I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

ms_night_ryder

How do I know if the pears are ripe? In my mind conference pears are always hard! Didn't want to pick the ones that had fallen on the ground, there were quite a few drunken wasps, but I did see a stranger eating from the tree, so I assumed they were ripe.

Had soup for yesterday lunch, 2fish fillets for dinner, same again today.

Billie-jo

forgot to up date for a day or two.
OUT - 2 pork chops. Lamb shank. Mince beef
IN - Have just picked a tub full of black berries so they have gone in.
From the cupboards I have used a tub of gravy granules, some tea bags and some tomato soup.

zafiro1984

Kirri wrote: »

You bought 30kg of apples ^

Yep direct from the growers, fabulous bramleys, less than half price what it would have cost in the SM.
Already have frozen more than half in slices, they will do for cooking during the year, crumbles etc, also made 'freezer mincemeat', I use it in bread and butter pudding as well as normal things. I'm just making mint jelly with some - at the stage of having to let it drip through a jelly bag, MrZ likes it on new potatoes as well as lamb. I like it on toast!!! Not sure, but I may make a small amount of chutney as I'm the only one here who likes it.

Oh yes; the peel and cores go to the alpacas or horses - the hens are not too fond of them. so nothing gets wasted.

zafiro1984

ms_night_ryder wrote: »

How do I know if the pears are ripe? In my mind conference pears are always hard! Didn't want to pick the ones that had fallen on the ground, there were quite a few drunken wasps, but I did see a stranger eating from the tree, so I assumed they were ripe.

I am pretty sure you are supposed to pick pears from the tree as they bruise very easily if they fall. Somewhere I have read you are supposed to also ripen them off the tree. The only pear tree I have had experience of was a cooking variety which never ripened enough to eat fresh, however they cooked very well (red wine, sugar and cinnamon - can be frozen) they also made a very good chutney. Hope this helps

downshifted

Please may I join in? I have started the grocery challenge for September and I am posting on the what are you haveing for dinner tonight thread - and I have finally itemised my freezer contents and need to use up quite a few things in it! After having taken out food for today and Monday (eating out tomorrow) I have the following in stock, and I plan to print it out and stick it to the freezer (famous last words) There are quite a few things that have been there a long time and I mean to use them up over the next week or ten days. Honest.

13 x 1lb plums, 1 x fish fillet pack, 2 x small plum crumbles, pack blueberries x 3, med pork shoulder joint. cakes x 3. beetroot, FR chicken, soups x 4, peas, gammon joint, veg casserole x 2, sweetcorn, 3 x 2 pork chops, mince x 2, spinach, small pork leg joint, chicken stock x 2, broccoli and cauli mix, small lamb shoulder joint, biscuit roll x 1, sirloin steak for 2, garlic and cori nan, 6 pigeon breasts, butter x 1, rump steak for 2, beef casserole x 1, chicken breast steaks for 4, cooked gammon pack,
400g diced stew steak x 3, beef mince x 3, lamb mince x 1, piece chorizo, sausages x 4 packs, burgers x 4

Kirri

Welcome to the thread downshifted :wave: That's a lot to use in a week! Don't worry though, some of us have been here for 2 years..

Zafiro, you've done well to process half of that already, I could never imagine getting through half of that in a year!

MNR, on Gardener's World last night they were talking about apples saying the ones that fall off first are usually insect infested.. so yeah I'd go with the ones on the tree! Was the random person in your garden eating them?? Bit cheeky if so..

Finally finished cleaning the kitchen..
Missed quite a few meals doing so..

Dinner was cheap tonight, washed a big bowl full of salad leaves and radishes from the allotment, griddled some courgettes and cherry tomatoes and topped off with olive oil, salt and pepper - so all mostly free. Had a toasted cheese sandwich with it, free cheese and hm bread so couple of slices probably cost about 5p?

May make the basil pesto tonight before the leaves go brown..
Out of bread now so need to make some tomorrow.

downshifted

"Welcome to the thread downshifted :wave: That's a lot to use in a week! Don't worry though, some of us have been here for 2 years.. "

Thank you :-) It's only the older stuff I am keen to use up - especially all the already prepared things. We have builders in next week, so the cakes and biscuits will disappear quickly. And all the cooked stews and casseroles will save me doing much cooking next week - they have been in there quite a while.

Tonight I have already put in 3 x plums stewed in Austins, to have on yogurt or with meringues, and 2 x roasted plums for pies - it's more a question of some sensible rotation - all those soups and boxes of stock have got to go!!

Edwardia

Had a Holland & Barrett delivery today, taking advantage of the BOGOHP + double points and free delivery over £20 order to stock up on organic soft drinks and nuts for Christmas plus a few bits and pieces for OH's lunches eg organic baked beans, organic noodles, organic brazil nuts, organic walnuts, organic fruit jellies. Larder is looking fuller than usual.

Cut down the mint and tomorrow I will be washing, spin-drying (salad spinner) and chopping mint to go in ice cube bags in the freezer.

Freezer movement OUT
Tesco New Zealand lamb chops (grass pastured GM free) (3 packs for £10 at the moment) but not as good as the Lidl ones.

OH starts new job in two weeks time and I hope in meantime he will use up cheeses with Branston, piccalilli etc at work and remove bread and rolls from freezer

Kirri

^ I've just had my salad spinner out - washed the basil, left it to soak, washed it again, spun it - checked each leaf as I put it in the processor - then found a snail at the bottom of the salad spinner, poor thing! Put it out the window, 3rd one today..

Just turned it into basil pesto and frozen it in an ice cube tray.

^ Was thinking of doing mint too this week for the freezer - then probably sage, bay, thyme, oregano as dried. I should have done it a few months ago though when the herbs were at their best..

ms_night_ryder

Kirri yes ,some random person, not sure what they were doing aside from eating my rent money! I asked him what he was doing and to leave, he said it's only a tree.so I said well go and do that yo your own tree!, trouble is, because there is a car park in the garden, the gate is never locked. Peoples cars have been broken into but they don't learn, I don't have a car so don't care.

I will have soup for lunch. I have taken out some ribs. Waitrose mash and a pot of macaroni all from the freezer, will use the last of broccoli and corn for dinner.