I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Lynsey

Evening all.

emzk79 - welcome to the thread and good luck.

Edwardia - reminds me hubby wants some nuts, so need to seek out a bargain there. Hop your other half recovers quickly.

Spent just a little today, £1 on 2 small bloomers from Asda and picked up a couple of mini quiches reduced to 31p each.
Also 2 x Bertolli from Sainsbury's on half-price offer for 95p per tub, so £1.90 spent there and £3.52 for the day.
Popped the quiches in the freezer along with some of the bread.
Took out what I thought was Quorn pieces, but they were cooked chicken pieces - hubby made a curry for himself tomorrow. Also a large pan of minestrone to last a few days. Hoping hubby also finishes off the last 2 Quorn sausages tomorrow with the last 2 eggs.
Trying to 'plod' along until next week and the new Aldi Super 6 looks pretty good. I could probably get by this week with just buying milk on Friday, but we'll see. This could easily be another cheap week.

Hubby has blood sample for cholesterol check next Tuesday and has been told to fast the night beforehand, which makes sense. He'll basically just eat fruit on Monday and drink water or black coffee. Let's see if the effort was worth it!!
7.9 was last level and he's hoping for under 6.5. If not, then statins it may be.

Lynsey

zafiro1984

Lynsey, good luck to hubby, he's tried really hard since the last cholesterol check. Mine has dropped to normal as has my blood pressure, so surgeon 'here I come' hoping for an op in May. I now want to loose at least a stone before then.

Freezer movements: nothing in, nothing out as we ate leftovers all out of fridge, plus fresh vegs,

Got some cornflakes to use up today, the crushed bits at the end of a large pk so will make those cornflake/chocolate cakes I used to do for the children when little (hubby will eat them as he never quite grew up where food is concerned).

Breakfast will be fruit, lunch soup, dinner probably braising steak and veg. I have a 3kg pk in the chest freezer so will use slow cooker and convert it into several meals to re-freeze. Bought a large amount of new 650ml plastic containers like those used for takeaways, to use in the freezer? They are just the right size for two portions of something and stack really well in the drawers. I can get 30 in each drawer without wasting space. So as well as using items out of the freezer it's starting to become better organised- well that's the theory.

Lip_Stick

Morning all.

Apparently snow is on it's way. Not looking forward to that. Why doesn't it just !!!!!! off! lol

Anyway, ds' Easter parade today so will have to go on road. Need to buy whole and skimmed milk anyway. Hopefully I won't be tempted into buying much else.

Yesterday I had the Goan curry from Home Bargains and it was absolutely delish. Best curry I've had in a while and seemed a lot more expensive than 85p. There wasn't any rubbish in it, and it was packed with natural spices and ingredients. Will have to try the other flavours.

Dinner will probably be soup, and tea is going to be cottage pie with veg.

Lynsey - fingers crossed for your hubby!

Edwardia - hoping your hubby is feeling better soon.

Hi there Emz, welcome to the thread.

Lynsey

Morning all, a light scattering of snow this morning but quickly melted.

Just toast for breakfast, hubby had Special K Red Berries. Soup for myself twice today, curry and hopefully the LAST 2 Quorn sausages for hubby.

Yes, I have fingers crossed also for that cholesterol check and hopefully avoid statins. If his levels have dropped enough, then just monitor for a while. He has been advised NOT to start taking statins with just 1 test though, even though it was high. Ideally, there should be 3 tests (at least) before deciding. He's doing a fruit day, well fruit 2 days (mainly and perhaps veg and sardines or salmon) on Sunday and Monday before blood sample on Tuesday morning. No dairy stuff at all and will only drink water, maybe with honey, lemon and ginger. He's lost approx 10lbs (almost 5 kilo) and has done at least 3 hours per week exercise for what will be almost 6 weeks (more than likely where weight loss has come from).
Whatever the results, it's fish and chips from the chippy next Friday ............................. well for myself anyway. lol

Could be a NSD today as nothing needed. Milk tomorrow and will pop into Aldi on Friday or Saturday for some fruit before changeover day. Groupon Italian lunch on Saturday (last Groupon voucher).

Lynsey

v1ckyt

Morning all,

not much in the way of freezer/larder movemets.

Switched last night dinne and tonight around as ran too late to do a roast yesterday, so

Out -
1 jar of pasta sauce yesterdays tea
2 x tuna steaks & fish fillets for tomorrow's tea

In - Nothing


Dinner tonight roast pork, DD won't be pleased but hey ho. Looking forward to crispy crackling and roast tatties.

[Deleted User]

afternoon all

Well last 2 slices of hotcross bun loaf used this morning :j
DM asked me to go up the shops to get some more bread as we have hardly any in now and instead I suggested she wait until tomorrow so I can try out making some bread from scratch! then if it goes horribly wrong I can just buy some instead lol.

made stirfry this afternoon - 2 packs A's steak all chopped up into big pieces, whacked into the wok to cook and then added a whole bag of veg and whole bag of rice noodles. at one point I thought I needed a bigger wok though :rotfl: but turned out fine.
Portioned up and managed to get 4 out of it, plus another larger portion that I had for lunch - delicious! Wasnt sure about the rice noodles when I bought them on y/s but worth trying!

Taken a chicken burrito thingy out of freezer for tomorrow, tonight will be the mini roast dinner (lamb, parsnips, carrots) when I get home.

hagd all

Lynsey

Evening all.

NSD here, but will spend tomorrow when taking Brother shopping - not too much, just a few basics. I will need frozen peas and sweetcorn soon and noticed Farmfoods have either 3 for 2 or 3 for £2 on frozen veg and might give them a try. I could pick up some cheap onions when there, impressed with them for only 39p per kilo. The rest of the fresh veg can wait until next week.
Still minestrone for myself tomorrow and maybe smoked haddock for hubby.

Last 2 Quorn sausage have gone!! :j
Not be getting those again. lol
Freezers looking better, well if emptying and creating spaces make them look better. Scary though and after Easter (if I don't buy too much), I should have almost 3 empty drawers and 1 left to empty.
Cupboards and especially the secret stash place is well down, just sorted today and donating quite a bit to foodbank next week.
I had well over 200 tins of Heinz 5 Beanz and that's will be down to under 50 tins once I donate.
I'll have to start spending again after May, but at the moment don't know whether to fill what will be an empty freezer again with "whoopsy" stuff or to just tick over and use the "whoopsies" as I get them. Anyway, 2 months or so until I have to make that decision.

Lynsey

K9sandFelines

Lip_Stick wrote: »

Yesterday I had the Goan curry from Home Bargains and it was absolutely delish. Best curry I've had in a while and seemed a lot more expensive than 85p. There wasn't any rubbish in it, and it was packed with natural spices and ingredients. Will have to try the other flavours.

Sounds lovely

K9sandFelines

OUT :
Freezer ~ four Quorn hotdogs used for dinner, two thirds of frozen chopped celery
Fridge ~ third of a tin of beans, half a tin of tomatoes, half an onion
Cupboard ~ carton of Passata, tin of beans

IN :
Freezer ~ n/a
Fridge ~ two thirds of a tin of beans, half a carton of Passata
Cupboard ~ n/a

Florenceem

Out - 2 slices HM cake, 2 HM muffins + a naan bread.
In - nothing. :j
Just a quick meal tonight - busy on Eb..
We had HM wedges, pizza and asparagus, carrot, leeks, onions & swede.