I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

littlewillow

Morning all. I have a telephone interview this morning so naturally I have been up since 5 o clock fretting, so I decided to make use of my time and organise my cupboards put all the same things together and the stuff that needs to be used soon at the front etc.

Toast with the boyfriends Ma's homemade Jam (amazing stuff!) has used up the last of my bread and my coffee has used up the last of my sugar and milk so alas I will have to spend pennies today but when I have bread I can have spaghetti on toast (or similar) and some of the boyfriends gorgeous homemade pasta sauce as my meals today. Also got a lot of jelly in the cupboard (if anybody is a jelly fan and likes grapes I SERIOUSLY recommend green grapes in orange jelly...it is the best thing ever ) so am going to the shops before closing time tonight to see if I can grab myself some reduced blueberries or similar for jelly dessert tomorrow

quintwins

me and hubby have a sickness bug , and i have no bread or milk because i was gonna get some today neither of us are fit to take the kids to school so there here aswell.

they had toast using part baked ciabatas i got reduced for breakfast, off the top of my head they can have pasta for lunch and mash beans and sausage for dinner.

i can't see either of us eating anything today

read the post before mine and i remebered i have some af desert stuff, it's like jelly in texture but you boil it in a pan, i might make some if i can stand long enough without being sick so the kids can have pudding

Lynsey

Morning.
To all that got the M&S vouchers, the small issue is sorted and they are ready to spend. You can use them in Outlet shops, which is a massive positive and extra value.

Just toast today and beef casserole later, finished in the oven and topped with thinly sliced sauteed potatoes done in olive oil. I need a few things this week, but taking a day at a time. See what my Lidl meat offer is this weekend, if it's eventually meatballs, then I need to create some space. Bread taken out on a daily basis should clear some room.

Good luck with your telephone interview littlewillow and enjoy your jellies.

Get well soon quidtwins and family, this bug seems to be hitting almost everyone!!!

Lynsey

vintage43

quintwins wrote: »

me and hubby have a sickness bug , and i have no bread or milk because i was gonna get some today neither of us are fit to take the kids to school so there here aswell.

they had toast using part baked ciabatas i got reduced for breakfast, off the top of my head they can have pasta for lunch and mash beans and sausage for dinner.

i can't see either of us eating anything today

read the post before mine and i remebered i have some af desert stuff, it's like jelly in texture but you boil it in a pan, i might make some if i can stand long enough without being sick so the kids can have pudding

Hope you feel better soon, sending hugs:grouphug:

Lip_Stick

Morning everyone. Feeling tired again here. Been having some really strange vivid dreams every night which I've not had for ages. The other night it was an alien invasion, last night someone had stolen all furniture, including my kettle. That was before I had to take control of steering a cruise liner. No idea why my mind is like this, it's not like there's much going on in my life lol.

Bought ds a sledge this morning which cost £10. Some people are saying the freeze will be on and off for a month, others are saying it's going now. If he doesn't get to use his sledge there's always next year, or the year after, or the year after that.

Today is cuppa soup and fruit of dinner then salmon a la creme for tea with an extra special garlic bread thing. Think I'm going to move my cookery books back from my bedroom to the bookcase in the lounge, now that ds is hopefully out of the stage of drawing over pages and ripping things up.

Littlewillow - good luck with the interview. Fingers crossed for you!

Vintage - I mentioned an xbox to ds the other day (we've got a ps3) so now he keeps asking for one for his birthday. He can sod off! lol

quintwins - hope you're both feeling better soon. Get plenty of fluids in ya.

Lynsey - Thanks for letting us know about the voucher.

Lynsey

Lip_Stick, have you moved recently??
If there is any more snow to come, you and your son are welcome to it, my share as well - enjoy your sledging.

Did my brothers shopping as we do on a Monday, do a bit cleaning etc, and popped into Morries and Farm Foods to get the things off his list.
Farm Foods seems very popular, quite a few with carrier bags full of stuff. Morries was very, very, quiet - they were reducing loads and loads of fresh produce (all 29P), so bought a pack of mushrooms (another stir fry tomorrow). Lovely little old dear there had a few things, 2 nice packs of grapes and few bits - nice to see.

Casserole in oven now, lunch in about 45 mins.

29p spent so far, probably that's it for the day, got some cleaning to do.

Lynsey

Edwardia

quintwins hope you feel better soon !

I rummaged in the freezer this morning, couldn't get to the veal mince so I pulled the last pack of plain ole' ASDA turkey mince to make curry. We don't like roast turkey at Christmas but we do like many of the turkey leftovers recipes so we buy ASDA Smartprice turkey drumsticks to roast and use for soup/stock plus diced thigh, diced minced thigh and mince. OH and I both bought turkey mince so we ended up with too much !

bramble1

I am Ill!!

Lunch was ceaser salad, with 14p lettuce and breakfast was reduced melon and nectraines. So cheap day for me! Dinner should be a sainsburys just cook chicken thing, i got reduced in January, but OH complained yesterday when he saw it, so won't be surprised if it goes to the dog and we have to have something else!

Edwardia

Hope you feel better bramble1 !

Just not in the mood to cook today, mixed egg mayo and cheese and onion sandwich fillers from Tesco Express, plonked on a pile of washed mixed salad and called it lunch !

I'm supposed to be cooking tonight and ex chef or not, OH is getting ASDA turkey mince made into spag bog (without the spag) using whatever Seeds of Change/Loyd Grossman sauce lurking in the cupboard I can find plus onions, shallots and mushrooms. The breakfast mushrooms from Morrisons were tasteless so this is a way of using the last pack up. I shall also sprinkle walnuts on top when serving left over from Saturday's dinner

Kirri

So many ill people, hope you all feel better soon! Hope your FIL is recovering well, Bramble.
Lipstick, the more relaxed I am the more vivid the dreams, I've had some wake me up recently!
Vintage, what type of dog do you have? I saw so many over excited dogs out in the snow yesterday
Good luck with the phone i/v LW, they are quite weird as I was sat in my slippers! but I felt much more relaxed when I had one of those before as you can have all the paperwork prompts in front of you.
Lynsey, I never see much reduced in M, but wonder if that was due to hardly anyone going shopping in the snow yesterday?


I had toast and marmite this morning, had a mild panic as have no cheddar in at all and I eat lots - will wait and go to the farmer's mkt Saturday though now - it's only on once a month and a 50 min walk each way but cheese is worth it.

Had lunch out :eek: as met friend for lunch then to make the most of having to pay to get the train back home, I got off a few stops early and went in a big Sainsburys to get my free pudding - what a tiddler! - and I couldn't find it for ages, single puddings are not in the desserts aisle, they are in the bakery section! and it's microwave only and I don't have a microwave, not sure how to cook it?! Picked up basics tomatoes as cheap, replacement organic mayo and replacement organic butter. Then... I decided to walk home and visit the nursery with the chickens on the way back - but in the snow and with the hills it took 1.5 hours of walking!!! Also the nursery was down a very quiet farm track so felt a bit nervous on my own. Eggs were worth it though, only laid yesterday and are all different colours Wish I'd got a dozen but might go back Saturday after the farmer's market (another long walk). They had lovely cakes too... so hard to resist.

Dinner - will just be a Quorn meat sandwich as had big lunch.