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Here's what I have in my freezer...

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gingerfurball
gingerfurball Posts: 385 Forumite
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Help me make the most of this and not spend too mcuh money...PLease!

All frozen of course...

Roast potatoes x2 bags
Lamb chops x3
Frozen chips x2 bags (you'd think I'd look1)
Pork chops x4
Chicken breast x1
Salmon fillet x1
Frozen stewed apples
Croquettes
Burgers x4
Sausages x6
Waffles x4
Onion rings (just a few)

Ice cream
Ice pops

Any meal suggestions...I can see the chips and burger combos...any other suggestions? I don't mind spending about £20 or so.:T
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  • gingerfurball
    gingerfurball Posts: 385 Forumite
    Forgot to add...5 of us at home, me, DH, DD(18), DS(14), and DD(12)
  • bluekp
    bluekp Posts: 439 Forumite
    If you end up using the burgers, try putting the burger in a roll with a couple of onion rings on the burger and a squirt of bbq sauce - gives you Burger Kings Rodeo burgers - delicious!
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  • r.mac_2
    r.mac_2 Posts: 4,746 Forumite
    what about poaching salmon lightly, flake it and to freshly cooked pasta with some lemon and creme fraich. Yum.

    someone on here also suggested using forzen chips as a topping for shepherd pie. why not give it a go?

    use chicken breast with meat from pork to make an special fried rice. Cook meat in very small bits in a wok, add any veggies you have, add cooked rice and then add a couple of eggs - scramble all together in pan and when egg cooked and rice properly heated through serve. Yum

    Pork with apple sauce with roast potatoes and a veg?


    if i think of anything else i'll post again x
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    r.mac, you are so wise and wonderful, that post was lovely and so insightful!
    I can't promise that all my replies will illicit this response :p
  • gingerfurball
    gingerfurball Posts: 385 Forumite
    I never thought of the apples with the pork chops...sound nice!
  • nuttyrockeress
    nuttyrockeress Posts: 1,260 Forumite
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    Use the sausages to make a sausage and pasta bake - all you need are a few herbs/spices, tin of tomatoes, onions, perhaps and mushrooms you may have leftover?
    It's nice to be nutty but's more important to be nice
  • Boswell_2
    Boswell_2 Posts: 48 Forumite
    One of my favourite sausage recipes is for sausage stuffed mushrooms (use the big flat field ones - life's too short to stuff the small ones!!) Fry the sausages until brown and then chop them up with the mushroom stalks and some finely chopped onion. Add in some garlic and herbs and perhaps some breadcrumbs or some extra mushrooms, finely chopped, if you want to make things go a little further. Then stuff the mushrooms with the mix and add some grated mozzarella cheese, bake in a moderate oven until the mushroom sighs and the cheese is golden - around 15-20 mins.
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  • Penny-Pincher!!
    Penny-Pincher!! Posts: 8,325 Forumite
    Hi

    This is what I would do:

    Lamb Chops-Cook slowly and break up-make into a pie with added veg/gravy etc to bulk it out, serve with Roast spuds and more veg. It will stretch further than giving a chop each IYKWIM.
    Pork Chops-Cook and chop up. Make a curry or sweet and sour and serve with rice and chips? Again add veg, spuds etc to stretch it out rather than just serving as a chop.
    Chicken Breast/Salmon-Cook seperately and add them to different batches of pasta..maybe with a tin of cream mushroom soup...delish. Add again extra veg to stretch to a full meal for the 5 of you?
    Sausages-Cook and chop up, add a tin of toms, chopped onion, tin of beans and serve with either mash/waffles and veg or rice.
    Burgers-Cook and serve in buns with chips, onion rings or croquette spuds. Only 4 though, so may be a problem..LOL.
    Apples-Make pancakes (flour,milk, eggs) and serve the apple warm with these.

    You will need to get some basic items and veg etc, but should be quite cheap for those 5 meals and a couple of puds.

    HTH.

    PP
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  • Lillibet_2
    Lillibet_2 Posts: 3,364 Forumite
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    Boswell wrote:
    add some grated mozzarella cheese,

    :confused: You can't grate mozerella.........can you?:confused:
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  • comping_cat
    comping_cat Posts: 24,006 Forumite
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    Lillibet wrote:
    :confused: You can't grate mozerella.........can you?:confused:

    I do, its a bit tricky, but will grate up nicely to sprinkle on pizzas!!!!
  • henhog
    henhog Posts: 2,786 Forumite
    Lillibet wrote:
    :confused: You can't grate mozerella.........can you?:confused:


    You can buy blocks of it ready for grating, and if you are really pressed for time you can buy it ready grated.

    Penny Pincher - you are so imaginative - a really good weekly meal plan.:T I would have just relived my student days for a week and munched through most of the stuff either accompanied with chips, roast potatoes or waffles! :D
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