I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

quintwins

nancy i'm just as bad it's not even that i'm buying alot eitehr it's when i lift out chicken breasts say and then casarole goes back in which takes up more room

anyhoo today we had muffins (reduced) and kiwi (reduced) for breakfast lunch is the last of the sausage rolls for ds and i'm hvaing lo caulifower and brocolli cheese, dinner is fishfingers chios and beans, gonna do the kids waffles as they will use the last of the box and free up a wee bit of space, had some doughtnuts yesterday out of the freezer so i can see the level coming down slightly, sometimes i think chest freezers are worse because u can't see everything til u get to it and the smaller stuff fall threw i'd say theres several packets of sausages in the bottom of mine

bramble1

We got takeaway last night but OH had a pack of pork chops, chips and beans today. I've lifted out chicken and will do a vindaloo tomorrow with half the pack and chorizo and chicken pasta on thursday.

lunch tomorrow will be toast i think, something easy as i feel ill. OH can fend for himself!

NSD today for me!

Lynsey

Morning.
After 2 no-spend-days I finally spent yesterday, but only 81p on food - not too bad, 81p over 3 days!!
Bought a couple of garlic pizza breads yesterday from Sainsbury's and had one last night and have the other later with spag bol (made with turkey mince). Need to get rid of some Southern Fried chicken tomorrow and maybe some fish on Friday - smoked salmon for hubby and I might try those fish fingers. lol
Hoping to get some Sacla sauces from Morries later, but they will be free with the coupons (if in stock).

Lynsey

quintwins

we had chippy last night cause i hurt my back, aww well onwards and upwards, today were having toasted muffins for breakfast, lunch is cheese sandwichs, and we'll try again for fishfingers chips and beans for tea, snacks will be yogurts and kiwi's (have 8 that need used)

[Deleted User]

Afternoon all!
After a couple of barginous whoopsie shopping trips am back on the challenge and trying not to go shopping again for a good few weeks if I can manage it!
Brekkie was (free) honey shreddies and milk with a banana (5p for whole bunches!)
lunch chicken sandwiches with figs (20p for 4)
dinner is chinese chicken with everything except the chicken rustled from cupboards,
have also made a cake, 7 cupcakes, 16 rice krispie cakes and foraged some scones from the freezer for an afternoon birthday tea (not mine!) this afternoon!
still- the cupboards and freezer are now groaning again so must avoid the shops (and the grabbit board!):eek:
Thanks for all the tips on freezing cheese- used a fair bit of it in sandwhiches and have frozen enough to do a macaroni cheese at some point!
anyone have any idea what I could do with extra bananas? I have about 10 , some of which can be eaten but the rest are struggling! have already given away as many as I can , have no butter or sugar left for cakes and no freezer space if I did make them! answers on a postcard pls!

debtmess

afternoon all x
I went through everything today, its all wrote down in a notebook
turned 2.5 kg of carrots 4 leeks 4 peppers and 3kg of potato's into bags blanched, cooked etc and now in freezer

Have a small november shopping list which is mainly for the freezer (bread etc) and cravendale milk, have worked out if all go's to plan should only need to spend 50-60 for the whole of november on the basics (milk,bread,fruit and veg)

kittywight

no spend day yesterday and today ...... although tbh i haven left the house lol

dinner today is toad in the hole, using last of eggs in the fridge and the sausages that have been in the freezer for ages

trying to stop wasting so much stuff, theres always something hanging around which is outta date, so i wanna use things and not forget about them, yesterday i threw out gone off ham , gone off bacon and nearly a full tub of gone off philly

made a banana raisin butterscotch loaf yesterday using the eggs and some due to go off bananas in the back of the fridge, may break my no spend day tommorow to get some custard to go with it



xx

Lynsey

£6.81 spent on food stuff yesterday, milk and mainly junk stuff like cream cakes, crisps and the Tesco Express Aero glitch.

Took a pack of bacon out and bacon butties for breakfast soon. Mixed day today, a little spag bol to use up an Southern Fried chicken. Might make a stir fry to get rid of peppers and bits.

BTW, Sacla Dallaglio sauces are free at the momemnt when using the £1 off coupons (Morries).

Lynsey

kittywight

spent 7.66 in lidls today

had planned to go to thelocal co-op and use my milk voucher to get milk and some veg, but the roof has collapsed:eek: , so its obviously closed

ended up in lidls,
milk.eggs,flour,bread muffins,squash, ham and cat food

tonights plan was eggs benedict ... but the hollandaise sauce (which i just rearranged my entire cupboard to find!!) had gone off in may, did check it but it didnt taste right:o

so ds will have muffin and scrambled eggs and ham
and ill have a muffin with poached egg and ham


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this is whats in my main food cupboard (i have 2 smaller cupboards, but they are just full of ingredients and odd bits and bobs)

tins :

beans (5)
red kidney beans
heinz big soup meatball and tomato (large)
heinz big soup minted lamb
homepride curry sauce
weightwatchers chicken noodle soup
weight watchers tuna mayo (no idea what im going to do with this, its rank!! )
chopped toms (only 1 tin:eek::eek: must get more)
princes minced beef and onions in gravy
ravioli
hot dogs


jars:

pataks butter chicken sauce
pataks korma sauce
pasta sauce (3)
sharwoods tandoori makhani sauce

various:
dried spagetti (half bag)
pasta twists (1 whole bag and 2 half bags)
organic wholewheat macaroni (2 half bags)
organic thomas the tank dried pasta shapes ( half bag)
morrocan cous cous (2 packs)
pasta bows (half bag)
straight to wok noodles
sharwoods medium egg noodles
paxo stuffing
spring roll wrappers
organic vegetarian sausage mix
tomato basil cuppasoup
chicken noodle cuppasoup
dumpling mix (3)

sachets:
cheese sauce (2)
chicken chassuer
parsley sauce
old el paso tomato sauce (from the taco kits) (2)
sausage casserole


........ think thats everything, from the one cupboard.. plus some cereals and various packs of crisps

need to start getting through some of this stuff
its been there for years lol


need to do my freezer list and the other 2 small cupboards list soon

xxx

Lynsey

Spent £2.02 on food yesterday, some pasta, onions and bread buns.

Back luck last night when my oven went "pop" and away on hols Sunday, so no time to sort it out or order a new one.
All the money saved of food//groceries will probably be spent on a new oven, if it can't be repaired cheaply (only 3 or 3 1/2 years old)!!!

Got loads of free Dallaglio yesterday and hoping to get more Sacla from ASDA later if going out.

Toast today for breakfast and not too sure about the rest yet.

Lynsey