I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

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Evening all. Blimey it's cold tonight! Had dinner at mam's which was chicken not the pork loin. Disappointed! For tea I had lo kebab. Feeling a bit peckish tho.

No idea what I'm doing tomorrow so not got anything out of the freezer, but will do for Tuesday evening. Need potatoes and oven chips to get this week, but otherwise not a lot now ds is back at school on Tues.

Right, off to watch Titanic on catch up.

Florenceem

Hurrah! Mr F got a tub containing a muffin out of the freezer and - nothing went in! :eek:So one very tiny space!!! :j

recovering_spendaholic

made a lovely orange marmalade pudding for after tea tonight to use up half a jar of marmalade that I had in the cupboard. i also made home made coleslaw and made the dressing with mustard, soured cream and mayo mixed with a little bit of lemon juice and salad cream. We had it with chicken thighs and it made a really tasty meal.

Got some Branston Beans but paid £1.28 for four cans in the little Tesco round the corner - I reckoned this was cheaper than using petrol going all the way to Lidl!

katskorner - am jealous - hope your takeaway was nice!! i love getting a takeaway but it is too expensive now to do very often.

Lynsey - i wish my Sainsburys would get a new manager and then maybe we would get some decent reductions!

my cupboards are looking much better except that today i bought 16 cans of tuna on my Ocado shopping - it was 33% off and I also had my O2 £30 off £90 shopping. With careful choosing I was able to get £125 worth of shopping for £69 which I was pleased with. Need to do some serious economising for the rest of the month so I am hoping that I will only have to buy milk and salad stuff and maybe some fresh fruit as I have loads of meat and other mealmakers.

I was watching Delia's How to Cook on cable before and I dug out my How to Cook books and found a few really nice recipes which I am going to try this coming week.

Kirri - hope you are still recovering. I am still waiting for the call about my gall bladder.....

Kirri

^ thank you, recovering now though I feel a right slob spending every day in baggy nightwear! I'm slowly deflating so hopefully can get dressed this week! I've eaten a little better today at last

Hope you get on ok with your gb op! That's done in a similar way but needs more recovery - hope you will get to put your feet up after?

As terrified as I was, now I know what to expect and how my body won't work after, if I go in again I would probably be a bit less nervous!

Lynsey

Morning.

Weather looks like changing here the next few day and rain, rain, rain!!
Might be a good time to start decorating/changing around a bedroom - would much rather be gardening though.

Jane - is your Sainsbury's a large one??
I find the smaller ones much, much better for "whoopsies".
BTW, good luck with your op.

Porridge again today as it's a bit cold.
Veggie stir fry (trying Quorn done in garlic oil) and salad (probably with cheese topped jacket potato).
That's the 1st "Veggie Day" of the week sorted.

Got to go shopping this morning (Morries) for my Brother, but determined NOT to spend. Maybe try Sainsbury's later tonight, but ONLY for bargains.

Lynsey

lyra

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Ooh just looked at that website, seems really good! Will have a proper nosey after work.

Nothing spent this weekend :T Have to say, it's more to do with being laid up with a migraine saturday & then doing everything I was meant to do then on sunday

Making this for my parents tonight: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/6613/rice-and-peas-with-mango-chicken They had kidney beans lurking in the freezer so thought it would be nice to do something other than chilli. Oh should add, I'm doing it with chicken thighs, far less expensive!

Kirri

^ Lynsey, I hope it does rain while I can't get to my allotment! Though still bit miserable looking out at it - lovely and sunny here today at least. Meant to say you are doing well to have a tomato showing! Have you been getting all the seeds from the freebie board, from RHS, Dolmio and Hozelock?

Started off day with banana again - may keep this up, they are only about 10p each when bought loose. Probably have some toast in a bit then more fruit (a pear probably) then pitta/houmous for lunch (run out of salad), maybe with the last of the bulghar wheat. Not sure what I'll have tonight and followed by an orange.

quintwins

morning all

kirri glad your feeling abit better

lynsey i acually find my big tesco's better for whoopsies.

well i ave 2 people coming today to collect my furniture it's scary giving all my stuff away but we will be fine and there be less to dust , if they arrive early enough i'll be nipping to the farm shop for some fruit, if not i'll make do with the kiwi's we have and the kids can have some rice pudding with frozen strawberrys for pudding,i'm really struggling to find ceap bananas because we don't liek green ones, i know i should buy them and ripen them but the kids would just wanna eat them then moan there hard lol.

hayfevers going mental today

breakfast was some of the tiger bagette, lunch for ds3 will be mince and taties, i'm not feeling great so havent eaten anything yet i might try some toast in abit, my throats icthy i was just thinking how nice cold melon would be, gonna lift some chicken breasts out for dinner, will prob just roast them and serve with mas veg and gravy.

Kirri

Thanks quintwins.
I'd quite like the idea of giving away all my furniture, less to dust sounds good! I hate having an attachment to things.. it's hard to get rid.
I just get loose bananas, they seem to ripen very quick, but I like to buy them just on the turn from green to yellow, I can never get a bunch as they go too soft too quick and sure they are a lot more expensive that way too.

quintwins

lol we buy loose as i like to pick and i take the black ones off ect, but we use 2 bunches a week i try to buy 14ish :O to be fair i do have 3 kids tho, we limit them to one a day each, it's maily them that eats them we would eat the odd one here and there