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Store cupboard challenge

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  • You could use the two chicken breasts for a good stew or soup, padded out with veg. I usually get at least six portions of soup from two chicken breasts, one large onion,one large carrot and one large potato.

    Dice them all, throw them in a large heavy based saucepan with a bit of butter to soften down (low heat frying), then bung in chicken stock (or water) plus salt, pepper and a few dried herbs.

    Bring it to the boil for two mins, then simmer for an hour. Gets better each day, freezes nicely, and is so filling......

    Fish pie would freeze well too.... you would need spuds though! Five pieces of pollock would probably make a massive one!

    Just a couple of thoughts.
    Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps....
    LB moment - March 2006. DFD - 1 June 2012!!! DEBT FREE!



    May grocery challenge £45.61/£120
  • Olliebeak
    Olliebeak Posts: 3,167 Forumite
    Well done everybody - looks like we're all making a big dent in the contents of our freezers and/or cupboards :beer: .

    I get paid next weekend and intend to only buy basics (tea, coffee, milk, margarine, bread, eggs, porridge, leeks, swedes, cabbage, catfood, kitty-litter, bleach, toilet cleaner). Got enough meat to last us a whole month but I know we've run out of eggs and porridge, the bread won't last a month and neither will the milk, catfood and fresh veggies. But that really is all that I'm buying this month.

    Will need to get the grandchildren's presents this month to get them out of the way :D.
  • freecycle wrote: »
    2 diced chicken breast fillets, creamed coconut, raisins - curry
    Bag of chicken pieces - chicken casserole
    5 1/2 pollock pieces (fish incase anyone's wondering!!) - fish pie
    2 lean diced steak & kidney filling - S&K pie
    HM tomato base sauce, pack bacon,2 pcks whole mozeralla - with pasta
    2 beef steaks with seperate sauce, 2 lamb grillsteaks with seperate gravy, 4 sesame seed buns - burgers
    1 puff pastry roll, 2 pcks sausages - sausage plait/roll thingy
    1/4 bag mice - are you sure :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :rotfl: :D
    1 bag carrots, 1 bag sliced courgette, 1 bag mushrooms, 1 pack grated cheese, 1 bag dough mix.... - veg soup and bread

    3x peeled tomato cans, 1x tin chopped tomatos, 2x tins chick peas - chick pea curry
    polenta (what on earth do I use this for?!?!?) - I use it to roll out pizza base onto (instead of flour) - it makes them lovely and crispy :j
    Dried haricot beans (hmmm HM baked beans) - yep!
    tin syrup, 2x porridge oats - flapjack, or hobnobs
    1x wholegrain buckwheat flour - pancakes (blini type, possibly)
    1x pudding rice, 1x tapioca - milk puddings

    We have an existing thread where several of us are running down our stores for Christmas. I'll add your thread to that one. Welcome!

    Penny. x
    :rudolf: Sheep, pigs, hens and bees on our Teesdale smallholding :rudolf:
  • Olliebeak
    Olliebeak Posts: 3,167 Forumite
    Welcome on board the challenge, freecycle :hello:

    This morning I've removed a tray of bacon ribs, some carrots, swede, leeks and onions from the freezer, broken another two sticks off the pathetic head of celery in the fridge and will use up some potatoes later.

    Getting there gradually :j .

    However there is a pile of fresh carrots sitting in the fridge drawer that need blanching and freezing before they get too far gone :( - so unfortunately I am adding some carrots to the freezer to replace the ones I've taken out.

    I know, I know - why didn't I just use the fresh ones today - basically I couldn't be [strike]asred[/strike] bothered to peel and chop them when I was assembling the Slow Cooker at 7.30 ;) !
  • Olliebeak wrote: »
    I know, I know - why didn't I just use the fresh ones today - basically I couldn't be [strike]asred[/strike] bothered to peel and chop them when I was assembling the Slow Cooker at 7.30 ;) !

    If I'm storing vegetables for a long time (the garden harvest to last the winter, for instance), I always blanche them. However, I've found that if I use them within a couple of weeks, they're fine just prepared and frozen. Might save you some time and gas ;)

    Penny. x
    :rudolf: Sheep, pigs, hens and bees on our Teesdale smallholding :rudolf:
  • HariboJunkie
    HariboJunkie Posts: 7,740 Forumite

    Haribo, why is your jar shelf odd :confused::p

    :o Because all my kilner jars are filled with pulses and on open shelving and I don't like them being empty. :D

    I fell off the storecupboard wagon last night. OH decided to treat us to tea in the pub last night so I'm making the seafood chowder for lunch today with HM crusty bread.
    OH also bought 4 sea bass yesterday so I need to do something interesting with them for tonight. I may just grill them and have them with new potatoes and a salad which we already have in.
    The only shopping I need today is a joint for tommorrow's roast dinner. Think we may have pot roast for a change.

    Thriftlady, I'm going to try your idea for the veggies. I grew so much celery this year and no one in the family bar me likes it as anything other than soup. I hadn't thought to whizz it up with other veg and add to stews. :T

    The girls are dancing in a show today so we will be in and out to rehearsals and the show itself so I'm going to delay replenishing the baking box until tommorrow.
  • Olliebeak
    Olliebeak Posts: 3,167 Forumite
    If I'm storing vegetables for a long time (the garden harvest to last the winter, for instance), I always blanche them. However, I've found that if I use them within a couple of weeks, they're fine just prepared and frozen. Might save you some time and gas ;)

    Penny. x

    Many thanks for that, Pen-Pen :T! All now peeled, sliced, bagged and in the freezer as I type :D.

    Now off to do an inventory of the freezers - may get around to doing the cupboards as well - or may not, as the mood takes me :rolleyes: .
  • gilly1964
    gilly1964 Posts: 1,107 Forumite
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    Thanks for this. I now have 2lbs of carrots, chopped, blanched and in the freezer.

    No more shrivelled carrots in this house.
  • D&DD
    D&DD Posts: 4,405 Forumite
    :D I have a hole :rotfl:
    big enough for a loaf of bread in one of the freezers..it may not seem much but its space!!
    My latest lock n lock order arrived this morning so the last of the packets in the stores will be decanted today so we'll hopefully be able to see whats what in the abyss :D
    Have used a few bits up out there this week but still made no space as I've just replaced it with whats upstairs :rotfl:
  • :hello: Thanks for the welcome, looks like I've got a lot of reading to be doing judgng by the amount of posts on this forum :rotfl:

    A big thank you to the other person for the recipe ideas....will be doing most of them :T:D
    Olliebeak wrote: »
    Welcome on board the challenge, freecycle :hello:
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