I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

viv0147

After reading about freezing jacket potatoes in the forum I gave it a try and it was a great success this is what I did I put 6 baking potatoes on a tray I wiped them with olive oil and sprinkled with sea salt and pepper put them in a pre-heated oven @ 190 degrees for 90 minutes when cooled I placed them in the freezer and crossed my fingers.
Last night I tried one I put it in the microwave for 3 minutes then cut it in half then put cheese on both halves and then back in the microwave for 1 minute and it was wonderful so from now on this is what I will do rather than end up throwing them away because they have gone to seed.

recovering_spendaholic

Years ago my Mum used to put a piece of brisket in to slow cook with a package of onion soup mix, an oxo and water and it was always lovely!! She also used to cook steak and kidney in oxtail soup which was okay too.

Eaten toast and more toast today!! Had a bit of leftover pasta bake for lunch but it wasn't very nice (had gone all dry) so I had toast as well!! Have a HUGE chicken that I got half price in Tescos before Christmas and froze for tea with hm sausagement sage and onion stuffing, carrots, frozen sprouts (Aunt bessies - the ones with bacon I think), frozen roasties (the AB duck fat ones). I have now used up all of my sausges and sausagemeat out of the freezer! I bought a huge carton of ice cream in lidl yesterday so that is now taking up room in the freezer!!

DD2 is out at a concert so she will probably have a sandwich of the chicken and stuffing when she gets in. I have a loaf in the Breadmaker at the moment. I have found that it is better to pay a little bit more for flour - I had been using Tescos at 65p, but the other day I couldn't get any and bought Carr's at £1.20 and the difference in the bread was marked. I am not sure why but it was certainly noticeable.

NSD today!!!! Was going to go and look for whoopsies but it is too cold and I don't really NEED them!! STill debating about he slow cooker!!!!

bramble1

Went to waitrose and spent £11! Got bread, cheesecake, and bits for the week ahead. Think I will be over budget for January somehow...

Lynsey

NSD today and wouldn't mind another NSD tomorrow, but getting short on veg.
Easy day tomorrow, back to porridge for breakfast and thinking pizza for lunch or tea.
Took 3 sausages (beef and horseradish) out for hubby to try tomorrow, see how hot they are.
Fishcakes one day this week sometime, homemade and I'm having one of those beef joints possibly Wednesday which will also do Thursday, or wait until Saturday. Get a little space in freezer for next weekend, just in case something nice comes along.

Lynsey

Kirri

Breakfast - hm bread toasted & cheese

Late lunch - hm pizza base made in the breadmaker, used up pesto and chilli from freezer, mozzarella bought in Asda the other day and some of the tomatoes bought for the pets. Got enough left for 2 more meals!!

Not sure yet if I will eat later, probably not.

Re-doing my meal plans, just small list of suggested breakfasts and lunches rather than anything set, as I'll be making bean dips mainly to snack on. Will keep my evening meal plans but they are not for set days, just to see how much food I have, which is still around 90 days worth!!

VfM4meplse

Well I stuck to my plan not to go to the supermarket until yesterday, but went to my fruit stall on Friday and bought 2 pineapples, 2lb of plums and 5 large oranges for £3.40 on Friday. I also bought a loaf of granary bread yesterday and made a sanwich using a tub of hummus bought for me, and some tinned sweetcorn from the storecupboard. So far, so MSE.

I went to Sainsbos today, intending to get just milk so I could concentrate on getting both my cereal supply and freezer down this week, but came out having spent over £20 on just me for the week!:eek:For that I got 8 pints of milk, a block of butter, 2*450ml tubs of Yeo Valley yoghurt, a small bunch of grapes, 6 kiwis, 4 medium sized Golden Delicious apples to top up my fruit bowl, 3 individual pizza slices reduced to 34p each (they went straight in the freezer as I have no idea as yet when they will be eaten) and a 70cl bottle of Giordon's Sloe Gin. Yes an extravagance, but it was £12 on offer, and I remember thinking at Christmas that I was not prepared to pay the £17+ for it.

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

Eaten toast and more toast today!!

Me too, since I've bought the butter!

vintage43

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Well I stuck to my plan not to go to the supermarket until yesterday, but went to my fruit stall on Friday and bought 2 pineapples, 2lb of plums and 5 large oranges for £3.40 on Friday. I also bought a loaf of granary bread yesterday and made a sanwich using a tub of hummus bought for me, and some tinned sweetcorn from the storecupboard. So far, so MSE.

I went to Sainsbos today, intending to get just milk so I could concentrate on getting both my cereal supply and freezer down this week, but came out having spent over £20 on just me for the week!:eek:For that I got 8 pints of milk, a block of butter, 2*450ml tubs of Yeo Valley yoghurt, a small bunch of grapes, 6 kiwis, 4 medium sized Golden Delicious apples to top up my fruit bowl, 3 individual pizza slices reduced to 34p each (they went straight in the freezer as I have no idea as yet when they will be eaten) and a 70cl bottle of Giordon's Sloe Gin. Yes an extravagance, but it was £12 on offer, and I remember thinking at Christmas that I was not prepared to pay the £17+ for it.

Me too, since I've bought the butter!

MMMM sloe Gin, lovely! It's so easy to overspend when you go to the supermarket, you got some nice healthy stuff though!:)

ms_night_ryder

No nsd for me today, got some plain yogurt, some grapes and a couple multi packs of crisps.

Didnt cook a sunday dinner, but did do the steak bakes and the stewed fruit all in the slow cooke, so happy stewed fruit is really nice cant ait to have it with some plain yogurt tomorrow, hopefully a nsd. had some chilli for dinner with cheese and some crisps to dip into was yum, chilli is so good, dunno if it was the chocolate or the quality of beef, but cant wait to make it again, gonna add a can of pinto beans from glitch into it next time.

TylersMummy

Should definitely be a NSD for me today!

Dinner tonight - have just got beef mince out of the freezer to make home made burgers and have also got burger buns out too - 10p for 6 of them reduced from Mr T a few weeks ago. Will have that with oven chips and onion rings, so a total freezer dinner

May also get out the two big turkey legs I have in there to make a big turkey stew tomorrow as I'm having my wisdom tooth out so will have to make an easy to eat dinner tomorrow!

Hope you're all well

cheerfulness4

Managed to spend £46.54 this weekend on shopping but still slightly under budget so no worries there. Got a few fab reductions from Morries yesterday - beef joint from £10 odd down to £2.49, braising steak down to 39p , beef olives (never had before) to 49p and pork chops down to 39p.
Lots of veg and salad down to 15p each so very happy with that little lot.

Today I've got a big tray of braising steak out that was reduced a while ago, so that will make steak & onion casserole with a bag of mixed casserole veg that I found at the bottom of the freezer. ( lost something so had to have the lot out :eek: )

Have a whole sack of potatoes that were reduced (added a few more on top through further reductions as perfect 'jacket' size) so its jackets for lunch.

Think I'm pretty well stocked all round at the moment. What a lovely feeling.