I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

quintwins

Afternoon all, i have no milk and bread i don't want to go get any for risk of buying lots of stuff i don't need and i have no car so it's not an option anyway, i have some uht milk which the kids liek and won't do them any harm for a day or 2.

plan for today is

breakfast toasted muffins from the freezer was 4 for 7p
lunch- pasta
dinner- mince and taties

ms_night_ryder

Hey guys.

Still waiting for my delivery, they have until 7, i made a nice smoothie out of some fruit, strawberrys, melon and pineapple was yummy, bottled some for tomorrow, I bagged up the pork shoulder slices and the chicken wings, meat drawer is now full, going out shortly, will have a chola and some mackrel fillets maybe.

ammonite

quintwins - it is amazing what you can make do with when you haven't got "staples" in

Out: bag of rice x 2, 99p Morries' curry, naan bread, 1 packet of chunky chicken and a tin of soup.

In: Nothing. Don't plan to go to the supermarket until the weekend (never manage to stick to this usually!)

Slightly concerned that £200 of the £700 budget has gone in just 5 weeks. There are 20 weeks of the year left...that is £25 per week. I reaaaaaaly need to start eating what we have before I fill up the darned cupboards but bare cupboards panic me.

I'm going to make a concerted effort to make a dint in the huge amount of pasta we have from now until the end of August. Pasta salads are really filling for lunch and if we have no bread left then we have to eat pasta!

Sequeena

Got some cracking bargains today

4 jacket potatoes was 75p reduced to 37p
6 rissoles 85p (can't remember original price)
3x continental selection platters (salami, olives, roasted peppers etc) was £4 each reduced to 29p. £12 worth of food for under £1!!

Very pleased we had some of the rissoles as a snack this afternoon.

Edwardia

NSD for me. Done mega amounts of housework, yuck. OH has a week off and he helped as too much rain to be doing much in the garden.

Out: organic free range chicken drumsticks for dinner tomorrow, Higgidy Pies for lunch (OH has really taken to these).

In: nothing yay !!

quintwins

ammonite wrote: »

quintwins - it is amazing what you can make do with when you haven't got "staples" in

Your completely right we're def not gonna starve, made up some powdered milk so the kids can have cornflakes in the morning, lunch will be mini pizzas, and dinner will be chicken casarole with roasties and yorkshire pudding, all using the freezer/cupboards just have to make it to thur so i'm not doing a special trip and risk buying extra things i don't need.

Soworried

Morning,
Suqueena that is a lovely photo of your little boy. x
Quintwins, after reading your recipes I am sure you will still be eating lovely meals. x
Lynsey, Thankyou, if it hasn't eased off by tomorrow I think I will have to go to the doctors.
Today I have pulled out 4x apple and sage drizzled pork steaks YS £1.48, TTD maris piper double cream mashed potato, YS 15p, MRT finest thyme and port gravy YS 20p, YS sweet potato 29p previously mashed and cooked. 4x yorkshire puddings home made but frozen extras.
That is a very lazy dinner and should be nice. I have some white cabbage in the fridge that needs used up as well.
4x buns have also came out to butter to go with soup for lunch. Breakfast, we have pulled out croissants that I will butter and jam if people want it.
Fruit again for snacks as we are still working through a mountain.
So lots will be used up today and nothing will go in as I am still not up to shopping.
I hope everyone is well and has a low or no spend day. x

Soworried

Just as I post that it will be a no shopping day someone tells me that Morries has PG tips for under £3 for 240.

I wonder who I can talk in to going shopping for me.

Lynsey

Morning.

Edwardia wrote: »

Lynsey - toasted hot cross buns for breakfast sounds awesome !!

...................... and cheap at 6 for 9p. lol
The Sainsbury's "Be good to yourself" ones are very nice.

Toasted tea-cakes for breakfast today ............... same price, 6 for 9p. Last pack of 6 and only 1 pack of hot cross buns left.
Cooked the mince for main meal (cottage pie) and just need to top with mash. Forgot the crumble mix yesterday, so I'll have to make my own and may add porridge.

Only bought bits yesterday food-wise, got 2 Anchor cream which were free using 2 x 50p coupons (cazj80, hope you managed to get some), a pack of Oykos for £1 form Asda and some Sharwood's noodles from Tesco for £1.85 - so food spends yesterday = £2.85.
Also got my L'Oreal stuff and bought 4 bottles of Surf from Tesco.

Need to find out what Lidl have this weekend (half-price) before deciding on hat to target for the week - don't want to spend much more than £10 the rest of the week. Either pizza and wedgers tomorrow or a stir fry??

Sequeena - great bargains, especially the platters.

Hope all are well and hope the back eases Soworried.

Still waiting for easyJet to release summer 2013 flights and hoping for some decent Groupons later in the week.

Lynsey

ammonite

Morning all,
No grocery shopping for me today. I really need nothing at all. Nothing 'out' for husband tonight as he gets fed after football and probably just a jacket potato and cottage cheese for me for dinner this evening. Not sure about lunch maybe a pitta bread and philly?

Hope you get some flights Lynsey - where are you hoping to go?