I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

ms_night_ryder

So i was doing well, went to m&s and they had sausages whoopsied to 50p and muffins for the same price, got 2 of each and whoopsied bakewells and blueberry muffins, all but the tarts are already taking up the space.

Had the pulled pork, accidently pulled out 3 sandwich thins, so 1 brekkie tomorrow, with pineapple I finally peeled, then pork for lunch, off to the Brazilian rodizio with some friends for dinner, yum.

Florenceem

Out of the freezer tonight came - a HM almond cake, a HM JJ cheesy scone, some olive bread and a bag of barbecue chicken.
In went - 2 tubs of tonight's dinner. :eek:
We had gammon in Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, gravy, peas, roast mushrooms and onion for dinner. Mr F said to name it - Pig in a Poke! :rotfl:

recovering_spendaholic

AlwaysHappy wrote: »

Well, my meat order came and has been shoe horned into the freezer - QUOTE]

Where did you get your meat order from? I keep meaning to get an online meat order but it all seems really expensive, except for a couple but I don't know if they are any good or what the welfare standards are like.

Finances are dire (what's new), so last night I did a big excel spreadsheet mealplan with costs and according to that I should be able to get to the end of the month spending just £35 and that includes milk, laundry liquid and toilet roll.

Tonight DD2 had l/o casserole from last night, and there is still enough there for another meal tomorrow, and DD1 and I had some new potatoes and chicken breast with salad. For lunch I had some l/o tuna pasta bake which was absolutely lovely and a great way to use up my store of Campbells soup, which is vile as soup but makes a great base for the pasta bake. I got the recipe from Gooseberry patch - http://www.gooseberrypatch.com) - I think it is an Amish recipe, although I don't imagine they would have used canned soup! You just mix cooked pasta with a tin of tuna, a can of condensed celery soup (or mushroom), the empty can filled with half milk half water, handful of grated cheese, salt and pepper, and top with grated cheese - the recipe says top with grated cheese mixed with crushed Tuc or Ritz crackers but I didn't have any. It was delicious! I was just a bit peckish so had a thin slice of hm bread with some tinned salmon (for tomorrow's packed lunches) - yum!

Went to Aldi before for some spread and 39p spuds and they had neither! The shelves were really bare!

Quintwins - hope you are feeling better now.

If I get to the end of the month on budget and sticking to the meal plan then my freezer will be almost empty - no meat left anyway! I will have to do a big shop at the start of June but am hoping to do another meal plan/shopping list thing as it worked out well. I put formulas in so it adds up how much you are spending every time you enter anything - if anyone wants one to do their own on just PM me.

I am loving the jugit milk thing - had loads in the freezer but now dwindling as kids drink so much of the stuff - it certainly makes for less rubbish (my council don't recycle plastic).

abitofhelp

Morning all, hope the weather picks up a bit here. I have put the turkey steaks in the freezer for another day, i had no plan to use them so i really should not have bought them, I never learn!
Easy meal tonight, oh picked up some fish in parsley sauce last year, said it brought back memories for him. The memories will be coming back tonight when i serve it up with some tinned potatoes and frozen veg.
I think there is four portions in the pack, we shall have two tonight and i might turn the others into a small fish pie with some, prawns, sweetcorn & mushrooms added.
Eldest child off to barcelona with his uncle for a few days, so smallest child can have smoked cod.
Enjoy your day all.

Soworried

Morning
Yesterday I ended up making a batch of flat breads so 3 of these went in to the freezer to be made in to garlic bread etc when needed, but least our dinner came out so nsd.
Today I am going to pull out left over beef casserole and turn it in to a pie. I'll make some mash to go with it and I'll also pull some veg out of the freezer as well. I'm hoping to put nothing in to the freezer today.
Recovering spendaholic that is a great post, I'd like the spreadsheet if you don't mind.

Lip_Stick

Morning all. Have a rubbish cold here which seems to have come from ds' nana. Did buy some Beechams all in one whoopised yesterday tho lol. Will take some of those in a mo.

Ended up sleeping in! :eek: Alarm didn't go off.... probably because I switched it off yesterday. Mad rush to get ds ready for his lift to school. Might go back to bed for a nap soon.

Last night I had the salmon with pasta sauce. I used a Seeds of Change sun-dried tomato sauce as the base but before adding that I fried some chopped capers and added fish sauce as a replacement to anchovy. Then I just flaked the salmon in. Added a little bit of chilli to mine. It tasted really nice and ds lapped it up, judging by the complete mess of his face.

Today I'm having freebie fish and chips from BHS for lunch. Don't know about tea yet.

Could do with doing a big shop and get bits and pieces in like chick peas, that kind of thing.

ms_night_ryder wrote: »

Well i did try the bacon and cheese grills, they are not nice, ate half of one about a slice of bread and the rest of the beans, going to throw the other 2 Bacon grills away, they are too salty and they were whoopsied anyway for 90p sure wouldnt Have paid the £2 they were asking.

I tried them, and felt exactly the same as you did, except I probably finished it.

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

If I get to the end of the month on budget and sticking to the meal plan then my freezer will be almost empty - no meat left anyway! I will have to do a big shop at the start of June but am hoping to do another meal plan/shopping list thing as it worked out well. I put formulas in so it adds up how much you are spending every time you enter anything - if anyone wants one to do their own on just PM me.

Is that done with excel? I'd like to do that, but I'm rubbish at keeping track of things. I can barely meal plan.

quintwins

Lip Stick i'd def recommend going back to bed even if you don;t sleep did me the world of good yestersay, on that note i feel alot better today just a sore throat and abit chesty but now able to function normally thanks for all your well wishes everyone.

Are flat breads like pittas? i wouldn't mind making my own, gonna make my own wraps next week.

Well today the kids had toast and oranges for breakfast, i had an orange then when me and yougest got back we had a yogurt each and he had a pear aswell, older to get a snack in school at 10 so i don't like to give them to much first thing.

Lunch will be corned beef salad sanwich, ds can have cheese and tom.

Dinner will be a huge gammon (could hardly fit it into my biggest pan) with roasties, mash, yorkshires, turnip and cabbage, real comfort food.

i took a loaf of bread and 8 slices of bacon out of the freezer and put 4 bags of carrots and 3 bags of mushrooms in, need to go get sugar bread and milk, lidl have 2litres of milk for 69p and 2 loaves for £1.50 so i'll go there before i lift the kids from school, no whoopsie bread for the next week i'm afraid i just don't have the freezer room for it, i wil try use up enough for a bread run next week but when your using meat and veg it doesn't really take up much space so doesn't make much difference when you take it out.

btw those cheese and bacon grills are awful my mum used to buy them when i was little i remeber them as being horrible processed lumps of meat topped with a slice of cheese covered in breadcrumbs, needless to say as an adult i've never bough them, however if anyone does like them i see them in iceland for £1 all the time.

Lip_Stick

Thanks quintwins, may do just that. My eyes are really sore at the mo. Need to go out tho for dinner, and to take my baking tray back to tk maxx and buy a new one.

quintwins

all that can wait, i'm sure you ahv enough stuff in your freezer/cupboards to sort something for tea.

My gammon smells yummy it's making me hungry-does anyone else find there hungry by midworning if they eat breakfast? if i don't eat any i'm fine but no matter what i have (with the exception of a fry because i always over eat if we have a fry- none of which is ever fried lol) i'm always hungry around now.

Soworried

Flat breads, I use the Hugh Fearnley Whittingstalls (Did I spell that right?) recipe from river cottage everyday. Let me know if you can't find the recipe and I'll type it up. We like them as naan breads and also smeared in galic butter to go with anything really.