I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

ms_night_ryder

I've just tried some of the blueberries I bought from lidl and they are yummy will definately be buying more, best thing I have tried from lidl yet, slowly trying more from there.

Have just taken a pack of sausages out of freezer, along with the last breakfast muffin and the last blueberry muffin, will have that tomorrow,hopefully at my grandmas for dinner, so won't have to worry about dinner.

Just done a meat drawer reccy and i have some pork mince, half a bacon joint, a pork belly joint, 2 packs of sausages, 4 chicken drumsticks and some of that lidl Bacon that I didn't like left. LOL what a lot of pork have the majority of it is whoopsied, need to try more variety in future. So i am definitely on track for emptying majority of freezer before i go to costco next week.

Had confirmation of my redundancy money through, just confirming the amount, stilk waiting for my lump sum of pay confirmatuin, but they needed my p45 because i was emergency taxed last pay check due to change of company, but it will work itself out.

Lynsey

Morning.

jennypennysaver - welcome to the thread and good luck.

Just toasted bun loaf for breakfast, out during the day and just snacking and rump steak, fried onions and roast veg tonight.

I was going to experiment with getting £25+ worth of "whoopsies" for £10 max this week, but easily done it last week and got far too much last week for money spent, this will have to wait.
4 weeks left until half way and £140'ish to get there on planned schedule (£600) - I'm going to try and get the £600 planned under £550 - should easily be doable and well stocked (understatement!!).

Typical Bank Holiday weather as per normal - hopefully summer is just around the corner ................. or is it??

Got a lovely text from Son's girlfriend thanking us for the parcel sent - well worth the effort just for that. I'll have to start doing one every 2 months or so.

Enjoy, whatever you are up to - hope the Queen doesn't get too wet. lol

Lynsey

Lip_Stick

Morning all, so much for having a lay in. Still got up around 7. Bucketing it down here. Hopefully the weather will improve tomorrow as I'm going to a Jubilee celebration with a friend and kids.

Off to the folks for dinner, don't know if it's pork or chicken. Mam managed to get a load of whoopsies when we shopped together, including the gorgeous pork loin she gets, for £2 instead of £5.

Tea will be veg biriyani (sp). Had to remove something from the freezer to get the mince in. Won't be buying anything this week, other than milk, and maybe eggs.

Apologies for not welcoming you on my last post jenny, I was typing on my tablet which is a pain on this forum... I was also slightly intoxicated.

ms_night_ryder I got made redundant 18 months ago. I got myself a new fridge freezer, cooker and bed out of it. They tried to lay me off with barely any pay, which wasn't in my contract... cheeky greedy sods.

What was the parcel you sent Lynsey, if that's not being too nosy lol?

Maisie_M

Hi

I'd like to join you in this please. My chest freeer in the garage is so full its having trouble shutting and I would like to defrost it soon. My freezer in the utility room is also well stocked. So have loads of frozen meat etc to use up. I also have well stocked kitchen cupboards and an understairs cupboard which is full of grocery items too.

We did have a shelf of the walk in wardrobe in DS1 room full of stuff as well but that has now been cleared. It was full of pastas, catfood, coffee, soups etc that we had stocked up on for the winter months incase we got snowed in again, but have now integrated that into the main stock.

I have done and inventory of all the food we have and now need to start eating through the stock pile so that it gets used up before I buy any more. Am going off to meal plan for the week now and use up and much as I can.

There is me, OH, DS1 (8) and DS2 (1) and one cat.

edit: meal plan done

tonight: us - thai fishcakes and salad kids: fish, homemade wedges and carrots

Monday: all - shepherds pie

Tuesday: all - roast ham, roast potatoes and cauliflower cheese

Wednesday: adults - chilli and rice, ds1 - meatballs, chips and veg, ds2 - beefy tomato and mash

Thursday: all - sausages, mash and peas

Friday: adults - baked camembert with hams and petit pains, DS1 - Pizza, ds2 - fish pie

Saturday: adults and DS1 - pizza hut (DS1's birthday so taking him and friends to cinema and pizza hut) DS2 - meal at grandma and grandpa's

Sunday: all - chicken wrapped in bacon with cubed potatoes and veg

Lynsey

Maisie M - welcome to the thread and good luck. See if you can stick to the weeks meal plan, not that easy ............ unless you are disciplined. lol

Lip_Stick - we pay for our Son's mobile and ipad data contracts and had to send off his new contract - we took the opportunity to send some of our "stash" to help them out (28kg lol), not much more to send a parcel than to send the phone via Royal Mail. Basics like toiletries, pasta and sauces, olive oil, washing stuff etc, stuff that's eats up your money. Anyway, looks like they were happy and another will be sent shortly ............ to get rid of those free Dallaglio sauces. lol

Popped into Sainsbury's late on and loads reduced, but left all the stuff I could have froze (loads of salmon) and just took some fresh stuff and bought:

1 x pack satsumas 29p from £1.25 = 29p
1 x pack celery hearts 29p from £1.20 = 29p
1 x bag iceberg lettuce 10p from £1.00 = 10p
1 x pack rhubarb 30p from £2.00 = 30p
1 x pack burger buns 14p from 50p = 14p
Total spend = £1.12 (£5.95 full price).

I'll make a rhubarb crumble one day and either an apple crumble or pie later in the week or next weekend.
I'll make some minestrone soup probably Tuesday, if not tomorrow.

I've got to try and resist stuff for the freezer this week and Lidl weekend deal will help as I don't want the cheap sausages - might get a few gaps this week!!

Lynsey

dasophster

Tonight it will be something involving large volumes of carrots and potatoes, not sure what yet I bought them a couple of weeks ago very cheaply using tesco priceflow vouchers and would normally have used them a few days after buying but had a really bad cold and sore throat last week so couldn't use them then xx

ms_night_ryder

Well u have been busy went to Asda and got some baking bits not much, did get "2 whole sea bass half price spent £5 in there got sultanas, WWW jelly and a aero desert

In Mr t's I got finest burgers the chilli and onion ones, got there for the back end of the whoopsies and got a reggae reggae tm, chilli em finest and another finest rm, also got some crisps and 20% came off all finest products, also got simply cook chickenbreasts x2 also user the coupon so spent £7.53 there.

M&s got high juice, some reduced grapes and some treats £5 spent there.

Freezer is back to its normal packed status, not going to my grandmas so will have a ready meal and prepare a seabass for tomorrow, the other one will be somehow rammed into fridge, I also need to grill sausages today.

Had a yummy breakfast of blueberries, melon and Strawberrys was delish, had a bacon and cheese melt and a chicken pie reduced in Mr t

katskorner

used a fair bit from the freezer today for our indoor jubilee party (3 adults, 4 kids) as our event got rained off :

pack 30 cocktail sausages
breaded prawns
prawn spring rolls
party eggs
salmon kebabs
lemon sole goujons
chicken bites pack

in - 8 finger rolls that didn't get used up (bought ys yesterday).

so looking ok although still really full.

quintwins

lysney hope your onions go well

i was very bad and got some of the finest meal deals with 20% off just cause we like the glass bottles of coke so a nice treat, so last night we had chicken and chips, was very nice til my tooth started playing up, kids had smiley faces (half price in tesco at the mo so a nice treat for them aswell, youngests never even had them and it's prob been 4 years since the twins did) found some chicken nuggets in the freezer to go with them.

we had casarole, mash and peas at the inlaws today, kids are having pot noodle for dinner (ok i'm officially a bad mum lol) we're having the other meal deal so pie and creamy mash, really nice looking but i'd never pay that price normally, i'd give the kids pie and chips but they wouldn't eat the pie lol.

katskorner

my kids love pies - esp with new pots or chips, veg and gravy and an extra yorkshire pud if I have them - they share two pies between the three of them atm but won't be long before they are on one each.