I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

dasophster

I'm not sure if I've mentioned it before on this thread but if you're eating out of the freezer and cupboards I can really recommend 'The more with less cookbook' it's by a Mennonite publisher in the US and a few recipes are a bit 1970s dinner party but the majority are very nice, easy to make (they use American cup measures but allow for a certain amount of guesstimating and substituting/omitting ingredients). The same publisher have done a couple of other recipe books which I have also but it's the more with less book I go back to every time. There are usually a few copies going cheap on eBay too xx

Edwardia

ASDA and Tesco sell cup measurements

dasophster

Yep they do, I got mine from waitrose. For a lot of the ingredients with this recipe book though I just guess and it works out well every time xx

recovering_spendaholic

Hi everyone!

I am in the mother of all bad moods today! DD2 refused to go to school this morning and it took an hours argument before she finally went, which wore me out! STILL no fees so I am down to my last £6, or I was until DD2 came in from school and had a hissy fit because I wouldn't give her £2.60 to go to the pictures. I wimped out in the end because I couldn't stand the argument and shouting any longer. Then when she had gone the school rang and said that she should have been in detention for lates and she hadn't gone.

Made home made McMuffins for breakfast - muffins from freezer with sausage, bacon, egg and a cheese slice on. Lunch was some Quiche from freezer and dinner was just some skirt beef (YS from freezer) done with onions and mushrooms and a sachet of Maggi red wine sauce with hm foccaccia bread - well it was a packet of Wrights mix!

My freezer is down to about half full now. I have the following left:

A pork fillet tenderloin
two quarterpounders
braising steak
mince (loads)
stewing steak
haddock (fillets)
haddock (battered, two pieces)
lightly dusted sole fillets (2)
hm chilli (enough for 3 or 4)
l/o sausage casserole (2 portions)
various different veggies
Cornettos
frozen fairy cakes (for lunchboxes)
blocks of cheddar
chicken breasts on bone (about 12)
chicken thigh fillets
turkey mince
pork mince
bacon
roast potatoes
rosti potatoes
pork cheek
meatballs (2 packs)
unidentifyable frozen meat - possibly stewing steak
lambs liver
rump steak
fish in butter sauce (2)
2 Aberdeen angus half pound burgers

Fridge hasn't got that much in -

Carrots
Parsnips
celery
cheese (about 7 packs of 400g)
bacon
tomatoes
butternut squash
potatoes (not many)
onions
peppers
milk
Flora
eggs (12)
soured cream
Mayo and other condiments and jams
Rolo yoghurts (rank but kids like them)
l/o beef in red wine from tonight's tea

Cupboards

2kg rice
4kg pasta (various types)
packets of savoury rice, cous cous, noodles (loads)
1kg lasagne sheets
2kg lentils
1kg split peas
1kg barley
loads of stuffing mix
flour and bread flour
custard powder, blancmange and cornflour
tea bags
bread mixes (loads)
tuna (about 16 tins)
corned beef (only 1 tin)
packet soups, sauces etc (about 6 packets)
tinned beans (8)
tinned tomatoes
tinned kidney beans and other mixed beans
tinned salmon
vinegar and all other condiments and sauces
oil (olive and extra virgin)
tomato puree
oxos and Knorr cubes(LOADS I mean LOADS!!- all different kinds)
Marmite
Bovril (why??? it's rank!)
tinned fruit
tinned carrots
mushy peas
Homepride sausage casserole sauce
Uncle Bens sweet and sour sauce
Nandos piri piri rub (LOADS)
tons of herbs and stuff
porridge oats
baking stuff, flavourings, decorations etc
squash
coffee
hot chocolate mix and marshmallows
Jam
Lemon curd
cornbread mix (I'm sure I go shopping in my sleep sometimes)
tinned soup
Stagg Chilli
sugar free jelly mix

One thing I haven't got in at the moment is any sugar or sweetner - kids are doing their nut about it!

As you can see I have enough in to last ages, but I am still making lists for when I get paid!! DD1 was moaning tonight because we had no food in - however she only classes pizza and other such stuff as food.

Quintwins - if you haven't got scales a heaped tbs flour is 25g/1oz, a level tbs sugar is 25g/1oz - I remember that from domestic science at school!

Lynsey - going anywhere nice on holiday? I don't think I can afford to go on holiday this year - might go down to Winchester though as my Aunts live there.

Dasophster - I have got that More with Less cookbook!! Mind you I have a serious problem with buying cookbooks and it is probably easier to list the ones I HAVEN'T got - no wonder I'm broke (and fat).

DD1 has just come in so I am going to read the riot act!

quintwins

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

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Quintwins - if you haven't got scales a heaped tbs flour is 25g/1oz, a level tbs sugar is 25g/1oz - I remember that from domestic science at school!

Lynsey - going anywhere nice on holiday? I don't think I can afford to go on holiday this year - might go down to Winchester though as my Aunts live there.


DD1 has just come in so I am going to read the riot act!

i hope she feels ashamed f herself stressing out her poor mum

Thanks for that but i'm not sure how well sugar would go down in my savory mince pie :rotfl:

We also won't be going on holidays for the next errr 5 years by the looks of it, finda makes me sad as the kids are so young and would enjoy lots of things i'd like 2 do, saying that i never got and it's not like when i was little and my whole class came back in sept talking about holidays in the sun, everyones in teh same boat now.


Sheperds pie was yummy, there should have been leftovers but me and hubby had seconds i never have 2nds so just proves it must ahve been nice. went to lidl for some butter, got a bag of oranges for £1 and 2 bags of popcorn for the kids to watc a dvd, they were more interested in the popcorn and once it was gone started messing about so are now in bed :rotfl:

Mince pie for dinner tomorrow i'm gonna have salad with mine and then i think i'll have 2 give in and bin that coleslaw i got reduced on sunday since only me eats it and it's still over half full lol kids and oh can have chips (if i go get the chippan from the old house) or mash, might be able to talk te kids into having a wee bit of salad but oh wouldn't be keen, lifted out a selection of reduced rolls and baps for bacon baps/rolls in the morning, kids r off for teacher training and there half a tub of chopped tom in the fridge so think i'll do them pasta for lunch, theres and extra roll in the morning (since theres 5 of us and they come in 2 packs) so i'll prob have a roll of some sort.

Lynsey

Weather has turned tonight after what was a pretty decent afternoon!!
Never ventured back to the shops, so settled for the £4.02 spend and happy'ish for what it purchased considering no "whoopsies".
Having to change the veggie day to tomorrow as we have a Groupon deal which expires on Saturday and can't get booked for then and have to go Friday (lunch) and I want the carbonara!!
Nothing really needed for the next 2 days and not chicken fillets, but diced chicken breasts again for my Lidl offer this weekend and HAVE to get them - need to either clear some space or get that spare freezer from my Brothers!!

Jane - going to Spain, Costa del Sol. Almost on the border of Torremolinos/Benalmadena and looking forward to it. Went last year and had a great time and great food.
Big list by the way, you must love typing. lol

The oldest food from a freezer challenge - love it.

Lynsey

katskorner

kids tonight - cod breaded fillets and chips, peas from freezer pls ice lolly for dessert.

Us - topped breaded plaice with greek salad and bread and butter.

had left over pasta for lunch and tomorrow got turkey soup from out of freezer left from yesterday.

tomorrow night got out homeade bolognese from freezer and homemade fish pie, also from freezer.

spend today - hubby went to get cucumber for greek salad and came back with that and WASABI NUTS AT £1.29 - arggh bad stuff as usually pay 89p for these from homebargains... MEN! no offence.

I went to mr T and spent £15 odd quid but got i down to £9 with coupons - some ice lollies for freezer and reduced soflaka which I love but nothing else for freezer.

optimistic

Lynsey wrote: »

Hubby got his Hoegaarden and used the £3 off £20 voucher and is well pleased - he's got a total of 48 bottles and should be!!
Bought a new pair of trousers from M&S and finished off the Living Social voucher, so all vouchers spent now - enjoyed it though and hope they repeat it.

Spending today so far:
1 x sack of onions (9kg) - £1.50
1 s Branston Ketchup - 77p
1 x Branston brown sauce- 66p
2 x Cheddars crackers (BOGOF) - £1.09

Hi Lynsey

What size was the Branston ketchup you bought? I only ask as this is the only one my ds will eat (with everything!) and i found Iceland to be good value at £1.00 for 720g. (if yours was the same size, where did you buy it please?!)
Also that sack of onions was a bargain!

Gigervamp

I've come back to this thread because we're buying half a pig and need to make room in the freezer!

Going to do an inventory tomorrow.

Lynsey

optimistic - they were only the 460g bottles and from Tesco, reduced sel.
Lidl do the 5kg bags of onions for £1.50, but obviously a better deal this time. The little shop also did 20kg sacks for only £2.50 (normally £2.99).
Onions keep well, so good investment.
I'll have a look in Iceland, a shop I very, very rarely go in to.

Lynsey