One roast, lots of meals!

Saturday I felt awful so spent much of the day lying on the sofa feeling sorry for myself. As such no cooking happened! I decided to make up for that yesterday with a mammoth cooking session to prepare me for the week. I thought it best to make the most of having a little bit of energy so that if this week I don't feel like cooking, I know that we will be well fed anyway. After an indulgent breakfast of bacon and eggs (it's the weekend, why not!) I got started on the lunch time roast, peeling and chopping twice as much veg and potatoes as I needed and put a whole chicken in to roast.
I then chopped some sweet red peppers and put them in the bottom of the oven to roast away too. I had loads of broccoli and so used the trimmings (stalks and all) with a slightly sorry looking leftover courgette I found in the fridge to whip up some homemade pesto in the blender whilst steaming some green beans to go in a salad with the spare potatoes and the roasted peppers . I also got out some stock and threw some veg in to make a soup.
After our roast was eaten I stripped and portioned out the rest of the chicken and any veg/spuds that didn't get eaten and set them aside to make a pie and a curry with (I'll add some tinned peaches and chickpeas with some curry powder to make tonight's dinner, and I whipped up a quick sauce and some pastry for my pie). The very last bits of leftovers have all gone in the food processor to make pasties which I will freeze for packed lunches.
So out of the ingredients I bought for my roast and some things I found lurking in the fridge I managed to get:

A roast for 3 with leftovers for the little one for later
A soup for our lunches today
Curry for tonight
Pasties for later in the week
A pie for Tuesday night
Potato salad for Wednesday lunch
Pesto to have with pasta one night this week

Not a bad haul.

I then grabbed bubs for a 'toddler baking' session and we whipped up some rocky road for dessert. Successful day in the kitchen! :)