I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

quintwins

Edwardia wrote: »

Hi all !

quintwins I have to say that when I worked as a chef at one place I got accommodation ie a mobile home to myself. Spacious for one person but in the winter my loo froze up and calor gas wouldn't work !

lol bet you didn't stay there long, we'll have oil heating and all the pipes will be insulated and buried, so i think we're ok, besides if it's that cold we'll go camp out at the inlaws they already have a room for the kids so we'll sleep on there sofa's :rotfl:

Edwardia

You're right, I didn't stay long ! Had never experienced cold like it til I went to live in Canada, had all my clothes piled on the bed over me to keep warm. Sounds like you're all organised though on the cold front

quintwins

Edwardia wrote: »

You're right, I didn't stay long ! Had never experienced cold like it til I went to live in Canada, had all my clothes piled on the bed over me to keep warm. Sounds like you're all organised though on the cold front

lol sounds like an electric blankets would have been your best friend, i'm used to cold i had no heat for 4 years at all because i couldn't afford it, and my dad was very tight with heating when we lived at home, i always said my kids would always have decent meals and be nice and warm and i've stuck to it, a cold home would be deal breaker for me.


i changed my mind and had sausage rolls for lunch so another space in the freezer

VfM4meplse

quintwins wrote: »

no lynsey we're moving to the inlaws garden, we'll be there for 2 years, at which point we can afford our own plot, and then we'll be there for another 2-3 years, gonna be fun with 3 kids lol.

Sound like a real sacrifice but should be worth it in the end!

blackandwhitebunny

Took two packs of burgers out the freezer yesterday and had them for dinner with lovely big granary rolls. They were sainsbugs angus ones so were smallish but thick and the rolls were huge, so I rolled the burgers out between two sheets of greaseproof to make them the same size. It works really well and I don't know why I've never thought of it before.
This left a small space in the freezer which I promptly filled with a fr chicken and two pork bellies which Mr S insisted I take by making them so cheap on ys that I paid for them and milk with 2 nectar vouchers and only had to pay in 15p:D

gary_79

I think this is something most of us could benefit from doing. My freezer is chock-a-block! Going to join you all on this one.

brighteyes1987

Afternoon,

Toast and cereal for breakfast
Ham toastie, banana and plum for lunch
Have just put chicken thighs in the oven, will have with savoury rice, yummy but cheap

Payday today, not that I see the money though :mad:
Anyhow will pop to Mr M's when dd is in beavers, should be able to pick up some cheap bread, fruit etc at that time on a Friday. Need to get milk also but will try not to spend on anything else as I don't really need anything.

BE x

Lip_Stick

Evening all

Just had a scrummy tea of sausages, egg, chopped toms and beans, mushroom and potato pancake. Tried my Heinz spicy ketchup that I won the other day, and I have to say it's really nice. Would buy it again.

Didn't have breakfast or lunch at all, didn't feel too hungry even though I bought a sandwich, which I'll probably have for supper.

Spent £5 today on a bottle of pop, pack of boosters, tiger bread, philly (50p with coupon which ran out today), Frozen asparagus reduced to 50p from about £1.50, FR eggs, mushrooms and toms.

Hair's looking nice although I'd have liked more off it. Glad it's the weekend and I can have a lie in... haha.. like that's gunna happen.

Forgot to mention.... 6 MORE SLEEPS!!!

Gary, welcome to the thread.

Hows the not spending going BE?

lyra

^ Have a fab time, how exciting

Went into town as had an hour to kill. Got teabags from sainsburys(and nothing else, woohoo!) and got a couple of jar sauces from the 99p store: Blue Dragon & Seeds of Change, thought that was pretty good value. I haven't got the room, or time left here to build up a store cupboard in this place, but once I move, I'm looking forward to getting lots of spices so I can make sauces from scratch :T

Lip_Stick

Wish we had a pound store down the main road. There's one in town but I can't be arsed to go to that as it's in the other direction to Asda and Home Bargains.

I like making pasta sauces from scratch although it's been a while since I made any.. well, since I won the £50 aldi vouchers to be precise!

And yep, will have a fab time at Disney, can't blinking wait!!