I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Lynsey

NSD, but did go "scaffing" in Sainsbury's and also to see if the cheap olives had been delivered as advised. No olives and nothing of any great value I fanncied, saved my pennies for a possible Bank Holiday "scaffing" trip!! lol
Could well be bargains tomorrow?? Hopefully anyway.

One thing though, I'm certainly going to enjoy my holiday later in the year saved by "scaffing" - almost if not all a free holiday - well it will seem like it. Rather than Xmas, we are now looking at October for a [STRIKE]late deal[/STRIKE] "scaffing" holiday. :rotfl:

Starting to get a little cold now, but no rain today........... yet.

Took out a small piece of pork from a cooked pork joint that I re-froze for tomorrow. The beef joints were too large for one day and want Tuesday to be a veggie day. Gets rid of something I want rid of also.

Lynsey

blackandwhitebunny

gallygirl wrote: »

:rotfl:Have any of you read the thread denigrating the people chasing (or 'scaffing' as they call it) YS goods - Edwardia I don't think the above is the type of menu they had in mind, I think you're all having the last laugh :rotfl:.

I wonder how many of the posters on that thread have savings accounts like I'm sure many of us on here have
I've found that since I changed my working patterns so get to the shops later we're eating more expensive foods for a lot less. I haven't really changed the type of foods I buy, I still buy fresh fish, meat and FR or organic chicken and fresh fruit and vegetables. What's different is we now often have exotic fruits like papaya, physalis and avo's all at 25p to 40p a time. I no longer 'budget' to have steak, we always have some in the freezer. The only thing I sometimes struggle to get is chicken, but I'll either have something else or pay full price. We can afford to pay full price I just generally choose not to. This means that we didn't have to think twice today when we found some rose veal bone in rib eye in a speciality shop that we wanted and could have it even at £18 for the piece.

Florenceem wrote: »

Old girl bit confused here - are you saying that you developed diabetes from eating potatoes/pasta/bread or soya mince?

Over consumption of white carbohydrates is one of the main reasons why children are now getting type two diabetes. The scary thing is that the official healthy eating advice is still to get most of our energy from carbohydrates. Combine that with advertising and children think that sugar is an essentail to 'give them energy'

Lyndsey I think we are also largely motivated by the holidays we can have with the money we save:) We've got two weeks in Corfu booked for the end of July and will go knowing that not one penny has gone on credit cards and that while there we can more or less spend what we want without worrying how we will pay for it all as its all already paid for.:rotfl:

Florenceem

Edwardia wrote: »

In a word, yes.

When we eat starchy carbohydrates, our body turns them into glucose, a simple sugar used to power our cells. When we eat table sugar (sucrose) half is dealt with as glucose and the other half (fructose) can only be dealt with by the liver.

Long-term, fructose in the amounts/way we consume it, is toxic. Food laws only cover acute toxicity ie immediate not chronic ie long-term toxicity. The branched amino acids in soya are also difficult for some people to deal with.

Glucose is the energy of life, everything on the planet uses it. When the body can't process it though, you have too much in your blood and start getting sick. Whether you can process it your whole life depends on your genes. If we all lived to 120 though everyone would have diabetes.

Not sure if I am there yet - so it is okay to eat carbohydrates but not sucrose? Also I thought soya was a healthy alternative to meat?

Florenceem

Edwardia wrote: »

Inclined to agree with him and it does seem quite biatchy. Turning YS into proper meals is cool. There's nothing wrong with getting YS stuff.

My concern is when the fact that something is cheap is deemed better than something healthy. I've been flamed on another thread for saying that. I still think it's appalling to tell someone feeding themselves on value/basics fresh food to start buying out of date processed stuff from bargain food companies through the post instead.

I agree with you - reduced price fresh food stuffs are better for you than buying processed foods.

cheerfulness4

Well I went 'scaffing' for bread reductions today but no joy again. Asda did come good with a couple of meals for the freezer.

2x Quiche Lorraine @ 40p down from £1.49
Adore (?) posh yogurt @ 15p

Some naughty choc fell in the basket too tho.

Just enjoyed our cheese and onion pasties with some of that mountain of tatties I have and some baked beans.

Must get back to Britains Got Talent.

quintwins

cheerfulness4 wrote: »

2x Quiche Lorraine @ 40p down from £1.49
Adore (?) posh yogurt @ 15p

amore? there sooooo yummy but a real treat in this house as theres no way i'm paying 70p for one yogurt when hubby would eat 3 in a row :rotfl:

I went to the meat wholesalers yesterday (it's a big butchers that sells to all the local resurants shop on site) i had really been craving a nice steak for ages so figured i might aswell buy a half a sirlion (which i got 13 steaks from) rather than pay over £10 for 2 steaks, anyway i got

half a sirlion-£45
a full rack of ribs-£9 (not like the wee tiny packs you get in a supermarket it's a prob enought for 3 meal if you pileing them up)
80 sausages- £12
3 packets of pork and leek sausages 80p (these are my fav sausages and i always buy them reduced at £1 so this was a nice find)
2kg of southernfried chicken 100% breasts £14 (looks alot like the ones u get in the local chippy)
2.7kg gammon roast £7.75 (i can't acually remeber the last time i bought one so big)
2.2kg smoked back bacon £9ish- the packs in the bin
i spent £97 altogether and i'm very happy with what i got but

Now i've no freezer space, would like to try there weird and wonderful sausages, mil has had roasts from there before which were nice and cheap, next time i might even get a full sirlion, we have 8 steaks in our freezer so 4 dinners worth.

We had steaks last night, we brought them to mil and gave them all one each so used 5 but there always feeding us (Like today we were there for sunday dinner), we had bacon sandwichs for breakfast this morning, and then i froze most of it.

No whoopsie shop today i have enough bread to do anyway and i see nothing wrong with whoopsie shopping, i do like af aswell but for treat items and quicky sauces, but shock horror i didn't bring my breadmaker on the move, i havent used it in ages and space is limited i have loads of bread flour so i might do a few loaves by hand when things settle down.

We havent had any tea yet hubbys at the old house, i'm gonna do chips and i'll have lo curry we said he'll have cheese and abit of bacon.


Not an achievement for many people but look at that the weekend is over and no chinese or takeaway :j

Lynsey

blackandwhitebunny - too hot for us that time of year, but enjoy ......... you've "saved" enough for it.

Florenceem - why is your May spends up on previous months alraedy??
Are you just re-stocking?? Very low previous spends though, very impressive.

quintwins - that would be my months budget spent in a single day. lol
We used to bulk buy meat, buy half a pig or a lamb or a whole steak piece. Well done on avoiding the takeaways.

cheerfulness4 - I'm desperately short on chocolate, that short I have none!! No fudge either!! Maybe treat myself this week. Fudge from Lidl and see if there are any great chocolate bargains out there.

Food buying this week - I'm trying to be frugal as nothing really needed. A "whoopsie" shortage would be welcomed to avoid temptation, but see what comes up.
Potatoes will be needed towards the end of the week and if nothing reduced in Sainsbury's the next few days, then Aldi for the Maris Piper. I buy my gravy granules there, so get a couple of cartons.

Lynsey

blackandwhitebunny

Florenceem wrote: »

Not sure if I am there yet - so it is okay to eat carbohydrates but not sucrose? Also I thought soya was a healthy alternative to meat?

I hope this helps.
Carbohydrates can be divided into starchy carbohydrates such as bread, pasta etc and sugars.
Your body breaks down starches into glucose to use as energy. The more refined the starch (white bread) the faster your body can convert it to glucose. the more fibre there is the longer it takes. Your pancreas produces insulin which is what enables your cells to use the glucose. If you have a lot of glucose at once your pancreas struggles to produce all the insulin needed quickly.
Sugars are a simpler form of carbohydrate and are easier for your body to break down. Sucrose is the main form of sugar found in refined white sugar, your body breaks it down to glucose very quickly meaning you need a lot of insulin quickly. Some drinks and foods are now made with glucose so your body has to do very little processing - you get a big hit of glucose and your pancreas is put under huge strain to produce enough insulin to process it.
Diabetes is what happens when your pancreas loses the ability to respond accurately to the level of glucose in your body.
I think Edwardia meant that she developed diabetes because of the amounts of carbohydrates they were forced to eat rather than because of eating soya, although I'm sure she can explain herself:D

Edwardia

Wow quintwins you did really well there..

cheerfulness4 90% cocoa chocolate does fall into my trolley occasionally too along with Rodda clotted cream which I eat with a spoon :cool:

florenceem most everyone eats too many carbs and it's not our fault as we were told fat is the enemy and now there are more and more studies showing fat isn't that bad.

Sugar (sucrose) is not good but fructose is really bad. In nature an orange comes with fibre so you don't absorb it so much from your stomach. Orange juice is all fructose no fibre. When people with diabetes get dangerous low sugar (because of drugs) hospitals give us OJ it's virtually an instant sugar rush.

Carbs turn to glucose which would be fine if we burned it all off but we eat too much of them and carbs (unlike fat) turn to fat. In America they are saying 6 tsps of sugar and the equivalent of six slices of wholegrain bread are probably OK if you're healthy, not fat. That's including the sugar in soup, ketchup, bread etc.

I thought soya was healthy too..not for everyone..

Anyway thinking about the diabetes epidemic is making me gloomy..

cheerfulness4

Quintwins - yep Amore. Duh, knew it didn't sound right when I typed it.

Lynsey- spotted some fudge in Lidls @ £1.25 and wondered if it was the one you love. Forced myself to leave it there. I'll have to cover my eyes when they have another chocolate offer. I need no excuse to be greedy!

That pork joint of mine will never get eaten the way we're going. DH has pulled a reduced silverside joint from the bottom of the freezeras only 3 of us in tomorrow for dinner.
Do love a roast beef dinner, tho. Is an excuse to indulge in yorkie puds.