I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Lynsey

Morning all.

Spend quite a bit yesterday ................................. but not on food, in the M&S Outlet - quite a few final reductions and a pair or leather gloves for only £2.49. A dress for £6.99 and a pair of trousers for hubby for £4.99 were some bargains. I bought a pair of Autograph jeans for £13.99 (reduced from original £39.99), but would never have paid full price.

Foods spends were lighter. Popped into a few shops and got most of what I need now - milk, spread, carrots, swede, cheese etc and all for £4.92. I need nothing now until hols, but we'll see how it goes.

Food today, finished off fruit loaf and I'm having chicken pie with veg and hubby salmon en croute with veg.

Looks like Lid offers are not that good when I'm away, so very pleased with that. Still waiting patiently for my targets (chicken breasts, steak mince and meatballs).

Lynsey

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A dress for £6.99 and a pair of trousers for hubby for £4.99 were some bargains.

:rotfl: Oh dear, I love this sentence, I hope the dress was a colour that suits him!



Just made inventory of the 3 main cupboards we store in and freezers (both), wont bore you with the deets of the baking cupboard lol.

cupboards - rice, pasta, various tinned and jars of fruit and veg, then coffee, salt, herbs/spices, marmite, table sauces, kitchen rolls, cereals/porridge, plus some chocolates and a small xmas pud left over from xmas! :rotfl:

freezers - across both we have 2 small pks chicken, 2 mini pizza, 2 mini burgers, filo pastry, waffles, egg noodles, sausagemeat, mini yorkies, gammon joint, 2 1/2 packs sausages, chicken d/sticks, various lamb & pork chops, mince, steak, bacon, and a half pack of quorn chicken pieces
also have various portions of stuff batch cooked - 2 x risotto, 2 x stirfry, 4 x lasagna.

this doesnt include what I've already put in my mealplan for the next week and a half so theres slightly more than what I've listed. But should be more than enough, just need to do a top up shop for veg and snacks next week

kittendothroar

Ended up staying at bf's last night, so stopped at a friends for tea this morning and marmite toast on way home via town...

Slightly failed with my not buying stuff for cupboards - got two tubes of Sains TTD tomato puree's for £1, one is cherrry tomato, one is tomato and vegetable...also a packet of cookie kitkats jumped in basket in poundland...

Lunch via cupboards, toasted sandwich using bread from freezer and last of the cheese in fridge, along with some piccalilli, pickled red cabbage (jar nearly empty has lasted forever!) and a packet of crisps

Dinner have taken out a packet of new potatoes with carrots that were from a previous cook and freeze stash, will be having with a breaded fish portion or veggie burger from depths of freezer! Will serve some with sauteed courgettes (they made me buy them in market 72p for two compared to sainsburys £2 a packet for 3!!

Kirri

Just waiting for my organic delivery to turn up... fridge is rather bare of veg, just few bits left from last week but I did well eating the best part of 2 veg boxes shared with the pets had a quick tidy up this morning in the fridge before it arrives. Found a few home grown chillis from last year in the fridge, chopped them and put them in the freezer, used some in my lunch too. Got quite a few bits planted on the allotment now but with the delayed start I think I will be buying in veg for quite a while yet.. Due to get delivered this week: aubergine, flat beans, portobello mushrooms, broccoli, red cabbage, red pepper, vine toms and 1 surprise ingredient as I skipped something). Also added some fruit, dairy and few household items. This weekly delivery is working much better for me than going to the supermarket - I'm buying small amounts, planning meals more over the week and also using up more things from the wholefoods/pulses cupboard as only ordering what I need for the week ahead (which is actually very little).

Breakfast - egg on toast
Lunch - yellow split pea dahl and hm bread, used the last of the split peas in this but will get some more as I do use them quite a bit and makes a cheap, filling meal. Hadn't tried dahl with split peas before, only lentils. Good for using up the 2 bottles of turmeric I accidentally bought!
Dinner - no idea yet, will choose something from the veg box and base it on that, maybe pasta as haven't had that in a while. Trying to vary meals based on rice, pasta, pulses etc - still not bought any fake meat this year

This was the split pea dahl recipe (takes longer than stated..) I also thought the portion sizes were rather generous as I only usually use about 50g of pulses per person. I halved the recipe but still have a spare portion, hopefully should freeze ok, will have it with rice another day.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2006/jan/29/foodanddrink.features12

Kirri

Interesting article on living on a 'healthy' diet on £15 food a week - as much as I have no money at the moment, I just couldn't eat that, looks rather dull and stodgy to me, sure some of you could create a better list!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22065978


The surprise ingredient in my veg box was salsify... 4 of them...

Florenceem

No freezer movements here.
For dinner we had HM Salmon Quiche with HM wedges and cauliflower, green beans + swede - added some chopped up garlic as well.

Kirri

1 item out of the freezer! A portion of Stilton. I really need to be using the older stuff in there though not the newly frozen..

Had portobello mushrooms in garlic and stilton pasta.
With a side salad of babyleaf lettuce/rocket/spinach, shredded red cabbage and vine tomatoes - from the veg box. Finished up one bag of pasta but already had another bag.

Decided not to freeze the spare dahl from lunch, is in the fridge so will have to eat that tomorrow lunchtime.

Lynsey - wish I had an M&S outlet nearer! I don't get to go to one that often, some good bargains there.

ms_night_ryder

Evening all.

Had a small glass of smoothie this Morning, met a friend for lunch, had a frozen mango cocktail, lamb satay sticks, chicken katsu and rice and a sticky toffee pudding yummy!

Then I roped my uncle into helping me put up my wardrobes took nearly 3 hours! I had taken a frozen meal out ackee and.saltfish, rice and plantain, now I'm eating a chocolate that new cadburys jelly popping one it is so nice.

Don't forget to get the waitrose paper for the free box of twinnings tea, I got a box today, they cost £4.29 for a box of 15 they look lovely!

Kirri

^ Free Twinings, sounds good! Not that I drink tea but I'd like a freebie. I'm going past a Waitrose after the weekend, will try and pick one up, they don't change the mag over till midweek isn't it?

ms_night_ryder

It's the weekend paper, I thought they took it away after Sunday, not too sure though.