Eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge - part two

Edwardia

Mmm.. the quiche looks lovely Florenceem

Rachel are you excited about the house move ? First day we moved in together we ended up with champagne from my parents plus special offer ready meals from Tesco 10 mins walk away !

Survived the five hour Lidl-Home Bargains-Sainsbury's expedition with my mother :cool:

Lidl has 16 Nouvelle recycled loo rolls for 3.99 and amazingly now doing organic eggs - 6 medium organic are 1.99. Living mini poinsettias are £1 and I found Miracle on 3th St DVD for 2.99.

Anyone who likes Rachel's organic yogurt, forget the Lidl offer of 350g for 99p as Sainsbury's is doing 450g for £1 so you get an extra 100g for 1p more.

Home Bargains was er educational.. never been so overwhelmed by industrial strength perfume/aftershave before :eek:

Kettle chips lightly salted 40g bags 39p, DP soda crystals 65p, pharmacy stuff all seems cheaper, not much fresh food and almost nothing additive free. Masses of cheap cards, Christmas decs, toys though. Nearly bought OH cuddly Scooby Do

Bought The Jungle Book DVD £8 for OH and John Newman debut album CD Tribute 9.99 for moi in Sainsbos.

IN freezer
Sainsbury's SO organic British beef mince 500g 2 for £6 saving 96p
Loads of space

IN larder
Simply Delicious piquante peppers, Fruit Factory 12 mini lunchbox treats, Sainsbury's SO organic teabags 80 x2, Bicarbonate of soda (for fridge), Montedos Wholefoods pine nuts 2@ 89p each from Lidl, Sainsbury's SO organic brazil nuts, Pickled cockles, Pickled mussels, Neptune fish spread with rice (Polish), 4 cans Heinz Classics organic cream of tomato soup for £3,Sainsbury's SO organic tinned sweetcorn

Collapsed in heap listening to John Newman's album now with coffee.. lurve it

Hope everyone has good evening !

Gonzo1987

Out Today - shortcrust pastry for spinach and cheese empanadas tomorrow. Spinach for dinner. (Loving spinach atm. Even had it for breakfast! )

In - nowt!

Jelly_Biactol

Kirri wrote: »

Anyone got any recommendations for a cookbook on these superfood type salads? the type you buy with grains, pulses, dressings, veg etc in like the M&S ones?

You mean something like this?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Superfood-Recipes-Healthy-Cookbook-Series-ebook/dp/B00D8WKQX8
ebook only, £1.53; you can view sample pages with Look Inside (no recipes though)
There's several recipes on the Joyous Health website
http://www.joyoushealth.ca/superfood-salad-bowls/
And vegan ones on Care2HealthyLiving
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/10-tasty-superfood-recipes.html
This is a HM version of the M&S Blueberry Quinoa Salad
http://www.veggiebelly.com/2011/06/mango-blueberry-quinoa-salad-with-lemon-basil-dressing-recipe.html
And this thread is for people trying to replicate M&S salads
http://cooking.livejournal.com/9072770.html?nojs=1

Edwardia wrote: »

Home Bargains was er educational.. never been so overwhelmed by industrial strength perfume/aftershave before ....not much fresh food and almost nothing additive free.

It's an experience, isn't it? I've never been tempted by the foods there. Or found that non-food items are much cheaper than elsewhere. But it's good value for some things, such as frames and prints (those huge canvas prints are around a fiver or less), for anyone redecorating or moving house.

Gonzo1987 wrote: »

Out Today - shortcrust pastry for spinach and cheese empanadas tomorrow. Spinach for dinner. (Loving spinach atm. Even had it for breakfast! )

Never had spinach for breakfast. Was it spinach on its own?
Mmmm, empanadillas:). Those are good for breakfast, too, with a sweet filling and accompanied with fruit or drizzled with syrup.


Not much been happening in the JB freezer and cupboards recently, as I've been away, but I'm now well stocked with many kinds of dried chillis. Ultra-cheap too!

Tea was chilli, coincidentally, trying out A Girl Called Jack recipe
http://agirlcalledjack.com/2013/10/13/mumma-jacks-best-ever-chilli-revisited/
which I can recommend. The addition of chocolate and red wine really makes a difference. And works out at around £1 for three or four hearty portions.

sharond101

Out: 2 packs of turkey mince (did some batch cooking of bbq mince and veg for serving with nachos and enchiladas.), 1 portion of soup for lunch, 1 cooked chicken breast for my dinner and 1 pack of proscuitto ham for husband dinner.

In: nothing:j

Kirri

Thanks JB, thread cookbook & recipe guru I don't have an ereader but that looks good, had a look through the other threads too, I like the way others are trying to replicate the M&S salads! I found a few in the River Cottage Veg book I have here too. Am going to attempt one tomorrow, I can just never get the flavour some of the shop ones have.

Today:
Breakfast - Banana, sourdough with garlic butter & oj
Lunch - same as yesterday, Moroccan houmous, salad leaves, wholefood salad & pitta
Dinner - vegan red pesto, HG courgette/chilli/pepper
Snacked on mini G&B, clementines.

Nothing out of freezer though HG veg stocks are diminishing so will be in the freezer next week.

Florenceem

Nothing in to freezer.
Out of freezer - HM Shepherd's Pie + sausages + part baked rolls.
We have been having a lovely hot sausage in a roll for lunch - need space in that freezer.
Busy day here. Chap doing odd jobs plus hanging some new doors. Lots of mess - sawdust and wood shavings plus door open as he was sawing etc in the back garden. So I was cold as well as sweeping up all the time.
Had an easy meal - HM Jerk Wedges + baked beans + poached egg.

want2Bfrugal

Made a little mistake today.
Yesterday I cooked some ox cheek stew and put it in the fridge. In town today, I thought I had not prep'd anything for supper and so bought some fish for tonight. It went into the freezer for another day.

In - fish
out - nothing

Jelly_Biactol

Kirri wrote: »

Thanks JB, thread cookbook & recipe guru I don't have an ereader but that looks good.

You can read Kindle ebooks on a PC
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_pc_mkt_lnd?docId=1000423913
no ereader required

Kirri wrote: »

I can just never get the flavour some of the shop ones have.

Maybe it's the chemicals and/or preservatives that shop-bought ones no doubt use?

Kirri

^ no e numbers or anything that looks iffy in them that I can see, was all fairly normal ingredients.

Gonzo1987

Jelly_Biactol wrote: »

You mean something like this?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Superfood-Recipes-Healthy-Cookbook-Series-ebook/dp/B00D8WKQX8
ebook only, £1.53; you can view sample pages with Look Inside (no recipes though)
There's several recipes on the Joyous Health website
http://www.joyoushealth.ca/superfood-salad-bowls/
And vegan ones on Care2HealthyLiving
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/10-tasty-superfood-recipes.html
This is a HM version of the M&S Blueberry Quinoa Salad
http://www.veggiebelly.com/2011/06/mango-blueberry-quinoa-salad-with-lemon-basil-dressing-recipe.html
And this thread is for people trying to replicate M&S salads
http://cooking.livejournal.com/9072770.html?nojs=1



It's an experience, isn't it? I've never been tempted by the foods there. Or found that non-food items are much cheaper than elsewhere. But it's good value for some things, such as frames and prints (those huge canvas prints are around a fiver or less), for anyone redecorating or moving house.



Never had spinach for breakfast. Was it spinach on its own?
Mmmm, empanadillas:). Those are good for breakfast, too, with a sweet filling and accompanied with fruit or drizzled with syrup.


Not much been happening in the JB freezer and cupboards recently, as I've been away, but I'm now well stocked with many kinds of dried chillis. Ultra-cheap too!

Tea was chilli, coincidentally, trying out A Girl Called Jack recipe
http://agirlcalledjack.com/2013/10/13/mumma-jacks-best-ever-chilli-revisited/
which I can recommend. The addition of chocolate and red wine really makes a difference. And works out at around £1 for three or four hearty portions.

I mixed it with scrambled egg it was lovely!

Also took some chapatis out freezer yesterday to go with dinner and made an apple crumble with some windfalls.