I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

NKLK

Morning all! Cereal bars (approved food) for breakfast because yes, I am THAT tired!

Lunch I'm going to make some (cheapy pilgrim) cheesy veggie (whoopsie) pasta (22p t wholemeal) effort. Or something.

Dinner is whoopsied gammon steaks with whoopsie veg and whoopsie pots that I'm going to cut and do home made chips. We never have chips. So.. I'm guessing about £1.20 for the whole days meals. And that is being over generous!

I did get my milk last night tho! 87p mr a for 4 PINT 1% and £1.18 for 4 PINT full fat for the bambinos. Got 4 lots of whoopsie bread 1p each and 2 bags whoopsie carrot batons 1p each. A pumpkin from mr t 75p. Carrot and pumpkin soup is looking likely in the near future!

Lynsey

Morning.

Mangaged to get a few bargains last night from Sainsburys. :j

Only 4 items for freezer and left a lot. Spent £2.86 and got 2 packs of TTD lightly smoked salmon, a pack of lamb chops and a pack of beef sausage. It's a start and best I've had in ages!!

Jam on toast and coffee and fave dinner tonight. Pasta with leek and blue cheese sauce topped with smoked lardons and juice. having with garlic bread made with nan breads (reduced of course).

Pork loin steaks on offer at Lidl this week (my local anyway), so miss that and see what's on offer next week. Cheap vintage cheddar though, only £1.49 for 400g.

Lynsey

Lip_Stick

Frogletina wrote: »

I'm going to try to go through my freezer and use up the oldest things there. I bought some frozen sprouts last Christmas then found some fresh ones. Bought fresh ones this week - keep forgetting I should use up the frozen ones. Have some butternut squash too but not sure what to eat that with - doesn't look too appetising frozen.

Hi Frogletina, welcome to the thread.

I'm trying to use up my my old frozen things up first, purely because I can't resist a bargain and I've absolutely no chance of reducing the things in my freezer!

I've never frozen butternut squash, but I'm guessing it'd be good in soups or casseroles.

Lip_Stick

Morning all, I'm meeting a friend for a groupon dinner today (last of the big spenders! lol) so my dinner will be that, but at least I've paid for it. Might venture into the nearby Tesco and see if the finest pork mince is still on offer.

Tea I think will be the rest of my mushroom and beef casserole that I made yesterday. Might add something to it to make it more spicy.

susan6780

Morning! I saw a recipe for pumpkin passion cake on the good food site,it said you could use squash too might try that later? I can't post the link? But if you put pumpkin passion into their search bar you'll prolly find the cake!

bramble1

wasn't going shopping tonight but downloaded a 50% off innocent veg pot voucher, plus OH is sick so needs meds so will need to get them - may as well earn nectar points while i'm out as they're so handy for christmas time! (although we spent about £100 of them earlier in year!) and have the money off coupon from the price match thingy,

Are there any other coupons worth printing before i go there later?

bramble1

Got 2 veg pots they were reduced to £1 and BOGOF so kept my voucher for another day (also got a pot for £1 voucher!)

So one of them for lunch and have lifted out sausages for dinner, will have these with jacket potatoes and beans.

today i WILL have a NSD as we have everything in the house we could possibly need!

Lynsey

Morning.

Spent over £7 yesterday, mainly by using up coupons.

Castello blue cheese at Tesco is only 50p when using coupon, got 4 packs to freeze for making sauces with.
Aunt Bessies stuff and 4 bottles of Bottlegeen, 59p per bottle with coupon.

Only full priced item was a tub of double cream for pasta meal last night. Got a free litre of Cravendale though to offset that. lol

Making a sausage casserole now, using the very last pack of my 10p sausages, getting rid of some veg also. I was going to eat out tonight as I've got a 50% off voucher for Marstons (was going to have the carvery), but that will wait until next week.

Hoping for a no-spend-day, unless I venture out to Home Bargains later, pick up a few things...........always, or usually check Sainsbury's late on, but missed last night..............spent too much already!!!!

Lynsey

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Quick question for everyone using up freezers/food.
I have a pack (now opened) of mature cheddar bbe early next week. Tastes fine at the mo but no way Im gonna eat it all before next monday. Is it possible to 1)freeze as its now opened and has been in my fridge for a month? (only opened today) or 2) make macaroni cheese/cheese sauce with and freeze the sauce?
am really getting into this challenge we are down to a fairly random combinations of meals for the next week or 10 days before going shopping as we really will be out of dinners by then!

TimBear

Deleted_User wrote: »

Quick question for everyone using up freezers/food.
I have a pack (now opened) of mature cheddar bbe early next week. Tastes fine at the mo but no way Im gonna eat it all before next monday. Is it possible to 1)freeze as its now opened and has been in my fridge for a month? (only opened today) or 2) make macaroni cheese/cheese sauce with and freeze the sauce?
am really getting into this challenge we are down to a fairly random combinations of meals for the next week or 10 days before going shopping as we really will be out of dinners by then!

Can't really help with the freezing question but you'd be fine eating the cheese after its BBE date, even without freezing it!

Even when cheese has gone a little mouldy (which happens usually WAY after the BBE date), I just cut that section off and the rest is fine.