I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Lip_Stick

Edwardia wrote: »

Tonight OH made turkey and fennel patties with ASDA turkey thigh mince out of the freezer, onions on offer at Morrisons and reduced fennel from ASDA. Calling them patties is a misnomer, bricks would be more accurate. He put so much pepper in that my mouth feels numb.

lolol. You don't sound impressed.

Edwardia

Lip_Stick wrote: »

lolol. You don't sound impressed.

Er, no. I'm surprised because he does a fantastic Full English and got sabayon sauce first go.

Lynsey

Just realised but today is 1st Feb!! Never noticed because I'm working on weeks at the minute.
That means I actually spent less than £50 in Jan on food stuff - would have been slightly over because I used £5 worth of Nectar points.
That must have been my lowest ever monthly spend as far as I know, never checked in my early days, but bought loads of cr4p then. Never had freezers or cupboards full of stuff then though - week to week and day to day.

How happy am I. :j :j :j :j

I don't think I'll ever get it that low again, Xmas over-buys helped!!

Glass of wine time to celebrate. :beer:

Lynsey

Kirri

You did better than me, Lynsey!

January 2012 = £57.92 though used £3 of LV's towards it.
(21.44 on food and 39.48 fruit/veg - large proportion of veg is for pets though but I share it)

I thought it was my best month ever since I started logging food spends in 2007, but November 2010 was only £54.54. My worst ever month was March 2011 at £201.75 :eek:

ms_night_ryder

Hey guys

Done really well and had the slow cooked beef for lunches all week, porridge and fruit for brekkie and then dinner of beef, today i had the 2 veg and beef pie was yum, rest for lunch tomorrow and the pie is finito! but i still have 2 portions of beef left, but no veg

I got paid on monday and have been suprisingly restrained, i have only bought 2 yogurts from waitrose, rest of meals have been from freezer/home, my fridge is really empty and i have no veg left, so those are my priorities this weekend, may go to the market for the veg, need a small shop, gonna stick to £20 budget and a list, hopefully get loads, its only me, so far had 4 pints of free waitrose milk, going get some more tomorrow, hopefully 4 more pints as i pass 2 more waitrose on the way to my evening work, well pleased with myself this week, just did the love pudding, so thanks lynsey, also thanks because i'm going to stock up on persil tomorrow, think i will be made redundant in about 3 months so will be stocking up on essentials when they have deals on, want at least a years supply.

bramble1

Last of my soup today! need to find a new exciting recipe for next weeks. Will have to find something else for tomorrow's lunch.

Dinner is Beef and black bean stir fry for OH tonight, and I'll have a WW ready meal (95p reduced from morries) as i'm supposed to weigh in tomorrow.

Need to lift the beef out the freezer, and need to write a list for this weekend's shop.

Lynsey

Took out some burger buns (10p reduced ones) last night and finished off the ice cream - nice little space created.
I was going to have porridge for breakfast, but maybe a bacon and egg sandwich instead??
Pasta bake is made for late lunch, just needs heated and cheese added for last few minutes. Having that with the Mediterranean veg I got last night, roasted.
Free snack tonight at the dog track, only going for an hour or so and next to M&S outlet shop, so pop in there first.
Getting 2 packs of meatballs from Aldi today to try them and hopefully get my free puddings from the massive Sainsbury's on the way home - see what they reduce - hope it's as good as my local one.
Hubby's off today, I'll see if I can get him to peel a few grapes for me.

ms_night_ryder - hope everything works out OK, the Persil is a great offer though - get as much as you can. 4 bottles will do a year at around 2 washes per week, 6 bottles at 3 washes per week and so on.
Get your stash built up and use those coupons in combination with offers.

Lynsey

Edwardia

Still recovering from OH's turkey brick burgers, got some Tesco Irish diced beef out of the freezer for chilli con carne Friday night and two whole sea bass which OH bought at Morrisons on a recent offer, 2 for £4 ie 50% off.

I have to go through all the online national newspapers every day and keep recipes I like in my bookmarks categorised by fish. Last month I saved Angela Hartnett's oven baked sea bream with fennel from The Guardian so as it's one of those pile it all in and bake it dishes he should be fine with that and he'll be proud of himself when it tastes great

Lip_Stick

Afternoon all.

I made the mistake of going in Home Bargains for a 'look' and spent £4.74. I then went into Asda just to buy salad leaves and spent £15.15. :mad: I've also just ordered the 2012 edition of that home cookery book for £13 inc postage. It's a bargain when someone on amazon is selling a used one for £95! :eek:

I've sausages and veg in the slow cooker. Running low on veg really so need to do a small shop for those sometime. Famous last words!

Lynsey

Lip_Stick, do you buy the Red Sky crisps from HB??
They are fab............and only 59p for a 150g bag!!

Lynsey