Need to use up my freezer challenge

Auzelia

Hiya guys,

well I have done an inventory of my chest freezer and have noted down all my fresh (well now frozen) meat/fish products that are in it. So this is my list and I want to use it all before I buy any more meat/fish.

I have a normal freezer and in that is the usual, frozen veg and some other freezer foods that dont count as fresh.

FISH LIST

384g cod loin
360g cod fillet
200g fantail king prawns
225g raw jumbo prawns
175g emperor king prawns (open)
prawn ring
2 wild pink salmon fillets

CHICKEN LIST

450g of chicken fillets
1043g of chicken leg quarters
320g of chicken leg quarters
1kg of chicken thighs
400g peppered chicken steaks (joes sausages)
6 bags of various cuts of chicken (from baby chickens)
6 chicken breast fillets
1450g chicken

PORK LIST

1kg of pork loin steaks
600g of pork loin steaks
540g of diced pork
220g of pork and apple burgers (joes sausages)
400g of pork and apple sausages (joes sausages)
400g debbie and andrews harrogate 97% pork sausages
400g of pork sausage meat (joes sausages)
526g of pork fillet
400g of pork herb and garlic grills (joes sausages)

BEEF LIST

400g of beef braising steak
340g of beef sirloin steak with peppercorn butter
7 sirloin steaks
3 x 250g of extra lean mince
188g of scotch beef braising
295g of shin beef stewing meat
220g of shin beef stewing meat
450g of beef shoulder braising steak
lean beef mince (frozen iceland)

TURKEY LIST

340g of turkey breast mince
340g of turkey breaks steaks
340g of turkey breast steaks
2484g of turkey breast joing (xmas dinner)

VARIOUS OTHER BITS

2kg of whole duck
700g of minted lamb chops
194g of lamb neck fillet
270g of venison sausages

So yeah .... I have a bit of a problem. I follow the slimming world plan, have a cupboard FULL of everything a store cupboard needs.

Any help would be great on how im best tackling this "mountain"

[Deleted User]

I too have been 'running down' my freezer and I just have a list by the kettle and only buy what's on the list when shopping, and every morning get out of the freezer what I am having for dinner that night. I have stopped buying althogether anything that could be made into a dinnner and am determined to eat what I have before buying more last month I almost halved my shopping bill and this month so far have only spent on fresh fruit and veg and milk but NO MEALS whatsoever You have to be strong and resolute as its so easy to think 'Oh I'll get that as its reduced and a bargain'.Don't do it, walk away and think of emptying you freezer first.Just think of all the money you have spent buying it to eat in the first place and eat it upYou probably have enough food there to last you until past Christmas at least so an extra couple of weeks housekeeping will help when the January bills come dancing over the doorstep in the New Year

gailey_2

Thats an impressive list im also on slimming world plan most of time

fish-white maybe a large fish pie
salmon baked with new poatoes/ peas or salad.

chicken-chicken casserole
Diet coke chicken
chicken faittas-syn the wraps
chicken curry make huge batch and freeze it as fab in jacket potato

pork/beef steaks with sw chips and veg/salad.

mince -spab bol
turkey breast roasted for sandwich meat.
maybe stir fry

sausage casserole
sausage, egg and sw chips

Burger and sw chips

beef casserole and mash

tacos

chilli com carne again fab in jackets for lunch.

roast dinners for next 4sundays so

roast duck and veg
roast beef and veg
roast lamb and veg

Google prawn recipies as can probably do so,mething really tasty maybe buffet style food with it for boxing day alomgside cold meats.

with leftover cooke dmeat could chuck into a frittata or omlette
lamb chops with mash and peas.

I must have been on plan too long as even before i read you sw saw lots joes sausages.

sw sausage rolls

take ome 800g slice whomeal bread
spread over dairylea triangle onto bread
cut crusts off
put precooked saausage in this bread and wrap it around the sausage
place in oven low heat 160--180 for 10mins max not cooking just dies out the bread and cheese spread binds the bread on. its aboputr 1.5 syns per roll get 3 rolls per slice/sausage.

Auzelia

Thanks guys And gailey joes sausages are lovely aren't they. I need to stop forgetting to take things out to defrost. Do you guys defrost in the fridge or out of the fridge xx

squeaky

A browse of this thread should provide an idea or two...

Store cupboard challenge

And this might be fun: Cook Something Different Challenge

And maybe... a month without supermarket - new challenge for 2011 starts at post 1013

Help with using what meat/fish i have in the freezer buying minimal ingredients pls

hotcookie101

I did a freezer inventory today and found bags of roast pork, lamb, beef and chicken, and cooked ham (all in small chopped pieces)

I also have 2 new bags of frozen chopped spinach that I bought twice (oops) and a piece of (uncooked) turkey breast (OH hates turkey....)

I have found this for turkey and spinach, but would love more inspiration....

mavisangelica

Hubby whipped up a spinach omelette last night for tea after buying 2 whoopsee bags of spinach this week.

Alison_Funnell

Turkey and spinach curried. Not necessarily together, unless you want to. I would add the spinach to potatoes in a sag aloo, then maybe tikka the turkey.

babyblooz

Pea and ham soup, yummy!

quintwins

i make ham, sweetcorn and spinage quiche, if u have chicken i'll do that instead so no reason turkey wouldn't work

hotcookie101

I want to make the turkey lasagne, so that takes care of the turkey and a little spinach-has anyone ever used cottage cheese in a lasagne as in the recipe-as it's not one of my favourite things?

Planning on making chicken, pea and herb rice, from Valentine Warner's latest book, so that sorts the chicken. We aren't really quiche fans, but could use the ham in omelettes and carbonara/similar pasta dishes. Could do with inspiration for the beef lamb and pork, I usually make curry, but something different might be nice. I was thinking on making Nigella's mixed meat pilaf with some of the pork, but it doesn't have much veg with it-it's pretty rice heavy.....