I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Kirri

I love this thread, just glad to know I'm not the only one having random meals every day It's making me realise just how little food I should buy when all this stock has gone as I really don't get through an awful lot each week.

Today I had egg on toast (eggs free from a friend, bread home made)

Lunch - left over NYE veggie sausage rolls and salad (part from the allotment)

Dinner - rest of the mini cheddars (my mum gave me a box), rest of the crisps from NYE, some cheese and a few nuts..

I'm feeling it's all a bit stodgy though...

Tomorrow:

Either remainder of the cereal or another (free) egg on toast or I have the exciting option of the rest of the soya milk and some slightly out of date protein powder with some frozen strawberries from the allotment..

Lunch probably remainder of the crispbread and cheese

Dinner - definitely cauliflower cheese before the cauli goes off

quintwins

the bottom on my freezers icy (and has random peas and prawns) so i'll be filling mine up with milk bottles instead of more food, i told hubby we needed to run it all down then we'd get a big chinese or a nice meal out, what i didn't tell him is it could be months lol. I need toilet roll, milk,onions and gravy so i'm off to lidl before i collect the kids from school.

today breakfast was jam baps rescued from the freezer ds is munching on fruit salad also recued from the freezer and i'm gonna have a bacon sandwich befor i put whats left of the bacon in the freezer, ds can have a cheese bap for lunch and i'll have lo hm mince pie (it was yummy nicest pastry i've made) dinner is cocktail sausages and chips for the kids, and gammon, chips and egg for the big people


i only have 3 tins of beans :eek: i'm gonna order some off amazon next week

Lynsey

Pretty pleased on achieving a NSD yesterday, but still bugging me at what bargains I may have missed. Positive is I controlled NOT going in a shop even to look.
Toasted teacakes for breakfast, fishcakes and peas for lunch and possibly a stir fry later, got some peppers to use up.
Probably pop out later and pick up some veg and may check Sainsburys late on for any bargains, but only interested in vastly reduced meat or fruit and veg. I'm thinking of hitting Morries late one night, possibly Saturday to get some reduced pies - sometimes these are silly prices (nice to have in freezer). Nothing wanted in Lidl this weekend, so very frugal week.
I've got £20 Nectar points on one card and almost £5 on another (I'm building that one up to £5), so free food in the future - unless I pick up some cheap clothes in the sale!!

Lynsey

recovering_spendaholic

I havent been on this thread much over christmas but have just realised that my freezer fridge and cupboards are all full to bursting after Christmas. I have got loads and loads of stuff to use up so am going to do a full inventory later on.

I got a breadmaker at the beginning of December and have been making my own bread, but that means that as it goes stale quickly I have got loads of breadcrumbs in bags in the freezer!

Breakfast today was toast and philadelphia. Made a kids packed lunch with hm sandwich filler (chopped l/o chicken, bacon, celery, spring onion, sweetcorn and mayo) and i will have the last of the sweetcorn made into chicken and sweetcorn soup.

Dinner tonight is l/o curry and rice for younger daughter and hot turkey and stuffing baguettes for older daughter and me, using defrosted turkey (frozen after Christmas dinner).

I have got to do a meal plan today as otherwise I just won't use up everything!

Kirri

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

I got a breadmaker at the beginning of December and have been making my own bread, but that means that as it goes stale quickly I have got loads of breadcrumbs in bags in the freezer!

If you use the breadmaker just for the dough stage, take it out, knead it briefly, hand shape it into 2 x 1lb loaves (or rolls), let it rise again then finish in the oven, then you can stick 1 loaf straight in the freezer when cooked Also seems nicer if cooked in the oven. I waste a lot less now I do this and once you are in a routine/used to it it doesn't seem to take any longer than letting the breadmaker do the whole lot.

Lynsey

Welcome back Jane, laughing at your "December Challenge".
Chicken and sweetcorn soup sounds nice, maybe turkey and sweetcorn soup also (got a little turkey breast in freezer).
I think I'll try your breadmaking tips Kirri, thanks.

Lynsey

Kirri

Lynsey, I also do it with a tea cake recipe but instead make it into 2 small fruit type loaves. 500g of flour makes 2 x 1lb loaves taking 25 mins in the oven.

So far today, I've had cereal for breakfast - not buying cereal again once used, will stick to home made bread for breakfast in future.

Lunch is crisps (from when I was buying them for work), pickled onions (somehow I ended up with 3 jars in the cupboard!), cheese and the last two of the home made oatcakes - feels good to get another box out of my crockery cupboard! My aim is to have one food cupboard in future and not keep squirreling food away meaning I can't get the crockery in!

Lynsey

NSD so far................been waiting in all day for a parcel to be collected!!
I'll not get to Aldi today, maybe tomorrow, but will pop into Sainsbury's around 7.45pm - hopefully something nice.............for almost nothing. If not, then two NSD's in a row.

Lynsey

bramble1

another NSD for me today!! I'm so pleased

Pup has some l/o ham and sausages to keep him going till tomorrow. He seems quite happy with this arrangement, as he's still got a little dry food left too.

OH went out so just my dinner to sort out, had a jacket potato with cheese (last little bit that needed using up) will save OH some sausages for tomorrow and we'll do jacket potatoes again.

Finished a whoopsied WW loaf this morning for breakfast. So tomorrow will have some scotch pancakes (healthy ones) with jam for a change, lunch is new potato salad with some l/o new pots i cooked the other night.

Going to lidl tomorrow night and will stop in sainsburys on the way home to see if there are any bargains to be had.

Kirri

Finally did the cauliflower cheese tonight, finished up 1 pack of cheese (still got 5 left!). Got half the cauli in the fridge for tomorrow - I used the stalk too, not sure why I never did before as it tastes all the same once cooked! Had it with hm bread.