I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

quintwins

lol i saw those and i'm sooooo tempted, i've managed to talk oh out of beer batter for now, were gonna fillet and freeze most of it as it is and make batter when we need it, i always have some breakcrumbs in the freezer so i can bread some for the kids i suppose, or invest in a bag of fishfingers

tomorrows tea is going to be fish lol and possibly wedges i haven't really decided lol all i know is were having fish lol

NKLK

I think I'll do a fish Pie now with all your fishy talk lol!
Running out of veg. Market day!!!

quintwins

lol sorry, oh doesn't like fish pie so it's reserved for lunchs when he's working lol

mcallister1

I've been lurking here and inspired by your efforts have run my big freezer- previously half full of reduced items- down to some quorn pieces, which I will use over the net few weeks while bulk cooking, and a pack of sausage meat. Luckily in my small freezer there is some short crust pastry, so I am setting my ds the task of making sausage rolls while he is off school tomorrow.
Now the cupboards remain a problem, mainly because I used to bake a lot but have been on Weight watchers for a while and just can't use up all the ingredients. Likewise the bread mixes and bread maker stuff. I need some self control...so I don't have to eat freshly made bread just because it smells so good.
Anyway, thanks so much for all your stories.

Lip_Stick

Dug out some seafood mix from the freezer and made a gorgeous paella last night with some long grain rice, saffron, garlic, pepper, cayanne pepper, paprika, peas and red onion. Used some peppers that I chopped up and froze before I went on holiday. I'll have to do that more often with peppers.

I spotted slices of red pepper in the frozen food section in Asda the other week. I'm wondering how good value they are when compared to fresh, since fresh are so expensive nowadays. Anyone tried them?

I have been buying fresh bread from Lidl. Their half baguettes are half price so are 19p each at the mo. One of these was enough for me and ds. I do have a breadmaker which an ex left, which I reallyyyyyyyyyy need to learn how to use lol.

NKLK

Why are peppers so expensive!??!! I love then (orange ones are my fave) but for the price of One I can buy a whole bag of stirfry pre packaged. I might get some frozen and see what it's like next time I head to the shops. No Market for me today, been dumped with my niece and I cannot cope with pushing two kids and carrying one and Market shopping!! Probably for the best. Send the oh to morrisons on the way home.
I broke my stoneware dish so I'll be making a fish pie slop tonight instead of a lovely looking one. Argh.

Lunch is going to be pizza for the kids and if I'm hungry a mugshot for me. Feeling pretty lazy and like im
Stuffing myself. Daren't get on the scales!

Lip_Stick

Naffito wrote: »

Why are peppers so expensive!??!! I love then (orange ones are my fave) but for the price of One I can buy a whole bag of stirfry pre packaged. I might get some frozen and see what it's like next time I head to the shops. No Market for me today, been dumped with my niece and I cannot cope with pushing two kids and carrying one and Market shopping!! Probably for the best. Send the oh to morrisons on the way home.
I broke my stoneware dish so I'll be making a fish pie slop tonight instead of a lovely looking one. Argh.

Lunch is going to be pizza for the kids and if I'm hungry a mugshot for me. Feeling pretty lazy and like im
Stuffing myself. Daren't get on the scales!

No idea why they are so expensive. They should genetically modify how they are grown so there's big bunches of them.

MMMM fish pie slop still sounds nice lol. Used to love my mums fish pie. Think I'm just having soup for dinner as I've no bread... perhaps today is a good day to start on the breadmaking.

cheerfulness4

Well my meal plans went haywire over the last day or two. Didn't get my stewed steak and onions, so thats tonight now, and didn't bother making the pizza for when SIL came down. Poorly knee meant that I opted for easy - sausage sarnies (to use odd ones in two bags). Trouble was NO BREAD! :eek:

Sooo, in the end some had toasted plain muffin sarnies, some cheese muffin sarnies and I had cheese scone sarnies. (actually latter not so great) BUT not a penny spent. :dance:

Then for tea, sausages, beans, eggs (yes I know MORE sausages ) followed up by blackberry (from freezer) and apple (lurking in fruit bowl) crumble with ice cream (bottom of freezer been hiding ) for supper.

Not my healthiest days menu and only achieved by whizzing round on the laminate on my computer chair to do the preparing, but we were all happy and fed and no one complained.

Today I will do better!

Love reading how you're all working the meals out from the reduced, Home grown or OH caught foods in your stores. Such imaginative ideas. :T

Florenceem

mcallister1 wrote: »

I've been lurking here and inspired by your efforts have run my big freezer- previously half full of reduced items- down to some quorn pieces, which I will use over the net few weeks while bulk cooking, and a pack of sausage meat. Luckily in my small freezer there is some short crust pastry, so I am setting my ds the task of making sausage rolls while he is off school tomorrow.
Now the cupboards remain a problem, mainly because I used to bake a lot but have been on Weight watchers for a while and just can't use up all the ingredients. Likewise the bread mixes and bread maker stuff. I need some self control...so I don't have to eat freshly made bread just because it smells so good.
Anyway, thanks so much for all your stories.

Hi, I bake my own bread, then slice and freeze most of it. I have slimmed my hubby down from 23 stone(he was 27 stone at his peak) to 14 stone. He has been 14 stone now for over a year.....I want to get another 7 lbs off him.

Florenceem

Read the ingredients list in those baguettes......should encourage you to learn how the bread maker works. So many nasty chemicals/additives in shop bought bread.