I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

ms_night_ryder

Hey all.

Well I'm In a jolly mood, the bar that I went to Friday, they were running a comp, so i gave them my name, i was at the tike thinking of the comp winners on here, forgot Bout it, they called me to say I've won £100 bar tab for me and 10people, plus VIP and a booth, I. Truth most of my friends are pregnant LOL, so I'm gonna give 10 names anyway and go with the girlies!

Yesterday I took out 2 sandwich thins and had 2 of the sausages I had precooked all.g with the coleslaw I obtained from the overspill at my grandmas today nothi.g will be from freezers I have left over Chinese from yest, I'm going on a Detox tomorrow.

Lynsey

abitofhelp wrote: »

i have a grocery budget for the year but still seem to overspend on food.

abitofhelp - hi and welcome..........another "victim" joining up.
Is your annual budget £2000??
Not that easy to stick to a budget, but amazingly this thread has educated me and I'm getting there, pretty strong with my annual budget due to fear of failure!! Some weeks I do feel like spending though and feel I'm being forced into what I'm eating rather than what I may decide.

Good luck and wouldn't mind coming over to your place for lunch, heavily addicted to stir fry's with noodles these last few days!! lol
Probably having another one later.

Soup is simmering away and bread does NOT look like it's rising properly...........20 minutes to go..........might be another feast for the birds!!

ms_night_ryder - WOW, well done!!

Lynsey

lyra

Welcome biscuitmad :wave:
recovering spendaholic - We were saying at work that over half of our conversations are about food :rotfl:

Bit of drama with my parents cat. He came in last night, limping & meowing in pain. Wouldn't eat anything which as he's a greedy so and so was very unusual. Took him to the vet this morning & he'd been bitten by another cat, on his paw, neck & head :eek: Cue injections, medication & an eye watering vet bill. He's already a lot brighter thank goodness. I'm trying to tell him that at 12 he's far too old for getting into fights but I don't speak cat unfortunately.

Co-op seemed to be having a 30p night last night. Got oranges, tiger bread & bread rolls reduced to 30p & some sliced ham reduced to 75p. All for my parents. There was so much bread & cakes reduced to 25-30p, didn't buy any of the latter but was tempted! :rotfl:

VfM4meplse

lyra wrote: »

Co-op seemed to be having a 30p night last night. Got oranges, tiger bread & bread rolls reduced to 30p & some sliced ham reduced to 75p. All for my parents. There was so much bread & cakes reduced to 25-30p, didn't buy any of the latter but was tempted! :rotfl:

Total bargain-fest! I would have definitely bought cakes for that price, portioned them up separated by plastic wrap and then frozen in rigid boxes. Always so handy to take a small slice out for a sugar fix as they don't take too long to defrost. Unfortunately once a bar of chocolate / packet of biscuits is open, it's all too easy to demolish the lot .

Have just had a golden syrup Oat-so-Simple for lunch, it was okay but no substitute for a cake .

abitofhelp

Lynsey wrote: »

abitofhelp - hi and welcome..........another "victim" joining up.
Is your annual budget £2000??
Not that easy to stick to a budget, but amazingly this thread has educated me and I'm getting there, pretty strong with my annual budget due to fear of failure!! Some weeks I do feel like spending though and feel I'm being forced into what I'm eating rather than what I may decide.

Good luck and wouldn't mind coming over to your place for lunch, heavily addicted to stir fry's with noodles these last few days!! lol
Probably having another one later.

hello, yes the budget is £2000 and that was from the 24th feb not the begining of the year. it is for two adults and two children though

Soup is simmering away and bread does NOT look like it's rising properly...........20 minutes to go..........might be another feast for the birds!!

ms_night_ryder - WOW, well done!!

Lynsey

hi yes the budget is for £2000 though i managed to spend a quarter of it in about 8 weeks not good. the budget is for 4 of us two adults well 3 if you include eldest child who should be off to uni in sept, and a 10 year old. it is for food, cleaning, washing etc. takeaways and wine etc get paid for by oh. i was hoping to have enough left over for extra food for christmas and if i stop spending so much i may b eable to afford a sparrow to roast i have 4 packets of whoopsie stirfry mix in the freezer so have enough for sharing:). having a budget certainly makes you think about where the money is going and embarrassingly i have enough food for between 50-60 meals. i am taking £100 out of the bank next week to cut back on my spends.

ms_night_ryder

I'm getting Into comping ASAP LOL , I'm inspired.

Puddleglum

Hi can I join you as well please?

I catalogued my cupboard stores yesterday and got a bit of a shoke at the amount there was. I really need to make space in the freezer too.

Today I have made super healthy fruit and nut bars using some well past it pears which have been quietly [STRIKE]rotting[/STRIKE]ripening in the fruitbowl. Everyone has had one with lunch and pronounced them delicious so probably best not to tell them what went in!

I have also dragged out and defrosted some pitta breads and butternut squash pate. Dinner will be cauliflower and kohlrabi Italian style (lemon juice and parsley butter over cooked veg) with couscous from stores followed by gooseberry fool made from freezer and custard mountain.

Edwardia

Afternoon all ! Hugs all round. Kirri seem MIA hope's OK. C%p weather here, got thunder rumbling overhead and wet.

I've given up alcohol and so I wasn't too impressed when OH (a) stuck red wine in the gravy last night and (b) the duck stock made with the roast duck carcass.

I melted the duck fat to cook my breakfast mushrooms in and ewww. 250g button mushrooms rendered inedible and all the duck stock too.

The dog got the OH's left over bits of duck and OH has to go to Lidl tonight to pick up coconut milk. :rotfl:

Am sticking recipes on A4 for my lever arch file today and on my third glue stick !

Lynsey

Puddleglum - welcome and looks like we'll get some different recipes from you then. Butternut squash pate sounds nice.

abitofhelp - I think your initial budget might be low taking into account there are 4 of you (at the moment) and includes cleaning, washing etc.
A quarter of your budget in just 8 weeks is naughty, should have lasted 13 weeks!! lol
I don't think a "sparrow" roast will go far.............certainly won't do Xmas Day and Boxing Day!!

I've been naughty myself today and thoroughly disappointed at letting myself down and breaking my promise NOT to buy meat for the freezer!!
Popped into Sainsbury's to get the Linda Mc burgers and noodles and should only have spent exactly £4, but saw some creme egg lollies (Cadbury Gold) reduced to 75p and and then my failure, frozen lean mince reduced to £1.62 per pack (1kg) from an over-priced £6.49, only 2 packs left and initially was only going to take 1 pack but didn't want to leave a pack on it's own, so took them both!! Should be good for spag bol and shepherds pies!!
Looked at the sweets and saw yet another bargain, milk bottles reduced to 75p (sel) and took a box, but they went through the till at 50p, so went and got another 2 cartons!! Bought some cheap veg stock cubes for 10p (basics) and total spend there was £9.59 (ouch) including burgers and noodles.
Aldi, just bought some frozen peas (85p), cucumber (39p) and tomatoes (69p), total £1.93. Potatoes were Saxon, so left them
I was going to go to M&S and have a look, but "bottled it" and that's another day.
Popped into Sainsbury's late on to check the fruit and veg and bought 2 bags of Maris Piper potatoes reduced to 49p each, total spend 98p. Glad I refused to buy the potatoes in Aldi.

Days spend = £12.50, but got quite a bit and not much needed until next weekend apart from fresh stuff. I'm still spending on Saturday, coffee from Morries and hopefully some reduced bread and pies late on. No Lidl this weekend though.
Surprised there is still a few gaps in the freezers, put in quite a bit of late and filled all those spaces I've worked hard/ish at achieving.
Negative is I've failed, positive is I'm well stocked and in a great position again.

Soup for tomorrow and burgers in a bun with home made chips.
2nd lot of bread worked better, think it was the milk I added to the 1st batch that messed it up. It failed to rise the last time I used milk!! Birds didn't seem to mind.........bless them.

Just had a lolly and well over-priced at £2.99 for 3, but 25p is about what they are worth, would NOT pay over £1 for 3!!
Also had another stir fry using the chargrilled chicken, no more stir fry's until next week!!

Lynsey

Florenceem

Freezer update - two bags of HM bread put in and one blueberry muffin taken out. No space in there still! :eek: