I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Lynsey

cherrypies, great beef bargains and 10p offers from M&S - WOW. never seen anything like that before in M&S!
Hope the little ones recover quickly, bad, bad year for ailments!

Welcome GarnetLady, lots having SSM printing problems today!

Back from Sainsburys and got a leg of pork joint reduced from £9.20 to £2.29, so well pleased - timed to perfection and a few looking in my basket (in envy) of my bargain. Got 3 grapefruits for 10p each also - not worth growing them at that price Kirri.
So £2.59 well spent and 46p earlier in Tesco makes the days total £3.05 - quite a bit for that outlay, a great "investmest".

Got my last Fairy and another Oral B toothpaste using 2 x £1 coupons.

Another Tesco coupon day tomorrow and perhaps Saturday also, should be couponless by then...............I think.

Cooking my spag bol now and using my home-made oregano oil - quick a nice aroma and would definitely do again.

Lynsey

lindseykim13

Think i may need to come back to this thread after going whoopsie hunting again today. I had to turn down reduced mince as i know i have already got about 6/7 packets in the freezer! Think my bargain hunting has become a bit of an addiction although i suppose i could have worse ones.

ms_night_ryder

Whoopsied organic beef mince cooked, I just browned the mince well most of it and left it to cool and froze will make a chilli one dash, bup I have given up chocolate for lent and usually add dark choc and its yummy, so won't make it now, 2 portions stayed in pan and I added a tinned Tom and a half, leftover from Sunday ,some herbs and spices and had 1 portion for dinner, the other will be for Friday's lunch, made some rice in steamer with the last of the frozen whoopsied veg, carrots and broccoli, so a meal made totally from cupboard and freezer, had a portion of rice left so I bagged and froze, I have about a drawer full of space left in the freezer but in different drawers, have enough meat/fish in the freezer for 5-6 different dishes, so I'm all good, really need to use up whoopsied 50/50 pitta pockets, 16 to go, may try having that for lunch over weekend, we shall see, will prob make pasta for lunches next week with something, one dish lasts on average 4-5 meals depending and I'm out for dinner Saturday, so will easily do this, payday is on Tuesday and i still have £5.64 of my gc left, I'm well pleased as I always go overbudget in the first week lol, see i am learning

VfM4meplse

Lynsey wrote: »

10p offers from M&S - WOW. never seen anything like that before in M&S!

I have, at around 8.30pm in a Simply Food store that closed at 9. There were huge pastries bagged in 4s, doughnuts, speciality breads, giant biscuits....the problem is that you buy, and then you eat .

cherrypies

lindseykim13 yes, definitely an addiction, I really need to stop buying, right now! My garage chest freezer is now at capacity, as is the fridge and I've got 2 big sets of shelf units in the garage that are rammed with beans, tomatoes, olives, washing powder and God knows what else, I'm going to try not to shop for a week now, doubt i'll do very well!

Kirri, I love cooking, fortunately, or it would be a nightmare us all on seperate diets! There is a lots of dishes I can cook that we all love and eat regularly but I get bored easily. I don't really watch TV either so it's how I spend my evenings when the kids are in bed, pottering about the kitchen cooking and baking

Lynsey, our M&S is hit and miss with reductions, sometimes they are fantastic, other times totally pants and there is no rhyme or reason to it, I just pop in in the afternoons when I'm passing and hope for the best. Ours closes at 6 though and more often than not they reduce the fresh bread and cakes to between 10p & 50p at just gone 5

recovering_spendaholic

Lynsey - finally found the facebook unilever page and spent about an hour doing the surveys and stuff - I have got 685 points - will that get me anything?

bit of a mish mash of a day! porridge for breakfast which was yummy, then baked potato with tuna for lunch and tea time I caved and said that we could get chippy - got two portions of king prawn sweet and sour with fried rice and that did all three of us - wasn't cheap though - £6.70 a portion:eek: I made some microwave brownies for afters which were lovely.
didn't go to the shops today, but went to the little Tesco about two hours ago because my last 4 pinter of milk was off when I opened it so I took it back as the date on it was 7 March. They changed it for me but I still managed to spend £1.56 on half price M&M's!! need to go to Aldi tomorrow for some things.

I ordered a veggie book off amazon last night, using the last of my Christmas vouchers - Rose Elliot's complete vegetarian cookery. Looking forward to reading it!!!

printed off a good few coupons to use in Tesco tomorrow (bold and Iams)! Am also toying with going to Bury market tomorrow with my sister. I have never been but she says it is brilliant.

My freezer is about three quarters full but if I defrost it I reckon that it will be only about half full, so I have made good inroads, plus my cupboards are much better these days too, so this thread is helping me out!

Lynsey

Morning. Jane, I never did any Unilever surveys, just took the £1 coupons. I think the points get re-set though, so maybe get them used? I'm sure you earn 50p coupons for doing the surveys etc. Facebook Supersavvyme is far better - loads and loads of £1 coupons.

Thanks for the M&S tips, only ever had bread for 10p once. Only a small M&S near me, so probably not worth going out of my way......more reliable bargains at Sainsburys!! Good luck though - 10p bags of bananas were a great find from M&S.

No 17p chocolate in my Lidl this weekend (gutted) and meat offer is only chicken drumsticks, so giving Lidl a miss I think - if I pass I may get the onions on offer - 5kg for £1.39.

Toasted teacakes for breakfast and spag bol on jacket potatoes later. Maybe pies tonight, must try and create a few gaps in the freezers!!

Need to write a small list, need flavoured water, sugar and a bottle of olive oil - may pop into Home Bargains later??

Lynsey

GarnetLady

Kirri wrote: »

Wecome GarnetLady, you'll have to stay now

Lynsey wrote: »

Welcome GarnetLady, lots having SSM printing problems today!

Thanks. I've actually been thinking about delurking for ages. I have enough in this house to keep half the estate going for a month!

I actually have a google spreadsheet with the contents of my freezer listed, and am in the process of adding the tins, packets and baking supplies etc as well as the household stuff. (I love a good list!)

So I'll join, but reserve the right to add whoopsies as and when. :rotfl:

GarnetLady

Lynsey wrote: »

No 17p chocolate in my Lidl this weekend (gutted) and meat offer is only chicken drumsticks, so giving Lidl a miss I think - if I pass I may get the onions on offer - 5kg for £1.39.

Lynsey

We have the drumsticks here, but we're still getting the chocolate, what a shame you're not

cherrypies

recovering spendaholic Bury market is brilliant! I've not been for years as we live in the Isle of Man now but i used to go regularly. The 'meat and fish' market was brilliant for bulk buying meat, 20 huge, fresh chicken breasts for £10 etc, that kind of thing. And in the indoor market there was a freezer stall that did frozen stuff for about 1/3 the price of the supermarkets. There is an italian deli that faces onto the market square that sells fabulous fresh bread, olives, cooked meats, hummous etc, they'll make you a sandwich out of anything you fancy from the stall and it's reasonably priced too, would def recommend.

Lynsey, I think M&S reductions are even more Manager dependant than the other supermarkets, they seem to judge the footfall on a daily basis rather than have rough times set in stone like Tesco's 90% off after 8pm. A lot of their fresh food is reduced on a Wednesday as this is their stocking cycle (Thursday the Dine in offers come in and the meat for the weekend traffic) etc so it is worth popping in on a Wednesday PM if you're passing (I found this before we moved to the Island so I'm not judging it on just my current store!). Special events and very bad weather also seem to give a good yield, for example, I went in on Xmas Eve at 4:30pm last year and picked up a £40+ Free Range Organic turkey for £8. I cooked it alongside my £20 turkey already purchased from Tesco and there was no comparison, the M&S one was a hundred times better, lesson learnt!

Quiet-ish day for me today, got most of the cooking out of the way last night so I'm just hanging out with the kids and hoping the weather perks up so we can go out. (but not to do ANY shopping!) Youngest turns 2 tomorrow so I have a birthday cake to bake tonight :-)