I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Lip_Stick

*yawns* Morning all. Today will be a nsd as off to mam's for dinner. Hope it's the pork loin again or I'll be severely disappointed. Feeling tired, could do with another hour or two in bed but being picked up in about half hour. Ds is with his dad today.

Hope the weather is nice tomorrow as it's the last day of his hols that I have with him, although I'll be doing a cheer when he goes back as I can sort out the mess that is 'home'.

kirri - I was looking at that site this morning and remember reading it last year. Sad to see a lot of horses collapsing from racing. Is it wrong to cheer when I see a jockey get injured? Sounds like your mum is looking after you. Take it easy.

skilly - I tend to do that. Get out a piece of lamb and make enough for 6 meals which more than fills the space in the freezer!

Lynsey - you're a bad influence! Getting me spending while I'm under the influence! Bargain tho, will put it away for xmas as ds has far too much for his birthday already.

abitofhelp - Sounds nice, you're making me hungry!

blackandwhitebunny

I have to confess that the cold made us abandon bbq plans last night, it got really misly and wet so roasted beef in the oven.
We had it with the last of last seasons beans from the garden out of the freezer, roast spuds and mashed butternut. I also made cheese and chorizo swirls (using a scone mixture) to have with drinks first and a fruit mincemeat cheesecake (I saw the idea on here) which used up half a jar of mincemeat that was hanging around in the fridge.

We have enough beef left (after feeding four and two bottomless felines) for a meal and some sandwiches and half a cheesecake left.:D

OH had scrambled eggs on crumpets for breakfast and I had sainsbugs cranberry and orange toasties. Toasties and crumpets from the freezer.

I hate horseracing and dogracing. The animals destroyed yesterday are a tiny tip of the pyramid. Thousands are bred and killed each year as they are 'not good enough':(

skilly

Hi all ,just bought a pressure cooker and can't seem to stop cooking with it at the moment . been filling freezer with beans and more beans and eating more beans so dont stand to close to me !!!! I am trying to be a better veggie :A

pixnmix_2

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3904115

Spotted this last night, toddled off to local T and bought 4 of them for a£1 each!!! Glitch at T, meaning the Simply Add meat range, instead of £6 for 2 are scanning in at £1 each!!

katskorner

spent £<17 in morries today - OH with me and had to reign him in. Got fruit, speciality bread, fresh fish reduced and reduced fresh pizzas - nom. OH got a hot pack of pork belly reduced - all his, don't like the stuff (£2.69 too - blimey and that was on YS!). Got to plan meals as tend not to! Think I may visit the old-style forums for inspiration.

Got a joint of lamb resting nicely and a gammon joint in for sandwiches this week. Veggies in steamer and roasties tatties and veg mix all ready so kids getting fed and us later. Only got one lamb joint left now so shall savour this! Now.. where is that mint sauce....

feeling marginally better but have a feeling that I may crash tuesday once littlest goes back to nursery...

Edwardia

Hi y'all..

I've done an online shop with Spices of India, offer is free delivery over £30 and I bought ghee, mustard oil, coconut oil, big box of Brooke Bond Taj Mahal tea, 40 cardamon teabags, curry paste, biryani paste, korma paste, tandoori paste, garam masala, whole garam masala and 4 tins of boiled chick peas.

B - 2 fried FR eggs,button mushrooms
L - Southern Fried Quornburger from freezer with baby leaf salad and coleslaw
D will be roast whole seabass from freezer (Morrisons 50% offer £4 each) with home-made parsley and walnut pesto.. yummy

catch ya tomorrow xxx

Lynsey

81p spent in Sainsbury's today.

Noodles (fresh) - 24p
Bread - 9p
Salad - 29p
Cream apple turn-overs - 19p

Having the noodles tomorrow with veggie stir fry (veggie day), turn-overs gone and bread will be given to the birds (most of it).

Had to put some pork back in freezer (far too much), nothing else put in though and still some space.

skilly - love my pressure cooker, need a new safety valve and reluctant to spend £10 (rip off).

Lynsey

katskorner

oh man - just ordered a takeway.. gonna have the lamb dinner tomorrow.... really bad but so tired and in need of curry.....

quintwins

hi all, last day oof easter hols so we had mcd's followed by popcorn in the cinema stopped into tesco's on the way back and managed to get bread at 3p a loaf i got 4 yet there was loads to choose from and only 10mins til they closed and he still had more to mark down, got some baps for 4p and 6 muffins for 11p, got some reduced bakery bread for 39p and a tiger bagette for 29p, all but the bagette and baker bread are in my new freezer, it's 1/3 full how on earth do people live with such tiny freezers?

DODO_2

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

I fell asleep in the chair and have just woken up at 1.35am!!

I make my bread in the breadmaker with (ingredients listed in order of adding to machine):

one and a quarter tsps of dried fast action yeast
500g bread flour
one and a half tsps of sugar
one and a half tsps of salt
2 tbs oil (I use mild and light olive oil)
175ml water
175ml milk

I use the rapid bake programme and haven't had a failure yet! I sometimes substitute 100g of the flour with 100g oats which makes a nice tasty loaf, and sometimes I add an egg, but that makes it a bit cakey IYKWIM.

I think that the most important thing about breadmaker breadmaking is to keep the yeast as far apart from the liquid and the salt as possible.

Have just been doing my budget for the rest of the month and found to my horror that I only have about £120 left after tomorrow's food shop is done (Ocado order using free delivery code and the O2 £30 off code), unless and until I get paid - I'm self employed and am owed about £1000 in fees but clients tend to pay you at their leisure! Oh well, I have loads of food in (though the kids would argue as there is no rubbish stuff like pizzas, chocolate, oven chips, biscuits, ice cream etc). If I let myself dwell on it I get so mad as ex DH is on a HUGE salary (giant in fact) - oh best not start on that...!!

Lip-stick Glad you liked the Chuckle Brothers - I don't think you can help but laugh at them - I think they are hilarious!

Florenceem- sorry about your MIL.

I just read about the horses killed in the National - I was really horrified and am never going to bet on it again. Sounds stupid but I have never really watched the race on TV before and it was shocking the way the horses kept falling. DD2 was watching with me and she got really really upset. I only live about 4 miles from the course and you should have seen some of the sights round here last night and tonight as the racegoers came home!

I need to find some Branston beans on offer - for the first time in ages I only have one tin in my cupboards!

Well had better get to bed - but I'm not tired now I have had that sleep!

Lidl next weekend beans half price xxx