I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Maisie_M

Morning all

Been awol as it was the kids school holidays but they went back on Tuesday (we are in scotland) so can now concentrate on my freezer challenge. Have to say even though I haven't been menu planning I have managed to empty quite a bit of the freezer in the garage which is my big one so I will check what is in my small freezer and try to use up that one up over the next week. Then I will be in a position to defrost them:T:T

Now to go back and catch up on what has been happening.

Lynsey

Morning all, just watching the Breivik verdict on tv.

Maisie M - nice to see you back posting after the kids summer hols.

Sequeena - nice cat story, you must be relieved you "found" her. Was she not just palying "hide and seek"?? lol

Be careful with the Aldi coupons with the £35 spend. Apparently they deduct the coupons as the items go through, so you'll have to make sure your total is £35+ after the deductions.
I'm missing out on the £35 spend and will just double up on the bits I want. I feel like I've actually bought the coupons as we rarely buy newspapers ........... I need olive oil though.
Ended up in Asda last night, but only really bread reduced and spent 17p on:
Large french stick - 5p
Large loaf - 10p
Pack bagels - 2p (lol)

Yesterdays spends = £2.35

Toast for breakfast and stir fry for main meal, hubby with have the fish-cakes.
Making a cottage pie for tomorrow and using up some potatoes.
Thinking of making some bread-crumbs and freezing them - do you have to dry them out before freezing??

Thanks for the updates on cinder toffee/honeycomb etc, I'll get what's needed next week and give it a try.

Only shopping today will be in Sainsbury's tonight and only if I'm passing and there are some fantastic offers.

Lynsey

Soworried

Morning
I am glad you found your cat Sequeena.

I ended up filling the freezers again yesterday. :cool: I went to MrT and they had reduced the 60pk of lincolnshire cocktail sausages to just £1. That is christmas and new year parties sorted. :j
I put them through on a seperate sale so that I didn't ruin my JTD.
On the other sale I bought.
Milk, £1.18 JTD of 18p
Fairy fabric conditioner £1.99x2 2x £1 off vouchers JTD of £1.98
Lenor gold £2.25 x 2 2x £1 off vouchers JTD of £1.50
Spam £1.79 x 4 2x £1.79 off vouchers
Lemon pie filling 50p x 1 40p off coupon and JTD of 15p
Alberto balsam conditioner £1, JTD 20p
Custard 17p
Lemon squash 32p
Total cost before vouchers £18.81 Total cost after vouchers and JTD £6.92. :j

Breakfast was cereal again, lunch will be chicken noodle soup out of the freezer with buns. Dinner will sticky sausages with garlic and cheese doughballs and salad.

Soworried

You can just freeze them straight away Lynsey. I like to keep a container full of a few different types, spicy breadcrumbs, just add chilli powder or cayenne pepper. Garlic powder and black pepper is nice as well. And herby with mixed dried herbs added.

Has anybody tried the cheese that Lidl are reducing at the weekend? I am wondering if it is ok to bake with. Save me using expensive cheese.

quintwins

morning all,

yesterday i took out some steaks for tonights dinner and some pasta, passtata and frozen peppers. Today i will also use some chips, peppercorn sauce, ice cream and sausage rolls, maybe a tin of beans if the kids want them.

Yesterday i put in- 2 lasagnes 4 garlic bread, 3 loaves of bread, a tub of ice cream, bag of sweetcorn, bag of chips, 44p chicken breasts, scones, cream.

freezers are now pretty full, plan for today is

breakfast was sandwichs and fruit
lunch-wraps and yogurts
dinenr, sausage rolls and chips for the kids and steak and chips for us when there in bed

Lynsey

Soworried - I'm going to buy 2 packs of the cheese for cheese on toast and possibly cheese scones. I don't really buy mild cheese now, but will give this a try.
Made the bread-crumbs, went a bit OTT, so the birds will get some and I'll use some on the fish-cakes later.
Cottage pie made for tomorrow - easy day.
I'll do both Lidl and Aldi tomorrow morning. Tesco also for some Lurpak and hopefully the L'Oreal wipes (only got 1 coupon left, wish I had 2!!!).

Lynsey

Edwardia

Soworried I have used it for cooking ie cauliflower cheese, grated cheese and it's been fine but it's too bland for eating to my palate.

Sequeena - you should write a childrens' book.. The Cat in the Drawer..:D

NSD for me. Sat in the garden and shared the rest of the chocolate Green & Black's ice cream with the lab. OH got some lamb leg steaks out of the freezer last night, think they're the last of the YS ones.

ammonite

Half a loaf of bread out. Pitta bread out. 4 sausages out. One pack of bacon out. 6 eggs out. Pack of turkey finished, golden syrup finished. tin of spaghetti hoops out.

Phew!

Super busy day no spending though. Going to organise the meals again this week as it helped a lot to work out what i needed from the shops.

Edwardia

ammonite - I just realised, chump that I am, that all this time I've been detailing Ins & Outs from freezer and completely forgetting the larder. It's mostly stuff like herbs, spices, ghee, organic Extra Virgin olive oil, passata, stuff like that. Pasta for OH, teabags. Nothing remotely interesting.

Most recent:
IN: 3 tins Heinz organic cream of tomato soup for OH
OUT: 1 tin La Doria ratatouille from Sainsbury's, brand with least nasties I could find and ewww making own in future

While OH is off (as of 1900 tonight got him for 16 days) am dispatching him to seafood wholesaler to buy me wild North Atlantic prawns and stuff. Should have enough space in freezer before he goes back to work. Thinking of doing him a paella to use up the rascasse, with the chicken wings.

ETA: OUT from the freezer.. President butter, Cloud Nine organic meatballs, Waitrose organic chicken thighs, Abel & Cole free range pork mince, Sainsbury's SO organic free range unsmoked dry cured back bacon, Davidstow Cornish Crackler Extra Mature Cheddar

katskorner

Hello everyone. I am just saying adios as I am off on hols to Torbay in the morning for a couple of weeks. Hoping to get back up to speed when I get back.

Got myself a cheapie chicken from butcher friend to take with us for Sunday (half price) and a couple of sirloins for tea tonight at the kids request ( £5 for 2 10oz steaks..) so still got a bit of form ....

I hope you are all ok. There are so many pages I missed that I don't think I shall actually catch up in full. Love to all. x