I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Lynsey

Florenceem wrote: »

I include cleaning stuff plus toilet rolls in the £25 a week.

That's fantastic then and a great commitment. :T

Lynsey

Jelly_Biactol

Kirri wrote: »

Toying with dropping the fake meat reliance which would be healthier and cheaper..

I was thinking the same myself; at the weekend, spent £6ish at Mr S and two-thirds of that was 'sham ham' and the like

Florenceem

Lynsey wrote: »

That's fantastic then and a great commitment. :T

Lynsey

As you say - need to start with a stock plus be committed to cooking from scratch.

Kirri

Jelly_Biactol wrote: »

I was thinking the same myself; at the weekend, spent £6ish at Mr S and two-thirds of that was 'sham ham' and the like

Yep it is expensive, now I'm wondering how much I spent on it in 2012 although I was mostly only buying Quorn on the £1 offers. I may go through my spreadsheet and check now

Think I will make a much bigger effort, as much as I do like the odd burger/fishless finger etc... to do more cooking with pulses this year - the HFW Veg book has so many recipes I've not tried too. I'll maybe just buy fake meat as a treat or something. Wonder if that would work..

Thinking I probably need to process the stash from the allotment into meals in advance though so I have ready items if working/busy etc.

Florenceem

Usual breakfast and elevenses here. Lunch today was fried off left over roast potatoes with mushrooms - LW Al.. SS, baked beans, 1/2 slice HM bread toasted and 1/4 tin baked beans. They were Al.. baked beans pepped up with hot pepper sauce and garlic granules.
I used the tiniest amount of oil possible in the pan.

Kirri

Nice looking meal ^ Florenceem, I could eat that!
Glad to see we have large pics back, was straining my eyes on those small ones

Edwardia

I sat down and costed out the basic shopping on $25 per week using organics and can't be done. I tried posting it up but OH's laptop wasn't playing ball.

I could do the milk, eggs and yogurt, so mine and OH's weekday breakfasts plus his lunches at work for just over $20 but that didn't leave enough for veg and topping up the freezer for dinners and weekday breakfasts.

ms_night_ryder

Evening all.

Skipped breakfast and had a ham and lettuce bap.all from freezer apart from the lettuce.walked 3.6 miles today, the chicken drumsticks are in sc, having eiyh.fine.green beans, tender.stem broccoli and baby carrots with rice.and peas My grandma.cooked on Sunday.

Lipstick I take it you won't be sharing.meat and 2 veg with the ex anymore? Hope he wad joking about ww meals.

Florenceem

Organics are more expensive.

Jelly_Biactol

Kirri wrote: »

Yep it is expensive, now I'm wondering how much I spent on it in 2012 although I was mostly only buying Quorn on the £1 offers. I may go through my spreadsheet and check now

That would be interesting to know, maybe as a %age. I'm not as organised as that, unfortunately:)

the HFW Veg book has so many recipes I've not tried too.

I like the HFW tv programmes but have still to be convinced by the books after I was flicking through his 'Three Good Things' and the first recipe actually had 18 ingredients:doh:

I'll maybe just buy fake meat as a treat or something. Wonder if that would work.

The Quorn Southern Style Burgers are my 'fake meat treat' at the moment:drool: