I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Welsh_Poppy

Morning

I need to book mark the recipes some look tasty and a busy fast moving thread last 2 days:-)

I was dog walking yesterday so 6 miles walked which was fab but she has gone home today.
OUT
Mash potato and bacon sauce
IN
belly pork,chips,lentil burgers,beef burgers and cheese

I went shopping yesterday and stocked up spent £40 but went to Lidl, Aldi and Morrisons got the fruit and veg on offer in ALDI and plenty bought to take away next week we are on hols next Monday to IOW.

Welsh_Poppy

Kirri

Thanks for tips on the blackcurrant bushes I think I have 3 need to get some more raspberry canes.
My OH is making me raised beds as we have clay soil which is a nightmare and add in topsoil and will be easier for me.

Florenceem

Out of freezer - 6 HM muffins yesterday.
No photo of dinner last night as getting ready for workmen.
No photo of dinner today as exhausted after workmen all day.
Front garden looks a mess - old radiator, carpet and boiler out there waiting for the skip which arrives tomorrow. We are blessed with warmer weather - no working boiler - new one sitting in a cardboard box in my lounge.
We had roast pork, roast potatoes, roast parsnip, carrots, onion and gravy for dinner.

recovering_spendaholic

didn't buy anything today!!

Had egg and cheese on toast for lunch - DD2 came home from school for lunch with a gang of girls so I made them chicken sandwiches, with chicken left over from last night and some of a reduced loaf from freezer.

Tonight I made bacon, egg, beans and sausage but the sausages were really horrible and I couldn't eat mine. They were Tesco finest traditional pork sausages and they were really grissley and yuck!

Got my cholesterol results back today and it is down to 4 which is good I think - it was 6.8.

Still have enough chicken left on the carcass to make chicken fried rice for dinner tomorrow night and I am trying to think of what I can do with a load of tomatoes I have which are about to go too soft - I have never made tomato soup and think that it may not be very tasty using fresh tomatoes. Does anyone have a good recipe? I don't like smooth soup so ideally tomato and veg would be better.

thanks for the info on the raised beds Kirri

Lynsey

Morning all, hope all are well.

Hubby never spend much (hardly anything when I was away) and cleared some freezer stuff.
Last weeks spends were only £7.35 and £6.82 spent so far this week.
Should be well under £100 for the month.

Garage freezer has 2 drawers out not and another one will be emptied this week and with a little re-organising and using up bits the freezer will be switched off before I go on my hols (2 weeks today :j).
Just "plodding along" with food/meals until hols and using up bits and bobs.
Took out a steak pie (hubby) and quiche (me) to have with h/m wedgers.

I'll read back later and catch up.
Gardening day today (start tidying up) and get some washing out.

Lynsey

Lip_Stick

Morning all.

Feeling really rough this morning with a horrid cold. CBA to do anything but have to go out and pick some paint up. Really wanted to get on and start stripping the wallpaper that I've started but I've a feeling I might end up back in bed.

Anyway, last night was a cornish pasty type thing (from freezer) for tea with mash and beans. Don't know about meals today. It's just me, so probably a spicy bean burger or something. Not planning on buying anything and won't make the mistake of visiting tesco, although it's a friends birthday soon so need a card and pressie for that.

where you going on hol Lynsey?

Catch you all later.

Welsh_Poppy

Morning

Funeral today and at church most of day yesterday so I just used up what we had.
Today there is a slice belly pork in fridge with veg just will take out wedges to go with it for oH. I will have poached egg and beans on toast as dont feel like much.
We are on holiday Monday so just using what we have.

Kirri

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

Got my cholesterol results back today and it is down to 4 which is good I think - it was 6.8.

Wow some change, is that improvement diet related?

Lynsey wrote: »

Hubby never spend much (hardly anything when I was away) and cleared some freezer stuff.

^ Sounds like a good way to clear stuff and have low spends!!

Good news on the freezer turning off in 2 weeks achievement - now I'm not buying meals I'm making headway at last but minimum of 1 month left I think, probably more.

Nothing out of my freezer yesterday though - had easy cheese omelette and salad potatoes for dinner - from the veg box. Kitchen still in a mess pending building works recommencing and yesterday a washing machine engineer managed to additionally flood my floor, lucky I already have industrial driers installed trying to dry my ceilings/walls out eh.

Will probably use something out of the freezer tonight though as I want to get through it all as quick as poss, needs defrosting so the emptier the better. Might take out the 1/2 pint milk and frozen fresh orange juice to do pancakes for lunch (if I can find my packed away Magimix) and possibly use the final 2 hm beanburgers with the remaining salad tonight. I've roughly worked out meals for the next two weeks from what needs to be used, though amended my spreadsheet list which is still showing over 90 meals worth (using all the dried pulses).

Lynsey

Lip_Stick - a little break to the Algarve (8 nights). Just hope the weather is kind this year!!

Gailey - not much couponing this year, but not many good offers. I have used a few non-food ones on Fairy etc. It was quiet last year (early on) and hopefully will pick up again.

Kirri - crazy price for hair treatment and I agree with Lip_Stick - take a day out and save, save, save.
Groupon have good offers up here, not too sure about London.
Hubby spends approx £7.99 over a couple of years ........................... the price of the clippers. lol

Another drawer out of the freezer as took out some teacakes and pork mince for spag bol (tomorrow). Pizzas to use and a stir fry, so not much needed this week.
Crammed everything into one drawer and still have the bl**dy vol-au-vent cases to use up ............................. or bin!! I do have two packs of pate, so could kill "two birds" so to speak. Fish to use up, some prawns (stir fry) and sausages (2 part packs). one pack of diced chicken breasts.
Once that lot is used, along with some frozen veg, then a EMPTY freezer after all this time!!
One month later than planned and still 3 to 4 months worth of food to base meals on in other freezer.
I do want to start bulk buying (great offers and not the cr4p offers) again, but at least all the new stuff will be in one freezer and hopefully organised!!

Lynsey

Kirri

^ that was for 2 colours and a cut though and that is half price to what I'd pay in a salon in outer London so is cheap for down here, unfortunately it's just expensive here whether it's hair or property or whatever

Two more hm beanburgers out the freezer for dinner, so both batches eaten now, saved me a fortune in buying veggie burgers using all those frozen allotment beans. I still have a big stash of dried allotment beans in the cupboard though so will soak, cook and turn those into burgers at some point too. Used half the remaining salad and a few salad potatoes from the veg box with the burgers for tonight.

Out the freezer for lunch: 1/2 pint milk, portion of squeezed oranges - turned into pancakes for lunch. Another portion left for tomorrow.

Can't decide whether to turn the last 2 eggs into cakes or another cheese omelette tomorrow (probably cakes). Got a celeriac to use this week too maybe with the last portion of potatoes as I have a gratin recipe that looks good, might do that tomorrow night. That just about uses all the fresh veg up before my next delivery Friday.