I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Lynsey

Edwardia wrote: »

Lynsey - Fin Carre milk chocolate 100g bars 17p this weekend Lidl

Shhhhhh!!
Another fiver to [STRIKE]waste[/STRIKE] invest. lol

Soworried - I think it's the Lidl perfume @ £1.99, cucumbers and gammon steaks and the chocolate.

No food spends, but got a pair of M&S jeans for only £3 in the M&S Outlet shop at Royal Quays - some great bargains there and rails of stuff all reduced to clear - £1 rail, £2.50 rails, £3 rails etc. Can't believe I resisted so much stuff, but got what I wanted and was going to pay almost £20 in the "real" M&S.

Lynsey

Soworried

Thankyou Lynsey and Edwardia. I think it will just be the cucumber and the CHOCOLATE For me.
I have an awful lot of gammon in the freezers already.

Edwardia

Soz I've been at Sainsbos and it was as muggy inside as out eww
Lynsey is spot on ..Fin Carre 100g milk choc 17p, 'Suddenly' 50ml 1.99, whole cucumber 29p and Hazelmeade Farm 2 gammon steaks 340g 84p

OH just brought me the weeniest slice of Respect organic carrot cake (1.80, Sainsbury's). Totally yummy, moist but not stodgy and with a hint of ginger mmm

Edwardia

ASDA Smart Price lard 250g
Kerrymaid lard 250g 50p, Iceland
Tesco organic unsalted butter 250g
Rachel's organic unsalted butter 250g
President unsalted butter 250g x 2
Bleiker's smoked salmon 115g Morrisons offer
Morrisons whole red gurnard I really should do something with this
HM langoustine stock ditto
Piece of ginger root should use this up
Waitrose British veal mince 500g x1 3 for £10
Butchers of Brogdale wild rabbit might cook for dog, been in freezer since December
half bag Waitrose diced butternut squash
Waitrose organic leaf spinach 500g
Waitrose essentials diced skinless boneless turkey thigh never did make Turkey & Stilton soup at Christmas
Morrisons blackberries 350g
Abel & Cole diced buffalo steak 500g 4.99
box of 6 Oinker 5" organic cheese & ham pizzas 7.99 (for OH)
Sainsbury's So organic British diced beef 400g x3 3 for £10
Tesco diced organic beef 410g x2 2 for £6
Sainsbury's So organic British beef steak mince 500g x1 3 for £10 offer
Abel & Cole free range pork mince 500g 2.75
ASDA YS onion naan (for OH)
McCains oven chips 907g (for OH)
Sainsbury's NZ lamb mince 500g £3
Abel & Cole 1kg free range organic chicken carcass with neck and giblets 1.70
Abel & Cole organic chicken legs 558g 3.67
Pegoty Hedge organic beef lasagne 440g 3.95, Abel & Cole (for OH)
Cloud Nine organic meatballs 2.49, Sainsbury's
Laverstoke Park Farm organic lamb bones 1kg 1.99 Abel & Cole
Laverstoke Park Farm 1kg organic beef bones 1kg 1.99 Abel & Cole
Sainsbury's Taste The Difference Gressingham duck legs x2 2.49 each
Abel & Cole organic chicken wings 874g 1.99
Duchy Originals unsmoked organic bacon 3.99 Waitrose
Sainsbury's So organic unsmoked organic bacon 3.99
Sainsbury's organic Wensleydale 270g and organic Red Leicester 270g 2 for 4.50
Abel & Cole mature Cheddar 360g 2.59
Lye Cross Farm organic vintage Cheddar 336g 2.69 YS from deli, Sainsbury's
Valley Spire Blue Stilton Lidl offer
Duchy Originals YS lamb leg steaks x2
Sainsbury's So organic British chicken thighs and drumsticks 500g 3.50
Sainsbury's So organic British lamb chops (4) £6

Looking at this lot I'm amazed I got it all in a small chest freezer.
It all needs to be gone before November !

cazj80

lilmisskitkat wrote: »

Tonight we're having Sausage and bean casserole made with a packet mix (my mam gave me 10 different mixes when she cleaned her cupboards, not something i normally buy but it was free lol). Sausages, mushrooms, red onion, peppers, carrots, tin of beans, tin of tomatoes all in the slow cooker. I'll feed the kids at 5.30pm and leave it on low for DH when he gets in at 8pm.

Do you put any other liquid in the slow cooker? I've never really used a slow cooker before, and your dinner sounds delicious!

I made beef stew in mine today, with diced beef, swede, potato, carrot, onions, bay leaves, mustard, worcestershire sauce, stock and stout in, but I can really really taste the stout and I don't like it!! I think OH will be eating it for tea tonight and lunch tomorrow lol

Just popped to T Express to get some milk, the ys section is right by the milk, so I always have a look, and today got -

4 cartons of fresh leek and potato soup - 15p each
2 big cartons of blueberries, grapes, strawberries and blackberries - 65p each
supersweet cherries - 55p
2 packs of broccoli, mangetout and green beans that you can microwave - 19p each

Everything else was only a little bit reduced, and was still quite pricey.

cazj80

Edwardia - I really need to do a freezer inventory too, something I'll try and do in the evenings once the kids are in bed. I have the freezer part of a fridge/freezer and a 6 foot tall freezer which is pretty much full too, might be a big job!

Soworried

I want to pinch your freezer Edwardia. Your dog is eating better than we are. :rotfl:

I have not done an inventory since May. I really need to do another one. It tends to settle me that we do have a lot of food in and that I do not need to worry. I think the fear comes from not earning at the moment.
Caz, it sounds like we both need elastic sided freezers.

Edwardia

cazj80 - my mother rang me and as the post was up I reeled off what was in there and she didn't believe there was that much in my waist high square chest freezer. I chose it last December because the previous taller one with shelves was brill for stacking nice neat packages of stuff but useless for say a whole salmon (got one YS from the fish counter at Sainsbos) or a wild rabbit from a butcher.

Am worried that we won't get through it all in time for me to start stocking up for Christmas

Good luck with your inventory x

Soworried I assure you that most of the time my dawg lives on duck and wabbit Winalot from Poundland ! Your worry is perfectly understandable (((soworried))). I tend to worry about how much is in there in case it breaks down

cazj80

soworried - an elastic sided freezer would be an excellent invention! OH is worried about work at the moment about possibly losing his job, so it is a assurance to know that at least we can still eat for a while. We had a horrible year in 2010 in that he lost his job 2 weeks after our first daughter was born, it was such a worrying time, that I like to know that we have a lot of food in the house, just in case.

Edwardia - thank you! I might make a start on it tonight, but I also need to make a start on the will packs that I bought through one of the groupon type websites, it's only valid until the end of August, and I don't want to lose the money that I've paid for it. I just need to sit down for half an hour or so, it's more so that we can say who we want to have our children, should the worst happen.

lilmisskitkat

cazj80 wrote: »

Do you put any other liquid in the slow cooker? I've never really used a slow cooker before, and your dinner sounds delicious!

Hi Caz

The packet mix i used said add 3 fl oz of water so i just chucked a slosh in out of the kettle. The tinned tomatoes made the sauce and also the beans as i used baked beans with the sauce as i had no cannellini beans left.

If i was making it normally (without a packet mix)and with drained cannellini beans i'd use a tin of tomatoes and around 1/2 pint of water along with my herbs and spices. I always bulk out the meat with lots of veg and can thicken the sauce up at the end if need be. My lot like lots of sauce to mop up with a slice of bread

Sorry i'm not much help, i'm kind of a 'sling it in and see' cook :rotfl:

K xx