I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

quintwins

*stands up*
"hello my names quintwins and i have an problem"

i did a cupboard inventory, i'm not even quite fishished yet and i have

11 bags pasta
lasagne sheets
3 tikka curry
1 jalfrezi
1 korma
2 balti
1 rogan josh
2 value curry
1 value sweet and sour
6 peppercorn sauce
8 cheese sauce
14 parsley sauce
3 strawberry ships
4 sausage casaroles
7 custard powder
3 chocolate rice
3 caramel rice
4 instant noodles
2 instant mash
2 brocolli pasta
2 mug shotd
4 cupa soup
pudding rice
half bag sr flour
2 birds custard powders
yeast
icing sugar
options white chocolate
baking powder
baking soda
sprinkles
herbs/spices
handful of derma sugar
1/3 bag of lentils
block co!!!! milk
curry powder
21 tins of beans
13 tins of rice pudding
7 tins of custard
3 tins of chopped tom
3 tins of chicken soup
2 tins of tuna
1 tin value spam
1 tin sardines
4 bloks of jelly
4 tin tom soup
9 tins of oranges
5 tins potatoes
2 tinned pineapple
1 tinned peachs
5 tins carrots
1 mushy peas
one large dolmio white sauce
2 700g boxes rice crispies
half box of coco pops
box cornflakes
hot chocolate
3 x 500g gravy
2 tin pieapple
2 tinned oranges
1 tin peach
olive oil
sugar
condiments
tesco custard powder
peanut butter


i'm almost scared to do a freezer one :rotfl:beleive it or not i buy more freezer items than cupboard ones.

quintwins

Oh and i took out some frozen reduced mushrooms, celery and carrots, there in the slowcooker with a packet of frying steak and somehow i'm gonna put 2 portions back in the freezer.

Lynsey

Edwardia - nice to see you posting, hope you are well and the decorating is finished.

quintwins - at least you'll not starve. lol
All you need to do though now is just to tick-over and replenish with reduced items.
I remember having a "conversation" with gailey early in the year and my plan was to get the stash, fill freezers and cupboards with cheap stuff and then in effect you are buying for the future as current stock get used ...... keep the band-wagon rolling and keep food costs well down. It works well for myself anyway.

I got a scare today, had to replenish the coffee canister and now down to 3 x 150g re-fill packets of Nescafe.
It was on April 14th that I had 2.6kg of the stuff.
This is now a target and will try and arrange a visit to the Nestle Factory Shop next week and hope the £2 for 200g offer is on.
Just checked the sites and no great Nescafe offers are on. I reckon I have around 2 to 3 weeks to stock up!!
I think Morries had the £1.79 150g re-fill packs last time and hate to pay more than £2.50 per 200g.

Lynsey

ms_night_ryder

Hey guys.

I've been hiding as i have been to mr w everyday this week, except today, have been getting some bargains, some duchy ham and italian herb ham 77p and 62p, 2 pizzas hand stretched £3.50 etc, made the pork yesterday but had dinner at my grandmas, also made 3 of the chicken wings lemon pepper yum and had 1 of the 10p finger rolls for lunch, will warm up the pork today after zumba and have it with some veg might quicly stir fry it.

Still 6 wings left, will have tomorrow.

[Deleted User]

Hey guys
looks like all are doing well - lynsey you may have inspired me to hunt out some coupons over the weekend, I love a good freebie me!!
I did well on the tesco wine "glitch" got about 18 little bottles for around the equivalent of 80-90p each! gonna use them as xmas pressies in some shape or form (probably adding chocolate) , OH called me an alcoholic! :rotfl:

Did well this week on freezer/cupboard use up - roasted a chicken sunday which fed us till wednesday- roast then fajitas, then chilli out of freezer to use up rest of wraps and added the salsa to tortilla chips to make nachos very nice!

Milk out of freezer this morning as we are running low (can almost see the back of the freezer now!) and may bake some cakes over weekend to use up eggs and butter that need using this week! other than that no shopping planned- have set myself the £400 till xmas challenge (started last week or week before!) this will involve a LOT of using up all the stores we have!

Lynsey

Morning all.

Deleted_User wrote: »

Hey guys
looks like all are doing well - lynsey you may have inspired me to hunt out some coupons over the weekend, I love a good freebie me!!

Go grab those "freebies" - you need to max up with great offers.
I'll be using Heinz, Green's, Wright's and Campbell's (possibly) today.
My "Corner Shop" is expanding, but all for a good cause.

NSD yesterday, but will be buying today.
I need eggs and possibly milk.
Might pop into M&S also to get another couple of sponge rolls.
Out for lunch and had breakfast, last of tea-cakes toasted. Not sure what's for tea tonight yet??
Thinking of HM fish and chips tomorrow??
I want the biscuits and onions from Lidl tomorrow, but not the meat.

Have a great day and good luck to those couponing today.

Lynsey

cheerfulness4

Lynsey wrote: »

I think Morries had the £1.79 150g re-fill packs last time and hate to pay more than £2.50 per 200g.

Lynsey

Lynsey, if you find nescafe anywhere near that price shout loud and proud in red on here will you.
Bought my stocks at same time as you and mine well gone now. Finding it really hard to get Nescafe at less than £3.99 per 200g with offers. :eek:
The 2 for £5 days seem to be long gone.

ma-ri-ella

hey everyone so my 12.50 a week budget starts from today.so far got
8x pastabakes £1 each minus 10% discount 7.40 and will go to farmfoods later for soup.dont mind going over this week as the pastabakes will be about a months worth so only about 1.80 is from this weeks budget lol.only other things i should need this month is possibly cereal and milk . has any1 won a poptart coupon? i keep getting told to try again tomorrow!

ma-ri-ella

cheerfulness4 wrote: »

Lynsey, if you find nescafe anywhere near that price shout loud and proud in red on here will you.
Bought my stocks at same time as you and mine well gone now. Finding it really hard to get Nescafe at less than £3.99 per 200g with offers. :eek:
The 2 for £5 days seem to be long gone.

asda did have it quite cheap cause a friend of mine said it was cheaper than him going to wholesaler but that was about 2/3 weeks ago so dont know about now..

ammonite

Hi All!

Glad to see you are all still bargain hunting/clearing out the cupboards. I have been away with work for a while so haven't been around for a bit.

I have had 2 shops, one was mainly a lunch shop, one was a top up the cupboards shop...both had a good £20 of discounts associated with them

Our freezer is being re-stocked with food cooked to the Slimming World diet so that it is easy for me to re-start it in the new year.

May cook some Chilli and lasagne to freeze at the weekend, have got all the ingredients. Also may do a Tuna and Pasta bake to freeze as that will help get rid of some of the older tins/jars in the cupboard.

Going to do a meal plan for this week and see what we need rather than getting back to the old £50 per week shops! Aiming for about £25 this week, have lots of crisps and bread in stock so just lunch meat and salad needed really.

Hope you are all well

(Just updated my totals - I am cheating slightly but having toiletries and household items in the budget is probably going to be too difficult so this just reflects food).