I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

abby1234519

Chicken legs for tea avec couscous salad.

Carrot cake didn't get baked last night, thats tonights job.

Curry for us and inlaws tomorrow so I need to start cooking that as well tonight.

Jelly_Biactol

Recipe ideas
http://www.flickr.com/groups/recipes/
Have a look through the piccies, until you see one that tempts you, and then click on the pic to check out the recipe:)

Anyone fancy a Pineapple Popsicle?:cool:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/steamboatwillie33/9295458536/in/pool-recipes

Florenceem

Out of freezer - HM Egg/Bacon Pie + Huss.
In - nothing.
On my last tub of custard powder so a trip to Mr T soon.
Dinner was HM Egg/Bacon Pie + HM wedges + Salad - tomato/celery/lettuce/onion/pepper tossed in Balsamic Vinegar.
I used 1 stick celery - 7p + 1 tomato - 9p + 1/2 pepper - 9p + red onion - 6p + lettuce - 7p. Balsamic Vinegar was bought when on offer at Lid. for 49p bottle. I made the Shortcrust Pastry for the pie. I used 2 medium potatoes for the wedges.
Total dinner cost for 2 - £1.36. This is a filling meal.
There is enough salad left for one portion for Mr F at lunch time tomorrow.
While cooking dinner - made a Rhubarb Crumble. Was given the Rhubarb which I MW for a couple of minutes. I had a small bag of Crumble mix in the freezer - not enough so quickly forked some soft marge into flour and there was enough for the dish.
We don't eat puddings but this is a good filling afters for a family.
We will have crumble + custard for breakfast - my way of having calcium. So cost of breakfast for 2 - 44p.
So breakfast + dinner costs - £1.80 for 2 of us. In the TV programme the other evening - I think they had £1.66 each a day to live on. A HM Muffin/slice of cake for mid morning break - 30p for 2 so we are up to £2.10. Then a Banana each for afternoon snack - 30p so now up to £2.40.
Lunch can be HM Soup + HM Bread or beans on HM Bread - cost 40p so total goes up to £2.80.
I can tell you - you are not hungry eating HM food.
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Welsh_Poppy

Morning
Another 2lb strawberries picked and a flower on my cucumbers and may have a tomato turning yellow!!

Out... Fish cakes
In 2lb strawberries/3 tubs of HM cherry pie filling
We bought 6lb jam cherries so I made pie filling/cherry brandy/cordial and jam.

Jelly_Biactol

Florenceem wrote: »

In the TV programme the other evening - I think they had £1.66 each a day to live on.

So £50 a month, give or take ... mmm, will have to add up my food spends at the end of the month, and see how I compare (currently at just over £22, with several HM meals in the freezer from batch-cooking at the start of the month).

Welsh_Poppy

That is interesting 2 of us here and I only spend £100 a month and all HM food...mind you I have a big pantry and store cupboards and 2 freezers which are full.
But our goal is to use up what we have with hardly any spends in August apart from fresh stuff/milk/bread.

Welsh_Poppy

I just made a leek,red pepper and mushroom lasagna and costed it out it makes 6 large portions at 84p a portion.

Jelly_Biactol

Florenceem wrote: »

In the TV programme the other evening - I think they had £1.66 each a day to live on.

Jack Monroe (a.k.a. A Girl Called Jack) lives on £1 give-or-take; mind you, she doesn't (or didn't) have much choice. Her blog has lots of great extremely-low-budget recipe ideas
http://agirlcalledjack.com/category/below-the-line-budget-recipes/

Welsh_Poppy wrote: »

mind you I have a big pantry and store cupboards and 2 freezers which are full

I'm sort-of the exact opposite - no pantry, small store cupboard (basically rice, pasta, flour, pulses etc), and just a fridge-freezer which is usually empty by the end of the month and then restocked at the start of the next

Welsh_Poppy wrote: »

I just made a leek,red pepper and mushroom lasagna and costed it out it makes 6 large portions at 84p a portion.

Sounds good - recipe?

Welsh_Poppy

Red Pepper,Mushroom Lasagne

Serves 6-8
8 sheets of Lasagne

For the tomato and vegetable sauce

2 TBS Olive oil
2 leeks chopped
2 red peppers diced
2 fat garlic cloves crushed
2.5 oz plain flour
2 x 400gms chopped tomatoes
1 TBS tomato puree
2 TSP castor sugar
600gms mushrooms sliced
1 bunch basil chopped
1TBS balsamic vinegar
seasoning

For the Cheese Sauce

4oz butter/marg
3oz plain flour

900ml hot milk
1.5tbs wholegrain mustard
200gms grated cheese

It can be made 24 hours ahead

Preheat oven 220/200 fan/Gas7
5 pint oven dish I use 6 individual dishes(easy to portion up and freeze)

To make veg sauce
Heat oil in saute pan,add leeks and fry for 3 minutes,then add peppers and fry for 5 minutes until veg are soft.Add garlic and season.

Weigh out flour into bowl add a tin tomomatoes and stir till smooth and add to pan. Add remaining tomoes straight to pan ,followed by tomato puree and sugar.

Bring to boil, stirring until Thickened then add mushrooms and boil for a 3 minutes.Add basil and vinegar and check seasoning.

Make cheese sauce
Melt butter in saucepan,add flour an mix together,gradually add milk and mix until bubbling and smooth.add mustard and 3/4 of the cheese and season.

Spoon 1/3 veg sauce at bottom of dishes.Add 1/3 cheese sauce.lay sheets of lasagne on top(in dishes 1/2 sheet or 3 sheets in large dish continue with layers to give 2 layers of pasta and 3 layers of sauce and finsh with the remaining cheese on top.

Bake in preheated oven for 35-40 mins

Enjoy:-)

ms_night_ryder

Jelly that pineapple receipe didn't work the link I mean.

I have been busy In the kitchen, ran out of ice lollies, so made a new batch, pineapple, cloudy lemonade and a bit.of.honey, tastes yum! I had some mixture leftover, so I just topped it with more lemonade and drank it,.was lush. All ingredients fr store.

Also made a apricot and honey puree to top some greek yogurt I bought, all from stores.

I've had enough of the kitchen for now, will make a salad for dinner, will also chop up enough ingredients for a few salads over the weekend, my freezer is full, not going down at all.

I seem to.be eating a lot of fresh stuff at the mo, need to set a weekly budget for salad stuff and stick to it, I'm aiming for £10 a week.