I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

ms_night_ryder

Hey guys, had 3 biscuits a apple and a plum for breakfast, another apple mid morning, then lunch of the last bit of the baker bros tri pie with some potato salad and beetroot bought yesterday, for dinner i had a ww lasagne, which means there is one ready meal box of free space in my freezer lol, gonna take one for lunch tomorrow, also my free milk won't be finished, so will bring it home to try and use up, have updated my freezer list, so have included it below for you all to look see, bear in mind i'm a single household lol, i got 3 of the persil today, may get another 3 i think, also got 2 strawberry rolls fruit thingies and ate them as i was out working, bill in co op came to £6.96 after coupons, just as well really as i was on my last bottle of the persil from when tesco had it for £3.10 only bought 2 wit vouchers that time, really like it as its gentle on my sensitive skin, my list is below.

24th dec
2 chicken breasts
4 salmon fillets
salmon trimmings
pork joint
3 packs of sausages
2 cod fillets
beef mince
5 slices of ham
chunk of ham
1 pack organic mince
1 small fillet of fish
10 frankfurters
2 packs of hot smoked salmon

Cooked meals
Half rotisserie chicken
1 potato and tom pot
x1 paella pots

Misc
pumpkin
curly fries
chips
14 Pitta pockets
4 scones
2 pancake
Square wraps
1 PACKS OF 4 SLICES OF BREAD
2 mixed veg
par boiled potatos
2 utterly butterly
tub of chopped peppers
2 muffins
grated cheese
4 hm steak bakes
6 Weight watchers meals, various
USED STUFF
chicken Mini Fillets
2 salmon cake
Half hovis loaf
Some mixed veg
some curly fries
1 square wrap
1 container chilli mince
2 chicken breasts
sliced bread
Slice of salmon quarter
2 packs of sausages
2 chicken legs
5 chicken skinless thighs
bacon 4 slices
1 pack organic beef mince
paella pot
milk
frying steak
2 roll of puff pastry sheets
chicken pie
guyere cheese puff
large beef joint
southern fried chicken strips
1 pack of green beans
chicken kiev
cod cakes x 1
broccoli portion
baguette
cup of enchilada chicken
weight watchers lasagne

Edwardia

Wow ms_night_ryder I'm impressed that you fit that lot in your freezer !

Updated my freezer notebook today:

Meat
Waitrose veal mince 500g 3 for £10

Game
Sainsbury's Taste The Difference diced wild venison £4
Foodari whole locally shot jointed wild rabbit £6?
Foodari locally shot whole pheasant £3.75 I think

Poultry
Sainsbury's turkey thigh mince 500g 2 @ £2
ASDA diced turkey thigh 2@2.70
ASDA turkey mince 450g 1.78
Gressingham duck legs 3 (6 legs) £10 Waitrose
Lidl whole duck 2.3kg 6.99

Fish & Seafood

Sainsbury's whole responsibly sourced Scottish salmon, steaked up 14.27 reduced
Lidl Canadian lobster 2 @ 5.99
1/2 box Young's haddock fish fingers
Wild North Atlantic cooked & frozen shell-on prawns 1kg (from local seafood wholesaler) £6
Home-made fish stock
Frozen langoustines 2 @ £3 Morrisons

Dairy

President unsalted butter 250g 4@ 1.31 Morrisons
Lake District Cheddar cheese 400g

Veg

2 bags Birds Eye Field Fresh garden peas

As you can see plenty of room (new small chest freezer)

Lynsey

Great selection there ms_night_ryder, lots to keep you going.

I'm going to sort my freezers tomorrow, love to see a bottom of a drawer like vintage43.
I want all the old stuff in a couple of drawers and to concentrate on using it up. It's amazing really how long it takes to clear a single drawer.
Apart from meatballs and chicken breasts, I'm not going to buy too much for the freezers, well try anyway.
I would love two empty drawers by Easter, should be loads of bargains then to stock up again..........loads of new stuff.

Thinking of fish tomorrow, I'm too top-heavy on fish - maybe make some fishcakes.
Would love another NSD tomorrow and I'm ONLY going to try Sainsbury's late on. Lidl on Saturday for a couple of packs of frying steak (max 2 packs) and pick up some coriander which I forgot today.

Lynsey

ms_night_ryder

Hey guys have a question, i am thinking of buying a small white cabbage and some carrots to make a coleslaw, can you freeze cabbage and carrots raw? would be good if i could put carrot and cabbage shredded in a bag and freeze and defrost some when i want coleslaw, just add the mayonaise, sweetcorn etc after its defrosted? will that work? it's just that whenever i buy a cabbage it gets wasted as i never use it all up, want to reduce the waste.

Although i eat loads out of the freezer, i seem to waste quite a bit, i threw out half of a sainbos whoopsied family chicken pie, it wasnt nice, it was one i got inchristmas eve whoopsies rush lol also there never really seem to be much in my fridge aside from batch cooked meals from the weekend, portion for lunches dinners etc.

Also i feel like i have aot of fish and have run out of any real meat lol, if you know what i mean, joints, chicken pieces, bit of steak etc, so on the hunt for whoopsies, not great deals about that iv'e seen, also keep looking out for whoopsied veg, found nothing in weeks now, will admit defeat and get to the market on sat.

Edwardia

I've only ever seen frozen whole carrots and shredded frozen cabbage. I suspect that if you were to freeze them ready shredded yourself, that the slow freezing time of a domestic freezer would build up large ice crystals in the shreds and then when they were defrosted they would damage the cell structure.

With fast freezing it's possible to freeze lots of delicate stuff - McDonalds uses frozen lettuce for example.

I suggest you experiment and see

vintage43

Edwardia wrote: »

I've only ever seen frozen whole carrots and shredded frozen cabbage. I suspect that if you were to freeze them ready shredded yourself, that the slow freezing time of a domestic freezer would build up large ice crystals in the shreds and then when they were defrosted they would damage the cell structure.

With fast freezing it's possible to freeze lots of delicate stuff - McDonalds uses frozen lettuce for example.

I suggest you experiment and see

REALLY! Frozen lettuce, wow that's weird!

Lynsey

Morning.
Porridge and coffee for breakfast.

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Lynsey

Lip_Stick

Morning all.

There's a smattering of snow on the ground here. Not looking forward to doing the school run this afternoon. At least my neighbour takes my son there on Thursdays and Fridays mornings in car so I haven't had to venture out.

Probably going to have a cuppa soup for dinner today. Don't know what I fancy for tea. Pasta maybe.

I need to sort out my freezer too as it's a bit all over the place and I expect if I did that, it'd be more roomy.

Lynsey - thanks for the tip, checking it out now.

Kirri

^ Can you walk to the school or is it too far? I never drive in snow, really don't like it!! Snow even due here in London this weekend..

Lynsey, what is Living Social?

MNR - not sure what the veg would come out like after being frozen, normally goes watery. I've only ever frozen carrots after blanching for use in cooked meals. Morrisons sell half white/red cabbages though they are still usually too big so I normally give my mum a quarter to use up, but they seem to last in the fridge for quite a while - could you use the rest shredded in stir fry or bubble & squeak cakes instead?


I've just nipped down to Morrisons to get some veg for the pets, thought I'd get in before everyone panic buys it due to the impending snow as last time the shelves were bare. Picked up some butter and flour as replacement stocks (used coupon) and treated myself to some Quorn meat for a sarnie.

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ms night ryder - I dont think it is good to freeze cabbage and carrots for raw use, they go soggy but are fine for cooking. I like white cabbage only and as a single person, even a half is too much, so I use sliced either raw or cooked as a veg with any meal, or as salad but as it goes on I make soup, can heat again 2nd or even 3rd day, sometimes add extra herbs or spices or peas etc etc as they days go by so it seems different.