We ended up missing the shops while driving, DH got distracted. So we used up a half pack of lardons, 4 inches of chorizo and some cooked chicken breast with half a pepper and some sugar snap peas mixed into pizza sauce with fresh pasta (it had a long enough date to leave, but useful) for Monday night.
Yesterday, I made the quiche for lunch with the last of the bacon and eggs, some cheese, and an onion. Which I had with some salad (lettuce, sugar snaps, olives). Just needed some ready rolled pastry (very common here).
And we bought burgers and a tomato, baked a pack of Bart baked round rolls, and used almost the rest of the veggie bits (most of the lettuce, 2 spring onions, 2 carrots (grated them), an avocado, black olives), cheese, and most of my baby potatoes diced up and roasted with some garlic for dinner.
We used the other 2 rolls with the last of the sliced chicken and some cheese for breakfast, the last of the OJ, the end of the milk in our coffee, for breakfast today.
I left 2 inch chunk of ginger (might still be ok in fridge) and half a pack of grated cheese (which I froze), 2 single person dinners of baby potatoes that might still be ok. I threw out 5 apples and a lime that were very wrinkled/old and I had no ideas for. I whizzed up and froze the blueberries dd left behind for my breakfast smoothies when I get back.
And I brought the half bag of crisps, half bag of Leonidas choc, handful of sugar snaps (I’ll eat as a snack raw), and 2 slices in each of 2 different packs of sliced cheese with me for the road trip. And the 2/3 pack of choc hob-nobs that DH opened.
So I am very happy with how that all worked out. I still have some of my dinners in the freezer that they didn’t raid. But I have space to bring back some good meat (a few packs of good steak and maybe some lamb - meat here is very expensive and not nearly so good as “at home”). And some proper cheese and good crackers too.
Thanks for the ideas!