I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Sabrina237

i have been stuck with a can of borlotti beans in my cupboard for months and have no idea what to do with them. Any ideas please? I have baked beans and chopped toms so was thinking some sort of bean casserole rather than a soup.

recovering_spendaholic

Sabrina237 wrote: »

i have been stuck with a can of borlotti beans in my cupboard for months and have no idea what to do with them. Any ideas please? I have baked beans and chopped toms so was thinking some sort of bean casserole rather than a soup.

Borlotti beans are lovely - I use them in chilli or sometimes throw them in hm minestrone. I love hm minestrone and this post has jogged my memory to make some soon!

Toast for breakfast and then sucuumbed to a nutella flapjack - an hour ago. I really must get back on the healthy eating wagon - I weighed myself this morning and I have put 11 pounds on since just before Easter so if I'm not careful the whole 7 stones is going to go back on. I have been dallying with the idea of going to Slimming World but don't know - I know how to lose weight - I'm just no good at it at the moment!!

Have got DD off school today for a hospital appointment this afternoon so have just made barm cake pizza for her for lunch (slightly stale barm cakes with leftover Ragu jar sauce and grated cheese) and I have got lamb steaks out for tea.

Hope you are all having a good day!
Lip_stick - how did the job interview go?

Kirri

Lynsey wrote: »

Looks like you Guy's are getting a "heatwave" down south!!

I managed to burn on Saturday even and I had 4 layers including a coat on - bending over in the sun on the allotment and I burnt a small strip at the top of my jeans where it was exposed Is lovely and warm here today

Sabrina237 wrote: »

i have been stuck with a can of borlotti beans in my cupboard for months and have no idea what to do with them. Any ideas please? I have baked beans and chopped toms so was thinking some sort of bean casserole rather than a soup.

I like borlotti with tomato types sauces, in pasta or bolognaise, or on toast (Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall recipe). I also do bean burgers with borlotti but that's only because I had a huge amount of home grown ones.


Today:
Breakfast - banana
Lunch - probably be bread and cheese, bread is just about to go in the oven - done a loaf with honey, sunflower and pumpkin seeds.
Dinner - no idea yet, either pasta, tofu stir fry or maybe just a cheese omelette and salad. Was going to do a gratin but have an appt later so will just do something quick/easy probably.

Lynsey

Had to pop out, so went into Morries for bananas and noticed they have their 50p fruit and veg offers back on - nice to see.

So bananas for 35p and 4 oranges for 50p = 85p spent so far and the rest of the week and until the end of the month will be little, little spends.
Trying to make my milk and another 4 pints (Thurday'ish) last until I go away next Tuesday.

Kirri - send a little sun up here please. lol

Lynsey

ms_night_ryder

Afternoon all.

Just worked out I have spent £10.48 out of £25 budget lol, got loads of veg though.

Yesterday I spent £1.28 in Mr t on 4 tins of value peaches. I have worked out it is slightly cheaper to buy 2 of these rather than the big tins from lidl.

Today I spent £15 in Mr s £14 on half price brita filters for my grandma who will hopefully pay me back, also a quid on those luxury muller yogurts.

£1.10 on the f&v market stall on 4 beets and a bunch of spinach for my smoothies.

£2 in waitrose on crisps (free) a pack of buttery.veg reduced and my favorite,2 packs of chilli noodles also reduced and money off.

In lidl I got 2 big tins of pineapple slices, a bag of mini apples, a fibreless Brazilian mango whatever that is and a pack of fine green beans £4.20 there.

I have enough f&v for this week, wonder if it will stretch to next week, o also have frozen petit Lois, mixed veg and fruits of forest, might get more as It's 10% off with waitrose card.

I had a smoothie for breakfast, a leaf of spinach, a tin of pineapple, a tin of peaches a beetroot, a bit of ginger and a peeled clementine, for lunch I had the last 2 bagels with crab sticks and mayo for dinner I am having the sausages I took out, as I had a lovely sirloin steak it was gorgeous with mash, brocolli and cauliflower, a m&s trifle for afters yummy lol, anyway so I'm making meatballs with a tomato and spinach sauce and using up some of the mountain of pasta, haven't had pasta in ages and that mountain won't eat itself.

Jelly_Biactol

Sabrina237 wrote: »

i have been stuck with a can of borlotti beans in my cupboard for months and have no idea what to do with them. Any ideas please? I have baked beans and chopped toms so was thinking some sort of bean casserole rather than a soup.

Traditional Tuscan Bean Stew
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=58741005&postcount=8191 (you could always try replacing the cannellini beans with the tin of baked beans, to use up store cupboard ingredients)

or what about Drunken Beans? :beer:
Just search online for 'Frijoles Borrachos' or 'Frijoles a la Charra'; most of the recipes will specify pinto beans (dried) but just use the tinned borlotti beans and adjust the other ingredients quantities accordingly. This looks a pretty standard recipe
http://www.grouprecipes.com/5649/easy-frijoles-borrachos-drunken-beans.html
Just leave out the bacon if you want a veggie version.

Florenceem

In freezer today - fresh fish - given to us.
Out of freezer today - 1 HM muffin + piri piri chicken + roast pork.
Another day of workmen here - had a brickie plus plumbers. All I did was make tea! Then there was a leak!
Dinner was pastie, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, cauliflower, onion and gravy.

Kirri

Went for the easy cheese omelette tonight, with a big salad (had some bits I had to use up) and a slice of hm bread I made earlier.

Run out of bottled water, milkman due in morning (it's on offer too), used up the last carton of some kid's juice drink I won in the meantime but it's so sweet I don't like it. One more thing out the fridge though.

Jelly_Biactol

Ceramic knives on special offer at Aldi this week, for anyone thinking about purccashing such things
http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/special_buys3_30238.htm

kittendothroar

I had leftover curry today - made dal last night using the never ending bag of lentils and a tin of coconut milk, spiced cabbage using one I picked up last week reduced ( still fine!) and chana masala using a packet spice mix I got about a year ago and a tin of chickpeas!

Am broke at moment and scaling things down for when we get moving date, everyday is a challenge!!