Store cupboard challenge

Cat_Addict

Thanks Beki! I printed it and stuck it in my recipe file!

D&DD - Approved Foods?? Do tell!

sharronej

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Try this - fennel - suggestions, please

Penny. x

Thanks Penny,
I'll have a try!
Sharron

D&DD

Here you go Cat http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1282695
theres a code too MSE1 gets 5% off

Olliebeak

I am soooooo glad that you've posted YOUR inventory, Beki - makes mine look like an afternoon snack! - well almost .

I've been trying to tidy up the 'odds and sods' of meat in mine - and turning them into HM Ready Meals in the process - and also using up some of the veggies in the meals themselves. It's not exactly getting rid of anything from the freezer, as the results are then frozen and put back in again lol. But at least they're tidier and it gives me the bases for other meals.

Beki

Ahhhh, but without OH's job my freezer list would be pretty paltry!

One thing that i'm lacking is meat actually. I think i might get a large 'finest' corn-fed organic chicken from MrT (quite a bit cheaper than their bog standard free-range FYI) and eek it out to do maybe 5 or 6 meals for 4, and freeze them too... although, where exactly in the freezer they'll go i have no idea!!! LOL

LittleBird_3

Hi All, hope you don't mind me posting - this is my first one.
We eat a "freezer tea" at least twice per week. No shopping, just look what's in your freezer/cupboard and make it up!
Some times it's a little odd, but can be quite a balanced meal - at least we get lots of veg, as it's easier, and cheaper to have frozen veg than buy fresh.

Would recommend to anyone!

Cornishpixie_2

LittleBird wrote: »

Hi All, hope you don't mind me posting - this is my first one.
We eat a "freezer tea" at least twice per week. No shopping, just look what's in your freezer/cupboard and make it up!
Some times it's a little odd, but can be quite a balanced meal - at least we get lots of veg, as it's easier, and cheaper to have frozen veg than buy fresh.

Would recommend to anyone!

This made me smile. As I took the kids to see The Incredibles and in the film they all had a left over night. My kids thought it was great and used to ask every night when's left over night?:rotfl:

gilly1964

Well I was getting there, until I went to Costco and I now have extra roasting meat for the freezer and extra tomatoes and sweetcorn for the cupboards. It looks like my Decmber GC budget is blown already up to £190 out of £250 . At least January and February should look good :rolleyes:

We all fancied takeaway last night after Christmas shopping so went to Iceland and bought 3 Indian Mains for £5, cooked own rice and samosas from freezer and it was lovely. Okay not quite HM or takeaway flavour, but it did the trick for about £17 less than ordering.

Best wishes to everyone
Gilly

bestpud

May I join you please?

I've just done a inventory of my freezer, store cupboard and fridge and found a few bits I didn't know existed!

Here it is and I will try and get it down over the next few weeks, especially as I went quite a bit over budget on my first GC month. I hope you don't mind me asking some questions (in red)? This is actually a lot harder than it looks! Or I'm just a bit simple...

Freezer


5 x pork and beef sausages These are gristly and, well, horrible - is there any way of disguising that?

16 x skinless sausages
Bag quorn chicken style pieces Tesco delivered these by mistake - has anyone had them and if so, what did you do with them?

6 x turkey drummers

6 x brambly apple quorn burgers I assume these are another Tesco error - I've never seen them before but they were at the bottom and look like they have been there a while! Has anyone tried them?

8 x individual veg pies
Approx 600g minced beef
6 x findus crispy pancakes (chicken and bacon flavour)

2 x mini sausage rolls
4 x mini sausages bundles
1 x turkey slice
2 x cheese and onion pasties
10 x white bread rolls
Wholemeal sliced loaf

16 x mini corn on the cobs
500g summer fruits
400g black forest fruits
½ bag special mixed veg
½ bag peas
1 ½ bags farmhouse mixed veg
16 x individual Yorkshire puds

Fridge


2 x 500g chicken breasts Use by tomorrow

4 x 150g bacon packs (about 4/5 slices in each)
500g Short crust pastry block
Left over chilli con carne (enough for one)
400g mild cheddar
Garlic bulb
3 parsnips
Bag new potatoes
Onion

26 eggs
7 x turkey slices (use by tomorrow)
1 ½ tubs sunflower spread
Yogurts


Store Cupboard


Porridge Oat
2 boxes Ice cream cones

1 x condensed chicken soup
1 x value tomato soup
2 x jars value pasta sauce (tomato)
Packet Tuna pasta bake mix

8 x 1 litre UHT milk
1 x individual xmas pud
2 x slices peaches
2 x pear halves

Big tin marrowfat peas
Small tin new potatoes
Small tin kidney beans
3 x tuna in sunflower oil

Chicken gravy granules
1 ½ boxes sage and onion stuffing mix
Gravy browning
Pork seasoning
Chicken seasoning
Salt/pepper/vinegar/ketchup
Mustard

Aprox 2kg penne pasta
Tiny bit of pearl barley
Brown rice (long grain)
White rice (long grain)
Arborio rice
Wholemeal spaghetti
500g lasagne sheets
3 x sachets pizza base mix (BB May 2008) Will these be ok?


1 ½ bags S/R flour
1 bag Plain flour
½ bag Strong bread flour
Icing sugar
Baking powder (little bit)
3 kg granulated Sugar
Ground ginger
Cinnamon
Extract of vanilla
Almond flavouring
½ tub 100 and 1000s
Custard powder
3 x sachets yeast (BB September 2007) Will these be ok?


2 x sachets vegetable cup a soup (These were lurking at the back and won't survive the week now they have been discovered!)

Filter coffee (Will get the coffee machine out to use these up)


Other

3 x apples
4 x ripe bananas (I will have a search of the recipes to see what I can do with these that's different from the BM banana bread we usually make with them - recommendations very welcome!)

Now for the tough bit - trying to work out what to do with it all! I will have a go and report back but any ideas will be gratefully recieved! I will be doing a shop tomorrow and don't want to buy more than I have to!

ETA: I have two casserole meals in the SC and one in the oven. Plus a saucepan of vegetable soup cooling!

Olliebeak

bestpud wrote: »

May I join you please?

I've just done a inventory of my freezer, store cupboard and fridge and found a few bits I didn't know existed!

Here it is and I will try and get it down over the next few weeks, especially as I went quite a bit over budget on my first GC month. I hope you don't mind me asking some questions (in red)? This is actually a lot harder than it looks! Or I'm just a bit simple...

Freezer



2 x 500g chicken breasts Use by tomorrow)
)
7 x turkey slices (use by tomorrow) )

Could you make something tomorrow using these up and then freeze them as individual meals?


3 x sachets pizza base mix (BB May 2008) Will these be ok?

Not sure as I've never done HM pizzas - but as they are a dried mix


3 x sachets yeast (BB September 2007) Will these be ok?

Don't know anything at all about cooking with yeast - but I'm sure that somebody else will be able to tell you.


4 x ripe bananas (I will have a search of the recipes to see what I can do with these that's different from the BM banana bread we usually make with them - recommendations very welcome!)

This is something that I'm always trying to find too - hopefully somebody else will have an answer lol! My last Banana Loaf was horrible - tried a recipe using wholemeal flour and hated it !

Now for the tough bit - trying to work out what to do with it all! I will have a go and report back but any ideas will be gratefully recieved! I will be doing a shop tomorrow and don't want to buy more than I have to!

ETA: I have two casserole meals in the SC and one in the oven. Plus a saucepan of vegetable soup cooling!

Good Luck, bestpud - hopefully somebody will have an answer for both of us where the bananas are concerned .