I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

sock-knitter

silly me broke my wrist last night, good time to use those reduced ready meals lurking in the freezer, as cooking is going to be such a challenge one handed.
tonights tea is lasagne with some salad that my mum chopped for me earlier
tommorrow nights tea will be hm hotpot from freezer
will also be good for reducing my shopping, as now will only have one hand free to carry it
always looking on the bright side lol

ikkle87

Could you not use brioche to make a bread and butter pudding? x

mymerrywidow

sock-knitter wrote: »

silly me broke my wrist last night, good time to use those reduced ready meals lurking in the freezer, as cooking is going to be such a challenge one handed.
tonights tea is lasagne with some salad that my mum chopped for me earlier
tommorrow nights tea will be hm hotpot from freezer
will also be good for reducing my shopping, as now will only have one hand free to carry it
always looking on the bright side lol

thats handy:rotfl:. seriously, hope your not in too much pain.

sock-knitter

mymerry widow your comment made me laugh, pain has eased thanks to the morphine the doc prescribed for the pain
tonights tea is hm hotpot from freezer
been to mr m, and bought 3 salmon fillets, 1 for tommorrows tea, and 2 for freezer, excuse for buying 3 is they are on offer
have also bought a bag of frozen stir fry veg from farm foods, excuse, cant chop veg, and it will make a quick healthy meal with either a chicken breast or salmon fillet

bramble1

Went to waitrose today, got reduced mushrooms, strawberries, jacket potatoes, bagels, and party platter for OH's lunches.

Dinner is sausages, and freezer bits.

Sharon87

I was going to start this, but I never did!

I've just calculated that I spent £138 in (mostly) Sainsburys in the past month on food (just for me! apart from that week my friend was down living with me)! I think I bought 2 bottles of wine and some Bold tablets, but the rest was food! Plus I spent £45 on eating out!

I'm determined not to buy any more food, especially meat as I am moving out in less than a month, so most of it needs to be gone by then.

My problem is I buy lots of dinner stuff, but no snack/lunches, so keep having to go to the supermarket to stock up then I see even more meat reduced, so I buy it.

From memory I have 3 chicken breasts, 4 chicken leg and thighs (that I cut from 2 whole chickens I've already had 1 chicken breast and the wings) a kilo of turkey breast fillets, 8 sausages, large pack of mince split into 3 portion sizes, 2 trout fillets, 1 mackerel fillet, 2 tuna fillets, 2 bits of steak, a few peas. I'm sure there's more though. I also have some fresh stuff, the potatoes will need eating soon, they're starting to grow. I have some pasta left and a fair bit of rice and lots of jars of sauces and 5 tins of chopped/peeled plum tomatoes.

I need to force myself to eat the stuff I have in!

bramble1

Decided on bacon and mushroom pasta bake for dinner tomorrow, bacon is in freezer rest is store cupboard.

Fruit salad and salad for my lunch
Oh has usual Sarnies etc. Need to get a reduced loaf tomorrow for rest of the week.

beachie

Well this is not good. Tesco have a deal on for £15 on a first shop, £10 cashback and I have a £20 voucher to use, which means I could potentially get £50 worth of shopping for £5 but I already have alot of food in the house.

Alternatively I could get £26 off a £40 shop - but this doesnt work out as good a deal.

VfM4meplse

Okay, confession time. I had intended to run down my freezer last month, and then this month....

But I have encountered some difficulty along the way! My fridge is always empty (save for tins of diet tonic water), but my storecupboard is bulging with dried ingredients, and I havee a windowsill full of fresh herbs with which to whip up fabulous food! I rarely visit the supermarket these days, but when I see seasonal veg being sold at rock-bottom prices on my local stall, I rub my hands with glee at what I could be stuffing my freezer with. So not only is my freezer full, I have also started to fill up my sister's and brother's too whilst they are away on their hols / a 3-month business assignment! I just can't get through the contents though! (For example, a 0.6L container of soup / rataouille etc willl feed me for 3 evenings). I guess I need to work on regaining the equilibrium btwn filling my freezer and emptying it!

gin

I have been slowly emptying my freezer but it is filling up with all the beans I have picked from my garden and also I got given a bag of cooking apples. Every day I stew 6 of them and put them in a freezer bag in the freezer. My family are getting sick of apple and strawberry pie and apple and blackberry crumble! Luckily my courgettes were rubbish this year so I havent had them to chop and freeze...