Store cupboard challenge

kazmeister

Pink-winged wrote: »

Hi pink_numbers,

I've added your thread to the store cupboard challenge thread where you will get support and ideas from other Old Stylers who are trying to reduce the contents of their freezers and cupboards.

Pink

I think its a shame that this has been added to the storecupboard challenge as I tried that and it didnt work as I wont ever get through my stock - the contents were too long to list on 1 post!!! I thought the freezer challenge on its own would be more manageable and it was posted with the specific challenge of emptying it so it could be defrosted. I think it will get lost mixed in here but thats just my opinion

Oh and just to keep on the original thread, used 2 burgers and the burger buns from my list but have added 2 loaves of bread and 2 ltrs milk.

pink_numbers

Hi kaz, I'm actually glad that you've commented on the thread being merged, I felt the same too, and found it very difficult to find my posts. I have now book marked my original post (click on the post number at the top right of the particular post) with the list of all my stuff so that I can get to it much more easily - maybe that'll help you keep track also?

I appreciate that Pink-winged has a job to do, and she's much wiser than me

hollyh

Hi,

Yesterday nothing went in my freezer and a 6 pint carton of milk, a loaf of bread, 1 portion of fish pie, 2 portions of lasagne and 1 portion of curry & rice came out.

mineallmine

mineallmine wrote: »

Freezer stash is now...

brussels
vegetable samosas
[STRIKE]tikka masala (ready meals so not too bad)[/STRIKE]
parnips
asda own make roast pots (very nice too!)
12 rolls
syrup pudding
green beans
peas
corn on the cob
yorkies
choc ices

Not exactly rushing through this! My loved one had a couple of pizzas that were lurking around in there - hidden under ice I think!

Right bought the £10 meal offer in M&S today and got a cooked chicken so I think I will cook up the roast dinner type stuff to go with that. I'm not bothered about re-heating the chicken, a bit of gravy in a pan with it is what a friend does but cold is fine by me. So hopefully that will use up the roast pots, some beans and parnsips and the yorkies.

This using up stuff is really helpful as I think I'd like to change my fridge freezer - I didn't like it on Day 1. The fridge seems always to be wet/dampish inside and the freezer wants to be the artic. Hopefully the using up freezer stuff will sit nicely with store cupboard challenge. :A

hollyh

Hi,

Yesterday i took out a loaf of bread, a pack of ham and 2 slices of bacon. I put in a couple of slices of stale bread for making a bread and butter pudding at some point.

cooking-mama

Ive been thinking about utilising my freezer better...did a quick inventory yesterday,in mine i have.
RAW=minced beef,diced beef,chicken fillets,chicken breasts,frying steak,braising steak(all bought from Costco and frozen raw in portions.)
Sausages(Frozen from fresh),
Oven chips,/wedges/waffles
Frozen breaded fish portions,
A ready made Pizza.
bread rolls/bread,/wraps.
Steam fresh vegetable bags,
a BBQ pack(be a while before that gets used)
Ice cream,
some (going out of date )yoghurts.

Apart from the frozen breaded fish,Pizza,/oven chips n steam veg,theres nothing here that my "cant cook" OH would be able to turn into a dinner...present him with a pack of raw mince and he would head to the nearest chippy!!!
3 days a week im at work during dinner time..I sometimes set up the slow cooker,or make a quick mince/tatties type dinner in the morning using the pressure cooker,other than that family has the occassional convenience food..Pizza,frozen fish,etc.
Im planning on starting to batch cook and freeze..Zippychick has posted some great links to other freezer type posts,
So im just being nosey..Whats in Your Freezer?

Penelope_Penguin

There are lots of lists in this thread I'm updating my freezer list, so may add it here later.

rachbc

mmm

post school snacks for ds - crumpets, muffins, potato cakes, tea cakes (all shop brought)

1 pre sliced loaf and 4 rolls of hm bread

peas, broad beans, sweetcorn, leaf spinach, green beans and baby onions

buttermilk, mozarella

chopped chillis, lime leaves, curry leaves, coriander

half a carton of passata, bag of breadcrumbs, crumble mix, hm puff pastry

foraged blackberries, bilberries and wind fall bramleys

pre cooked kidney beans, lumps of caramelised red onions

beef shin, sholder pork, diced lamb fillet, lamb and beef mince, chicken livers, cod fillets, smoked haddock, king prawns

individual portions of sweet pot falafel, caponata and veg korma for work lunches

3 boxes of fish fingers and a bag of oven chips

disney princess bump cold pack!

nicki_2

I'm trying to do this. I won't list the contents of my cupboards & freezer as there is way too much after spending about £300 over the last 2 months refilling them from just about empty including stocking up on toiletries, getting a few bits for Xmas and grabbing bargains from Approved Foods I've spent about £50+ of that on meat alone which might not sound like much to others, but I tend to buy it when its reduced normally or frozen, to buy it on offer and fresh like Asdas 3for£10 is not normal for me. I have however weighed it out and frozen it into meal sized portions

I also admit to buying all of the homepride cooking sauces that have been on offer - not the bolognese & white sauce ones (I make those myself) but the different pasta/vegetable bakes & the various casserole sauces:o I've done this because I'm fed up of eating the same meals day in and day out. Since DD can be a really fussy eater and I'm really busy over the next few weeks, I don't want to be trying new recipes, paying out for ingredients that are just going to sit in the fridge/cupboard and go off or having to make another meal because DD refuses to eat something. This way the meals are relatively quick (meat/pasta/veg, pour over sauce & cook. Add salad/veg on the side), easy on the brain and will hopefully get DD to try some new things.;)

So what have I managed to use this past weekend:
Saturday: Pancakes (yellow stickered), Sausage casserole made up of jar of sauce, 4 yellow-stickered sausage (Tesco good quality cumberland ones, 24 for 75p ) frozen peas, frozen cabbage, frozen spinach with mash potato (Smash - was on 50% free offer in Iceland a few weeks back - great for portion control ), Crumpets for supper (more yellow stickers)
Sunday: More crumpets for breakfast (DD loves them), turkey steaks (I flung these in the freezer in the packet without splitting them so ended up with tonnes of meat for one meal :eek:), frozen carrots, tin of button mushrooms, tin of new potatoes, and a jar of honey & mustard cooking sauce.

I've also taken out a loaf of bread out of the freezer. Everything is still heaving though, and I really need to get my stores down to one save money and two so I can move my stash from under my bed as our landlady is re-carpeting upstairs in November and currently there's 3 boxes of food stuff under there.

Allegra

Well, you asked for it..... :rotfl:

CHEST FREEZER
Meals:
Pork and plum stew
6 x chiili con carne
5 x Bolognese sauce
6x beef and runner stew
Veggie chilli
2 x large pork pie
Mince stew
Fish pie
Bean curry
Country style soup
2 x chicken, onion and sweetcorn pie
Tomato and olive pudding

Bread:
4 x HM naan

Lunch meals:
4x 2 pack of HM lentil burgers
Tomato soup
2 x calzone

Meat:
Chicken thighs 830g
Turkey breast fillet 340g
Turkey stir-fry 230g
3x thin fry beef
Frying beef 194g
Frying beef 336g
3x chicken breast
3x 2 pack beef burgers
2x 4 pack chinese grills
Pork shoulder joint
14x sausage

Fish:
White fish fillets 400g

Veggie:
2.5 packs quorn chicken style pieces
2 packs quorn mince
13 x 10 pack veggie hot dogs
4x 4 pack quorn chicken style burgers
8x 6 pack Linda McCartney soya sausages

Stock:
2x 1l ham
2x 1l vegetable
1x 500 ml vegetable
3x 500 ml goose
4x 500 ml chicken

Leftovers:
Mash
Parsley liquor

Fruit and veg:
Mirabelle plums 950g
Red cherry plums 2,8 kg
Damsons 420g
Blackberries 2150g
4 x banana
1450g oranges
5 x 500ml stewed apple
7x 500ml runner beans
4x runner beans in tomato sauce
Mushrooms in tomato sauce
Peas

Pulses:
Canellini
Chickpeas

Sweet:
8x banana muffin
Coconut loaf
Brioche bread pudding
Butternut squash tart

Ingredients:
Tomato pizza sauce
Filo pastry
2x mozzarella
Butter
Hot water pastry

FRIDGE FREEZER:
Sweetcorn
Peas
Parsnips
2x lamb burgers
4x 500ml runner beans
1 x calzone
2x veggie hot dog
1 x quorn burger
5 x soya sausage
Croutons
Breadcrumbs
Pea pods
Grated Grana Padano cheese
2 egg whites
Diced pineapple
Coconut milk cubes
Tomato sauce
B!chamel sauce
6x individual muffin sized portions olive tapenade
6x “ tomato houmus
6x “ pepper houmus
7x “ plain houmus