I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Florenceem

Lynsey wrote: »

Florenceem - well impressed with your March grocery spend - well done. :T :T

Cooking for 10+!! WOW - well impressed there also. :T :T

Must be a "doddle" now?? lol

Lynsey

I had 6 children plus was host family for foreign students all year round. In the winter I had 2 students but in the summer - 5. I also had my Dad all day on a Saturday after Mum died so he was there for dinner as well. You get used to cooking huge amounts. I started off on the GC with a large stock of food - hence I don't spend much.

Lynsey

Florenceem - My God, you are a star and so inspirational - thank you for posting tonight.

Lynsey

Lip_Stick

Hi all

Well, haven't done well at getting ds a decent easter egg, none in m&s so I went to Asda and they had nothing in there either. He was ok having a Moshi monsters £1 one so I got him a book too. Ended up buying pork ribs and a sauce while I was there, plus a few other things. Ds is with the folks tonight, so I'm getting !!!!ed!

Quorn is ok, but I find it goes cold really quick, like the sausages, they're stone cold not long after they've been cooked.

Edit - !!!!ed! means p!$$ed!

ms_night_ryder

Just had N excellent whoopsie hunt thus evening, I was umming and arring if i should go out or not, had received my books from amazon and was quite comfy.

Decided to go out anyway and got some bargains, I got sweet chilli chicken breast strips, bacon and chicken pasta, lean mince, ttd mince, halal lamb mince, a pork joint small, 6 mini quiches, chicken goujons, 2 packs of ttd sausages, a healthy em chicken chow mein,4 onions, 1 big back of kettle crisps, big bag of red codified, 2 pack of apple pies and a gfy chicken trifle all for 13.87 was well pleased most of it can go I. The. Freezer including the Apple pies, just finding the space in the freezer.

Even though I took out half a salmon and a pork joint for tomorrow's dinner at my grams, will season it I. a min, i also took out 2 salmon fillets which I was going to have for today's dinner, until I changed my mind and was going to have fish and chips, in sainsburys I changed my mind and had the chicken. and pasta I.stead, off to have a quick sort of kitchen.

So far I'm having a great weekend hope you all are.

quintwins

wow i could imagine cooking for 10.

see we like eating out it's rare that i'm disappointed because we know where we like now (we have found the yummiest chinese which makes trying not to eat out alot harder) but also it's the treat of not having to cook.

i have an awful migraine, i went to bed for a few hrs earlier but still no better, all i managed for tea was a pancake then spent an hr trying to keep it down, hubby decided we wanted battered chicken again so i made it and he peeled spuds and he and the kids had it chips and beans, not the best use for 3 lovely chicken breasts imo but i wasn't eating it and better than it going uneaten i suppose, off for a wee lie down again as soon as hubby gets back from the shop with my juice.

dinner at inlaws tomorrow, see i love eating out but i love proper cooked dinner aswell, althof ro soem reason hubbsy family are more into veg bakes than roasties and yorkshire puddings, still it's free dinner and no cooking for me

VfM4meplse

Hope you feel better soon q.

katskorner

Just dressed the turkey for tomorrow. A 6kg one I got for tenner on Christmas Eve from our cash and carry butcher who wants to marry me..lol! Dressed with butter, bacon and sausagemeat - will stuff with moroccan couscous in the morning before cooking. Looks amazing!

Hubby has cooked a gammon in apple juice and that will be roasted along with the turkey after being coated in honey in the morning. Roast veggies are marinading in the fridge. Fresh purple sprouting from allotment topped up with carrots, sprouts, brocolli and cauli from the fridge.

9 of us tomorrow for dinner!

Dinner tonight is balti from the freezer made a couple of weeks ago with rice, naan, snacks and chaana dahl... nom nom

lyra

Hope the migraine goes quickly quintwins, horrible things.
Good luck with the surgery Kirri, that food sounds lovely

Went to the local farm shop yesterday. Got a massive bag of rhubarb, half of week went into making jam & the rest I'll stew. Never had rhubarb jam before & oh my it's delicious :T Other than that, didn't spend much, got some stuff for my parents garden. My spinach is starting to grow, as are the wild flowers.

Only other food spend was a bottle of red wine, £5 but it was for the parents to say thanks for letting me stay. Out for sunday lunch tomorrow, which I'm looking forward too.

Need to get back on the healthy eating track after Easter! My lovely grandad brought round some hot cross buns, way too yummy & making cupcakes for my mum's birthday on tuesday...can feel my stomach expanding :rotfl:

Lynsey

Morning and happy Easter, coffee soon and opening all my Easter eggs!! :easter: :EasterBun

quintwins - hope you are feeling better today, hate migraines.

Lip_Stick - how's your head??

katskorner - good luck with dinner, 9 is too many for myself, you're getting into Florenceem territory there!!

Thinking of having eggs today actually, boiled with soldiers for breakfast.
Lunch, turkey with trimmings (basic and not Xmas style), dessert apple crumble with whipped cream and turkey sandwiches probably later for myself and turkey curry for hubby - quite an easy day really.

NSD today, good start to the week. :j

Weather could have been better!!

Lynsey

cheerfulness4

Boiled egg and fingers sounds a nice way to start the day. Might indulge myself.

Last night was disappointing at morries. No meat bargains, no bakery bargains. About 10-20% only reduced off.

Did strike lucky in the chilled cabinets tho. Managed to grab a couple of bargains and some went towards my lazy tea.

Got:

2x med pots double cream @ 19p each
1 box of Boursin cheese @ 19p
1 tub roasted veg couscous with falafel and dip @ 19p
1 chicken curry and rice ready meal @ 19p
Big bowl of potato salad @ £1.05 (was gorgeous!)
1x 2pk of sponge pud and custard pots @ 19p

I could have got deli brawn (which I love!) at half price but I let it lie as I was hoping for bigger reductions than 50% at that time of day and with the shop closing for a day.
Monday might bring greater pickings but I've some SSM vouchers I need to use in MrT on cleaning/laundry sO I might have to save my pennies.

I've just spent a large part of my cleaning budget on ebay this weekend, stocking up on soap powder and dishwasher tablets. I do hope this stuff is good.
The soap powder is supposed to be leading brands crushed tablets and gets good reviews.
The DW tablets are a mixed sack full of 700! :eek: Will last us a good 2 years, if not longer.

Anyway, I found the link on here somewhere. Not sure where. Wasn't one of you, was it?

I tend to buy cheaper dishwasher powder anyway, (Daisy) but I'm fussier with my soap powder. Still, as long as it cleans, I'll try anything once. I'm not a brand snob. I'm using Lidls as the mo and it seems fine and is matching the Daz and Persil I'd been using in performance.

Pulled a joint of beef (one of my lovely big ones I got reduced the other week ) from the freezer last night and we're having that with all the trimmings today. Got 6 here for dinner.

Think I'll treat them all and use one of my xmas puds I got from AP foods a bit ago and have that with evaporated milk custard.
In fact, all this talk of rhubard reminded me that a real treat for us was stewed rhubarb and evap custard when I was a little girl.
Had no idea it was a cheap treat as my parents were skint for a time when dad had been poorly for a while.

Feel quite relaxing that the shops are shut. No need to worry about bargains getting away.