Obsession with efficient fridge management!

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Detest food waste and I am slightly obsessed with ensuring I use my fresh stuff out the fridge prior to my new load of weekly shopping arriving.
The teenagers hate it as often the shelves are quite bare but I get a ridiculous sense of satisfaction and smugness when I have cooked up leftover bits and bobs to ensure clear shelves.
Favourite dishes for using up leftover food at the end of the week include:

-quiche (great for polishing off the end of pots of cream, odd lumps of cheese, bits of cold meat, spare egg whites/yolks)

-soups (bits of old veg, the leaves round a cauliflower, broccoli stalks)

-stewed fruit (old apples and other fruit languishing at the bottom of the bowl...)

Anyone else like this and care to add to my list of useful 'using up' dishes...?

@SinoohXaenaHide I love the idea of being able to use up things in both the crepe filling AND the crepe itself….but I have always been slightly terrified of crepes. They just seem to hard to make! Any links to a foolproof recipe or technique you use?

Mini pizzas made from leftover pitta breads, or even leftover burger buns / bread rolls/ bagels/ wraps.

Spread bread with pizza sauce (or tomato paste and herbs), then top with grated cheese and whatever bits you need to use up, e.g. ham, mushrooms, diced onions, peppers, cherry tomatoes. Bake in the oven until cheese is golden.

Vegetable lasagne is my favourite to use up bits and bobs. Any old stuff goes in and there may or may not be a tin of haricot beans to bulk it out too.

@FollowYourOwnNorthStar I do like using these pancake spreaders and a good palate knife, but I don't have a set recipe exactly, it needs to be a bit instinctive if you are bunging in random leftovers. I tend to use about twice as much milk as egg, and judge the amount of flour aiming for the right level of gloopiness. A dash of oil makes them behave better when it's time to flip, but if I am trying to keep them lower fat I leave that out but they're then trickier to handle.