I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Kirri

Already got toad in the hole dinner on, am starving...

Went to Morrisons but resisted buying more offers! Was hard though as I hovered by the Linda M veg sausages for a while.. in the end I just bought more soya milk for me apart from veg.

This month is looking at my lowest ever spend because of this challenge Current total this month £43.63 (and £27.74 of that is fruit/veg).

vintage43

Kirri wrote: »

Already got toad in the hole dinner on, am starving...

Went to Morrisons but resisted buying more offers! Was hard though as I hovered by the Linda M veg sausages for a while.. in the end I just bought more soya milk for me apart from veg.

This month is looking at my lowest ever spend because of this challenge Current total this month £43.63 (and £27.74 of that is fruit/veg).

Me too! I have knocked off a whopping £156 off my monthly bill for 5 people, aiming to do even better next month!
Well done you:A

Kirri

vintage43 wrote: »

Me too! I have knocked off a whopping £156 off my monthly bill for 5 people, aiming to do even better next month!
Well done you:A

Feels good doesn't it Well done on that reduction!

Based on my average monthly spend last year, I am £102 per month cheaper so far!! I am aiming to do better next month too as I've given in and bought a few things I fancied still this month that I didn't need.

bramble1

Tiny spend of 80p in waitrose! But i've run out of WW bread and so got some low calorie bread and bagels in the bargain bucket. If i don't have them to snack on i snack on OH's thick bread which is atleast 2x the calories!!

I want my dinner!!!! Having a bath first though as OH isn't hungry yet.

katskorner

bought milk for £1.50 and a packet of biscuits reduced to 35p.

Dinner for kids is homemade spaghetti bolognese from the freezer and we are having homemade chilli with flatbread also from the freezer, adding salad that I got yesterday. Tomorrow my son wants cold pizza so dug out one that was reduced to 13p from the freezer as aswell as chicken tikka (reduced and frozen naturally..) for the others and we are ok today.

kraftykat

Hi everyone :hello:

Can I join you all please?

Today I've just bought milk.

Breakfast: cereal for me & kids, toast for DH.
Lunch: toast and peanut butter.
Dinner: tuna pasta bake with salad

I've planned 1 and half weeks worth of evening meals, just using stuff from the cupboards and freezer and buying spuds and milk and the odd yoghurt, cheese. :T

Lip_Stick

Hi everyone, welcome kraftykat.

God I feel stuffed, and I ate 3 hours ago.

Had my slow cooked lamb which was gorgeous. Ds ate it, although he realised it was a bit spicy half way through so I had to get him milk to drink lol. There was enough for an extra portion for the freezer.

Made my crumble which could have been better. I should have put some sugar on the fruits and I also blitzed the crumble mix in the food processor (Delia Smith suggestion). Prefer it done by hand as it's a bit more chunky, rustic and harder.

Gunna go lay down on the couch as I'm too tired and stuffed to sit up lol.

Kirri

Welcome Kraftykat

lipstick, did you do the Delia crumble with the almonds? Is my fave one.

bramble - I don't think I've ever got out of Waitrose with a spend of that little!!

Lynsey

Managed a NSD, but need the cheese tomorrow and bits and bobs. That's my plannned 2 NSD's done already - whoohoo.

Took some bread out for the morning, maybe poached eggs on toast??
Chinese restaurant for lunch and I might pop some jacket potatoes in the slow cooker for snack tomorrow night - nice easy day.

Welcome kraftykat - good luck.

Lynsey

Asturrock

Absolute must for me this month as on basic money following time off work for surgery.

Spent just £40 in aldi today and got all my meat, veggies, lunch stuff and breakfast cereal as well as household stuff and catfood for the entire month. The rest will be using up whats in my store cupboard and freezer (seem to have accumulated a lot of chickpeas and a leftover tin of ham and another of salmon from christmas).

Have about £12 of tesco vouchers so will use them for topping up milk and fresh fruit as the month goes on but absolutely no more cash spent this month.

Am also keeping the heating off for now as the weather is so mild and just putting the hot water on for an hour a day.

I feel like a right old skinflint but determined to pay off all my overdraft this month and not go into it again.:T:T:T