Eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge - part two

Maiden_Mum

Packet of poppadoms & gluten-free bread sauce out of the cupboards & some party food that was meant for New Year's Eve out of the freezer but oh my goodness an awful lot of cooked turkey has gone in - about 2.2 kgs! This was for a turkey that my MIL originally bought for Xmas that didn't get used & I knew she now didn't want or need it so we bought it off her. I have no ide awhat to do with it all tbh!

FurryBeastOz

Out to defrost for tomorrow:

1 pasty and 1 portion s/s and broccoli crustless quiche for lunches
2 huge chicken breasts for dinner (only 16 left now:D)

There is space in one of the baskets:j The trick now is going to be not to get scared and go YS shopping to fill it:rotfl:

foxyloxy11

used left over chicken, mini caramelised sausages and stuffing...chopped up with h/m saut! potatoes, cabbage, carrots, onions, peas, garlic chilli flakes, cumin, turmeric, ginger, bit of cassata and a blob of mango chutney all fried up together.
scrummy! a good old use everything that's left concoction.

even better nothing bought or needed.

Welsh_Poppy

Out of freezer today

A homemade dinner
Quorn rashers
Cheese pie x1

In
Oven chips

I had to go shopping and spent £60 on fruit,veg,and salad and bits and pieces for the pantry! How come it came to so much is beyond me!!

Must try harder

Soworried

Soworried wrote: »

Hm vegetable lasagne x3
Smoked haddock x1
Salmon fillet x 7
Carrot batons x4
Parsnip batons x4
Roast potatoes x4
Brie
Pastry scraps (I freeze these every time then end up with a full batch)
Blueberry muffins x1
Coated Chicken strips x2
Cocktail sausages x5
Oven chips x4
Petit pois x4
Mashed swede x8 now x4
Chinese Pork chop x5
Black chick peas x 10 (I boil kg at a time and freeze) x5 now
Cauliflower rice x2
Sausages x1 (Could maybe stretch to 2)
Beef burgers x2 Now 1
Spicy pulled pork x1
Chicken nuggets x2
Gammon x2 x1 now
Beef x3 x1 now
Steak x3 x2 now
Cheese topped baguettes x8 now 6
Stuffed mushrooms x1
Mashed potatoes x4
Yorkshire puddings x4
Smoked salmon (Sandwich or cracker type) 2.5 full packs. May save for family coming at easter.
Sausages wrapped in bacon x4 x1 now
HM chilli x1
Garlic mushrooms x1
Stuffing x4
Spring rolls x1
Random slice of bread x1
Curried vegetables x1
Fish pie x1
Diced chicken x4
Wrap x3
Meat loaf x8
Lemon cheese cake- Full one, may keep till Easter
Prawns- Full pkt. Again may keep until Easter
Full huge chicken

The x? Means how many portions it will serve. As a family of 4 we have a lot of bits left. DD hardly ever eats here so most nights I cook for 3.

Have put the chicken on defrost in my microwave. Will serve it with the mash, stuffing, yorkshire puddings. I have broccoli in the fridge that needs used so will serve that too with peas. That is today sorted.
Just need to meal plan the rest now.

I'm getting there

Purple_kitten

Out of the freezer and RTC chicken meal was todays meal,
For tomorrow I have taken out a spatch cook whole chicken that needs cooking and portioning.

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Soworried - the cauliflower rice, do you grate and microwave. Would love to have some of that in freezer, does it defrost well. Thanks.

Out of fridge I, made some broccoli & potato soup, which I have now frozen. One pack of veggie mince out of freezer, made with onions & carrots, out of stores.

Franalamadingdong

Maiden, what about risotto? Curry? Pasta sauce? In a pie? I've been having real pie cravings recently. I've no idea why! But there are loads of chicken based ones. I'll just be swapping turkey in where it says chicken. I'm also going to attempt puff pastry. I've always just bought puff, but I'd love to have a go.

Red kidney bean curry was lovely. Unfortunately I went shopping today and had great fun with the dented tins. Bought more red kidney beans, 2 tins of baked beans (which I did want before seeing reduced) and some drinking chocolate which I really didn't need! Darn!

Out:
1 tin chopped tomatoes
1 tin kidney beans
Last of the basmati rice

In:
2 tins of chopped tomatoes
1 tin of kidney beans
1kg basmati rice
(Yeah I get this looks insane, but these are all things I regularly use/use up
Hot chocolate
Turkey thigh (chickens all looked pathetic)
Turkey mince
Sausages
Bacon
Chicken and veg stock cubes
Tomato puree

Tomorrow will use up some tuna, some of pasta mountain and some of the sweet corn (remind me not to buy that again!).

The rest of this week should see me use the last tin of chickpeas, some of the turkey mince (the rest to be frozen for a chilli), chicken thighs from the freezer, last tin of butterbean, some of the ruddy frozen spinach (nearing the end), the frozen trout. After the roast I should have enough left over turkey (along with what my parents gave me) to make a pie next week.

Other than that I want to use up the tinned salmon (1 tin left), and finish the spaghetti/noodle things because my son doesn't really like them, probably just laziness, but I can use them up by myself and have them out of the cupboards. Freezerwize I want to finish the sweet corn in the next few months, same if the spinach and some onion rings - I always think I like them and it turns out I'm not too keen and the mahoosive bag of frozen berries. They were different but quite bitter.

GreenFairy

Home horribly late from, so a cobbled together dinner of bits and pieces.

Out:
Caesar salad bag
Pack of cheese slices
Two cans of fizzy
An avocado

Suffolk_lass

Primrose wrote: »

I have 2 redcurrant bushes, 2 blackcurrants and 3 gooseberries, 2 blackberries, and this summer the redcurrants fruited so prolifically I ended up leaving some on the bushes for the birds. I also have a strawberry bed. I also try and premix some of the soft fruit apart from the gooseberries for compotes and eating with porridge. Having a ready prepared mix encourages me to use it up more quickly. I also use the mixture set in jelly for a dessert. But apart from gooseberry fool, I find the gooseberries harder to use up so they tend to lurk & lurk !

I also have 1 redcurrant, five blackcurrant, 4 varieties of gooseberry on 6 bushes, 2 strawberry beds, a 30ft raspberry bed (3-4 deep), plus trees. I nearly bought more (a blueberry, even though our soil is not suitable) on Saturday but we bought a Morello Cherry tree instead. We have only had a handful of redcurrants (birds) but otherwise everything crops well. I make jumbleberry jam too - amazing what you can add. Trouble is, 40 jars of jam in stores I just cannot keep making jam. We just have to eat more crumble at the weekends I think(!)

caronc wrote: »

I only have a rampant bramble patch which was very prolific this year so 7 bags stashed, ate loads and made bramble vodka as Christmas gifts. Gooseberry gin sounds as though it would be lovely and really easy to make. 1 litre cheap gin, 500g (or more) roughly chopped gooseberries. Let gooseberries steep in the gin for a couple of months shaking every so often, strain through fine cloth, add sugar syrup made from 200 ml water and 200g sugar , combine and shake well, taste after mixing as might need a bit more sugar if the gooseberries are very sharp. Shake every day for a couple of days then strain again and bottle. Ok to drink straight off but better left to mature for a couple of months.

I haven't used gooseberries in alcohol before but will certainly try this - I do a much simpler recipe with damsons and sloes- bottle of cheap white spirit (gin or vodka) with a pound of fruit and a pound of sugar. Slit the fruit and bung it all in a large (kilner) jar or bottle and shake it every time you pass it for several weeks until all the colour has leached and the flavour is how you want it, as you say, a couple of months. It works really well with strawberries over 2-3 weeks and a dash in a flute with prosecco is very popular here (!)

I also have 7 bags stashed (gooseberries, not blackberries) - 5 dessert and 2 culinary, and loads of plums and damsons. Before we sold some of our garden we had plum hedging and used to sell 50k a year (average) by the roadside and give them away in the Village. With honeybees, we had to pick or the wasps came. I'm going to do more bottling this year too. Cheaper than keeping the freezer powered up all the time.

I can't believe we bought another fruit tree at the weekend (!) - planet Zog or what?

It's really interesting comparing what others do with their stash!

SL