I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

abitofhelp

Morning, Tobys Mum how good are you 2p for chocolate biscuits. took a pack of diced casserole steak out this morning, its in the slow cooker with tomato sauce i made the other day and a tin of pataks madras and a tin of coconut milk and a large chopped onion. sausages i took out of the freezer the other day have now all gone thankfully. kids finished them off for breakfast this morning. also took out a pack of chicken breasts & some bacon. some will be used tomorrow in the slow cooker for the chorizo, chicken and butter bean stew, i have seen a post of the recipe and have been quite eager to try it. the remaing chicken will be transformed with a squirt of bbc sauce, topped with cheese and bacon. eldest childs current fav. enjoy your day.

Lip_Stick

Morning all.

Decided to have dumplings with my stew yesterday, something I've not had for years, and it was very nice. Ds ate plenty. Today I'm meeting ds for dinner so it'll be Asda or Maccy Ds or a cheap cafe. Tea he's with his dad so I'm just having a ready made mozzarella pasta bake which I need some salad for.

My veg box is due today. I've been holding off buying much veg so I could certainly do with it as I'm down to just spuds. Really need to buy sugar, fruit and yoghurts.

Tobys Mum - thank goodness I never saw those biscuits! Lucky find for you!

Lysney I can't get the comfort pure coupons to work. Are they on that baby site? Can you put a link to where you're getting yours?

abitofhelp - those chicken dishes sound nice. I need to use up some chorizo that's in the freezer and that sounds like just the dish to do it.

quintwins

i just posted a whole reply and lost it

tobysmum we all need help here....your amoung friends.

after saying i wouldn't go to tesco today i relised i used the last onion last night, i'm gonna get some value philly aswell.

breakfast was toast and bananas, lunch will be egg and cheese sandwichs and dinner will be chicken breasts with creamy stirfry (not sure what to do with it hope it will be ok)i'm also going to make a pan of mash incase it's not nice, if it is nice we'll be having sheperds pie tomorrow


must not buy lots of food.....must not buy lots of food.....must not buy lots of food....

Lynsey

Lip_Stick wrote: »

Lysney I can't get the comfort pure coupons to work. Are they on that baby site? Can you put a link to where you're getting yours?

Yes, you need to have it saved as I believe its' no longer available.
Valid until 29th Feb.

Lynsey

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Lynsey, what is the Groupon glitch? Where do you find the Morries vouchers? I recommended a friend to Groupon and to Quidco but have not recd anything for doing so, do I have to wait for them to buy through them do you know. Asking you because you seem to know almost EVERYTHING. Although no empty space in freezers, they do seem to be not quite so rammed which means when soup is finished cooking today I may put a portion in a gap. Have requested veg seedlings/veg hanging basket/hanging basket from children for birthday (March) and Mothering Sunday pressies (Its Mothering Sunday NOT Mother's Day, thats American). Lost my Mum end of last year so will be a sad time this year. AH well.

Kirri

Afternoon all

Finished off the halloumi yesterday for lunch.

Used half the romanesco last night, will finish that tonight. Finished 1 lot of cheese.

Clementines for breakfast (had no bread!).

Having pumpkin and lentil soup for lunch, don't really like it though as nowhere near as nice as the butternut one I made last week. But have to eat it I guess.. got loads of portions in the freezer as well bought some naan bread this morning to see if that improves the soup eating! It's almost like a dhal anyway.

Still got another 2kg of pumpkin pieces cut up in the fridge - sick of soup and don't want another batch I don't like - not sure what to do with it..

Getting tempted to put an Ocado order in, they have lots of Ecover on offer as well as well as things I just can't get in Morries or Asda. Trying to hold off till March though or it will bump up Feb spends more than I want. Plus I should use up more storecupboard stuff first..

gailey_2

Morning guys

Its PAYDAY:j SO

new grocery challange month starts today!

£94already spent without leaving the house.

Did a waitrose online order bit of a plava.
took me 2hours then hubby took his card so had to wait for him to ring back with card details. its arriving tommorow.
Only meant to spend £50as delivery free and they dont charge for subs not had online in months.

im slowly trying to stockpile lynsey but not on huge scale.

Dont know if any interest but ecover on offer there big 3for household event.
We totally out cleaning stuff so treated myself to few essential clothes.

got glass cleaner
2kitchen cleaners
on 3 for worked out £2.50 for all 3

got bathroom bleach and toiliet cleaner *2 so less than £2 for all 3.

wipes 4 for £3 75p each for baby.
babys fave food ellas kitchen on 7 for £6 multibuy could maybe have ordered more but trying to get him onto proper food.

Was looking for frylite as on sw and they have the philipo berrio olive oil spary on offer at £1.34 so ordered 2.

also spelndour on offer at £1.66 for big box so ordered 2 hoping both these will result in better weightlosses as been out since xmas of both.

waitrose essential coffee 100g nice and £1.49 its £2.25 in co-op so ordered 2.

They had few good deals on pancakes stuff so got golden syrup at £1 a tin.also tate and lyle choc icecream sauce for kids 73p cheapest I seen it and will last ages .
ordered their opwn brand icecream just need to go co-op get more redduced cones then that desserts sorted for kids for least a month of not more,

eggs 1.01 for 6free range so ordered 3boxes as it is pancake day.
flour was 70p so will get in lidls.
got jif lemons juice for 41p they also had lime but unsure my rugrats like that.

might see if £1shop got lollie models and make some juice lollies as 3for 2 on juice.

crips and cerals deals quite poor.

got their essential ham as great value lovley quality.

only meat items brought was

half price duck at £3.74 and half price pork belly under 4quid so thats 2roasts and next day sandwiches sorted.

ordered bag oven chips.
breaded chicken
on offer crisp bakes

tinned spaggetti
tinned beans both 39p own brand essential.

dident order bread
any veg

or anything else could get cheaper.

they had good cheese deal and we out so got 2 for £5 mature 300g

but no good deals on butter so left that.

combined with what i have and doing small co-op shop today bar reductions going to try and last a fortnight without shopping.

forgot to say going to butchers friday for slipper joint of ham £6 for party sandwiches.

need to find good crisp deal.
getting cheap buttons from corner shop at 12.5per bag..

its the party decorations and baloons costing a lot.
rang pizza hut asked if could bring own cake with candles and use kids go free voucher as can show a text as be cheaper than place we intended to go too

update on valentines.

hubby got home and told him mad him onion soup for tea he was dissapointed the he opened fridge and saw heart shaped coffee cake and was made up sadly used most of tub of butter and now butterless but was worth it.

made beef and onion pies.
with reduced diced beef from spar 75p
made own pastry was worried as sident have recomended amount of butter but it worked.
used reduced onions 39p brought 4bags last week last ages.
co-op own brand gravy granules.
glazed with last egg.
served with reduced new poatoes in garlic butter 30p a pack reduced. and frozen farmfood peas.

used all instant coffee and most of sugar in cake.
had caffatiere coffee and just about enough sugar and milk to go with cake and watched new film on sky.

hubby said was best meal in ages and certainly not night before payday food.

now feeling more confident can have better month as utilise what I have.

so many thanks guys.

dident manage to fix computer but will keep trying.


off to co-op later see what bargains there are.
treat takeaway tonight before we knuckle down and survive on what we have for next 2weeks.

just need to check weekend deals lidls
go corner shop
poundshop
and morries as not too impressed with current aldi supersix.

abitofhelp

gailey i'm glad that the 15th has finally come round for you. Mango sorbet made for valentines day has now all gone so a bit more space in the freezer. made out of a 30p ys tub of fresh mango chunks, lemon juice & sugar syrup, i froze it in two empty clover tubs classy chick me.

VfM4meplse

Kirri wrote: »

Having pumpkin and lentil soup for lunch, don't really like it though as nowhere near as nice as the butternut one I made last week. But have to eat it I guess.. got loads of portions in the freezer as well bought some naan bread this morning to see if that improves the soup eating! It's almost like a dhal anyway

Ah the hardship! Sounds like bliss to me. I often serve soups with a spoonful or too of rice / couscous to bulk it out a bit.

I haven't eaten anything hot (apart from Weetabix) for the last 4 days, mainly as I defrosted a little big loaf (475g) on Sunday, and am getting through it one slice at a time with cheese and salad. I've also got the following to consume before I'm going to eat a hot meal from the freezer:

- eight medium Braeburn apples
- six kiwi fruit (not quite ripe yet)
- 500g punnet of black grapes (would be good with the above for a nice fruit salad, probably enough for a big serving every day the next 3 days)
- box of blueberries before they expire
- eight small ripening bananas
- 2L of low fat youghurt....smoothie time with the blueberries and bananas I think!

I think this will take me through to Saturday, may or may not go shopping depending on whether I plan to go out for the day, in which case I'll end up eating out, probably something overpriced that I won't enjoy . No more Weetabix until then! (still an incredible 62 to finish! - enough for a month).

Lip_Stick

Hi all

I went to Asda with ds for dinner. I had a bacon sandwich and they were a little tight with the bacon, 2 small slices that hardly covered the bottom of the bread cake. I bought apples & bananas while there and spent a few quid. Went to home bargains for the sugar and bought a few goodies for little one (and myself), spent about £2.50.

My veg box arrived today so here's a pic:-



One of the parsnips is HUGE! No idea what the hell I'm going to do with that! Suppose it's ok for £6, wouldn't pay £12 though! and !!!!!! do I do with a sweet mama squash?