I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Lynsey

Need to add £1.68 to spend, Amazon Allinson yeast *glitch* has just turned up.


12 boxes of 6 x 7g sachets!!!!

Better get my baking books out. lol
No way will I use all this, I'll have to donate some.

Lynsey

littlewillow

Happy Valentines Day all I have a million and one things to do so have a nice day all and I'll catch up soon

Lip_Stick

gailey - I make it in the slow cooker using carrots, onion, red pepper and lentils. Add cheap cooking bacon fat removed. Then pour over a mix of chicken and veg stock and season. I season with black pepper, thyme and a bit of garlic. Serve with crusty bread or jacket pots. The lentils dissolve.

I need to buy some fruit really. It's looking low and a bit rubbish now lol. Might make my sausage and apple plait with the few apples left.

gailey_2

Lynsey-im working on trying to fix my printer right now and techie guys given me some tips to try fix laptop so trying to fix laptop this afternoon.
I will then try fixing printer and have paper but unsure if its got ink but theres shop in high street that does cheap refills and by some miracle having working printer by end of this week and join extreme cooupning crowd.

quintwin-I dont buy value meat.

my poultry is normally free range or rspca freedom mostly reduced or least on offer rarly pay full price.

tried value mince and wasent keen too fatty always have lean mince and last 2times been on offer half price lilds so paid £1.34 a pack for 500g quality mince as good as sainsburys lean mince and frozen lkots of mince nearly always reduced.

if not mince or poultry then buy rest from mobile butchers

its called meat machine and does markets hes in my local pub carpark every fri 9-2. the more I buy the more discount he gives me.

he sells me 20-25 proper sausages even flavoured ones cumberland or chili for 5quid
25rashers of bacon for 5quid.
pork belly for 5quid.

he does not to the best mince of free range poultry so dont buy anything but beef from him.
hubbys not huge pork lover, do get gammon slipper joint for 6quid makes kloads of ham, he sells cheese too.

Fish get on offer or reduced from supermarket
sometimes buy frozen plain fish fillets from farmfoods.

burgers try buy fresh and reduced get loads of bbq bargains when it rains.
have tried making own burgers and meat balls but always falls apart on me.

guessing we spend no more than £30 a month on meat/fish.we only have a roast once/twice a month as soo costly. guess my priciples on poultry cost us more was veggie for 9years. I like quorn and veggie sausages but hubby doesnt and with buying reduced sometimes meats cheaper.

we sometimes buy diced bacon/pancatta cheap way of adding meat to pasta dishes as hubby loves his meat.

Milk is mad as we like our cereals have have 6-8 bowls cereal a day
milk in coffee
milk as drinks
4-5bottles

canceling milkman and stockpiling at lilds/farmfoods.

nappies by far find lidls the best and cheapest.
I do shop the baby events too.
baby uses cloth used cloth with all 3
but toddler weees through cloth and is semi pottytrained and up until recently my 5tear old was in bed pants.

find fruit big expense so do lidls and aldis. they love berries and cherry tomatoes dont last long.
I do forage free fruit toop.
baking im truly crap and ovens rubbish and kids fussy so often cheaper to buy on some things.

try and use on offer or own brand butters but not value the worst was the farmfoods own brand went all fatty and broke up.

my kids love bread but again been cheaper buying reduced than making it.
they like crumpets,scotch pancakes, croissents, muffins.

can i make flapjacks with treacle?

had varying sucess with twinks hob nobs they seem to go rock hard once cooled as in break you teeth. done some ok gingerbread men, failed at shortbread.
mine dident like shortbread they not keen on dried fruit so hate hotcross buns/teacakes.
they were not overly keen on carrot as did last year with home grown carrots just tend do do plain sponge or choc.

definatly going to try the hm mouseand alreday do the odd crumble.
also need to find cereal bar recipie for luncbox as as might be big saving there.

I know some people say cut all treats but wouldent be comfortble doing that as its the treats that keep us on the moneysaving/os path.

glad im not only one who resorts to occasional fishfingers would rather give them something they eat than they not eat and waste food.

Edwardia

I didn't get a card or roses or champagne because OH messed up the finances. He spent £250 on himself on ????

So I'm on strike, drinking Green & Black cocoa, reading Twilight slash fanfiction (Jasper and Edward mmm) and eating Lindt 90% chocolate. I did put a towels wash on tho.

Tonight we have roasted langoustines and then duck legs both out of the freezer and both from Morrisons - £3 for the langoustines and £2.65 duck legs.

quintwins

err that was nice of him edwardia :undecided

yes you can make them with treacle gailey.

we acually only buy value mince and cooking bacon as i only buy reduced or butcher sausages (i have a thing for pork and leek i've been getting good whoopsie ones tho and havent bought any from the butcher in about a year never pay over £1 for 8), we found a better alterate to value chicken breast, not cheaper per say but less skrinkage and so much nicer so we use less, locla butcher here does 3 chickens for 6 however at the moment we can get free ones (don't ask trust me ya don't wanna know) but i have now where to put them

Edwardia

I see reduced price pork chops but never buy them because I'm always unlucky and get the tough as old boots ones. I do miss the crackling though !

quintwins

Edwardia wrote: »

I see reduced price pork chops but never buy them because I'm always unlucky and get the tough as old boots ones. I do miss the crackling though !

do you have a slowcooker? i've yet to ever have a tough peaice of meat from mine and i do chips in it all the time, i really fancy pork chops now :rotfl:

tobys_mum

help both of my freezers are full, my cupboards are full But I can always find room in a spare room. I need help I would love to join in and use up the bargains that I have stashed away that wll come in one day Since christmas loads of bargains have found the way in to my trolly,including two tins of cadbury choc biscuits @ 2p each should never have bought them or ate them . for the last two weeks only spent money on milk we use loads and fruit still making amends for the choc biscuits I LOVE A BARGAIN

Lynsey

Morning.
NSD in shops yesterday, just the Amazon yeast added.

Hope you all had a great night.

Breakfast is just cheese on toast and getting rid of a pasta ready meal later, maybe pie and home made chips for tea. Need to clear a little space just in case the Lidl meat offer is good.
Must try and pop into Tesco to use my £2 coupon - might just get some of the reduced biscuits/chocolates - well £2's worth.

Not much needed, get some milk tomorrow and possibly carrots??
Got 2 x 30p Vitalite coupons to use, possibly tomorrow also, getting low on spread.

Hope you got you pc/printer sorted gailey and start hitting the couponing.
Sent my son a few pdf coupons to use yesterday, hope he takes advantage.

Managed to get £22 to spend on Italian food via Living Social last night for free with my £5 credit from them.

Welcome tobys mum, cheap biscuits - maybe you can arrange a coffee morning for us and share them...............if there are any left!!

Lynsey