I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Lynsey

cherrypies wrote: »

Have you set a reward for yourself when you complete the challenge?

The original plan was to spend Xmas or/and New Year abroad, but depends on Son to a degree.
I know the challenge can be done/completed as I set a sensible target, it's the ketchups, sugar, butter/spreads etc., etc, that eat into your budget.
Still don't know why I'm doing it though??
Possibly because I now know which shops to target and when and I want to beat them. :money:

BTW are you staying in Paphos itself or Coral Bay??

Lynsey

cherrypies

Lynsey wrote: »

The original plan was to spend Xmas or/and New Year abroad, but depends on Son to a degree.

Still don't know why I'm doing it though??
Possibly because I now know which shops to target and when and I want to beat them. :money:

BTW are you staying in Paphos itself or Coral Bay??

Lynsey

haha, I don't suppose you need a difinitive reason, beating the shops, saving money AND the satisfaction you'll get at the end are probably reason enough .. a holiday over Xmas sounds like a fab reward, we used to do that a lot before we had the children.

We're staying in Chlorakas, which is that area sort of half way between Paphos and Coral Bay, it's really quiet there which is how I like it! and it's only 1 Euro on the bus into town/harbour if we fancy a bit of hustle and bustle. My Sister got married at the St. George years ago and we fell in love with the place. Cannot wait!

Lynsey

cherrypies - St George Hotel is excellent and popular with weddings - damn expensive for drinks though!!!
We used to use the little beach just to the east of the hotel. Paphos itself is not blessed with great beaches!! Lovely people though.
We may just keep the savings and use for a holiday next year and you have inspired me to maybe look at a late deal. 90% of our holidays are DIY.

Enough of holiday chat, but I know how much you will enjoy Cyprus and nice time to visit before it gets too hot!!!

Lynsey

cherrypies

Absolutely, didn't fancy going later in the year and have to keep the kids indoors when it gets baking hot! We usually DIY our hols and were going down that route until I took a peek at the packages on teletext hols and couldn't believe the prices, well worth a look

recovering_spendaholic

Really horrible weather here today.

STILL no fees so enforced NSD again. Had some bacon butties for breakfast, but didn't really feel hungry so half went to the dogs! Lunch has just been corned beef and onion on some of the foccaccia bread from last night. kids took corned beef butties in carry out.

I took some pork chops out of the freezer for tea tonight, and I have some pitta bread dough in the breadmaker. I plan to do chops with roasted veg pittas.

Had a right to do with DD2 last night about homework and general attitude and the school rang me this morning to say that she was very cheeky to the teacher when she was told off because she hadn't done her homework. I feel really fed up about it and that always makes me want to pick at food. Luckily I don't have any junk in the house!

gingervamp - what do you pay for half a pig? Does it come butchered and ready to freeze? What do you get in terms of chops, offal etc?

the rain is absolutely pouring down here! hope it is better where you all are!

dasophster

Tonight I'm making calico baked beans for a crowd, sans meat and using 1.5 bags of the waitrose 10 bean mix, ketchup, mustard and sugar that I've had for ages and various other bits and pieces out of the cupboard. Also making honey whole wheat bread from the same recipe book, everything in it is a store cupboard ingredient. The white flour that forms part of it was dated Jan but as its never been opened and I had it on my cool dark larder cupboard I deemed it to be ok and when opened the flour was lovely and fresh and the bread has just done its first rising perfectly, so far so good xx

ammonite

Well I'm not a very good newbie. Ended up spending £45 in Sains this week, to be fair, £3 was washing powder (which I don't count as groceries!), £10 was a new mirror (which I don't count as groceries) so that's another £30 out of my monthly grocery bill all of the rest was mainly lunch items and fridge produce so in that sense I suppose I've been OK.

Got £15 left until the end of May....cannot see me doing well with this £50/month challenge!

Found a lonesome chicken breast in the freezer so got that out for dinner, not sure what to have with it yet, may have it with a jacket potato or a few chips. Freezer is looking emptier, still huge amounts of meat in there though! Need to do more batch cooking as ready-made-by-me-meals are dwindling!

Edwardia

Hi all and a :wave:to cherrypies as a fellow low carber.

I am basically knackered after two supermarkets and a Polish shop with my mother (never happier than when shopping).

Once I minused off the tshirt, bra and cash back at ASDA I only spent £20 and change. I got a huge onion naan YS for 56p for OH (went in freezer), and got 2 wild Alaskan salmon fillets for £4 for the freezer as well.

If you want to low carb and eat 'clean' as the Americans call it, there's really very little. Even the meat aisle is more burgers than meat cuts. I don't really like going there anymore especially as my local Lidl has more organic veg ! I did get a growing basil for 50p though. Living salad in ASDA is 1.29 and I got one in Lidl for 99p

Spent 20.40 in Lidl and this included 1 LTR EV olive oil 2.99 (on offer), Pilgrim's Choice vintage Cheddar 350g 1.99 (on offer) (for the freezer) quite a lot of veg and naan bread for OH plus yummy loin lamb chops.

In the Polish shop I spent £8 and bought kefir, butter, ham with vegetables, goulash for OH, mint tea and cherry syrup for squash for OH

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katskorner

£30 spend in aldi tonight but got a lot for it and only 1kg bag of chips for freezer. Good offers on back bacon.

Dinner is fish pie and salad so more freezer food gone (homemade, not bought).

Tomorrow will probably be curry and saturday is chinese - all from the freezer so doing ok there.

lyra

^ there's a polish shop nearish my parents, keep meaning to have a look.

Had a 5 year old's dinner today: fish goujons, chips & spaghetti hoops. That's the last can of spaghetti hoops from approved foods, thought they'd never go :T