I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

donnajt

Lynsey wrote: »

My Lidl offer is diced beef, so may get a few packs to make pies (kidney in freezer needs using) - could be an expensive week. lol

Hi Lynsey whats the diced beef offer in lidls please?

Lynsey

donnajt wrote: »

Hi Lynsey whats the diced beef offer in lidls please?

It's my local half-price weekend meat offer - £1.44 for 400g



Check yours out as they can and do differ.

Lynsey

gailey_2

Lynsey wrote: »

Morning all.

gailey - what did you spend that £2 on?? Hope it was on yourself for all your hard work.

My Lidl offer is diced beef, so may get a few packs to make pies (kidney in freezer needs using) - could be an expensive week. lol

Muesli and fruit for hubby, just toast for myself.
I'll have a cheese omelette later, hubby salmon.

Foodbank donation this afternoon and off to Superdrug for Dove body wash and another couple of TCB £1's. I might do the Maynard's wine gums also (£1 Sainsbury's) as I need milk today.

Lynsey

Hi lynsey I dident spend it as dident go shop yesterday was too tired.

Luckily we all ate well last night.

The milkman delivered more milk today.
middle child nursery at 8 so gets brekkie there.
eldest school dinners all week paid by cheque a was brekkie club yesterday where she polished off 4bowls cereal.

Eldest this morning decided she does like porridge with sugar and golden syrup.

we out butter.

small boy and eldest and dry toast and eggs..

Hubby discovered had £10 more than thourght he had so have £10 today thinking will pop up co-op and make that £10 last today, friday and sat and not do another food shop until sunday at lidls.

Wondering how to spoil myself today

will be eggs
cereal
butter
some fruit
not sure what else hoping co-op has reductions.

Hubbys missing his meat.

Found 1pack jelly to make up for kids.

will make flapjacks later as have golden syrup and porridge oats.

right now researching recipes and meal planning for next week and determined not to spend more than £50 next week.

New aldis opens but reckon could be very busy will use it mostly for super six as its near new b&m and next door to mr m and lidls.
Sound sad but cant wiat for day hubbys off and i can go shopping by myself and have proper browse at current prices.

Think may do 1online order this month too.

So shocked myself been long 2weeks but we did it.
No one skipped a meal or gone hungry.

Hope everyone else doing ok.

not sure about diced beef guess if red tractor should be ok and my lidls last weekend had no meat.

Welsh_Poppy

Morning

Out of freezer veg soup for tea
Goulash and dumplings for DH Lunch
Spinache and goats cheese pizza for me

I m,ust have missed about fruit leather what is it?

I wont buy meat especially beef from a shop/supermarket anymore just my local butchers just not worth the risk for DH

donnajt

Lynsey wrote: »

It's my local half-price weekend meat offer - £1.44 for 400g



Check yours out as they can and do differ.

Lynsey

OMG an offer too good to refuse...off to Lidl site

Jelly_Biactol

Welsh_Poppy wrote: »

I must have missed about fruit leather what is it?

I hadn't heard of it till a couple of days ago. It's a way of using up excess fruit by preserving it, pur!ed and dried in strips. (Imagine leather, but made of fruit:)).
Here's a HFW recipe
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/aug/08/hugh-fearnley-whittingstall-fruit
Also
http://www.diynatural.com/how-to-make-fruit-leathers/
"They are 100% natural with no dyes or sugar. Just pure clean-yummy-chewable-rollable-fruit."
My knowledge of this is all theoretical at present:)

Jellybaby

Hi everyone, been AWOL just having a rubbish time of it at the moment with one thing and another. But I've wallowed enough and it's time to get on with it! Bad news on the money spending, over budget this month by about £60..eeekkk but upside to this is I was buyng lots of things to put with items from freezer to make up meals so the freezer will be empty.....drum roll please...... next Wednesday!! Spends also included a couple of bottles of nice wine and some chocs as part of gifts for my neice and nephew who had 'big' birthdays last week. DS2 is asking if we're having a takeaway next week to celebrate the empty freezer haha. Must be six months at least since it was empty and badly needs defrosted.

Pay day next Wednesday and I'm already writing lists of what I need - which is practically everything! Away to look at these fruit leather links, rather intrigued as I buy similar for DS2's lunch box.

gailey_2

Well im back from mini shop up high street.

Popped into stupidly expensive sainsburys local and treated myself to

coffee cake on offer at £1.50 half price. We had choc version last weekend as daughters birthday cake as was cheaper than buying cocoa powder.

Got some mini chedders on offer at £1.02 as fairly healthy for kids and 7in a pack.

The rest was very expensive , very few basic products in.

Popped into deli -more out curiosity as would like to try more local been in before but grumpy lady owns it and awquard with buggy.

Ended up buying granary loaf same price as supermarket bread sliced from local bakery.

Found out they sell organic free rang bacon and sausages from local farm between bristol and bath but none in stock.

Interested to know how much it will be as adore bacon.

Co-op was very dissapointing no fruit in reduced section and all the other fruit just too pricey.

got utterly butterly 500g at 90p might stock up on that as thats good price.

free range eggs £1.30 for 6.
reduced cress 20p

so hubbys having egg and cress sandwiches for his lunch box tommorow.

Some turkey breasts reduced to £2.09.

using one to make faittas tonight as have leftover wraps and faitta sachet mix for kids.

Using rest to make curry as have jar curry sauce will pad out with remaining veg and try hide that cabbage.with rice.

so that,s tonight,s dinner sorted.

Surprised as cheese prices got mozzarella for 55p the co-op own brand was 99p, sainsburys basics gone up to 69p so usually get in lidls at 49p.
I had some leftover sundried tomatoes -waitrose own brand but brought on ocado order few weeks back.

As got £20 off brought few extras on ocado shop , im only person who likes them. Anyway they lasted me around 6meals and still have oil in jar to use for cooking as run out olive oil.

Looked at cereals too pricey so porridge and toast it is again tommorow for brekkie.

Got tin value tomato soup for 2younger kids for lunch tommorow.
Tin value peaches going to try more tinned and dried fruit and see if kids like them as they liked fresh peaches.

Does jam count as a 5 a day?

tonight plan to make batch onion soup, flapjacks might add raisens and experiment making own cereal bars as eldest loves them .

So I spent £9 and dident really get 3days as had hoped.
Pay days monday however husband has cheque clearing tommorow so can top up on weekend.

Thinking may op over lilds sat morning is best.
can get enough then to last until wed next day hubby has off.
Doing jumble sale sunday morning so hopefully raise few pennies there.

One think that struck me today was amount reduced in chiller sadly hardly anything off was most beef ready meals.

There was one think a fresh pizza possibly would have brought but when asked girl she said wont be knocked down until tonight and cant make it back later freezing here today.

Had the mozzarella and tomatoes on new granary bread today for lunch was tasty.

As small boy was behaving and no girls took time to wander round and look at offers and how much value ranges were and co-op is expensive, their reductions are good at right time , service is dire but its my nearest walk to supermarket.

Had urge to make rice pudding but pudding rice as £1.19 for small bag wondering wheres cheapest fo pudding and arborito /rissotto rice?

Jelly_Biactol

Fruit leathers
Red apples are on offer at £1.69 for 2kg at Lidl
http://www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg//lidl_uk/hs.xsl/7067_39287.htm?offerdate=&ar2=&ERR=noservice
so might buy some to try out my fruit-leather-making techniques:)

Edwardia

Hi y'all, went to Sainsbury's with my mother this afternoon

IN larder
5 Heinz Classics organic cream of tomato soup (for price of 4 saved 96p)
PS Marina marinated mushrooms (Polish)

IN freezer
Honeyrose organic carrot cake reduced from 2.69 to 1.79
3 wild Alaskan salmon fillets reduced from $3 to 1.99
1 pack each organic rump steaks sirloin steaks, lamb steaks
Mlekovita Maslo Polskie (Polish butter) 200g 1.25

OUT freezer
Flour Power City Bakery pain de campagne
President butter 250g

Got Skyfall DVD for 7,99 cos I spent over $30 saved 7.99 according to receipt. Noticed TU clothing 25% off.

2 Rachel's organic yogurts for $3, 2 punnets organic red grapes $4 saved $1, 2 x Ecover aloe vera and something washing up liquid saved 1.06, 2 x Ecover Under the Sun fabric conditioner saved 1.50

Think that's the best I've done at Sainsbury's !

I am starving hungry, haven't eaten all day, going to eat catch y'all later xx