I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

[Deleted User]

Evening all

So results are in....didnt get the job. Ho hum.
Apparantly there will be an email going out tomorrow to say who DID get it, I have a couple people who I would like to see get the position, and a couple who I wouldnt!

Anyway......was really hungry tonight after being out in the cold and a busy show (nice customers though!), and my portion of pasta was smaller than I realised, dont think I portioned them evenly lol.
So had a tortilla wrap, a little extra cheese and a pack of crisps as well, with plenty of juice for the vitamin content

Shopping list and coupons made and ready for tomorrow afternoons venture to T's

skilly

Edwardia sorry for your loss .

Not a lot out of freezers at moment been using up stuff from fridge & cupboards I did make a really nice chow main only to find the sauce was off !! Had beans on toast instead :-(

Lynsey

Morning all, cold here again!!

NSD yesterday, 2 in a row and ZERO spent this week. lol
Enough milk for today and bread in freezer, so could be a NSD today also.

It'll be porridge again for breakfast and cottage pie with carrots, peas and sweetcorn.

Deleted_User - there will always be another day - hope one of the "nice" couple get the job then. lol

skilly - you are doing very, very well with your "potting" - well done. It keeps me motivated, though NSD's of late haven't helped. I'm ahead of the "game" at the minute though.

just trying - hope that back eases.

Hope all are well.

Stay warm.

Lynsey

gailey_2

Morning guys.

See everyones doing well.

so cold here but not much snow nothing sticking.

its been week since £80 aldi shop

Hubbys oaning what did we buy but we have lots tinned, dried pasta, passatta.

we still have frozen fish in freezer and some frozen veg.

we ended up doing very minimal top up on weekend as ran out of

cheese
stock cubes
milk
sugar
coffee
crisps-lunchboxes

hubby managed to pick up 2packs reduced breaded pork steaks for 49p and freedom chicken fillets for £1.

There was no lavish mothers day meal here was potato and leek soup with last potatoes and slightly botched as added milk too early.

so really we spent £200 out 250 and have 13days left.

Think we going to do £25 farmfoods today and hope they dont notice my vouchers out of date.

We have ate very little meat.

annoyed I burnt fairy cakes last night.

trying to work out costings how much is 4oz in grams and kg

As want to prove to hubby its cheaper than shop brought cakes and biscuits.

Did a improvised homemade curry recipe with reduced chicken padded out with leftover veg in fridge.

But cooking curry for family hard as hubby likes it spicy and kids like it creamy added coconut milk and was very creamy I thourght was quite nice hubby hated it and kids dident love it.

But determined to try new things and keep trying.

car 2needs taxing so need to be even tighter next month.

The trick is to start building up store cupboard again and that costs money hence why my monthly grocery challenge fluncuates as low on herbs and spices.

Wanted to do garden and plant stuff but snow put stop to that.

got few new recipe books think hubbys missing meat as hardly eaten it.

katep23

Gailey 4oz is roughly 100g.

Chicken breast and milk out of freezer and nothing in (so far!) Lunch will be soup I made yesterday for me and left over curry and rice for OH.

Oh and I had a haddock fillet for breakfast so that's out of freezer as well.

gailey_2

katep23 wrote: »

Gailey 4oz is roughly 100g.

Chicken breast and milk out of freezer and nothing in (so far!) Lunch will be soup I made yesterday for me and left over curry and rice for OH.

Oh and I had a haddock fillet for breakfast so that's out of freezer as well.

ok so 4oz butter per 12fairy cakes=500g tub makes just 48cakes thats if dont top with butter cream icing.chepeast i can get butter is 89p on offer.

6eggs £1 2eggs per cake so 33p per 12cakes as 2eggs needed.

butter 22.5p per 12cakes
eggs 33p
sugar 1kg bag 1000g in 1kg. again using 4oz means 10 lots sugar can male 120cakes so cheapest can get sugar is around £1 so 10p for the sugar.
flour is 50p per kg if savers so 5p per 4oz.
baking powder I approx guess at 2p.

2.5p+33p+10p+5p+2p=52p per 12cakes/maybe 4p per cake but thats not including icing and sprinkles and cost of cases.

So its still cheap i guess just we run out of sugar and butter quicker.

just found my latest far,food coupons expires end of feb not had march ones so hopefully they accept as only want to get £2.50 off.

Trying to work out list of what to buy.

katep23

Hi Gailey, you might be able to get farm food vouchers from here:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3840565

Also, have you thought about using Stork for cakes? 1kg tub is £2 in Asda, Sainbsury or Tesco.

[Deleted User]

Deleted_User - there will always be another day - hope one of the "nice" couple get the job then. lol

I am pleased to report one of the nice couple did get the job...however....

Email from work this morning announced not one but TWO casual duty managers (one of which is someone I do not like), we were told it was only one position available.
On top of that one of the other girls has also been promoted to Team Leader, a position I was not even aware had become available! Not a problem for three of the other people who interviewed as they already have this position on a normal shift....but for the two of us who are just normal staff it is absolutely shocking and I am livid.
Goes without saying that the other normal staff were not made aware of this position either.

I have all this theatre background, experience etc, and I have been with the company 2 years now [my colleague who is also normal staff has been with the company 9 years!], and been passed over. Needless to say I will be speaking with my manager at some time this week to convey how angry I am.

ms_night_ryder

Gailey you forgotten to charge for electricity useage and effort,.you can buy 12 fairycakes for £1 might be easier, well sounds it anyway lol.

New kitchen is starting today, so will have limited resourcesbfor 2-3 weeks and no.cooker at some points, had.2 cheese rolls for lunch, making cheesey pasta and garlic bread for dinner and have taken out a cottage pie for tomorrow

gailey_2

ms_night_ryder wrote: »

Gailey you forgotten to charge for electricity useage and effort,.you can buy 12 fairycakes for £1 might be easier, well sounds it anyway lol.

New kitchen is starting today, so will have limited resourcesbfor 2-3 weeks and no.cooker at some points, had.2 cheese rolls for lunch, making cheesey pasta and garlic bread for dinner and have taken out a cottage pie for tomorrow

Thanks but im trying to do more from scratch and guess be no preservatives in homemade ones.

Had a whoopsy in farmfoods not been in months and after defrosting and organising chest freezer we needed quite a bit.

There was so many multibuys on frozen veg.
The milk reduced to 2 4pints for £1.60 so 80p each cheapest ever so brought 8 4pints 32pints last us few days.

got 7.5kg maris pipers for £3 as was out potatos.
got lots frozen fish no meat.
cheese
cereals as nearly out
2bags sugar 1kg 2 for £1.50 so 75p each
no crisps or pop,sadly dident have the cheap cake sprinkles.
it was very sensible shop but ended up at £50.

so out £250 spent£250 13days left until payday need to go aldis as out yogurts, nappies and fruitbowl nearly empty.

So failed as reckon will spend least £280.for family of 5.
but this month has to restock storecupboards,freezer, get more non foods and washing powder.

guess will try harder next month.

I really have shopped around and somethings will last into next month.

not sure where gone wrong as brought hardly any meat, got reduced bargains, shopped around, hardly any luxuries or alchol its frustrating.

Will try more meal planning as quite loose with that.

hubbys forcast £350 on our finace planner so if we had kept to 250 we would have saved £100.

wil keep trying.