Mini, Mid Month Freezer Challenge.

janiepopps

I'm planning to feed us out of the freezer this week as I'm doing the Grocery Challenge this month and need to keep spends low.

Anyone want to join me...?

Off to inventory what I've got lurking in the frozen depths, then be back with a plan of attack... Wish me luck!

Tink_04

I'm doing this too as January is a long month for us - thanks to batch cooking I think I have enough to last 2weeks if im careful!

LondonDreamer

Good luck!

I have already been doing this for the past week and am doing the same this week. I don't even have that much in my freezer but need to run it down to defrost it.

Freezer contents:
1.6kg whole chicken (M&S meal deal)
2 fillets smoked haddock
2 chicken breasts
2 pork chops
1 fish pie (homemade, always make 2 at once and freeze one)
1 ready made pizza (on offer)
Pack of southern fried chicken fillets (on offer)
Pack of ham (on offer)
Couple of portions of chips
Half a tin of cannelini beans
Chorizo ring (this is actually in fridge, but nearing use by date)

Meal plan:
Sunday: Pork stir fry (using pork chops plus a whoopsied pack of noodles)
Monday: Southern fried chicken and parmesan potatoes (also from M&S meal deal)
Tuesday: Omelettes (using ham)
Wednesday: Chicken stew (using chicken, chorizo and beans)
Thursday: Kedgeree (haddock)
Friday: Pizza and chips
Saturday: Fish pie
Next Sunday: Roast chicken

Now just have to try and resist any freezer whoopsies this week.

janiepopps

Keep getting waylaid and haven't even made it to the freezer yet...!

Xaniwoop

I'm nearly a week into this as I discovered that my freezer stash had been steadily growing with festive leftovers and random post Christmas bargains

So far we've had:
spag bol (from one of the 4 portions of beef mince :eek:)
chicken and ham pasta bake (chicken leftover from Monday before I realised how stuffed the freezer was plus some parma ham from New Year brunch)
Goulash and dumplings
Roast pork dinner (tesco had massive pork joints reduced to £12 so I got one and cut it into 4 family sized pieces)

next week I am planning:
lamb koftas in pittas (reduced mince)
cottage pie (more of my beef stash)
smoked salmon pasta (strictly from the fridge but needs eating)
Beef and veg pie (and that's the last of the stewing beef)
lasagne (yet more mince lol)
another roast pork dinner

Have also planned another 2 weeks of this so I'm hoping for a tiny grocery total this month!

Josslette

I'd be up for joining you

Me and my boyfriend are trying to pay off debts quickly so we can afford to move out of our parents houses in a couple of months or so. So we're trying to eat up what we've already bought to save money. Also it would be good if the boyfriends freezer was empty before we need to move the thing into the new flat!

So planning to eat from the freezer as much as poss and only spend around £15 a week on food, for veg/fruit/milk etc

Freezer Contents
- Morrisons the best cocktail sausages(different flavours)
- Chicken breasts
-Diced turkey
- Small Smoked Gammon Joint
-Big Pack of Booths Meatballs
- 3 Packets of Tortellini
- Some Frozen Peas
- Bacon
- 3 Frozen Pizzas
- 6 Breaded Cod Fillets
- Chunk of cooked gammon from christmas
- Small amount of frozen chips.

Thats just off the top of my head so there could be lots of other stuff lurking!

Soo we've got loads of options for the protein elements of meals which is good as they tend to cost the most. Will have to have a think of meals I could make with them, any ideas would be appreciated

Jess
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thrifty-gal26

I will join you guys.

I am moving in two weeks so want to use as much as possible before.

I have LOADS of food in freezer and dried goods. Including what seems like 100s of bags of dried beans. ( my OH went on a diet last year that called for beans but I ended up using tinned ) I might give up and make door stops out of them.

Actually, that is not a bad idea!!

We have had 2 portions of HM lasagne out the freezer for dinner tonight. That is one meal down

janiepopps

OK, finally made it to the freezer

In the house freezer we have;
1 gammon steak
2 packs of stewing beef
3 bags cooked turkey
1 small bag of pasty meat
1 Xmas Pie
3 portions stew
A few slices of salami
1 'Meaty base' (ready to become spag bol/chilli/lasagne etc)
1.5 bags of prawns
5 portions of carrot & coriander soup

Along with loads of fruits, veggies, blocks of stock etc.

As for fresh food we also have;
Sausages
Potatoes
onions
carrots
parsnips
sprouts
leeks
peppers
mushrooms
sugar snap peas
Lettuce
Pumpkins & squash stored

M - Bangers & mash with stir fry (carrot, shredded sprouts, peppers, SS peas, mushrooms, onion & garlic)
T - Cottage pie (2 portions of stew with mash root veg topping) with steamed veggies
W - OH - gammon, egg & chips. Me - creamy mustardy turkey, steamed veggies & chips.
T - Chilli & rice
F - Pizza (salami, leek, pepper, mushroom, sweetcorn)
S - Something prawny for me as OH is out
S - Xmas pie, steamed veggies

We ended up out for most of the weekend hence all the veggies and fresh food still in.

I feel we're going to eat like kings and may have to stretch this challenge out to a second week!

Xaniwoop

Ok we've had the cottage pie and I've made the koftas for tonight, perhaps smoked salmon pasta on Wed as a change from all that mince! but we have the builders in to do some pretty messy work on Thurs/fri and the toddler and I are evacuating the house during the day so the meal plans might all go out of the window...

pollyskettle

Oh, I so need to join this. I shall look in the freezers tomorrow and post a list of what we have. Should be enough to see us to the 26th or 27th (one of them is payday, not sure which!).

LondonDreamer

Stuck to the plan for the first few days. Tonight was supposed to be chicken and chorizo stew but had a pile of mushrooms to use up. So it became chicken and mushroom pie, using a pastry block I found tucked at the back of the bread drawer in the freezer. Delicious, but it made a massive pan's worth - now have half of it to go back into the freezer and still have the chorizo in the fridge.

Haddock is still on the menu for tomorrow. :money: