I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

ClutterbugLL

Hello - I'd Like To Join This Thread As I'm Having To Be Inventive With Regard To Family Meals On A Very Strict Budget ....
This Weeks Success Story -
Spicy Italian Style Meal Balls - Made With Marked Down M&S Mince ( 80p ) A M&S Starter Sauce That Had Been Hanging About For A While (10p ) A Handful Of Cherry Tomatoes - That Needed Using Up - And A Tin Of Tomatoes From The Fabulous Approved Foods - For The Sauce - Delicious And V Cheap -Yay !!! :j:j Laura xx

ammonite

My name is ammonite and I am a grocery-a-holic. It has been 7 whole days since my last shop :j

(not including asking my Mum to pick up 3 items for me when she went shopping - much safer as I can't be tempted).

Thin frying steak for tea which will go on some whoopsie'd rolls and have some chips with it for steak "baguettes" and chips. Yum. Actually, the roll hides the leather-quality of the steak. Bought it from Costco last year and must say its the first thing I've been disappointed with. Sadly because it was Costco, we naturally had loads of it to get through. Hoping to polish it off tonight!

Amazed at what is coming out of the freezer!

Get well soon Lipstick!

dasophster

ammonite wrote: »

My name is ammonite and I am a grocery-a-holic. It has been 7 whole days since my last shop :j

(not including asking my Mum to pick up 3 items for me when she went shopping - much safer as I can't be tempted).

Thin frying steak for tea which will go on some whoopsie'd rolls and have some chips with it for steak "baguettes" and chips. Yum. Actually, the roll hides the leather-quality of the steak. Bought it from Costco last year and must say its the first thing I've been disappointed with. Sadly because it was Costco, we naturally had loads of it to get through. Hoping to polish it off tonight!

Amazed at what is coming out of the freezer!

Get well soon Lipstick!

If you have most of the ingredients for it (any cheese can be subbed for the provolone) then why not make a Philly cheese steak-type sandwich?

http://www.food.com/recipe/philly-cheesesteak-sandwich-authentic-94031

Might make that tough costco steak even taste delicious! xx

ammonite

dasophster wrote: »

If you have most of the ingredients for it (any cheese can be subbed for the provolone) then why not make a Philly cheese steak-type sandwich?

http://www.food.com/recipe/philly-cheesesteak-sandwich-authentic-94031

Might make that tough costco steak even taste delicious! xx

Good thinking! Thanks! Just about to go and make it so saw the post in the nick of time

dasophster

Let me know how it turns out! xx

AlwaysHappy

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

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.

I get my meat from Donald Russell - though I would be the first to admit it is expensive. I only buy it when they have good offers on, but when they have I order quite a bit, and also spread some orders across the year. I have never been disappointed with anything I have had from them.

Florenceem

We had prawn curry, basmati rice and ? bread for dinner.
A portion of curry left to fit in the freezer so Mr F took out some sausage rolls - have them on Sunday.

Florenceem

Mr F came home from town with a large bag of apricots - market stall throwing them out! :eek:
I made crumbles - just got to work out how to fit them in two full freezers! :eek:

dasophster

Florence those lovely looking crumbles wouldn't last 5 minutes in my house xx

dasophster

I made cream of celery soup tonight served with some price flop bargain bread from tesco, celery that was yellow stickered and also I used the price flop coupon on it and store cupboard evaporated milk that I bought in January, chicken stock powder that I bought 2 or 3 years ago but is still in date, black pepper from sainsburys basics range, and garlic pur!e from the fridge. It was actually quite tasty and hearty, and even my youngest who is 18 months wanted second helpings . It wasn't from The More With Less Cookbook but its 'brother' 'Simply in Season' I don't use that one as often as it requires tons of fresh veg and fruit for most of the recipes but it's great when you do have a lot of fresh produce that needs using up xx