Jellie wobbles into her MFW journey

yukkibear

Ouch Jellie to the cost, are your teeth OK?

*Jellie*

gratefulforhelp wrote: »

Painful! What's storecupboard challenge?

Challenge I'm doing on store cupboard thread. My challenge is to get through January and hopefully longer cooking with stuff from store cupboard and freezer. I'm allowing up to £10 a week for essential buys like milk etc.

yukkibear wrote: »

Ouch Jellie to the cost, are your teeth OK?

Got to have my first filling :eek:

We have booked the honeymoon :j A week in a hotel in the Lake District- expensive but we're hoping it will be special! I'm looking forward to seeing the lakes! One more thing crossed off the list.

gratefulforhelp_2

Goodness a whole month?? Impressive. I could maybe do a week if I had to.

*Jellie*

gratefulforhelp wrote: »

Goodness a whole month?? Impressive. I could maybe do a week if I had to.

We've got 1 large freezer and 1 smaller one and both are pretty full. We have plenty of tins, pasta, rice etc so I'm sure we can do a month. Once we've run the stocks down we'll do a makro run and restock up ready for more batch cooking. If I don't do this a few times a year I find stuff gets hidden in the freezer for years!!


Restaurant booked for wedding :j

OH has also booked tickets to see Les Mis for my birthday in April. At least we have things to look forward to while being frugal in between!

yukkibear

Exciting news about the wedding. I'm starting to think about all the small touches and bits and pieces now. We have to meet our planner soon to discuss all the final bits and pieces. Scared? Yes lol

savingholmes

hi jellie - finally caught back up on your diary. Sounds like things are really coming together. Good luck with your mfw target too!

DansMum_2

Well done on the storecupboard challenge Jellie, am trying to do similar. I have a book with an inventory and just cross off what I use when I use it....

DansDad reckons I'm sad....;)

*Jellie*

Have almost finished inventory of freezer. Have over 30chicken breasts, 16 steaks, 4kg minced beef, 16 salmon steaks, about 20 meals of stuff already made and frozen and much more! I think my store cupboard challenge could run for months!!

Plan for weekdays this week is beef pie, enchiladas, home made pizza, chicken and chorizo pasta and make salmon and prawn pie (bulk make and freeze). should just need to buy milk and a couple of bits for the new recipe. Once I've planted up a herb garden here I'll get away with buying even less between major shops!

Secret_Saving_Squirrel

Wow! It's amazing what piles up in the freezwe... Good luck with the challenge.

Squirrel

yukkibear

Oh my word you have so much in your freezer. You shouldn't need to shop for the month, it wont be a challenge lol