Store cupboard challenge

lainz

Well I've decided to join you all , I've pretty much got my spending under control via the grocery challenge - I just need to get over my stockpiling habit! (Although I appear to be small fry compared to some of you :rotfl:) I live out in the sticks although I work next to a supermarket and there are several others in the town so can get most 'offers'

Inspired I have written down everything in my freezers and cupboards and I seem to have a lot of chickpeas - bagged up and frozen and 3 tins in the cupboard .

Tonights tea was spinach and chickpea curry! I have a portion left for lunch monday and 2 pots of curry sauce to cram back in the freezer! Have my sister and bloke coming for lunch sunday - so that's the pork joint taken care of - leftovers monday (and I'll probably have plenty left to freeze )

Keep posting all your yummy ideas - need to trawl back through and get some more inspiration!

lynzpower

NualaBuala wrote: »

I agree - that's why I always do it.

I dont know if I do. My haphazard shopping trips are my mothers hand-me-down.

She buys bargains though- she hardly ever uses (eg clothes) whereas Im more of a food & cooking shopper.

I dont have a car, so when I can use mywork van to bring home the bargains in one swoop then I will, I hurt my hand quite badly not long ago so I cant carry weight. Yet the 3 litres of Coke zero were only a quid in Netto, so I got a few, I drink a lot of diet coke ( i dont want to thinik about it, I stopped for ages but Im an addict :eek: ) Passata was half the sainsburys price so again goit a few.

Where we live in london our local supermarkets are astronomical :eek::eek::eek::eek: so when I get to pass cheapie areas i try to bag what I can ! :T:T

Confuzzled

NualaBuala wrote: »

:rotfl:

Well at least you won't run out!:D I worry when I hear that people have none left! I seem to have worked my way through a fair bit of my pasta mountain and am considering buying more - feeling a bit panicky that I only have one full bag of fusilli left.

you'll be dead scared for me then... i have NO that's ZERO ZILCH NADA tinned tomatoes in the house :eek: haven't done for ages either...

i like fresh tomatoes but really i don't care much for cooked tomato based recipes and since i finally ditched my husband (YAY!) i don't have to eat that stuff anymore :T i do have baked beans and some meatballs in tomato sauce but that's as close as it gets... though i figure i can still stay in the club cuz i have no less than 30 pkgs of savoury rice and almost as many of various flavoured cous cous (blame it on approved foods, dan made me do it )

i understand your panic for pasta though mine is for toilet paper... if i have less than a dozen rolls i start to worry a bit, heaven forbid we get down to just 4 rolls, the world would end :rotfl:

Confuzzled

patchwork_cat wrote: »

What would you do with 10 cabbages! Even with my ever emptying freezer ther would just be cabbage in it! I suppose if you were on the cabbage soup diet, but you sure would empty everywhere you went after eating 10! Gino D'Acampo would be horrified, LOL! ( he said he hated women that f*rt on I'm a celeb and won't talk to his wife for a day after she does - well it would be a quiet house here, apart from constant trumping to annoy him!)

do they throw in a free bottle of bleach for your smalls when you buy the 10 cabbages? :rotfl: (sorry couldn't resist!)

Confuzzled

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

I've taken some stock from the freezer to make parsnip and apple soup for lunch tomorrow.

Penny. x

do you have a recipe for the parsnip/apple soup please? i have both that could do with using up, thanks

Confuzzled

missychrissy wrote: »

I think that you have just hit the nail on the head lynzpower. We stockpile because it makes us feel SAFE.

i refer to stockpiling food as a food savings account. i grew up poor and often went hungry (not desperately so but i was never allowed a second helping no matter how much of a growth spurt i was on) to me full cupboards and a big bowl of fruit makes me feel safe

at one point though when me and the ex and my daughter (about 18 months at the time) were in a really bad way we only had 7quid a week to get by on for everything, cleaning, food. toilet paper etc. thankfully we used cloth nappies and i made my own laundry soap (and had ingredients to make more) we managed like that for 5 months mostly because i had been soooo good at stockpiling food. we did lose some weight but my daughter was healthy and well fed and we never suffered terribly. we would have liked more treats but we managed.

i can't tell you how grateful i was that i'd stockpiled the food. it's saved us on more than one instance including right before my daughter and i left amsterdam to come back to scotland (we were living on 10 euros a week) so one of the first things i did when she and i came back to scotland was to do whatever it took to stockpile food, just in case.

the ironic thing is with approved food i've done sooo well that i've actually told the ex that on his next visit to see our daughter i'm going to send some food home with him, i have too much:eek::T

yes it may seem excessive but none of it will go to waste, it's my security blanket, but i don't care, all i care about is knowing my daughter will remain well fed no matter how bad things get

hex2

Thursday night I had mr Mr. S order -this was mostly pet food and laundry stuff. I now have enough to last till the middle of January. This was deliberate as it was on offer and it will keep me out of the big supermakets till after Christmas.

I went to the butchers yesterday because we have run out of mince and sausages - but I did stick to just buying those. Also lots of half price bacon from Lidl. We have a Netto Lynz but I have never been in. Sounds like I should take a look.

When I went on maternity leave the first time I had several thousand tea bags and rather a lot of toilet roll. All on offer obviously, lasted the best part of a year. I still fret if we are low on either though. My mum has always shopped wisely and taken advantage of bargains, but my Grandma was frankly obsessive about stockpiling after being snowed in a couple of times. I haven't got much storage space now which helps.

Need to think about something for dinner tonight - maybe sausage casserole, but tomorrow will be half price roast chicken, as will the next 11 sundays .

Penelope_Penguin

Confuzzled wrote: »

do you have a recipe for the parsnip/apple soup please? i have both that could do with using up, thanks

It's based on this one, but I'm not currying, and don;t remind me of the "parsnip chip" incident :eek:

Penny. x

lynzpower

I took half a loaf out the other day for OH to take for his lunches, but he didnt so, I shall have to make it into breadcrumbs and put it back in the freezer :rolleyes:

I have brought out the ribs last night and they are now defrosted so just used up the marinade on those. I dont really like ribs and this is the firt time Ive tried to make them so lets see what happens

With that will be the remnants of the other soup chicken, and some marinated vacpac tofu that has been sat in the larder for too long. I might even open this tin of straw mushrooms that I have had for nearly 2 years Im sure theyll be fine :rolleyes: I bought some pork won tons from the chinese supermarket a few weeks ago that are frozen, and have some beansprouts going off, so need to use them today, Im going to make a hot and sour type soup, with more prawn crackers. I might have to buy some noodles, as I think Ive ran out :rolleyes: so will buy the cheapest possible ( ie 12p ones) Ive got some spring rolls left, so thats quite good really.

To order 2x soups, mini spring rolls, 2 portions of ribs and P crackers from our local takeout would be :eek: around 20.00 :eek: and would probably be cold :rotfl:

Hope everyone has a wonderful day filling or emptying thier beloved stores

XSpender

Fish/veggie sausages, HM wedges and mushy peas for tea last night. All out of freezer/stores.

I have defrosted a veggie bacon and egg quiche for tea tonight with beans and jackets or maybe more HM wedges. Lunch will be egg mayo sarnies for me and DH marinated some of Thursday's left over chicken in some tandori paste so he will be having that in sarnies.

I am getting back into the swing of making bread again and we seem to be getting through a small loaf every day. Diluting the 1% milk by half has been really successful too. DH still hasn't noticed:rolleyes:

Today I need to top up the fruit bowl and make bread, 2 big batches of soup and a ginger cake. Most of the soup will go in the freezer for DH lunches over the next couple of weeks.

I have been thinking about stocking up on meat for DH at Costo at the beginning of Dec. Does anyone else use Costco for meat?

Must go get dressed and have some breakfast. Have been using up the last bits of cereal in a few different boxes for breakfast. Bit stale but I am not wasting it!