I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Jelly_Biactol

Just added up my total food spend for July
£45.62


Freezer is nearly empty, just some bread and pasta I think, so will probably do some batch cooking over the weekend with enough left over to freeze. It's only a fridge-freezer so I don't like to overstock it. The fridge is nearly empty, and the store cupboard needs a couple of things restocking (flour and pasta).

I'll have a think about some recipe ideas probably Friday (day off!) and do the food shopping in one go. I'm planning to visit a nearby Asian supermarket as it has some great bulk deals - 12 tins chopped tomatoes £2.99, 30 eggs £1.99, or 6kg chickpeas/lentils/daal for £4.99.

Fruittea

Thanks for the advice Tootallulah I will give it go using clean jars. Many thanks.

Welsh_Poppy

In
Nothing

Out
Bread and some meat sausages

Planning menu for August and should not need much apart from fruit and veg etc.
Ended July on £99.99p phew just in on budget.

Dinner was ratatoille with sausage for OH I just had the ratatouille all from the garden:-)

DS and GF coming tomorrow so I am using 2 portions of my lasagne and make some muffins total cost NIL:-)

Welsh_Poppy

Jelly the prices in your Asian market is fab ours does not come near those prices!!

Kirri

July spends £152.47
(Food = £85.59)
(Fruit & Veg = £67.89)

August will be lower I think. Planning a month of vegan batch cooked meals so it should be! Plus August is the best month for produce on the allotment so that should help the budget.

Has coconut milk gone up in price lately? Been a while since I bought any but got a naan recipe I need it for and it seems very expensive now?

Got nothing sweet in and having a sugar withdrawal... got no eggs for cakes and got no hard butter for biscuits - might have to try a vegan biscuit with vegan marge but the soft marge doesn't work so they won't be great... but I'm desperate will get the spare choc buttercream out the freezer to sandwich them together, might improve them.

Billie-jo

Tea tonight was chicken thighs, noodles & salad.

OUT of freezer -
Chicken thighs

OUT of store cupboards -
Noodles

IN
Nothing

Not the nicest looking meal but tasted good.

Jelly_Biactol

Welsh_Poppy wrote: »

Jelly the prices in your Asian market is fab ours does not come near those prices!!

There's two or three within a couple of hundred yards of each other, so lots of competition and choice:)
I've just had another look at some of the other products in the shop's special offers flyer - 1kg Palestinian medjoul dates for £6.79, 1kg chilli powder £1.99 (how long would it take to get through a kilo of chilli powder?!?), 20kg rice £19.99, 25kg chapati flour £11.99 ... there's all sorts of stuff.

Kirri wrote: »

Has coconut milk gone up in price lately? Been a while since I bought any but got a naan recipe I need it for and it seems very expensive now?

2 x 330g for £1 for me, how does that compare to usual price? (I don't usually buy it.)

Billie-jo

Kirri wrote: »

Welcome Billie-jo - you'll have to post that huge list on here!!

Are you really ready for this. Here goes you did ask -

INSIDE FREEER
1 x Tub mashed potato
½ Pack small sausage rolls
Small tub tomato puree
1 x tub stew
1 x tub mushroom soup
1 x tub leek & potato soup/chicken stock (not sure which till defrosted)
Small box of chillies
Breadcrumbs
1 x Tub cooked rice
Tub of chopped parsley
2 x Pork sausages
1 x Chicken stock
½ x Bag French fries
1 x Ham hock

DRAW 1 -
60 x Small vol au vent cases
10 x pitta breads
1 x Beef joint
1 x Turkey Roll with bacon
1 x small pork joint
1 x 4 slices pork steaks
Few sprouts
¼ Garlic bread
1 x Mushroom soup
1 x Pepper & tomato soup

DRAW 2 -
1 x Egg fried rice
1 x Mushroom soup
1 x Beef & Ale with dumplings
1 x Beef stock
Small Box chillies
portion diced swede
2 x 2 portions Turkey steaks
1 x Belly pork
1 x tub cooked ham (quiche)
1 x Pork ribs
4 x Oat cakes
1 x Beef stew
1 x Lamb chops
2 x Cooked ham

BOTTOM-
2 x Meat & potato pie filling no pastry
1 x Tub Packs Minced beef oxtail stew
1 x Stock
36 Vol au vents
1 dish mashed potato
¼ Bag of Sweet corn (halves)

OUTSIDE FREEZER -
2 x Turkey joints
6 x Sausage meat
1 x Pack braising steak
2 x Minced Pork
8 x Bread rolls
1 x bag Breaded garlic mushrooms
1 x Large beef joint
1 x Pork ribs
1/4 pack Roast potatoes in goose fat
1 x Home made sausage rolls
3 x Nan breads
1 x Stew Oxtail?

DRAW 1
Sliced cooked pork
2 x Minced beef
1 x Lamb shank
2 x Minted lamb Henrys
1 x Meat & Potato pie
1 x Topside
1 x Garlic bread
¾ Bag Broad beans
1/4 Bag Peas
1 x Lamb shank
1 x Belly pork
1 x Small Beef joint
1 x large bag mixed chillies
Sheesh kebab mix

DRAW 2
1 x Pack blueberries
6 x Mince pies
2 x packs Puff pastry
1 x 60 Vol au vents
17 x 6 pkts Pancake wraps
1 x cooked mince without top
1 x Belly Pork
2 x Piri piri chicken

DRAWER 3
6 X Tubs stewed apples

Any one still awake yet - YES! ok I will carry on

　
KITCHEN DRAWERS
1 x Lasagne sheets
5 x Milk powder
5 x Pasta n sauce
8 x Egg fried rice
2 x Pilau rice
2 x Chicken savoury rice
1 x Sage & onion stuffing
1 x onion bits for bread
1 x Pizza base
1 x Milk chocolate chips
½ x white chocolate chips
¼ Bag sultanas
¾ Bag Walnuts
1/4 Bag Brazil nuts
1 x chicken noodle soup
¼ Bag aribo rice
4 x Chicken noodles
1 x BBQ noodles

BOTTOM
1 x Kg penne pasta
2 x Sage & onion stuffing
2 x Chinese noodles
¼ x Lasagne sheets
6 x Chicken noodles
1 x Pudding rice
2 x Bags desiccated coconut
¾ x Bag Ready to eat apricots
1 x Batter mix
1¼ x Boxes Dried mushroom
1 x Bag Cassarecce pasta
1 x Bag small conghigliette pasta (soup)
2 x boxes Prawn crackers

STORAGE RACKS
9 X Jellies
1 x Brown sugar marinade
5 x Pepper sauce
3 x Bread sauce
1 x Curry sauce
1 x Aloo chop seasoning (potato cakes)
1 x Chilli con carne mix
1 x Lamb hotpot mix
1 x Beef bourginnone mix
1 x white sauce mix
1 x Chicken casserole mix
1 x Piri piri mix
1 x Chicken & leek bake mix

　
BOTTOM CUPBOARD IN KITCHEN
3 x Tinned toms
1 x Mushy peas
1 x Beans
2 x tuna
1 x crab
1 x red salmon Large
4 x Passata
1 x Hot dogs
2 x Red kidney beans
1 x sweet corn large
1 x sweet corn small
2 x Tomato puree small tins
1 x coconut milk
1 x Ham large
1 x Jar Drinking chocolate
1 x sponge pudding large
2 x Mayflower curry mix
1 x xmas pud large
1 x chocolate bombe
9 x Christmas pud small
1 x semolina box
4 x chicken cup a soups
¾ jar mincemeat
1x jar sweet corn & rocket graitina

TINNED
6 x Strawberries
8 x peaches
3 x pears
2 x grapefruit
4 x oranges
12 x pineapple
11 x fruit cocktail
1 x rice pud
5 x cond milk
1 x evap milk semi skimmed
1 x golden syrup
2 x black treacle
1 x custard powder

Plus various herbs & spices
Flour - white - Bread/plain & SR & wholemeal bread
Tea/coffee/drinking chocolate
Sugar (not a lot):rotfl:
Tempura batter mix
Sauces - red/brown/soy/mint/Worcestershire/oyster/black bean/sweet chilli
Mustard
Black & white pepper
Vinegar - malt/brown/rice
Shaoshing rice wine
Rice easy cook & basmati
Marmite
Castor sugar
Pearl Barley
Pudding rice
Fish sauce
Thai red curry paste
Pasta
Stock cubes - beef/chicken/pork/fish/vegetable
Jam
Baking powder
Bicarbonate of soda
Tomato puree
Mushroom Ketchup
Suet
Mayo/salad cream
Green Jalapeno sauce
Chilli bean sauce
Crackers
Yeast
Bread mixes

Plus a few other items and then this does NOT include the food that is upstairs which has been stocked up with when its been on a really good offer and which I pay myself back for when I use it.

Also we have some fresh stuff in the fridge but seen as its shopping day tomorrow not a lot!

OMG I am now soooo embarrassed I can say however that the reason we have all this food in is because we now have almost everything made from scratch. But I refuse to waste it and will use it even if its only a couple of things per week. Plus DH has now lost over 10 stone so no longer eats as much.
Dare I also mention that we have some meat and frozen berries in mum's freezer because we cant fit anything else in however have just phoned daughter and told her she can have what she wants from it.

Kirri

OMG ^^ :eek: that has to be the biggest ever list I've seen on this thread, I can't believe you have a shopping day tomorrow, you need to ban yourself from going :rotfl: I dread to think how much you have stored upstairs that's not on the list!!

Do you have a thing for vol au vents too?!


JB - 1 tin (org) on Ocado was £1.70 iirc but I don't think the non org was much/any cheaper.

Vegan choc sandwich biscuits made and partly eaten, not as good as with butter tastewise and didn't hold together as well, but I did finish up a half used pot of vegan marge out the fridge (I have another in already) - used up the leftover choc buttercream from the freezer, was quite handy I didn't have to make that and finished off a packet of SR flour (I have another half used though).

rozmister

Oh my god Billie-Joe you make me feel so much better I'm not the only food hoarder!!

In to the freezer: NOTHING
Out of the freezer: 2 x Jubbly lollies (our flat is too hot again)

I did go to Aldi today and spent £9.84 which bought - 1 small tart (which I ate as soon as I got in - not great), 2 x chestnut mushrooms, red onions, cherries, nectarines, courgettes, vine tomatoes, 2 x tapas dishes, 2 x butternut squash. Stuck to my fresh food only rule and tried to buy things that were cheap. I want a lettuce too but I thought I'd wait and see what's super six tomorrow before I committed :P