eating up freezer contents

thecraftybear

hi,
i've been inspired by the good weezl lady and i have made a list of all the food in our freezer. It is my aim to eat up said contents before buying any more food. we have a weekly veg/fruit box delivered and we will need bread/milk etc, but i'm hoping for a cheap few weeks!

all ideas will be gratefully accepted. We do ned to aim for 5 a day too.

I hope you can join me!
thecraftybear x

freyasmum

Funnily enough, I've just started defrosting a little pack of chorizo, half a pack of prawns, a little tub of diced and cooked chicken, one portion of pre-cooked beans and I have the end of a bag of peppers still in the freezer.

I was thinking about frying off an onion and some garlic and shoving the lot in with some rice and stock and making some kinda spanish-y inspired one-pot :think:

thecraftybear

that sounds yummy freyasmum! DH does not eat fish, so no chance of decent paella type thing over here!

hope you enjoy it :-)

meg72

thecraftybear wrote: »

hi,
i've been inspired by the good weezl lady and i have made a list of all the food in our freezer. It is my aim to eat up said contents before buying any more food. we have a weekly veg/fruit box delivered and we will need bread/milk etc, but i'm hoping for a cheap few weeks!

all ideas will be gratefully accepted. We do ned to aim for 5 a day too.

I hope you can join me!
thecraftybear x

Have a look at the fiscal fast thread, lots of like minded people, basically a week of using up freezer and cupboard stuff before buying any more, has saved me loads.

thecraftybear

hi meg72
that's great, thanks Bedtime now but I'll head off to find fiscal fasting boards first thing tomorrow :-). It's going to be exciting, my first challenge!

Ash_McCloud

I decided to empty my freezer for a fresh start.. obviously eating all of the contents along the way. My advice would be to go a freezer drawer/basket at a time, and meal plan your way through it.

Tonight was the last night on the bottom drawer, I had frost, 6 frozen peas and an ice pop for tea :j

squeakysue

I would love to join in, my freezer is chockablock!

Will do an inventory later and see what I can come up with, would need to buy some veg and potatoes but sure I can make more than two weeks worth of meals from all the stuff I have :j

clothhany

This is just the kick up the bum that I need. We have 2 overflowing freezers and full cupboards and should be moving house in the the next 8 weeks (fingers crossed). I'm just nipping out for a cuppa with my dear SIL and then will do a recky of the freezers and post the list on here.

cheerfulness4

There is a similar thread that you might find interesting about eating from the freezer and cupboards.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3307650

There have been a few, as you would expect on here but a new, fresh one with lots of recipes might be just what we need.

I would advise a gander at the above one, though. Very useful as evolved into lots of sub topics (ie, coupon tips, reduced items, etc) that compliment the original challenge.

All of Weezl's challenges I too found inspirational and D&DD's challenge to survive from her pantry during the postal strike a while back made a great read (with photos of the baking!)

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/575356

I'll enjoy seeing how this thread develops. I'm on the other side after just clearing my freezer and having the fun of restocking more mindfully this time.

lostinrates

thecraftybear wrote: »

that sounds yummy freyasmum! DH does not eat fish, so no chance of decent paella type thing over here!

hope you enjoy it :-)

If i craved this and one of us did not /could not eat fish i would cook the chicken and chorizo with the vegs and rice, remove the dishless portion and add prawns to the reat, or take out a small portion to another pan to add a few prawns to for the last bit of cooking

thecraftybear

Good Morning All

Ash McCloud - tee hee, love it! Mine is a chest freezer, so no such organisation available here. We tried to place all meat in one bag, all veg in another etc
lostinrates - Top idea, firmly planted! I need more imagination
cheerfulness4 - I can see how my day is going to pan out - it's fab on here! I have a file of things to try from Weezl's threads
clothhanny & squeakysue - Let's do it!!

We are on leftover pork (from joint out of freezer) with leftover veg (cooked too many yesterday so quick tonight) and we have a jar of pour-over sauce in cupboard that should go over the top of the lot. I may shove it all in a dish, pour on the sauce and have it as a sort of pasta bake (without the pasta) - what do you think?

DD (age 8) eats almost anything, DH does NOT like fish or much veg. We started getting a weekly veg/fruit box, so he's agreed to try beetroot falafel this week :T

The inventory list for my freezer is too embarrassing to publish! It was PACKED!

let me know how you get on ....