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Eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge - part two

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  • Soworried
    Soworried Posts: 2,369 Forumite
    Kirrî your pizza looks really nice:T

    I took out some mince and chorizo and grated carrot to make a smokey spicy chilli for dinner tonight. I'll bulk it out with lot's of other veg as well.
    I'll also take out some pastry to make a quiche for lunch.

    Hm wraps and pizza bases will go in.
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  • Florenceem
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    In to freezer - nothing.
    Out of freezer - HM TITH + Fish.
    We had HM Egg & Bacon Pie + roast potatoes + carrot + cabbage + swede + gravy for dinner.
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  • finished the last piece of chicken for lunch, had it with some of the leftover burrito beans and some of the brown rice, still some left, had 2 burritos for dinner and some lemon water.
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  • Small joint of pork out for tea tonight. Fridge is almost empty, cupboards are slowly diminishing however the freezer is still going strong. Think I need to make more of an effort to use the bigger things and not small things that I stretch out the meals with
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  • ms_night_ryder
    ms_night_ryder Posts: 3,029 Forumite
    I seriously cant get enough of these burritos!

    burrito for lunch and smoothie for breakfast.

    seriously debating if I should make some lemon and raisin muffins with the last 2 eggs I have, or if I should make a egg fried rice for dinner tonight, hmmmmm.
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  • Kirri
    Kirri Posts: 6,184 Forumite
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    MNR - I think you need to stick up a photo of these burritos!

    I've made two more fruit bread loves and two more seeded white/malted loaves. One of each will go in the freezer for later in the week.

    Going to have veggie pies and the last of the salad potatoes tonight.

    Leaves 2 more veggie pies with frozen sweetcorn/peas and 1 veggie tagine in the freezer which I'll have with bulgar wheat - for meals over the next week. Will use the rest of the haloumi with some puy lentils/veg for 2 meals and 2 more pizza nights to fill the week - I'm trying to just look ahead to make sure I literally have enough for the next 7 nights of meals all the time - money is so non existent I am literally buying ingredients for just the next week's meals at a time (though it does keep the kitchen tidier by not having much in it!). Still buying yoghurts/granola/bananas for breakfasts and lunches are having to be bread based which isn't ideal - either fruit bread, or normal bread with bean dips etc or the occasional egg on toast or I could make grain salads.

    Have ordered more things for pizza toppings, more mushrooms, haloumi and rocket and some more minimal veg box stuff for delivery. The second pizza base didn't freeze that well though, not sure I left it to defrost long enough.. was thinking of making 4 smaller pizza bases next time but not sure now with the flat defrosted one I had last night! Finished off the last of the HM HG basil pesto from the freezer last night so will now have to buy some - not sure whether to get a vegan pesto in a jar or to make it again as I just use olive oil and basil whereas the bought ones, even organic, vegan ones, have things like salt etc in which isn't really necessary.
  • Florenceem
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    No freezer movements.
    For dinner we had roast potatoes + HM TITH + cabbage/carrot/swede + gravy.Thursdaysdinner_zps629f8049.jpg[/IMG]
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  • Florenceem
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    Forgot about cup cakes going in to freezer!
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  • ms_night_ryder
    ms_night_ryder Posts: 3,029 Forumite
    flo those cupcakes mmmmm.

    kirri I don't have anywhere to host my pics so I don't bother, you would be so proud of me, today has been a all veggie day, decided to use up the last corner of cooked white rice, along with the rest of the cooked brown rice and made egg fried rice with kale and frozen veg in, had it with the last bit of the burrito beans, my plate was colourful.

    that's all the remains of food used up now, 2 chocolate muffins have gone in the freezer, I will probably have a smoothie and burrito from freezer tomorrow, think about dinner tomorrow for once, instead of already having food prepared.
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  • Florenceem wrote: »
    Forgot about cup cakes going in to freezer!
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    You can put cakes in the freezer?
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