I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Kirri

Spicy meatballs with pasta?

Butterfli

Lip_Stick wrote: »

Anyone got any ideas what I could make with the sausage meat? Apart from stuffing lol.

What about making Scotch Eggs if you have any eggs you need using up?
Just hard boil the eggs, peel and wrap them in flattened out sausage meat and then roll them in breadcrumbs or even crunched up cornflakes. Lovely fried or oven baked, serve hot or cold with salad/potatoes/pasta or anything else that needs using up.

I'll put my thinking cap on for some alternatives.

recovering_spendaholic

As the kids are still moaning on about us having no food in I did an inventory last night and this is what we have:

Freezer(s)

2 tubs of hm chilli (about 5 portions total)
1 giant free range chicken
1kg stewing steak
1 whole pork fillet
2 lots of chicken kebabs
a full side of smoked salmon
2 packs meatballs
2 packs of lambs liver
500g haddock fillet
200g piece of smoked haddock
1 cornish pastie
pack of chicken tikka mini fillets
frozen roast pork (3 portions) x 2
frozen roast turkey (3 portions) x 2
stuffing (4 portions about)
hm veg soup (1 portions)
large pack of chicken thigh fillets
pack of chicken nuggets
2 quiches
pack of sausage rolls
a McCains toastie thing
pack of stir fry veg
pack of AB roasties
pack of peppers
pack of green beans
pack of peas
fish in butter sauce
pack of breaded fish
1 lamb grillsteak
ww Hotpot
lots of packs of breadcrumbs (hm)AB apple pie
large hm blackberry crumble
pack of Ocado chicken breasts
large bag of prawns
bag of chopped onions
Bag of chopped carrot, celery and onion

Cupboards

2kg basmati rice
1kg brown basmati rice
boil in the bag rice (4)
Batchelors savoury rice (4)
Batchelors pasta and sauce (2)
Cous Cous
spaghetti
fussili
penne
pearl barley
lentils
split green peas
split yellow peas
3 packs of stuffing mix
1 pack instant noodles
1 pack of egg noodles
loads of sugar free jelly
loads of blancmange
loads of flour
loads of bread flour
cornflour
dried milk
squash
cornflakes
10 tins beans
13 tins tuna
1 tin red salmon
doritos dip
1 tins of tomatoes
2 jars of pasta sauce
2 jars pasata
200 (really) chicken stock cubes (bought from Approved foods - case)
lemon curd
jam
marmalade
honey
golden syrup
7 Christmas cake mix packs
4 christmas cake decorating kit packs
6 tins of various soups
kidney beans
mixed beans
pesto
sauces salt etc
herbs etc
cup a soups (loads)
coffee (loads)
hot chocolate
marshmallows
kendal mint cake (why? what for??)
baking stuff (flavourings colourings decorating stuff)
hm plum compote
hm chilli relish
various apple sauce, mint sauce etc
several christmas puddings

Fridge

1 Red cabbage
iceberg lettuce
tomatoes
potatoes
onions
jar of red peppers
corned beef
ham
chicken
hm naan breads
creme fraiche
milk
potatoes au gratin (Aldi)
mini new potatoes with herbs (aldi)
double gloucester cheese
red leicester cheese
cheddar cheese
eggs
grated cheese
tomato puree
crusha milkshake mix
olives

As you can see we indeed do have "no food"!!!

Tea tonight is defrosted chicken breasts with hm wedges and salad, with apple pie or crumble for afters

lunch today was a bit of the home cooked ham from the fridge, fried with an egg and a slice of hm bread (kids had butties for packed lunches).

A while ago I made some muffins and froze them individually for lunches and I used the last one today - so I think I will make some more as DD2 liked them but DD1 said they were "rank"....

Have just done my finances:eek: for the next few months - still no fees through today!

BTW Lynsey - sausages make nice meatballs!! I did a pasta bake over christmas using sausagemeat balls and it was nice!

Kirri

^ I feel a bit better seeing other lists as long as mine

canspendnomore

Kirri wrote: »

^ I feel a bit better seeing other lists as long as mine

I think I can make you all feel a whole lot better without leaving my puter!

Off the top of my head I know I have 50 tins of chopped tomatoes, 12 tins of berlotti beans, 12 tins of cannelloni beans, about 15 tins of chick peas, 36 tins of processed peas and about 8 kgs of red lentils.

I also have an Amercian Fridge Freezer full to bursting, and a 10 cubic foot chest freezer that I can't get anything else in.

I'm considering buying an upright freezer to help me organise my stash, especially now I've found the coupon thread!

I probably do need help as there's only me, DH and a four year old.

Maybe I should do a proper list though I did a rough meal plan and could think of ab out 30 meals, that's proper meals, not silly made up ones!

I got free Phili cheese today, so now I have that too.

Kirri

canspendnomore wrote: »

I think I can make you all feel a whole lot better without leaving my puter!

Off the top of my head I know I have 50 tins of chopped tomatoes, 12 tins of berlotti beans, 12 tins of cannelloni beans, about 15 tins of chick peas, 36 tins of processed peas and about 8 kgs of red lentils.

I also have an Amercian Fridge Freezer full to bursting, and a 10 cubic foot chest freezer that I can't get anything else in.

I'm considering buying an upright freezer to help me organise my stash, especially now I've found the coupon thread!

I probably do need help as there's only me, DH and a four year old.

Maybe I should do a proper list though I did a rough meal plan and could think of ab out 30 meals, that's proper meals, not silly made up ones!

I got free Phili cheese today, so now I have that too.

OMG :eek: I'd never cope if I had that much food!! Do you live in the middle of nowhere so like to stock up or just like a bargain??

quintwins

the problem with having lost of food is what you do if your freezer breaks lol i would honestly cry

tracey12_2

Lip_Stick wrote: »

Anyone got any ideas what I could make with the sausage meat? Apart from stuffing lol.

There are 2 recipes which caught my eye on January grocery challenge for sausagemeat plait and sausagemeat patties. I haven't tried them but they sound nice.

HTH

Tracey

canspendnomore

Kirri wrote: »

OMG :eek: I'd never cope if I had that much food!! Do you live in the middle of nowhere so like to stock up or just like a bargain??

No I don't live in the middle of no-where, a very small town just outside Leicester. Got a couple of supermarkets, but I do begrudge paying massive prices. The tomatoes are usually reduced to 20-25p per tin at Diwali time so I buy a year's worth.

They are not kept indoors mind you, I have an outside utility room with some shelving in, so it's actually more organised if you have more of one thing.

It is nice, though because I was ill with a virus just before Christmas and I really didn't need to go out for food and we ate proper food.

I find it very difficult though to organise my chest freezer, how does anyone else organise them (or maybe you don't and that's why you're all here!)

Julimk

Hello and help!

It’s only me & 12 yo DD, so I think I have enough in for about six months. I’ve always picked up the RTC, but a couple of months ago we got a new Morrie’s & I don’t think they have optimised their stock orders yet, as lots heavily reduced as early as 6pm when I am passing anyway two days a week.

In my (two) freezers, I have:

1.94kg pork sausages
0.7kg Cumberland sausages
0.45kg Lincolnshire sausages
0.54kg cocktail sausages
1.13kg sausagemeat
1.72kg bacon
2.13kg ham
0.36kg corned beef

1.91kg chicken breasts
0.4kg duck breasts
0.28kg turkey breasts

0.27kg sandwich steak
0.32kg think cut steak
0.36kg rump steak
0.37kg stewing steak

1.67kg pork loin

1.7kg beef mince
2.3kg lamb mince
2.7kg pork mince

0.64kg fish pie mix
0.93kg haddock
1.96kg cod
0.84kg coley
0.9kg tuna steaks
1.1kg trout
1.36kg smoked haddock
1.22kg smoked cod
0.57kg smoked mackerel
1kg peppered mackerel
0.73kg smoked salmon
0.82kg salmon
0.25kg tandoori salmon
0.15kg lemon sole
0.13kg plaice
0.29kg kipper
2 tilapia fillets
4 sea bass fillets

Plus 23 HM meal portions, a fish pie, 4 breaded chicken fillets, 6 fishcakes, 3 fish in parsley sauce, 2 battered haddock, 4 gammon steaks, beefburgers, beef quarterpounders, veggie quarter pounders, quorn pieces & mince, 3 large pizzas, 2 small pizzas, various frozen veg & a few other bits & bobs.

This is just a freezer with a fridge freezer & an under counter one, so goodness knows how I got that lot in there … definitely a case of push it in, slam the door & hope!:eek: It’s all logged & maintained on a spreadsheet, so I always know exactly what is in.

In the cupboards there are 178 cans of food, including 25 of baked beans, 21 of tuna & 26 of tomatoes … and of course masses of pasta, cous cous, polenta, rice etc. & numerous herbs, spices, oils, vinegars etc. Bit overwhelming & don't know where to start!!