over veg from Christmas day was chopped small, and mixed with flour, egg, seasoning and cheese and made into fat veg pancakes and popped into the freezer for Mr Bee's lunches.

Any cheese that is left and drying out Has been grated and frozen to be used in sauces and quiches. Not often any left over cheese as Mr Bee eats it all.

I follow Mary Berry's maxim of looking in the fridge to see what is there and needs using before I take anything else out of the freezer or go shopping.

And if I haven't got time to use things like crème fraiche before the use by date I freeze them to be trotted out when I do have time to make them into quiches for Mr Bee's lunches.

I also do a weekly clean of the fridge and check what is in there and the dates.

[Lumpy]

Nope nothing at all as the only Christmassy thing we bought was a tin (those were the days - now its plastic and perfect for my radishes) of sweeties and a 6 pack of twiglots.

It was cheese and mushroom omlette with bread for butties on the 'day'

[sparrow100]

We only started on the cheese last night. Eeeeep! There are 8 of them....! All the leftover turkey and chicken is in the freezer for winter pies this month and next, there are vegetarian sossies to have tonight with roast onion and cheese tart, and we have nearly finished all the Christmas biscuits I made.

January is for thin slivers of Christmas cake, topped with flinty cheddar and eaten with a glass of whisky. Thank you James Herriott for that one, it's delicious!

[Scarlet]

Not a lot here. My goose just fed 4 and there wasn't any left over veg..I think i may be mean, I count how many spuds people think they can eat and then do a few less
I don't like stock piling before Christmas either as the stuff that they sell off after Christmas and new year can save me pounds...I bought a fantastic amount of fillet beef for pennies, lots of other meats and I always manage to get a stock pile of cream to make into butter that lasts months in the freezer ready for cakes.
I also have two teenage boys that have hollow legs....

[veggiechicken]

There are no leftovers with beans on toast
I have a couple of satsumas left - that's it!

[Alison]

Best bit of Christmas is eating the left overs . Still some mincepies left and not started the Christmas cake (rarely do before February then eat it in small slices over a few weeks, yum) but not much else left now sadly. We had a lot of people over at different times so I created various turkey based meals so unfortunately not much left to freeze this year (should have got a bigger bird!) although various nice cheeses part used in the fridge which is a nice treat. Seem to have been given quite a lot of chocolates so will gradually eat those but they probably won't all be gone until about Easter as I only like a but at a time. Just harvested veggies as needed so never waste them - off to the plot in a few minutes to get more as it'll be too dark after work.

[Jay22]

No leftovers here...only bought what we needed.

[Alison]

No leftovers here...only bought what we needed.

We need leftovers or we'd have nothing to eat for the past week

[Hazel at the Hill]

There's very little chucked out here - I did go a bit mad buying a turkey 'serves 12', but after a couple of meals where we had carved breast, I carved the rest of the breast and froze it in portions. All the other meat I took and made pies with, the carcass boiled up for stock. I even went through the carcass to strip any left over bits of skin and meat and chopped up small for the cats.

So my 'serves 12' has done 9 x roast portions, 1 x sandwich, 6 x pies and stock for about 10 x soup. Plus 6 x cat meals

The left overs from Christmas lunch went in the traditional Boxing day fry up brekkers inc a couple of roasties, parsnips, and pigs in blankets.

I made too many saus rolls, so some of them are in the freezer, we're eating biscuits like they are going out of fashion before they go soft. We scoffed the cheesecake leftovers, and I had the last slice of yule log for supper last night.

The rest of the streaky bacon we had bought for the turkey but didn't use, we are having tonight with chips, egg and beans.

I didn't get round to opening the cheese biscuits, so they are still in the cupboard, but I'm happy to each them anytime. Also a some packs of crisps left over from a multipack, but they will get used up with sandwiches for lunchtimes.

I did have to chuck out a few slices of brown H0vis I'd bought to go with the prawn starter - I make my own bread (breadmaker) which is nicer, so the bought stuff got put to the back.

The only other thing in danger are 4 homemade mince pies foisted on me by my well intentioned mother, even though we're not keen on them here.

Call me mean (I can't abide waste) or call me smug, I'm easy either way.

And full, obvs.

[bramble]

Not too much left overs here. Some cheese that is still unopened. Tins of biscuits, boxes of chocolstes, various bottles of wine and spirits which will be used eventually.
My son owns his own barbers shop and receives numerous gifts at Christmas which slways end up in mine.
Not complaining but he is soooooooo generous.

[Scarlet]

The rest of the streaky bacon we had bought for the turkey but didn't use, we are having tonight with chips, egg and beans

My boys ate the last pack of streaky bacon here this morning. I'm amazed at how much teenage boys can eat one pack of streaky bacon, a pack of 12 Chipolata sausages, 9 eggs, a tin of beans and a fair bit of toast..between 3. Not long after that, they ate half a dozen mince pies.