I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

katskorner

Still feeling grot and wondering if I should get the antibiotics anyway. Fed up of being ill. Too busy to be ill.

Can't face freezer for dinner stuff so OH will have to dig later. Boys will get whatever I can muster. With veg

cheerfulness4

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

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couldn't find a Strata recipe so had to make it up and it turned out lovely! I sliced the cheese scones and then fried 2 onions and 6 chopped rashers of bacon in a little bit of butter and mixed it with 4 eggs, 125g of grated mature cheddar and half a pint of milk and a bit of seasoning.. I left it to soak and then baked it for 30 minutes. We had it wth beans. Was only leftovers but it was lovely. there is loads left over too.

So is it a bit like a savoury bread and butter pudding? Sounds interesting.

AlwaysHappy wrote: »

Hello everyone, I've been following the thread for a while but decided I need to join in on the challenge.

Hiya AlwaysHappy (what a lovely name!)
You got some brilliant bargains there. Adore plums.

Lynsey wrote: »

Check out the coupon thread, possibly free Palmolive hand-wash, even paid to take it away - save the pdf coupon to re-use if any good to you.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=52499885&postcount=451

Lynsey

Have you seen the size of that coupon! When I went to print it yesterday it looks like A5 size. :eek: Still, they're happy to accept them and I'm happy to get some free handwash.


Hope the bread turns out fine, BTW Lynsey. Your birds must be getting chubby now, its you that needs the bread this time.

My tomato plants are only around 6 inches high so far. I've around 10 different varieties at least. So excited for my salady goodness this year. I've got it all organized (on paper at least!).

Full inventories of stocks to be done today. Been threatening it for ages but must do it now as the easy stuff is now gone and I'll have to venture into the corners of the freezer and cupboards that I normally ignore. (where lurks the weird and wonderful that I thought I'd use and then didn't bother. All those ingredients for those unmade recipes that seemed such a good idea at the time.):o

I may be gone some time sorting this little lot out.

Lynsey

cheerfulness4 wrote: »

Hope the bread turns out fine, BTW Lynsey. Your birds must be getting chubby now, its you that needs the bread this time.

None for the birds this time I'm afraid, best ever result so far - just had some and lovely texture. At last I've got a workable recipe that's suitable to myself and my cheap bread-maker.

Good luck with the hand-washes.
Thinking of cutting the top bit off.

Lynsey

fizzy702

Hi everyone hope its ok for me to jump on and join you to ...
This is my 2nd week of living on a budget !!! Week one we did just eat what we had indoors and then last Saturday I did my shopping for 4 weeks which I have just about managed to squeeze into my kitchen , its very small and we are a family of 4 plus pets !!!!

Well for dinner tonight we are all having sausage and mash with onion gravy And the kids are both having P/L at school for 4 days out of 5.......... Need to get some mince out for tomorrow as I will have Chilli and hubby and kids will have meat sauce and pasta......

abitofhelp

Morning all, i have used two packets of the cheese sauce mix parents gave me at the weekend, used up some of the pasta and some ham slices from the freezer. broccoli from ald1 last week was great for 39p. i added some mustard and extra cheese so i hope it will taste ok. i have ready to put in the oven this evening broccoli, ham & cheese pasta bake and will take out of the freezer garlic bread to serve with it.

katskorner

abitofhelp wrote: »

Morning all, i have used two packets of the cheese sauce mix parents gave me at the weekend, used up some of the pasta and some ham slices from the freezer. broccoli from ald1 last week was great for 39p. i added some mustard and extra cheese so i hope it will taste ok. i have ready to put in the oven this evening broccoli, ham & cheese pasta bake and will take out of the freezer garlic bread to serve with it.

That sounds really nice - let us know tomorrow

cheerfulness4

Hiya Fizzy.

Lynsey - question. Cravendale hinting at free milk again on Friday but I noticed someone saying that they couldn't benefit last time as nowhere near them sold the size that was being given away.
What size was it? :huh:
And do you know if it was just for one super or any of them?

I missed out last time as had no clue what it was about and didn't do facebook then. Trying to jump in early this time round.

Lynsey

fizzy702 - welcome to the forum, good luck with your budget.

cheerfulness4 - It was 1 litre cartons the last time and got mine from Sainsbury's and I think Asda?? Saved well over £5 per month.
*** It was Sainsbury's mainly - just checked archived posts.
Hope it's true and NOT another silly "twist" like the Muppets!! I like Cravendale............just wouldn't "buy" it.

Lynsey

Edwardia

katskorner - hope you feel better soon

Lynsey - don't possess a deep fat fryer as won't use sunflower and vegetable oils, we put them on a baking tray, sprinkle over olive oil (should buy a spray for this really) - temperature depends on oven and I think my gas Moffat now knackered.

recovering spendaholic - have a Google of Cajun strata as it's a breakfast dish in the deep South with andouille type sausages - my mother did a course at a Cajun cooking school in Louisiana.

fizzy702 - welcome to the board

cheerfulness4 - I haven't even started my tomato seeds yet ! Salad stuff is growing away tho in propagators

alwayshappy - welcome tp the board

Listening to a BBC Radio Five Live report on sugar in fruit juices.. fruit is just vitamin C with sugar in natural state and an apple contains 3 tsps sugar.. a serving of fruit juice contains 18 teaspoons of sugar !!

Evidently 5 a day was a marketing campaign started in California in 1991 to sell fruit and veg and never should have been adopted as a misleading health mantra..

Florenceem

Lynsey wrote: »

Dough looks much better this time, bake in about 10 minutes time.
Used Asda flour this time and seems better than Lidl's.

420g flour
30g porridge oats (Jordans)
200ml water
50ml milk
little olive oil spread
sugar
salt
1 packet of Allinson yeast (put in last on top of flour)

See what they taste like!!

BTW, I don't drink much juice now, apart from when on holiday - I'm a coffee drinker - need to reduce that though!!
Bought 24 cans of diet Pepsi a while back and most of it still in fridge, used to be a diet Coke drinker, but hardly touch it apart from restaurants.

Lynsey

I love Lidl bread flour - works for me anyway.