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Debt_Free_Chick

but the wierdest thing is i have 3 pots of cream in the freezer, and a handful of prawns with their shells still on.

Crikey - how do you cope?

Just out of interest, here's the contents of my freezer

Meal Canada Goose Casserole 1 portion
Meal Moroccan Chicken 1 portion
Sauce Cheese & Garlic 1 (small)
Sauce Passata 250g
Sauce Pasta – very hammy 250g
Sauce Pasta – very hammy 250g

Fruit Blackberries 0.250 kg
Fruit Puree – raspberries 0.200 L
Fruit Raspberries 0.300 kg
Fruit Sloes 0.500 kg
Ice Cream Honey & Cardamom 0.200 L
Ice Cream Honey & Cardamom 0.400 L
Ice Cream Rhubarb Crumble 0.400 L
Meal Crumble – Rhubarb 2 portions

Bacon Unsmoked 3 packs
Ham Black Forest 3 packs
Ham Salami 2 packs
Lamb Hearts 0.768 kg
Meal Cornish Pasty 1 x 3
Meal Sausage Rolls 1 x 5
Pork Fat (Belly) 0.300 kg
Pork Kidneys 0.292 kg
Pork Ribs 0.400 kg
Sausage ? (loose) 4
Sausage Bratwurst 2 x 8
Sausage Lincolnshire 1 x 8

Fish Crevettes 0.225 kg
Fish Haddock 0.800 kg
Fish Smoked Salmon 3 x 200 g
Meal Fish Pie 2 portions
Stock Beef 0.250 L
Stock Beef 0.250 L
Stock Beef 1 L
Stock Chicken 1 L
Stock Fish 1 L
Stock Fish 1 L
Stock Ham 0.500 L
Stock Ham 0.500 L
Stock Ham 0.500 L
Stock Pheasant 0.400 L
Stock Stock 0.400 L

Beef Braising Steak 0.385 kg
Beef Braising Steak 0.435 kg
Beef Braising Steak 0.505 kg
Beef Brisket 1.650 kg
Beef Chuck Steak 0.540 kg
Beef Chuck Steak 0.635 kg
Beef Oxtail 0.595 kg
Beef Oxtail 0.670 kg
Beef Silverside 1.440 kg
Beef Skirt 0.330 kg
Beef Skirt 0.475 kg
Beef Stewing Steak 0.400 kg
Duck Mallard 0.800 kg
Lamb Kidneys 0.250 kg
Lamb Kidneys 0.250 kg
Lamb Liver 0.660 kg
Lamb Neck 0.505 kg
Lamb Neck 0.610 kg
Lamb Shanks 0.690 kg
Lamb Shanks 0.705 kg
Lamb Shanks 2 portions
Pork Belly 0.695 kg
Pork Hocks 0.765 kg
Pork Hocks 0.915 kg
Pork Liver 0.250 kg
Pork Trotters 0.395 kg
Turkey Drumstick 1
Turkey Drumstick 1
Turkey Wings 2

Bread Baps (white) 12
Bread Blinis – cocktail 1 x 16
Bread Breadcrumbs 1
Bread Breadcrumbs 1
Bread Crumpets 2 x 12
Bread Pitta – cocktail 1 x 15
Bread Pitta – white 3 x 6
Bread Rolls – mixed 10
Egg Whites 1 x 10
Meal Mini crostini 1 x 15
Meal Mini savoury tarts 1 x 12
Pastry Filo 1 x 400kg

Veg Courgettes, sliced 250 g
Veg Jerusalem Artichokes, chunks 1 kg
Veg Peas 250 g


Told you I had a list

All the "Meals", stocks & ice cream are home-made. As you can see, I stock up on meat and had a delivery recently.

My nearest supermarket is 12 miles away so I only go to stock up. Last visit was 23rd November (yes, not December).

I buy meat in bulk and have it delivered so I only need to go to the greengrocers/farm shop once a week for veg. And then only in the winter as I grow my own during the summer.

Anyway ... I've now taken this off topic. Apologies, but I couldn't resist posting the freezer list. You can see why I needed one

Debt_Free_Chick

but the wierdest thing is i have 3 pots of cream in the freezer, and a handful of prawns with their shells still on. What could I make with that!!!

A sauce for pasta.

A thai-style curry - mild & aromatic. To be authentic, you would use coconut milk, but we've got cream.

A prawn mousse

A souffle

If you had some salmon, the prawns & cream would make a lovely sauce to go over the top. Just then need to add vegetables.

Sarahsaver

I didnt mean that's ALL i have in the freezer LOL ;D
I havent made the full list yet but i have some mushroom soup made when my daughter picked about 3 pounds of the things, some stale bread rolls, gammon which no-one likes but me, value ice cream, probably some gooseberries from a supply which seems never to run out, a chicken, cheap sausages, a few bags of veg. Im going to make a trifle to use the cream later in the week dont think i will be adding the prawns!

Savvy_Sue

Never be without tins of chopped tomatoes and tins of campbells condensed soups. Simmer a tin of tomatoes for 10 mins with a little extra tom. puree if you have it and you can just pour it over pasta! It's nicer with bacon or something like that, but honestly, just the tomatoes will do, seasoned how you like 'em (plain in this house but the boys are fussy!)

If you like sweetcorn, mix a tin of value sweetcorn with a tin of campbells soup and that makes a good sauce too. Heat in a pan or you can pour it over browned sausages or chicken and casserole it.