I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

ms_night_ryder

Lynsey enjoy your beans, i can't seem to get the new method to work it says error or key info missing, i'm going to give up on it! indeed RIP To heinz lol.

Off to my grandmas in a bit, was going to go with some beans.

bramble1

I caved and shopped today!

Soya milk - 59p
Jacket potatoes - 20p
Pizza express pizza(reduced from £5!) - 69p

not a bad spend really!

ammonite

Also used some of the garlic bread with spag Bol.

Shopping went well only picked up what I needed & the cashier was happy use both our money off vouchers. Picked up some spirits on offer for presents...spent £60 paid £43.50 as we had £9 off and £6.60 off didn't expect her to let us use both. :j

Got some 14p x3 pittas for the freezer, 42p for 12 when I would have spent double for 8. Very pleased.

Definitely got better at sticking to a list :j thanks for your moral guidance thread members

ms_night_ryder

Evening all.

Lynsey finally got the coupon working, had to use another account! lol, expiry changed to 29th this month, sow ill get a few more over the next week.

Just got back from mr s, spent £2 odd and got x6 5 beans, a pack of 5 fuit flakes, a jar of basics honey, a pack of blueberries, a reduced rustlers chicken hot wrap and a ham hock reduced sandwich, which i have had for dinner, used the coupons and got money off, did 3 seperate transactions at self service, all reeduced items practically gone, rustlers has been crammed in the freezer.

I had the pasta for lunch, will have the rest tomorrow, also have pineapple pork left, so will finish that tomorrow, nothing come out the freezer today, rustler hot wrap gone in.

miss_emmajane

Had a good day here, used up:

1 x porridge sachet, 1x pitta with last of turkey, 1x tin of tuna, 3 x fish fingers and a tin of marrowfat peas.

Went to ALDI to buy 3x tins of tuna for the rest of my placement lunches this week - works out cheap with pasta, cucumber & light mayo but also fills me up until I get home. Popped into Morrisons across the road and got some blueberries reduced to 45p which can go with my porridge for the rest of the week (ran out of them yesterday and wasn't going to buy more full price until next week so was happy with that). Didn't buy anything else, just the tuna and blueberries - getting quite good at buying only good reduced items and the exact items on my list

recovering_spendaholic

hi everyone - hope you are all not as hot as me - I think it is definitely the start of the menopause because it comes over me all of a sudden and I go all sweaty - my hair is constantly wet!

Still haven't been shopping:j Managed to get through today using a pack of beanfeast with some penne for lunch and used the rest of the penne to make a vegetabe and pasta cheese bake for my tea, and did the kids chicken breasts and oven chips with salad. There is enough pasta bake to last a couple of days for lunches for me which is good.

Did I tell you all that I am trying to be a vegetarian? I will still eat fish I think, but I don't want to eat meat, particularly pork. I have downloaded a load of recipes from the Good Food website and I will definitely make the carrot and cheddar soup tomorrow - am really looking forward to it!

lynsey and others using the 5 beans coupon - I don't care how cheap they are they are VILE!! I bought some and have tried to put them in various dishes but they just have no taste and the sauce is watery (IMO of course).

Katskorner and Squeena - thinking of you both at this difficult time.

cupboards and freezer are getting low - I have been doing a shop on my supermarket in preparation for payday - did you know that they do cashback on there now?

Lynsey

Jane - I won't be eating the beans, they're for my Son's hamper. lol
The value for myself was the coupons scanning at 85p for a 50p tin of beans.
Good luck with cutting out the meat, good that you are keeping to fish - makes life a little easier. I would find it really hard to be a "veggie", but my Son manages it easily.

ms_night_ryder - well done on getting those beans - shame they've changed the date, but still time to stock up.

Some great bargains all, well done.

Went back to Sainsbury's and got another 5 tins of beans and bought:
3 separate transactions.

5 x Heinz 5 beans = £2.50
Pack of 6 polo mints (half-price) = 99p
Bag of Jelly Babies (half-price) = 74p
Bag of Choc Eclairs (half-price) = 74p
Vivaldi potatoes (reduced) = 19p
Sub total = £5.16
Used 5 x 85p coupons (minus £4.25) - total = 91p :j
Days total spend = £2.21

Got a few bags of cheap sweeties for all my efforts.

Got quite a few potatoes now and may freeze some tomorrow (possibly wedgers).
Got to use last of pears tomorrow, so I'll do a crumble.
Need to sort meat dish in the morning.

Lynsey

ms_night_ryder

I'm going to give the beans a try one day, i was planning of giving some away anyway, to my uncle who is on benefits, my grandma and the red cross, if i dont like them, they can have loads lol.

I have started to think about christmas, i have decided i am going to do my uncle a hamper of stuff i get for free lol, also last year i gave the red cross at christmas a big bag of food, it was a massive 99p store bag and the handle broke on the way, thats how heavy it was, they were really grateful for it, so i am thinking of doing the same again this year, they got all sorts of freebies, choc oranges, rice pudding, jelly, custard, fajita kits, cans of oep beans, wholewheat penne pasta, campbells soup, there was loads of it, when i gave it to the woman, she said thank you loads and said that the cupboard was running low, so this was perfect so close to christmas, i felt really good that day, so i am eager to do it again. this was all stuff i got for free last year from coupons and glitches, even the pasta as i got it during oep glitch which paid you to take things away lol.

Sequeena

(((Kat))) and (((caz)))

Thanks everyone They say things comes in threes and now the baby has a bad belly. Emergency baths were needed for me and him at 1am. He's still eating and drinking as normal though. Think it may have been the mayo we had the other day (cod fillets topped with mayo, cheese and breadcrumbs with mash and veg). Then again he had mayo a few weeks back with tuna and pasta and was fine. Hmm.

Today I did a potato bake and used up more sausages and veg from the freezer. 500g turkey mince for £1.50 in Tesco earlier.

Will be back to the vet in the morning, the cat seems a little 'off'

Lynsey

Morning - looks like quite a nice day ................. so far.

Edit: spoke too early ............ another "grey day"!!

Sequeena - you're suffering at the moment, hope you're right about "coming in threes" and that's it. Hope you and little one are well.

ms_night_ryder - I appreciate what you are doing with the stuff you get free etc and agree it makes you feel good giving the stuff away. Hoping for lots of coupons between now and Xmas and I might make up a hamper myself and take to somewhere that would appreciate it (great idea) - hope they like Heinz 5 beans!!

No beans shopping today!!!!
I need to search for best spread offer as running low, but quite enjoy using butter of late - I don't might paying £1 for decent tasting butter.

Just toast for breakfast (with butter) and take out some meat (possibly lamb cutlets/chops).

I'll be "stripping" later ........................ got to get that wallpaper off ready for decorating. lol

Lynsey