I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

sock-knitter

supernoodles, with a wee bit grated cheese and salad for lunch
tea will be lamb chops from the freezer, and cabbage from farm shop which cost me 10p

mymerrywidow

i am back to square 1 again

i brought alot of sausages/bacon from rosspa.co.uk and had to freeze them. also the 3 blocks of cheese from tesco.

recovering_spendaholic

Went to Tescos this morning and bought £100 worth of stuff (including cleaning and dog food too) - split it into two lots of £50 and used my £5 off £50 vouchers from the mail so brought it down to £90. My freezer is now pretty full but I still need to go to Lidl for the weekend offers (if there are any left!) and I should be set for the month with just milk, bread and fruit and salad/veg to restock when needed.

Lunch for kids was tuna and sweetcorn rolls and I used up some leftover cooked new potatoes in a potato salad and had the last of my Aldi tin of corned beef for me. Tea tonight will be a piece of Topside (half price on Tesco butchers counter) with jacket potatoes and salad, and should have enought left over for packed lunches for a couple of days next week.

Do any of you ever buy the Tesco value pizzas? You get a massive one for £1 and I always add loads of leftover stuff to it - cold meat, sprinkle of frozen sweetcorn, frozen mushrooms, leftover sausages, bacon, extra cheese - it makes a pizza groaning with toppings and the kids love it! I haven't told them that it's Tesco Value because they would moan and say they don't want it any more - I just tell them it's my big feast pizza! A £1 pizza does 4 easily and we usually have a slice left over (kids eat that later or next day). I bought 3 this morning and have frozen two.

Do you always make "afters" when you cook a meal? I get all kinds of bother if I don't and they also moan if it's only yoghurt. I refuse to buy ice cream as they eat it all practically the same day I buy it and they don't like custardy things or Angel delight etc. I am looking for any ideas!

quintwins

i bought 18 bottles of orange/apple juice today on the b1g2f but thats all i bought and since thats what i went in for thats an achivement especially with the half price clothes on, even tho none of us need clothes i was very tempted

we nearly always have pudding but it's yogurt,jelly,ice cream and fruit, ice lolly or chocolate, but my kids are still little so need some incentive to eat quickly or we'd be sat for hours

sock-knitter

when my kids were at home, they loved yogurts for deser, (no extra washing up) or biscuits, they would have loved proper puddings but only if it wasnt their turn to do the dishes lol

Lynsey

Welcome to MSE Folly, that was a great 1st post.
Lots of things you mentioned makes sense, especially the thought side of it.
Definitely thinking differently now and cook around what I have or what is reduced or on offer - makes sense, like using seasonal stuff when cheap.
Also agree about more washing up, though my hubby does most of that (bless him).
Food waste is something else also, cut back enormously. I think this is more down to limiting what's in the fridge (for me anyway). The fridge is just ticking over now and days are gone where something at the back and hidden needs throwing away.
No more big shops for myself either, probably buy bits now perhaps 5 days per week - no more filling a trolley with weekly shopping in one go. Only myself and hubby now, so that helps.

Good luck, hope I see the weight loss also. lol

Lynsey

lynneee

evening all, hope you have had a good weekend
Had a random tea tonight, with all odds and sods in the freezer, so had fishfingers, fish goujons, chicken nuggets, a few chips and spaghetti hoops. With Twinks hobnobs for pudding
Will be having a baking day with the kids either tomorrow or tuesday. Cake!!!!!

sock-knitter

last nights tea was turkey and veg casserole fromt he freezer. it dosent look any emptier than i first started lol

Lynsey

Good morning.

The freezers do takes some clearing, they just seem like an everlasting supply of food.
Bought some packs of lean steak mince from Sainsburys yesterday (reduced) and a pack of potatoes (reduced).
Cooked 1 pack of mince and froze and will use to make a pie on a later date with a pack of my 10p pastry. lol
The other packs I halved, bagged and froze and will use for spag bol etc.

Last night we had a stir-fry with my reduced priced jumbo prawns (done with garlic) and reduced priced stir fry mix. Just added extra onion, sweetcorn and noodles and a pack of sauce.

Spam butty this morning and something light this afternoon as we are going to a restaurant tonight (Groupon voucher).
Frugal fortnight now with the August budget, try and spend less than £40 in the 1st two weeks - should be easy.

Lynsey

LizzieB

Hi all, I'd like to join and do an 'August challenge' if that's okay. In an ideal world I shouldn't need to go food shopping at all this month (have around 45kg of pasta on the 9p offers :eek:, 20p pasta sauces, bogof branston beans etc..), a freezer full of veg, fruit and meat/fish and fresh toms and cucumbers from the garden, but may need a little bit of yogurt/eggs. Got loads of cleaning stuff/toiletries, but will have to buy loo roll.

Therefore, I've given myself a budget of £20 for the month for OH and me. Breakfasts are porridge/HM flapjacks, lunch OH - HM bread plus filling (tuna/salmon mayo/hummous), fruit bar, crisps, drink (again, all from storecupboard!). I'll have anything - soup, rice, pasta etc. Tea will again be (hopefully!) all storecupboard/freezer.

My biggie will not be buying a drink - have told OH if he wants a drink, he'll have to get his own. I want to pay my CC off at the end of the month (have been REALLY good not using it but spent around £250 lately :mad:) so am going to try and do it through this.

Good luck everyone else!