I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Soworried

Morning
We don't like the beans either but they will be donated to the harvest festival at school.
I had a spend of 87p yesterday. I got 4pk of smarties at the co-op for 67p, dated 2013 so I don't know why they were reduced, the tubes are not crushed or battered either. 20p spend on YS raspberries at MrT. I will add up my spends soon.
Cereal for breakfast topped with raspberries. Lunch will be cheese and onion rolls out of the freezer. Dinner will be curry made out of veg that needs used up. My husband hates curry so I will make him an omlette and salad.
Today should be a no spend day on groceries but I am taking my daughter clothes shopping.
I hope everyone has a low or no spend day.

blackandwhitebunny

I have 9 tins of beanz (I had 10 but gave my neighbour 1), I don't like baked beans so OH will eat them - if there's no taste he will have to resoert to the hot chilli sauce, that usually works. I bought them in two lots in two different Sainsbugs, the first one the woman on the till realised that the coupons were scanning for more than the price and I thought she was going to call someone, but I just said I didn't realise and that it would pay for the two tins of cat food I had for the RSPCA box and she let them through. Second shop the woman didn't notice, but I go to her on purpose as she's really chatty and never argues about vouchers.
I also go two packs of St Agur which were £1 each using two vouchers and gave one to MIL, apart from that all I got was milk, reduced sweetcorn and some food colourings and pens for school off the reduced and I'll get that back anyway.
I've put six tins of food in the RSPCA box over the last week so I've told our cats half has to come out of their budget:D

Lynsey

Soworried - Harvest Festival is a good idea - my MIL donates stuff to her Church - maybe offloading some stuff there. We gave her our £5 Morries pertol cashback voucher last year to spend on HF stuff.
Do you know the date this year?? Usually early October, but dates conflicting on searches!!

blackandwhitebunny - well done on getting the beans through the "normal" tills. I feared just getting the 50p (price of beans) deducted, hence using the s/s tills.
Nice to donate the cat food.
Taking out of your cats budget though?? Naughty, naughty. :rotfl:
I also have a few favourite till ops.

I eventually settled for some lamb neck fillet, so lamb casserole it is.

Lynsey

Soworried

I don't know Lynsey, I've just looked at the kids calander and it is not on there. It normally is October though. I could need a wheel barrow to get all the beans there.:rotfl:

ammonite

Morning all, had a really sicky morning and just hope it doesn't continue the rest of the day - it feels as though it might

Got courgette soup and a pitta out for lunch but not sure that'll go down well in the stomach so may have to revise. Mushroom Risotto out for dinner and a naan bread and frozen curry (YS of course) for OH.

I'm amazed at how many meals I've still got in the freezer. Shopping for the last few weeks and next few weeks will be lunch items and top ups to complete meals (i.e. potatoes/rice etc.) and YS meals. I really don't see a problem getting to the end of September on this reduced budget - maybe even longer

Then there will be a big outlay for meat as I cook up a whole pile of meals for the freezer to last us the next quarter of a year.

This thread is definitely keeping me on the straighter and narrower - thank you

recovering_spendaholic

Lynsey (or other 5 beanz couponners) - I thought I might as well get a free can (it's free after all and I can put it in my sister's hamper at Christmas) - how many can you print out?

Lynsey

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

Lynsey (or other 5 beanz couponners) - I thought I might as well get a free can (it's free after all and I can put it in my sister's hamper at Christmas) - how many can you print out?

How many sheets of paper do you have??
BTW - do you not like your Sister. :rotfl:
You need to print them all from the original link, don't remove it. Print off as many as you need, remembering the shortened date now.

ammonite - recover quickly.

Lynsey

ms_night_ryder

Sequeena and ammonite get better soon.

I am having the remaining pasta, small baguette and pork today not sure in which order, havent eaten as yet, will have some blueberries at some point, prob the whole pack, its the basics pack, also noticed they had basics white grapes for 99p as well as the blueberries for £1 in mr s.

Going to pop out later, taking some coupons, beans,always,nestles and airwick, see what i can get, will only take £5 with me and i'm hoping for at least half back in change lol, i'm doing really well in the spending challenge so far, but i am supposed to be going out to eat on friday, so that will be a bigger spend. I will go to mr t and mr s after if i need to, will work out if i really need anything, will not be targeting whoopsies as there is literally no space in the freezer, may get some strawberries, i have a melon, so will make a smoothie if i get them.

Thinking of inviting my cousin for dinner, BBQ ribs, jerk chicken wings, mashed potatoes or mac n cheese, sweet corn and coleslaw, maybe garlic bread, apple pie and custard for dessert, i have the meat, just need sweetcorn,garlic bread, cabbage and apple pie, i even have the custard lol but i would need to make space in the freezer to get some stuff like garlic bread, which is always being whoopsied lol, in return i want her to help me paint my bedroom lol, i will even supply cocktails after.

Freezer is totally full now, i may take out some cream to make some butter with and then refreeze lol, that will be butter milk and butter, need to refresh my memory on how to make it, i remember it just being whisking lol, going to print my coupons off and eat for now.

Edwardia

NSD for me

Sequeena (((Sequeena))) my mother says things come in threes, so for once I hope she's right xx

Jane - yeah, don't you like your sister or is she a baked bean addict ?

ammonite - ginger is supposed to work, good excuse to buy ginger ale/beer and ginger nuts

Lynsey - watched an old episode of Great British Railway Journeys I'd missed last night Durham-Darlington-Whitby-Grosmont and Durham looks fantastic ! (Whitby too).

Diced buffalo in the buffalo korma last night was a tad chewy. Labrador ended up with the bigger bits after I washed the korma sauce off.

Bit worried I've got too much mince in freezer...veal mince, pork mince, lamb mince, beef mince, about nine packs in all. There's only so much spagless bog, chill con carne and curry I can eat

Lynsey

Edwardia wrote: »

Lynsey - watched an old episode of Great British Railway Journeys I'd missed last night Durham-Darlington-Whitby-Grosmont and Durham looks fantastic ! (Whitby too).

I've just booked a Travelodge room in their sale (£12) for Scarborough next March and will travel first to York and spend the morning there and then on to Scarborough and next day back home and Whitby will be a stopping off place as well as others.
Weather dependent of course (hope next March is as good weather-wise as last March).

No more "gossiping" today, must get some work done!!!!

Possible NSD here also ................ we'll see.

Lynsey