I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

katskorner

Hi all,

had to go to shops for newspaper for hubby tonight and scoured for any decent bargains. Still hunting down the Decaf Yorkshire tea that is £1 atm - only managed to get two boxes so far. Spent £3.14 after a coupon that pretty much halved my bill. Got bread for 15p, half price cheerios for DS brekky, 3 pks innocent smoothies that DS1 loves reduced to 55p each, a bag of granny smiths reduced to 95p (more thank I would normally pay but DS2 loves them and it is school tomorrow), oh yeah and a pack of frubes for packed lunches - half price naturally! Done really well with coupons so far but running out now. Plus not needing to shop either. Might need a bit of veg at some point but planning to use what we have as much as poss first - probably check what aldi super six are.

dinner tonight is HM spag bol - we are all having the same and the boys loved theirs. We have a pack of ciabatta toasties from freezer with ours. There may be a portion to freeze.

Oh has just dug out two stuffed chicken breasts for tomorrow that will go round all five of us as they are HUGE. Not sure what to do with them yet but will involve veg somewhere!

I hope everyone is ok and welcome newbies!

EDIT - ooooh child-free day tommorrow! If only I didn't have so much already to do (garage / library / selling stuff). Roll on Wed afternoon post my voluntary job for a couple of hours to myself

just_trying

ms_night_ryder, only a suggestion but i find them to be pretty good and i have tried various tablets from ibuprofen to long term prescription ones and quite a few times taken to many as it's that sore, anyway if you can get them at the chemist, i got them from home bargains Anadin joint pain ibuprofens are really good, would recommend them. Think they are only about £1.70 but worth every penny. They are for joint pain, muscular pain, backache and neuralgia. Hope you get some relief soon.

Lip_Stick

Evening all. Went to soft play for lunch and ended up sharing a main meal with ds. Nearly £8 for what was a crappy cheap burger, smart price coleslaw (recognise it from mam's lol), chips and drinks. Just had a tin of soup for tea to share as we'd been munching on biscuits while watching a film after we got back so wasn't that hungry.

Tomorrow I do need to buy things: Sugar, fruit and veg. Spent about £3 this year so far.

Tomorrow's meals will probably be soup again for dinner, and a... Fray Bentos Pie! :eek: Yeah yeah, it was one of those things I bought for an emergency. And since there's not going to be an apocalypse anytime soon, I'm going to use it up as I'm sick of the sight of it. Going to serve it with mash and veg.

Really need to meal plan so I can see what I've got to use up.

Lynsey wrote: »

Lip_Stick - hope that back eases. Take care. Lynsey

My back's fine ty. I hope ms_night_ryder's feels better soon tho.

Kirri

Been stuck in my kitchen ALL day, just finished wiring up all the electrical items inc my pc from a tangled mass of cables - was having a new floor fitted in the rest of the flat after my neighbours flooded me. Still waiting for my new ceilings and electrics... Flat in a total mess, been up since crack of dawn and can't go to bed till I've moved all the stuff back.

Edwardia wrote: »

Ooh.. thanks Kirri, they have cobnuts too and though quite a way from me, are within driving distance of my mother

My FIL and my father were great ones for chucking Roundup over stuff too but I've never seen it actually work except on seedlings

I've had 2 boxes of cobnuts from them, 1 golden and 1 brown (or whatever they are called!), I forgot to get the green! Pesticide free, fab quality and absolutely gorgeous, I made a choc and cobnut cake with them and cobnut, choc and condensed milk biscuits, got another box waiting to be used, maybe on something more healthy!

Idiot 'gardeners' at my flats killed my flowers with roundup - I had a huge go at them, bloody idiots let alone they were spraying it all round my open window :mad:

sjprmc01 wrote: »

I want to try to whittle that down too as I have a unit at the back of my kitchen that I could get rid of if there was cupboard space for things like dishes and pots and pans

That's sort of what I did - I had so much dried stuff in the cupboards I couldn't get the pans in - kitchen is looking SO much tidier now I have more stuff in the cupboards. Still got lots of food to use up though but made huge progress in 2012.

Lip_Stick wrote: »

Tomorrow I do need to buy things: Sugar, fruit and veg. Spent about £3 this year so far.

Tomorrow's meals will probably be soup again for dinner, and a... Fray Bentos Pie! :eek: Yeah yeah, it was one of those things I bought for an emergency. And since there's not going to be an apocalypse anytime soon, I'm going to use it up as I'm sick of the sight of it. Going to serve it with mash and veg.

Impressive spend, lower than me, I must try harder!

FB pies remind me of one particularly stingey ex lol. I can't see one without thinking of him..

donnajt

ms_night_ryder wrote: »

Thanks just trying feeling no better, got a heat pad on and took 2 pain killers.

On a good note, bumped into my neighbor while walking home from getting the heat pads, he owns the local fancy butchers, he was carrying a venison and red wine pie, he gave me it bless him, its a shame I didn't see him 1st as I took out 2 gammon steaks with pineapple salsa out for dinner, will have the pie tomorrow.

Not much spent today, just heat pads and mini muffins that were half price to cheer myself up.

Hi ms_night_ryder - hope your back pain has eased over night

what a lovely neighbour!

thx for the gammon with salsa idea

donnajt

sjprmc01 wrote: »

I am also guilty of having full cupboards (tins, packets) but not actually eating what is in there! I want to try to whittle that down too as I have a unit at the back of my kitchen that I could get rid of if there was cupboard space for things like dishes and pots and pans

Welcome - you sound just like me, I have too much food, I joined this thread back in October when I was off work and got it all under control, back to work, two months flew by and the kitchen is once again heaving to the point of explosion!

Well ladies...I love Approved Foods...but I ordered some Noodles on offer at 2.99 - it said 6kg I think - does anyone have any idea of what 6kg of noodles look like????? its the size of a black bin bag :eek::rotfl::eek::rotfl::eek::rotfl::eek::rotfl:and whats worst is they came in a blue bin bag - any ideas on how or where to store??? its noodles for breakfast, lunch and dinner here until next xmas lol!

Child free day today - DD first day back at Pre-School, am expecting tears...got doctors as 11:50 but cant decide how to spend my couple of precious hours....

Lynsey

Morning all, up early as dropping Brother off at bus station and then on to Ikea for that free breakfast and a look in Debenhams.

sjprmc01 - welcome and good luck. I think we're all guilty of stocking up and not using stuff and I've got a few things that need using up, especially in the baking cupboard.

Lip_Stick wrote: »

My back's fine ty. I hope ms_night_ryder's feels better soon tho.

Yep, copied wrong name, but I'll not need to wish you well the next time you have a bad back. lol
Low spends, well done and I thought I'd done well!!
I also need sugar.

ms_night_ryder - sorry and hope YOUR back eases. I use naproxen for pains if you can get any.
Well done with the pie, sounds nice.

donnajt - good luck with the noodles!! Are they short date??
I must be missing something, but I don't get Approved Foods and prefer bits from Home Bargains and B&M's etc, I'm lucky tough in that I have a massive choice of shops to choose from.

Kirri - Nestle Shop have decent clearance offers (staff stock etc) and loads of coffee that's cheap, including Gold Blend - staying away until February as coffee top-heavy and still plenty of Xmas stuff to get rid of.
I'll get some stuff in February for foodbank also.

2 x NSD's and only 1 more needed for this week - might make it 4 NSD's with a little luck.

Quick coffee and out soon, catch up later.

Lynsey

Kirri

Lynsey wrote: »

Kirri - Nestle Shop have decent clearance offers (staff stock etc) and loads of coffee that's cheap, including Gold Blend - staying away until February as coffee top-heavy and still plenty of Xmas stuff to get rid of.
I'll get some stuff in February for foodbank also.

My mum is still trying to use up the influx of cheap coffee I got when I was buying from there, over a year since, I stocked them up nicely on 300g jars lol. Cheapest was always £2.40/300g then for the regular stuff but it used to be out of stock for ages and always went very quickly when in stock.

donnajt

Lynsey wrote: »

donnajt - good luck with the noodles!! Are they short date??
I must be missing something, but I don't get Approved Foods and prefer bits from Home Bargains and B&M's etc, I'm lucky tough in that I have a massive choice of shops to choose from.

Lynsey - I didn't get the whole Approved Foods thing until I ordered from them (and I have only made two orders) but they have saved me a fortune...I will take picture of my delivery, yes they are nearing or over their sellby date but i ignore those most of the time anyway lol!





NOODLES!!!


Case Chop Suey Noodles 9kg
4x Jane Asher Shortcrust Pastry
3x large Golden Wonder Frazzles
1x 3.5kg Chocolate Muffin Mix
4x Dr Pepper Zero
2x Tinkerbell Biscuit Mix
2x Discovery Sour Cream Sauce
2x Discovery Salsa
5x Hellmans Tex Mex Sauce
2x Discovery Enchilda Kit
10x Sharwoods 2 Pack Naan Bread
2x Huile Dolive Vierge Green Olive Oil
12x Ambrosia Apple & Rice Pudding
4x Sweet Chilli Sauce
2x 1kg Pasta Hoops
3x Pure Creamed Coconut
4x Sharwoods Tikka Wrap Kit
6x Simon Rimmer Onion Bhaji Mix = £30.98 (Saving £122.04)

Lip_Stick

Morning all. Ds' first day back at school, and boy, was he moody this morning after getting dragged from MY bed. I wasn't allowed to put music on, as it made him tired. Was almost crying lol.... or maybe that was because of my singing.

I've been doing a really weird thing the last few months, every so often, where I sit up in bed asleep. No idea why I'm doing it lol. Very strange. I've freaked ds out a couple of times doing it after he's sneaked in my bed, last night I remember him saying 'Mam what are you doing?!' lol

Went to Asda and did some shopping.... forgot the blinking sugar! arggh. Spent £13.50 on 4 tins of soup, 4 Apetina snack things, 2 packs of philly, cheese, curly kale, mushrooms, orange juice, 4 pots of aero, rocket and watercress leaves and bananas.

Need to go out again to the dreaded dole office, will pick up sugar when I'm in town.

donnajt - that made me lol, hiding the approved food order.