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Hi all,
I spent 2 hours last night reading through Mbaz's thread....wow! That is all I can say for what she achieved! She (and everyone else on this board's general thriftiness) has inspired me.
I am on the Cambridge Diet...12 weeks to go and counting! I need to practise my cooking skills on my willing victim lol (my other half LL). That way I'll be cooking nutritiously rather than bunging any old rubbish in the oven when my 12 weeks are over. LL works a minimum of 8 hours a day doing very physical work so he needs big meals and it is shocking how much he eats! Lots of carbs!
So I have done a shop...and a storecupboard audit- my aim this month is not to buy any other food this month (22July-22August) other than milk and possibly fresh fruit/veg. I plan on updating this thread to keep a track of what I;m cooking and attempt (for the first time ever) proper meal planning.
Breakfast Stuff
Honey Nut Flakes 500g
Malted Wheaties 625g
Rice Krispies 375g
Honey Hoops 375g
Coco Pops 375g
Leftover oats and cheerios
Lunch/Dinner Ingredients
6 x filled pasta 250g each
8 x chicken noodles 65g each
1kg fusilli pasta
1 packet canneloni tubes
1 kg basmati rice
750g soya mince
500g pearl barley (not sure what I can do with this?)
1 kg cous cous
1kg red lentils
9 tins kidney beans
2 tins chickpeas
2 tins butterbeans
9 tins chopped tomatoes
2 tins sweetcorn
4 tins tuna
1 tin salmon
3 jars tomato and herb pasta sauce
4 tins baked beans
2 tins spaghetti
5 tins curry sauce (the tesco 4p sauce!!)
1 tin sweet and sour sauce (the tesco 28p sauce!!)
1 jar korma sauce
1 jar tikka masala sauce
plain, self-raising and cornflour
Meat/Fish
Beef mince 500g
Chipolatas (24) 680g
Sausages (8) 454g
1 pack bacon
1 pack ham
20 frankfurters
8 chicken breasts
3 small tuna fillets
4 small cod fillets
Fridge
Cheddar
Red Leicester
10 eggs
Margarine
Roasted Peppers
Pesto
Olives
Sundried tomatoes
6 tubes tomato puree
Mustard
Ketchup
Mayo
Garlic Mayo
Marmalade
Marmite
Honey
Garlic Puree
Fruit/Veg
2 packets green grapes
10 bananas
6 green apples
1 punnet nectarines
1 mango
2kg new potatoes
7 peppers
1 kg carrots
5 onions
28 tomatoes
2 cucumbers
2 bunches spring onion
Freezer stuff
1 pack shortcrust pastry
3 pizzas
1/2 loaf of bread
1 garlic baguette
Drinks
6 cartons fruit juice
24 bottles of water (1.99- wasn't a waste!)
2 bottles of squash
4 cans beer
1 bottle Bombay Sapphire....yum yum
1 bottle rose wine
1 bottle pink champagne (for when I finish diet)
1 bottle normal gin
1 bottle vodka
1 bottle rum
On top of that I have all the usual herbs, spices, gravy granules, stock stuff, balsamic vinegar etc etc.
Things to note- LL doesn't do sandwiches for lunch so I tend to make enough at dinner for his lunch the next day.
Now to meal plan for the next week...
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Breakfasts
Cereal
Toast
Egg, Beans, Frankfurters (eurgh but LL loves them), Bacon, Tomato, Toast
Wed 22/7- Spag bol and garlic bread
Thu 23/7- Potato, chickpea and chicken curry, rice
Fri 24/7- Sausage casserole
Sat 25/7- Tuna pasta bake
Sun 26/7- Roasted chicken breast and potatoes, veg
Mon 27/7- Chilli con carne, rice
Tue 28/7- Quiche Lorraine, Couscous salad
I think I can make most of this now so will get a head start...
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Well done!!! Will be following your footsteps, im planning monthly shopping/meal plan also. Good Luck!0
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brilliant! well done
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My word!!!!:rotfl: You're cupboards must be HUGE!!!!!!! My small kitchen is jealous! :rotfl: In regards to buying milk, I've switched to UHT milk so that I can stock up at the start of the month and avoid the shops and impulse buying throughout the month. I also use pearl barley in my soups.
Snowy:j I feel I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe :j0 -
Hi all- thanks for replies!
I am in the middle of cooking-
Sausage casserole (type thing) done- just sausages, potatoes, onions, carrots, sage and thyme, s and p in a gravy/stock type thing.
Potato and chickpea casserole- potatoes, chickpeas, can of 4p curry sauce (!), garlic, tomato puree, carrots, tumeric, cumin, s and p, stock, paprika, cayenne and chilli- it actually tastes ok!
About to start bolognese- will leave all 3 out- LL can choose which one to start with lol!
Domestic goddess!
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So I have done a shop...and a storecupboard audit- my aim this month is not to buy any other food this month (22July-22August) other than milk and possibly fresh fruit/veg. I plan on updating this thread to keep a track of what I;m cooking and attempt (for the first time ever) proper meal planning.
Looks like a good plan
We have an exisitng thread on Monthly Mealplanning, so I'll merge this thread to that one to keep ideas together.
Good luck with the rest of your challenge :T
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Right, well, i am well on my way with meal planning now. Decided a spreadsheet would actually help along the way - god bless them! ive made a list of all the bulk food/products we may need to buy in a month, and also how much each item costs, with a total, so i know how much we will need approx to get started. Im so looking forward to it! Also doing a spreadsheet for meal planning, need to try and coax OH to put some input into this part!0
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Right, well, i am well on my way with meal planning now. Decided a spreadsheet would actually help along the way - god bless them! ive made a list of all the bulk food/products we may need to buy in a month, and also how much each item costs, with a total, so i know how much we will need approx to get started. Im so looking forward to it! Also doing a spreadsheet for meal planning, need to try and coax OH to put some input into this part!
This is a great thread- lots of really useful ideas.
If anyone does any menu planning spreadsheets would it be possible to post them on here so I can steal and adapt them ;-)
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Oh wow, Allegra, that is just what i wanted to hear, a proper example of how you do it! Thanks so much posting. It really is amazing how mums (and dads) are so organised behind the scenes. you should be really proud of yourself!
I am just so rubbish at cooking, my OH usually cooks when he gets home from work, he gets home about an hour before me, and plus hes better than me! But id like to cook, its not fair that he does it all the time. So, id like to get some meal ideas together, get the recipes i need for the meals, organise a meal plan, and then it should be easier for us to do. It always seems rush rush rush, and wasting food, or not utilising it enough. Very grateful for your input Allegra, and looking forward to seeing your meal plan!
Another thing.....how do you do your plan? Im a bit of a spreadsheet freak, and can see that im getting a lot of plans/budgets going on in spreadsheets, is it worth doing one for meal plans?
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You are very kind. Plain old pencil (for ease of last-minute changes) and paper for me, I'm afraid - I am very Old Style that way !
I've still not had time to log in from home and post a recent plan, but I did have a cunning idea (quiet afternoon at work !) of linking to a month's worth of old plans, back in the day when I had time to post them with some regularity.
So, here goes:
Week One
Week Two
Week Three
Week Four
As for "being rubbish at cooking" - well, practice does make, if not perfect, then at least edible. I left home (and country) at 17 not being able to, as they say, to boil an egg. Fifteen years later, I still wouldn't say I am a great cook, but I am certainly an enthusiastic one - and whilst, given an expensive steak to fry, I'd probably ruin it, but give me a handful of uninspiring odds and ends, a few weeds and a handful of spices, and I'm off Start by cooking what you really like eating, don't get down if it doesn't turn out perfect the first time, and - crucially - don't get stressed about the end result, but enjoy the process instead, and you'll be absolutely fine. 0
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