I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Lip_Stick

Evening all.

Had a lovely afternoon with ds. Went to a pub for a coke and ds had a play in the pub garden, then went to feed the ducks and have a walk by the river. After that we played footy in the park. Was nice with the good weather and the free drink (thanks Lynsey).

Had the lamb shanks for tea which were quite nice. Lots of gravy with them.

Will have to think about meals for the rest of the week. Tomorrow will probably be something spicy for me. I've got a ton of minced beef so perhaps I'll make a chilli and stash some in the freezer, now I've the room.

Lynsey - am looking for cheap tinned toms too. Let me know if you find any, I'll be on the lookout too.

Florenceem

We had roast potatoes, roast parsnips, Chinese chicken, Chantenay carrots, onion and asparagus for dinner.
Mr F not been on his freezer expedition yet - piece of chicken left - cooling down.

Maisie_M

Evening all

Lipstick - glad DS's operation went well and that he is up and about fine.

Lynsey - wow you really like buying in bulk. I thought I was bad when my bean stash reached 20 tins last year lol.

Quintins - hope your ribs were okay. Sounds like the marinade would be fine.

Flo - the asparagus looks so delish. I love asparagus as do my boys and DH is getting used to it.

Ms Night Rider - The chicken breasts sound lovely and a great price for easy cook.

Edwardia - intested to know what you could make from the assortment of foods you have there. I am always stumped when I can see loads of ingredients in my fridge etc but nothing that actually screams a recipie at me.

AFM - well meal planning went fine til today as DH is in Aberdeen overnight and when I went to get fish from the freezer for myself I realised there were 2 fillets left not one so decided to keep them for a night we are both here. There was a half Matthisons sausage in the fridge from the weekend which needed using up so I had that with one of my many packs of Batchelors rice lol. Boys had fish as planned as they have enough to do another meal sometime with me and DH.

[STRIKE]Sunday: Adults - pork belly with chinese pancakes and salad, Kids – Roasted pork belly, cubie potatoes and veg

Monday: Adults and DS1 - burgers in buns, and salad, DS2 - shepherds pie

Tuesday: Me - Smoked sausage and rice, Boys - fish, mash and peas (DH in Aberdeen for work so just me and the boys)
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Wednesday: Adults and DS1 - chicken curry, rice and naan, DS2 –fruity chicken and rice

Thursday: Adults and DS2 - beef casserole, newpotatoes and veg, DS1 - meatballs, new potatoes and veg

Friday: Adults - southern fried chicken goujons,garlic mushrooms, onion rings, kids - chicken goujons, wedges, veg

Saturday: All - homemade pizza

Oh just realised its curry tomorrow so better go take out the chicken breasts.

ms_night_ryder

Maisie hopefully they will be nice, they are safely in the freezer, strandgley there was one for the 20th reduced, i didnt argue though lol.

Have taken out some whoopsied lean mince, dont know what i wil do, but i had the intention of making a pasta bake, but now dont know if i can be bothered, im leaning towards browning and Putting it in the sc and leaving it, having veg and steamed rice.

Had the ham rolls, lovely, enough for lunch tomorrow.

purple.sarah

Hi everyone,

Today I made:

Breakfast
Chocolate flavour instant porridge I picked up on offer once because it looked nice and never tried! It is nice!

Lunch
Weight watchers tortilla wraps and spicy vegetable couscous from Approved Foods. The tortillas taste bad, presumably because all the fat has been sucked out, I didn't think they could make bread more bland! I bought a lot because they were cheap! Oops. I'll have to use them in cooking, anyone know any good recipes?

Dinner
Granose chicken style roast with Bisto vegetable gravy from Approved foods and peas from the freezer.

auditbabe

purple.sarah wrote: »

Hi everyone

Lunch
Weight watchers tortilla wraps and spicy vegetable couscous from Approved Foods. The tortillas taste bad, presumably because all the fat has been sucked out, I didn't think they could make bread more bland! I bought a lot because they were cheap! Oops. I'll have to use them in cooking, anyone know any good recipes?

You can fry them and make them into to tortilla chips and use them that way. Not very slimming but better than wasting them. Or dry them out in the oven could be the way forward then have them with salsa or make them into bread crumbs.

Lynsey

Morning.

NSD yesterday as helped friend with DIY - keeps me out of the shops.
TBH, I'm not missing the "whoopsies" and would rather be frugal at the minute. There will always be "whoopsies", but I don't need the freezer ones right now.
Gardening today hopefully, but will do a small shop later.
Last tub of Vitalite, so need to look for best offers on any spreads.

Got my Brother to print off some L'Oreal coupons, so need to use them up.

Breakfast will be toast with cheese again and chicken casserole later.
Meatball pasta tomorrow, last bag of meatballs and need them next, but got burgers and could make my own.

Lip_Stick - free drinks taste much better!!
There will be more I'm sure, did you use your free disguise kit. lol

Maisie M - I do bulk buy when things are cheap, makes sense as an investment. Lidl half-price weekend stuff used to have a sort of cycle, but this year they've varied more and have not been as good sadly - hope they get back on track for the 2nd half of the year.

Lynsey

Lip_Stick

Morning all.

Annoyed. :mad: Ds dad rang up last minute saying he's slept in and would be late taking ds to school. So sent ds off with the neighbour who has offered to take him on Wednesdays. Told the ex that I'll be picking ds up from school. Will probably change my mind about that tho as I've tons of things I need to do since ds has been off lol. Wouldn't mind but the ex has had a week off work so plenty of time to sleep! Lazy basket.

May have soup for dinner and pasta in an sacla uno sauce for tea. Could do with some salad leaves, fancy a salad.

Lynsey - it's the first voucher I've used so just went as normal. Next time I might send ds on a pair of stilts, wearing a beige mac and one of those kits. :rotfl:

quintwins

I'm soooo tired, i spoke to soon ds def isn't better, gonna be a long day.

Ribs were awful really fatty, the marinade was lovely tho however i won't be buying them again.

My whoopies shop went very well spent £6.50 ish but was over charged for some bread so got £2.30 dtd back, i got

some tummy tablets at 75p
a bottle of value lemonade
a punnet of value grapes

2 breaded haddock 33p
3 beef sausages 9p
a fillet steak 58p (only a little one but plenty for me)
2 fish cakes 22p
diced lamb 34p
bacon 22p
2 chicken breasts 33p
2 loaves of bread at 14p each
2 bags of oranges at 22p each
2 bags of apples at 24p each
punnet of strawberries 26p
pomagrate (the wee one you get with a fork) 14p
2 little gem lettuce 10p
finest on the vine tomatoes 14p


so ofcourse i'm really happy strawberries are all gone, i'm gonna eat the rest of the pomegrantes now.

breakfast was toast and oranges
lunch will be whatever i can get him to eat prob soup
dinner is the sausage pie i made yesterday

Hubby wants some more real butter for lidl, it's prob been 9 months to a year since we had any and i have to admit it's yummy so thats my task for today, that and keep ds entertained.


Ok i'm not eating the pomegrants ds is, atleast he's eating even if i was looking forward to them lol, i've been banned from eating any now cause there his lol.

Lynsey

quintwins - fantastic and dtd really made this even better. I'll have to try Tesco sometime for "whoopsies".

Lip_Stick - in theory you could be one of identical septuplets. :rotfl:
So keep the disguise kit for later. lol

Brother phoned up and needs bread, so need to go out earlier than planned. Need to drop off his bacon which we forgot on Monday. :eek:

Off to Morries to use 2 x £2.50 L'Oreal skincare coupons and hopefully get £1 off shop.
Sainsbury's for L'Oreal shampoo and conditioner (half-price @ £1.89 and using 3 x £1.50 coupons) and 2 more Cravendale with the 50p coupons.
B&M to see if they've had a delivery of my wanted crisps yet and next door to Aldi for the jacket potatoes, sugar, eggs and maybe jam.

Catch up later.

Lynsey