I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Welsh_Poppy

A great way to use up a jar of mincemeat...will post recipe in morning.
Anyone seen Morries new offer....spent £35 for 3 weeks the they will give you £10 off £35 spend...........not for me that is not the way i shop and no offers in there store either!

missladyannie

I used up my leftover Roast Lamb today, I googled and found a recipe called Cheshire Lamb Crumble, similar to a Shepherds Pie mix but with crumble mixture on the top (flour, butter and cheese!), it was lovely! Even better as it was effectively free as I had all the ingredients in the house! PS I added tinned sweetcorn and baby carrots to pad out the meat mixture

http://www.allbritishfood.com/Lamb/Cheshire%20Lamb%20Crumble.php

Kirri

zafiro1984 wrote: »

The idea is to buy nothing you already have, even if it is on special offer. There are so many deals about these days that by the time you have a space there will be a bargain. I now just buy fresh fruit and veg, plus bits and pieces. My housekeeping has dropped from over £100 a week (there's just two of us) to about £20 and that includes three dogs.

I think everyone needs to remember that ^^ :T

I can't see the need to have more than a few week's worth of bargains in stock unless there is a plan to stay out of the shops for a long while. I hate shopping and even I ended up in the supermarket 7 times in January. The longer we go without shopping the longer the money stays in the purse. Also if a change in eating habits happens for any reason then certain foods might not even be wanted in future.

Due to not having the opportunity to go out I have been running out of everything but there are ways around things and means other things I don't fancy get used up.. I did bin the strange cake I made last weekend, it had gone furry. Had an ice lolly out the freezer last night and wasn't good, I hadn't strained the pips out :rotfl: might bin the other 3.

Lip_stick - how did you make the lentil stew? (sounds much more appealing than your meat fest yesterday!) and ditto Edwardia with the haloumi tart?

MNR - you are beating me on the miles walked, good going all those miles!! I've never had plantain and don't have a clue how to use it or what it tastes like but weirdly came back with a pack of dried pieces of it today from the vet - good for digestion apparently.

I've had a busy day, vets, work prog urgh, vets, headache now. So not eaten much yet.

Breakfast - 1 slice hm oat bread toast and mini cheese portion
Lunch - 4 jaffacakes (bought for me)
Dinner - hm bean burger with vegan cheese & shallots on hm oat bread

ms_night_ryder

Kirri plantain is used a lot in Caribbean, African and south american.cooking, i usually have it fried in slices or boiled. Even though I walked a bit.last week I didn't go up hill much, going to go again tomorrow

Edwardia since I'm not having meat, I thought they would be fine, and goodness they were, whoopsied at 35p for a pack of 4 worth every penny, I usually see them whoopsied between 75-95p so i got lucky.

Jelly_Biactol

Kirri wrote: »

I can't see the need to have more than a few week's worth of bargains in stock unless there is a plan to stay out of the shops for a long while.The longer we go without shopping the longer the money stays in the purse.

My self-imposed task in February is to see how long I can go without spending any money whatsoever on food, just eating/cooking with stuff in the cupboard or freezer (well, a two-drawer freezer section in my fridge-freezer), It started on Saturday, so two days and counting so far:)

Kirri, I like the idea of 'strange furry cake':p

Lip_Stick

Meadows is a bad influence. I spent another £10 in Asda. Got lots of meat though for about half price. Now I'm hoping what's in the freezer will last me til after the end of Feb.

Kirri - I just chopped a couple of red onions, added diced red pepper and a load of carrots. I added enough water to cover the lot, then I put in a couple of those Knorr herb stock pots, salt and garlic powder and left in the slow cooker for a bit. I added the lentils after a couple of hours to give the carrots time to cook for a bit in the water.

Ds loved it and ate lots. Suppose you could add chopped toms, but I'm not a big fan of tomato based stews, a touch of chilli would be good too, but doubt ds would enjoy that lol.

missladyannie - that recipe looks great. Might try that with minced lamb as I don't ever buy lamb joints.

Lynsey

Evening all.

Spend just £1.30 today on frozen sweetcorn I forgot on Saturday!!
Stir fry was great and another veggie day completed. Only 5 more to go.
Decided on veggie sausages with mash and veg tomorrow and gravy issue sorted. I have a little Bisto in the tube thingy and it's suitable for veggies, so I'll mix with veggie granules left from my Son.

Curry (hubby) and omelette (me) switched to Wednesday.

Meadows - great scone recipe. You can mimic the buttermilk by adding lemon juice to double cream etc.

I agree, it is difficult to resist mega "whoopsied" food at times as it is an investment. But agree with Kirri and zafiro1984 that the bargains don't go away. I couldn't control it last year as I thought the more bargains I bought, the more I'd save in the long term, and I did. But I would have saved more over the year if I had stopped buying and took a break. You do have to buy again sometime and I suppose if you buy bargains regularly then no need for a big spend all at once.
My problem now is I have quite a bit old stock and that's why I want to clear a freezer. Then I'll fill that one up again and start on the other freezer and then ditto.
I reckon a 4 drawer freezer will take approx 3 months to clear, probably because I unwrap food into bags to get more in. lol
So I tarted the year with 5 or 6 months stash in the freezers I suppose!!
Only about 4 1/2 months left now though. lol

Lynsey

Florenceem

Out of freezer today - cooked steak. Nothing going in!
I didn't eat too well during the day - got an annoying tickly cough. I did eat all my dinner.
Well Mr F didn't have extractions today - had impressions taken so could eat his dinner.
We had HM cheese/onion/potato pie with roast potatoes, roast parsnip, savoy cabbage, brocolli, carrot and gravy.



Dinner tomorrow savoury rice and sausages. Packet of rice - OOD and sausages from the freezer. Sausages came out of freezer yesterday so I could cook them while oven was on.

Meadows

Lynsey wrote: »

Meadows - great scone recipe. You can mimic the buttermilk by adding lemon juice to double cream etc.

You could but the buttermilk makes it really light (no butter in buttermilk, and lower in fat than sweet milk/cream it was the residual liquid which remains after butter is churned, ie. milk from the butter or buttermilk).

Buttermilk substitute (healthier than cream and something you are almost sure to have in all the time!)
Milk (just under one cup)

1 Tablespoon white vinegar or lemon juice

Place a Tablespoon of white vinegar or lemon juice in a liquid measuring cup.

Add enough milk to bring the liquid up to the one-cup line.Let stand for five minute. Then, use as much as your recipe calls for.

Florenceem

Meadows wrote: »

You could but the buttermilk makes it really light (no butter in buttermilk, and lower in fat than sweet milk/cream it was the residual liquid which remains after butter is churned, ie. milk from the butter or buttermilk).

Buttermilk substitute (healthier than cream and something you are almost sure to have in all the time!)
Milk (just under one cup)

1 Tablespoon white vinegar or lemon juice

Place a Tablespoon of white vinegar or lemon juice in a liquid measuring cup.

Add enough milk to bring the liquid up to the one-cup line.Let stand for five minute. Then, use as much as your recipe calls for.

Can you do it with skimmed milk please?