I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

cleggie

Bramble, its not 'Failing', its 'Learning'!

bramble1

I managed it a month or two ago, and totally cleared out the freezer. Just need to start doing that again, which i will!

Just had left over curry for brunch. And will meal plan for the week ahead.

Mrs_Good_Life

Did a grocery shop yesterday which came to £42.00, bought fruit,veg,milk,eggs,bread,cake making ingredients and dog food.

Dinner yesterday was chicken in tomato sauce made veg from the fridge and it was lovely. OH has taken the left overs into work today and there is enough sause left to have with some cod I found at the bottom of the freezer.

Dinnerf today will be roast pork,bough a joint when it was on offer in Mr T's a few weeks ago, veg will be the last of the green beans from the garden and cabbage also from the garden.xx

recovering_spendaholic

Went to Sainsbobs last night and got a free Goodfellas pizza - got the fully loaded meat feast and it was really delicious! NSD today - defrosted a chicken yesterday and it is in the oven for tea with cauliflower cheese, roast potatoes, carrots and peas. I was going to make stuffing and yorkshire pudding too but decided it was fattening enough without adding yorkshires and stuffing!!

Lunch today was porridge for me and sausage butties for kids. I bought three lots of Tesco finest sausages on offer and froze them a few weeks ago and they are really horrible - they make me shudder - kids were okay with them though so they will have to eat the other packs when I defrost them! I like the Sainsburys Irish recipe sausages - they're lovely and only £1.15 a pack.

I might make some millies cookies later - for lunchboxes in the week, however they never seem to last long enough to be put into lunchboxes!!

For the coming week I have the following in the freezer:

Chow mein
large steak pie
sausages
mince
veggie burgers
hm pastry (to make quiche)
a good sized piece of gammon
haddock and smoked haddock
Birds Eye crispy chicken
Sainsburys yakitori chicken skewers
lots of frozen hm soups
frozen cottage pie
naan breads
frozen chips

Cupboards have loads of pasta, rice, savoury rice, cous cous, bulghur wheat bread etc, and fridge has potatoes, cheese (lots), creme fraiche, mushrooms, veg, eggs, milk and yoghurts. We SHOULD be able to get through the week without shopping but we'll see......

kittywight

heya everyone

was planning on a no spend day today but went to morrisons instead ... on the bright side you'll be pleased with what i got in the reduced

chicken and bacon sandwich 9p was £1.90
cheese sarnie 9p was £1
fish and chips 59p was £1.19
red leicster 15p was £2.64
cheese straws 59p was £1.25
pork steak £1.49 was £2.03
2 rasberry donuts 15p was 29p
pork joint (rottisserie) £1.79 was £3.79
rasberry fresh cream scones 35p was £1.19

although my biggest best buy was duck and champage pate... was £1.58 ... i paid *drumroll please* 5p haha ill be enjoying that tonight with some melba toast and a can of strongbow

had several lots of reduced bread and rolls and stuff too , good for ds for school and will be frozen, same as the pork and the fish and chips

went in co-op also and bought
ploughmans sandwich 49p was £2.90
cheese sandwich 39p was £1.90
hazlenut yogurt 29p was 48p (got 2 of these)

the co-op reduced section aint as good as morrisons lol

xx

cleggie

WOW Kitty, how do you get them all so cheap? Is there a certin time that Morrisons reduce their stuff?
How about Tesco- do they have a specific time too?

The pate sounds lovely Kitty!

ms_night_ryder

My lovely 12 year old fridge freezer decided it would defrost on friday, so i had a steak sandwich for lunch today, with a whoopsied defrosted roll, i had that with defrosted chips, which were from asda, for dinner i had some of the defosted pork joint i cooked, with home made cheesey coleslaw and the rest of the chips, have 4 salmon fillets that i refuse to waste, as i only bought them last weekend, so will bung them in the george foreman and use them during the week for dinner and lunches etc.

need a new fridge freezer as i have had mone which was given to me, when i was 18, i am now 29 eek so i will get one i have seen inn arg0s using 10%off code and quidco

kittywight

cleggie wrote: »

WOW Kitty, how do you get them all so cheap? Is there a certin time that Morrisons reduce their stuff?
How about Tesco- do they have a specific time too?

The pate sounds lovely Kitty!

morrisons seem to reduce things about 3 on a sunday, and then they reduce them even more about 3.20 .... well thats what i gathered from today im not sure what time they reduce stuff during the week, have a young ds so we dont go to the shops that late (our local morrisons closes at 10 or 11pm i think)

not too sure about tescos hun, as tescos is over an hour away for me ....
although ive noticed in all shops things seem to be reduced more on a sunday rather than the weekdays... its probably because of the early shutting time

and bank holidays!! the reduced sections on bank holidays or the day before are fantastic! i had amazing stuff at easter time, had huge joints of lamb for 1 or 2 quid each

cant wait til next easter, just for the reduced section



xx

debtmess

Hi All
May I join in please , with xmas looming and holding off on the heating for now I need to save all that I can, and cutting the food shopping bill will go along way in helping

Have a reasonably stocked freezer and cupboards that i can run down (do not have masses of space) so I am hoping only to buy the essentials and use up what we do have in.

Lynsey

Well done kitty, great shop and nice to see. A good few £1's saved there. I'm going to have to change to Morries myself as my local Sainsbury's seem to have little to offer of late, nothing special anyway. Maybe I've been spoilt in the past!! Morries do like to use that 9p though when reducing............better than 10p I suppose!!

Got a packet of 6 mini pork pies today for 35p and forgot to add the jam I bought yesterday (84p). Made the lamb casserole, but will eat that tomorrow, just snacked today on pork pies, crisps and cheese - not really that hungry.

Lynsey