Eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge - part two

JensFeet

Thanks for the new job congratulations and the info re: freezing brie!!

If I was to freeze some would it need to be cooked after defrosting? It IS pasteurised (have just checked the label lol) but everything I read says don't do it lol... Maybe I just have pregnancy advice overload and if you've all frozen brie and survived (obviously when not pregnant) then it sounds entirely do-able... But are you cooking it afterwards? Does the texture change?

I have an incredibly smelly huge camembert in there too - I'm sure it will be able to walk out of the fridge on its own pretty soon it's that ripe!! That will definitely go in the freezer for when I'm more able to enjoy it... Oh my. I'm such a cheese freak and didn't know it. I'm slobbering just thinking about the oozing, steaming hot camembert and hot bread... I guess brie will be the same?

MallyGirl - I've tried and tried the hiding courgettes thing as an avid veg grower we always have a summer glut but all three of them can pick up any trace of courgette. Even well and truly blitzed down. I can't complain though as I think that's the only veg they won't eat - although I have to cook celery teeny tiny to get that passed them!! Oh and my son moans about green peppers but I ignore that unless I can get a pack without any in!! Saying that though my daughter actually tried some courgette slices fried in garlic butter over Christmas and quite enjoyed them but only like that apparently!!

Soworried

I more often than not cook it, I love it thrown in a frying pan with left over roast potatoes :drool:
But I sometimes just defrost it and have it with crackers or slices of cucumber.

MallyGirl

JensFeet wrote: »

MallyGirl - I've tried and tried the hiding courgettes thing as an avid veg grower we always have a summer glut but all three of them can pick up any trace of courgette. Even well and truly blitzed down.

My DD is the same with lentils. She will grudgingly eat it but give me the accusing look that says 'you have put lentils in my food'!!! She would also tend to pick out green peppers too - I just chop them really small. Mean Mummy

dannie

Yesterday 17/1/2017 :-

Created recipes from the fridge freezer had = 5.
Food products used up = 3.

Just a few bits of space appearing in one freezer drawer. Only one grocery item bought today (yoghurt special offer £1) and wasn't able to go out a second time (bicycle punctured) to some other grocery shops. Stayed in and created some more recipes instead. Online grocery order is due next week.

CompletelyLost

I've never appreciated what's stashed in my cupboards/freezer as much as I have these last couple of days, as have been far too ill to leave the house to buy food.
It's also amazing how inventive and unpicky (if that's even a word) you become when you have to eat what's there.

Welsh_Poppy

Jensfeet congratulations on job:-)

Out
birthday cake x1
Chocolate Amaretto cake x1
2 quorn sausages
1 portion ham

Really pleased i am sticking to my guns and shows how much we have .

Franalamadingdong

Congratulations on the new job jensfeet!

Re courgettes, I've made a courgette cake and courgette and lemon jam from gluts in the past. Trust me to make the healthy vegetable naughty. Haha.

The only things eaten from stores today was cereal/oats! Had lunch at mum and dad's and they bought us fish and chips for tea - I'd spent most of the day at their place painting, cleaning and shifting heavy stuff into the skip. And changing another lamp plug.

Hopefully will use up more lingering stocks tomorrow. I think there's some chicken and butter beans and spinach to get used. I'll have to check the recipe for the rest of the ingredients.

zafiro1984

OUT
1 half price leg of lamb defrosting overnight, I love lamb I just wish I had bought more when I saw the offer :j Hopefully nothing else for today's tea as the fridge still has some veggies lurking, and my veggie plot has carrots, cabbages etc which I can use if the ground is not too frozen.

IN
Half a walnut and coffee cake, but it will disappear over the next few days as it saves on buying biscuits.

Still no appreciable space to be seen.

Wednesday's turkey burgers were quite a hit, I'll be doing those again

Franalamadingdong

What did you add to your turkey zafiro? I've some turkey mince half for a chilli and I was thinking of making parties with the other half.

Set off dinner in the slow cooker. Chicken thighs, butterbeans, one stock cube and tinned tomatoes out of stores, started off the butternut squash, bacon and used an onion and some carrots. Also used the cooked new potatoes from the fridge. I had been planning on having a potato salad as part of lunch earlier in the week but not got round to it so in the slow cooker they went!

I've seen a cookie recipe using chickpeas yesterday! A peanut butter and chocolate chip cookie using chickpeas! It sounds so crazy I'm tempted to have a go, but I have no peanut butter or chocolate chips and I don't need cookies. Woe.

caronc

In the freezer today will go a small ball of dough and 2 portions of tomato sauce. Out will be a pitta bread and a pack of frozen strawberries. Still not seeing any space but at least it's not growing
Out of the cupboard will be 2 tins of tomatoes (still will have 8 left so not panicking yet LOL), a tin of peaches, a jelly, 1/2 a pack of sponge fingers and a large carton of custard. Will also use up some bread flour and yeast so a good day in using cupboard ingredients.
Various veg will also be used up making chicken casserole for tomorrow night