Eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge - part two

Cheapskate

silver-oldie wrote: »

Could you post your recipe or a link please
Thank you

Silver-oldie, this is the recipe I use, very simple and gluten-free for those who need that element. It is rather yummy, and in the unlikely event that it lasts longer than a few days :rotfl:, just warm it a little and serve with custard, cream, ice cream.....

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/6722/gluten-free-chocolate-cake.aspx

A xo

Cheapskate

Last night I made a very quick soup with a few bendy veg, last of a packet of ham, veg and chicken stock and a big handful of noodles - not too bade for 10 minutes' work!! DS is having the rest for tonight's tea, the rest of us will have corned beef hash, then either tinned rice pud or bananas and tinned custard. I have shopped for a few bits yesterday and today, but basic stuff like milk, loo rolls, cat food etc. Taking our braising steak tonight to make stew tomorrow - DS hates stew but I| have promised him parsley dumplings to go in it!! :rotfl::rotfl: Will also make a fruit crumble - got 2 huge Bramleys in the fridge, plus I got a YS punnet of plums down to 40p.

A xo

Franalamadingdong

Oh cheapskate, my DS would love you- stew and dumplings and fruit crumble!

Used 2 tins of tomatoes (1 left) and 1 tin of mixed beans (1 left but I might add it in), used the last of my scabby potatoes, added a bunch of fridge veg and used my last whole onion, chucked in some stock cubes and resisting topping them up, and bay leaves are really low but still plenty left. Total number of tins left : 12

JensFeet

Thanks for the lovely welcome. I think I'm going to like it here and love reading how you all just create dishes from seemingly random ingredients xxx

Have had lovely thick snow off and on here today and we are sort of 'semi-rural' with a long, steep drive which isn't much fun when it's slippy. My daughter has an upset tummy so I kept her off school as she had emergency situations in the loo so I got to stay in with her, lit the stove and we have been under her quilt for most of the day. Lazy but fab. I was kind of expecting that my son (who has ASD and is placed in an independent specialist school up in the hills some miles away) would have been home early today as they get the snow and drifting much heavier than us at home. Not home yet though!!

Out of freezer: chicken breast
Out of cupboards: finished pack of crumpets for breakfast - not buying any more because I just eat them! Still have a bit of a YS bread mountain though well past fresh it's fine for toast and that's all we tend to eat bread.
Out of fridge: wafer ham (on my crumpet)

I have 6 portions of lentil soup to put in the freezer but just no space to get it in. I couldn't face it again today so brekkie and lunch was same crumpet and ham both times. Will try for lunch and brekkie tomorrow.

Meal plan was for chicken, bacon and kale soup but I think I might change it to chicken and sweetcorn chowder. Will see what the kids prefer.

No panic buying done as we don't need anything. I did have a browse of Approved Food and Clearance XL earlier on but I don't need anything so saved my pennies and maybe can get to the end of January having spent less than £100 on food all month. Normally I will spend between £50 - 70 a week which I KNOW could be much less. I'm excited about this!!

Suffolk_lass

JensFeet wrote: »

finished pack of crumpets for breakfast - not buying any more because I just eat them!

I love that comment :rotfl: - are you my sister?

SL

caronc

Thankfully no real snow here but cold and horrible and loads of sleet/hail so comforting food in order. Between yesterday and today out of stocks have been:-
Lorne sausage (stovies last night and for lunch today)
250g mince
Bag of passatta
Tin of beans
Carrots, onions, potatoes, celery, garlic, 1/2 a red pepper
Making chilli for tonight and will use up some soured cream with that.
Also made butter from leftover Christmas cream which I'm going to use for a freezer stash of garlic butter. Just about to make stilton scones to use up the stilton and buttermilk from the butter-making.
In to the freezer later will be 4-5 portions of turkey broth and I'll need to also find space for spare scones and garlic butter and possibly a portion or 2 of chilli.
Also in to stores today were milk, spreadable butter, coffee, tea bags, lemon juice and tartare sauce. Need to have a think about meals for the next few days, fancy jerk chicken thighs with sweet potato wedges but not sure when (have all the stuff in) and possibly a marinated pork leg leg steak one night. Have salad stuff to use up but it be fine for a few days so it can go with these meals or wait until the weather picks up. Barring anything unforseen I'm stocked until Thurs/Fri next week

celyn90

:wave:

From fridge:

More algae sludge powder
Garlic, ginger, chill, chicken
carrots and cream cheese

Out of cupboard:

Tinned salmon (cat thinks all it's Christmas's have come at once - I did mix it with the Felix though so it realises this isn't how it's going to be from now on)
2 packets of cashew nuts, half a pack of ground almonds, two blocks of creamed coconut, various spices (became curry as I'm off to see a friend tomorrow and I always take food)
Walnuts
Grill spice, finished a bottle of liquid smoke.
Flour

Out of freezer: Two crumpets, two lumps of pork (in oven becoming pulled pork, again to take with me tomorrow)

In: Two loaves of rye bread and a punnet of plums

I'm off work at the moment on holiday. I have some writing to finish, but have been procrasi-cleaning and cooking all day. I even washed all of the net curtains.

Suffolk_lass

Out - pack of skinned and boned chicken thighs, home-grown broad beans (been there a year!) a 1l pack of freezer soup (no idea what, even defrosted!), some bendy carrots, a red pepper and a home-grown onion from the hessian sack where they are starting to sprout. All made into a chicken casserole and slammed in the oven on a lowish heat for 90 minutes - I might let you know, or I might cook sausage and mash instead for tea if it is beyond hope when all cooked

In - nothing yet but I will have to chop and freeze some onions if they are going to get used before they all start growing again

SL

nmlc

Evening everyone

I'm a lurker but don't normally post on this thread but am trying very hard to use up stocks from overfilled freezers (x2) and store cupboard.

Yesterday -

Out

freezer - 2 x bags of quorn mince, previously sliced and frozen onion.

Fridge/store cupboard - potatoes, and cheese.

Today -

Out

freezer - onion

Fridge/store cupboard -

sweet potato, carrots, ready made puff pastry, mincemeat.

However, in the fridge there is 3 x portions of shepherds pie and also a jug of HM roasted sweet potato and carrot soup - but the soup will become my lunch tomorro and Saturday and anyone else who wants some, also the shepherds pie is going to become tomorrow nights' dinner with chips, peas and gravy, an alternative of lasagna (HM already in freezer) will be offered as DH not keen on shepherds pie and we all had it last night.

Keep safe and well x

nmlc x

zafiro1984

Small order arrived, mainly fresh stuff, bread and milk. I needed it as I'd run out of vegs in the fridge.

Out: small piece of gammon, 2 sausages, 1 home grown potato, packet of prawns in filo pastry (bargain post Christmas) 2 portions of HM rum and raisin icecream.
In:- 24 pieces of a Mary Berry tea bread, packed in twos, used up some dried fruit that had been around for several months, instead of buying biscuits for DH.

Hopefully no shopping for about another ten days and maybe a little more space in a freezer