I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

recovering_spendaholic

Lynsey - Free Flora Buttery?? Where can I get this?

I made a HUGE pasta bake last night from half a pound of mince from the freezer with peppers, mushrooms, onions, celery and tomatoes which were all nearing the end of their usefulness, but fine for cooking with. I threw in a tin of Tomato soup instead of tinned tomatoes and I have to say that it tasted lovely when I sampled it. I have put the bake into the fridge and will use it for tonight's tea with salad.

I still have half a chicken left over in the fridge and will curry that. The problem is that I don't have a microwave at the moment so I am struggling to re-heat stuff like curries, so I make that fresh tomorrow. We will have it with some of my huge stock of approved foods Naan bread!!

I have lentil soup (made on Monday) to use up for lunch, which I am quite looking forward to, and for breakfast I used up a quarter of a tin of beans which were left from last night's tea with a slice of wholemeal toast.

I have a friend calling in at lunchtime and I know she will like the soup - plus I am hoping that she will bring me some of her veg and eggs!! She doesn't have a computer at the moment so I am letting her use mine, plus my printer and she "pays" me with veg and eggs!!

I am loving the free Campbells soup at the moment - I will get some more at the weekend when I go to the supermarket - I should have about 15 tins then which is more than enough!!

Skint_Catt

Got some long-time frozen casserole beef out of the freezer for tonight - might try & make it into a curry as we have some mini naan breads in the freezer too. Last night was pizza & garlic bread out of the freezer too.

Lynsey

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

Lynsey - Free Flora Buttery?? Where can I get this?...

....I am loving the free Campbells soup at the moment - I will get some more at the weekend when I go to the supermarket - I should have about 15 tins then which is more than enough!!

Free Flora from Morries with Unilever VIP coupon from Facebook. Flora is actually only 97p at the moment, so they are paying me 3p a tub to use it.

Well done with the Campbells (only a few for myself to put in Son's hamper).

Lynsey

Nancy888

Good morning...

Last night was a real mixture - we all had hotdogs using up hotdog rolls and the sausages out of the freezer. There was a small portion of wedges that DS1 had, I had the last corn on the cob and DS2 finished off the breaded mushrooms :rotfl:

I have a ciabatta roll and HM Lentil soup for lunch today and I don't have the boys the whole weekend now until Monday evening as they are with their dad so that's 3 lunches and 4 dinners that I can get myself out of the cupboards / freezer - lord only knows what concoctions I will have judging by last night's food

I've meal planned though for most of this pay month (payday today for me:T) and I only need things like stock cubes, loo roll and cereals so should be an easy month moneywise

bramble1

Right, fully back on board the challenge now!

Last night was chicken & chorizo pasta bake - had to get some cream for it from sainsbobs, came away with 4 chicken breasts from the butchers counter for £2 - v. pleased with that, we've not eaten much chicken recently as it's so expensive.

L/o for lunch today, OH has beef & Horse raddish sarnies. I've put a lot of whoopsied lunch meats in the freezer too which will no doubt come in handy.

Tonight we've got whoopsied spicy meatball stuffed crust pizza with curly fries and a side of chicken wings from the freezer if OH fancies them.

Going to get baking this weekend so we don't need to buy in any snacks or lunch box bits. - I need to learn how to make crisps for OH!

I worked out we should have enough meals to see us through the next 23 days! - lots of fish though, so will see how we get on with that.

Lynsey

Morning.

Crumpets for breakfast and ended up taking some lamb chops out for tonight. Pate on toast for lunch.

Hardly spending at the moment and last night spent a whopping 53p on 2 packs of Vivaldi potatoes for 19p each and a Kingsmill 50/50 loaf for 15p - froze the loaf in packs of 4 slices and have a supply of toast for the week or so.

EDIT: asked in Sainsburys (nice helpful guy) why there weren't as many reduced meat and fish offer and he told me that they are managing their supplies better and reducing earlier, so getting a higher reduced price. I'll have to max up now when I see something decent - though still got enough for a few months. Maybe I'll start trying a different shop.

Lynsey

smartcat04

Plan for this weekend is to go through all my food cupboards and freezer and write down whats in- that way I can cross off what i use and have some idea what I'm running low on.

Skint_Catt

Sausages out of freezer for tonight with mash & onion gravy. Remainder will be brekkie tomorrow probably.

C xx

lynneee

Doing ok, but went to Morries so got a few bits and pieces. Filled the freezer with reduced bread! did quite well for not restocking the cupboards, it was a fairly cheap shop for me!
Have a good weekend everyone

recovering_spendaholic

Used up a jar of sausage casserole sauce which was bb October 2010 tonight and it was fine! Used a packet of the help for heroes sausages which I bought loads of when they were bogof in Sainsbobs earlier this month and threw in two sliced red onions. I have to say, maybe because I was hungry, but it was one of the tastiest meals I have had for ages! Older daughter wouldn't have it because she saw the bb date on jar, so she had some lamb chops which I had defrosted. So I now have loads of sausage casserole left for tomorrow!

Am going to Mr T later to try and get some of the free honey shreddies - I have 10 vouchers but am probably only going to try and get two boxes, plus a couple of tins of the free cambells soup. I will probably get one of the value pizzas and tart it up for tomorrow night's tea with salad. The kids are still moaning about the lack of afters so last night I made some Millies cookies (from the recipe thread) and sandwiched them together with some buttercream with Milo stirred in - sort of malteaser flavoured buttercream. Kids loved them - it made 12 and there are only 4 left and I haven't had any!

Have just updated my inventory and still have alot of stuff, although running very low on meat. I have liver, sausages, 2 Bird's Eye chicken chargrills, some fish in butter sauce and mince and that's about it. no-one will eat liver except me so that is in little one portion bags so I might do that for myself on Sunday and make some kind of mince pasta bake for kids.

Just editing to add that I went to Tescos and managed to get 5 boxes of the "free" shreddies and two cans of the "free" Campbells soup, without any comment from the SA. I was thrilled as we now have enough cereal to last for AGES and it is actually quite nice too, but not too nice so that the children scoff it all at every opportunity IYKWIM!