I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

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Florenceem wrote: »

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.

I was in Tesco this morning and they had the baguettes you bake yourself. They contained normal ingredients so I don't see why a freshly baked one from Lidl should be any different. No chemicals or additives, except for Absorbic Acid, which is a naturally occurring organic compound with antioxidant properties.

Lynsey

Loads of meat reduced at Sainsburys again, but had to walk away as I've no room left!!!!!!!
Spent 55p today, reduced crumpets and I;m trying the Sainsburys crab paste reduced to only 30p.

Pork steaks tomorrow with roast veg and a blue cheese sauce (small pots of double cream is only 30p in Sainsburys, got a few pots a few days ago).

The next time Sainsburys have 10p potatoes/veg I'm going to buy loads and drop it off at my MIL's over 60's group. She said lots are complaining about the rising cost of food, especially the supermarkets basic/value items. :A

Me.........I've never known food, especially meat to be so cheap.

Lynsey

lynneee

morning all. managed to use up lots of 'bits' from the freezer for a very random tea last night, kids thought it was great but husband was not so convinced! so the 2 chicken nuggets, and the tiny piece of sausage, and the few peas in the bottom of the bag and 3 fish fingers were added to potato waffles with fried egg and beans lol
tonight will be a joint of roast pork I got reduced.
then the top shelf of my freezer will almost be empty! (especially after breakfast when i get all the odd slices of bread used up for toast)

lola34

Bet his face was a picture when he had his tea was it??? but its satisfaction to use up all those bits, I'm another guilty of emptying things out of the boxes etc to fit more in the freezer, popped to Mr A's last night about 8, not much reduced though only a bag of broccolli for 10p, the rest was too expensive still:o but got milk and the usual bits and bobs, but only spent £7. I used to put my shopping on the debit card so I used to think I only spent a few hundred a month but when I checked I found it was closer to £400 so I now take out £240 at the beginning of the month and this is all I can use, so this is a goo way to eek it out a bit more.
We're having barbque today as the weather looks like its going to be another hot one, yesterday DS's had friends over so I had to buy a pizza (1/2 price) with chips (Homemade), OH had chicken salad (whoops chiken pieces) and I had mackeral from the freezer.

quintwins

kids had some reduced bagels this morning (from the freezer) lunch was dinner at mil, boys had noodles for tea and we had chicken burgers (again from the freezer) it was far too hot for proper tea, i can really see our freezer going down now, i still have no bread but theres more muffins in the freezer and now i have no milk either, one of our boys have chicken poxs so i won't be able to go get some til tomorrow night

lola34

Our freezer is definately going down escpecially once all the BBQ stuff came out yesterday, have bread buns left over so will use these for pizzas for the boys one night and also took out a packet of crumpets DS1 had some last night and will probably have more this morning for breakfast, my shopping money has £30 which ideally needs to cover this week as we start our new month next week -fingers crossed.

mymerrywidow

in my quest to find the back of the freezer, i have found several bags of plums and apples. i want to make jam with these. now when i deforsted them they had loads of water. do i add this water to the jam or do i drain it of first?

VfM4meplse

I intended to run down my freezer (which is full of home-made meals) last month, but it never happened because I was away so much! No such plans for July though, I am restricting myself to buying soya milk, and fruit/veg from my local stall or Lidl to supplement main meals from the freezer. It's like a pot-luck every night, the only guarantee is that the food is top-notch, even though I say so myself....!

VfM4meplse

lynneee wrote: »

a very random tea last night

I agree with your kids, random is great!

quintwins

morning all we just had muffins and the last bagel (from the freezer) lunch will be waffles and nuggets to use up the last of the packets, i'm going to have cupa soup or curry from the freezer, dinner is sherperds pie with mince from the freezer i really am doing very well if i do say so myself however i'm going whoopsie shopping tonight for bread but atleast i can acually fit bread in now