Eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge - part two

Florence_J

IN

Milk, Bread, Mozzarella, Bananas, 2 X Passata

OUT

Mozzarella, 10 x slices of bread in the freezer, 4 eggs, 100g cheese (made savoury bread and butter pudding)

USED UP

Finished a tub of margarine

Frogletina

Struggling with my mini-challenge, and I am sure that is due to my mood rather than my financial failings. I should be into my third £5 but I am in my fourth.

In reality I should stop buying groceries now till the end of the month but I am not sure that is possible.

After I visited my dietician this month I was told to continue my current diet for another two weeks and this has meant I cannot eat a lot of the food in the freezer at the moment. I cannot have anything with onion, garlic or wheat, and a few other things and it has really restricted me.

I have gone out and bought cheese, potatoes, eggs, rice cakes and some cooking oil. I will need some more vegetables, and I was hoping to just spend the grocery money on fruit and veg. A gluten free loaf is over £3 so I've made a decision just to have rice cakes as I can start re-introducing wheat into my diet on Thursday. I have some pasta and bread in the freezer which I will be able to have. The cooking oil was because I was craving some chips - really annoyed about that now as I didn't even enjoy them.

It will be a real challenge to see out this month now but I hope I am now back on track

frogletina

Ginmonster

I was doing really well with my mini challenge of £5 a week and then we got really low on bread flour and Approved Foods had loads of flour and yeast in so I placed an order (it had lots of other useful things on it too). However, the bright side is that if I hadn't been doing the challenge I wouldn't have had enough spare in my budget to place the order and now I won't run out of bread any time soon. It actually makes sense to keep socks in when I'm making all our bread now.

PasturesNew

I'm posting to "show off" ... that I'm actually digging something out of the freezer to cook that's lurked for way too long

I bizarrely and randomly bought two (YS) packs of sausagemeat back in March. God knows why, I've never bought sausagemeat before. I instantly cut them up and froze as four individual portions ... but I've only used two so far. I'd made a plait with one lot, to use up some pastry I had frozen ... and a meatballs/spaghetti with the 2nd portion - and these final two bits have just lurked.

But I need to defrost the freezer... first time ever I've done one ... and it's taking AGES to empty it as I keep popping new stuff in that I buy

So - today I will be serving: Sausagemeat meatballs in a tomato and red onion sauce, on a bed of basmati rice. Actually, if I toss some peas/sweetcorn into that rice from the mixed veg bag that'll be "vegetable rice". I'm on a roll!!

That'll be using sausagemeat, tomato juice and red onions that are in the freezer... and 2-3 tablespoons of mixed veg .... so I can feel all good and pious.

So, as I said, I've posted that here to "show off" that I am .... sort of .... trying to get through what's in the freezer

P.S. I don't think I will ever buy sausagemeat again .... sausages, probably, sausagemeat, no.

zafiro1984

Frogletina wrote: »

After I visited my dietician this month I was told to continue my current diet for another two weeks and this has meant I cannot eat a lot of the food in the freezer at the moment. I cannot have anything with onion, garlic or wheat, and a few other things and it has really restricted me.

I have gone out and bought cheese, potatoes, eggs, rice cakes and some cooking oil. I will need some more vegetables, and I was hoping to just spend the grocery money on fruit and veg. A gluten free loaf is over £3 so I've made a decision just to have rice cakes as I can start re-introducing wheat into my diet on Thursday. I have some pasta and bread in the freezer which I will be able to have. The cooking oil was because I was craving some chips - really annoyed about that now as I didn't even enjoy them.

It will be a real challenge to see out this month now but I hope I am now back on track

frogletina

Frogletina, I know where you are coming from but your health is far more important then the mini challenge

Quote from Ginmonster:- I was doing really well with my mini challenge of £5 a week and then we got really low on bread flour and Approved Foods had loads of flour and yeast in so I placed an order (it had lots of other useful things on it too). However, the bright side is that if I hadn't been doing the challenge I wouldn't have had enough spare in my budget to place the order and now I won't run out of bread any time soon. It actually makes sense to keep socks in when I'm making all our bread now.

Ginmonster Don't beat yourself up about spending on bread ingredients. Think positive, now you are ahead in your stocks of bread flour and yeast which makes a lot of sense.

I keep loads of frozen milk and bread in the freezer. It's more expensive to run an empty freezer than a full one and bread and milk are reasonably cheap and bulky, and we use a fair amount over the month. However, it will be a struggle to get to the end of the month with the bread.
I've a bread making machine but my DH was ill after eating the last batch I made about 10yrs ago I think it had something to do with the yeast probably being still active, I'm not sure but he was really poorly. Any ideas.?

Second freezer emptied, defrosted, cleaned and all the things back in it.
I'm going to leave freezer three until later in the year when it will be almost empty, as I only stock it once a year.
OUT The last HM sausage and apple burgers, Cooked lambs hearts. It's quite surprising what you find lurking when you don't keep an inventory.
IN nothing

Off to give the hens another party today - jersulem artichokes or fartichokes as they are called in this house, they absolutely love them.

Frogletina

zafiro1984 wrote: »

Frogletina, I know where you are coming from but your health is far more important then the mini challenge

True zafiro, I should have thought about my health with the chips and the chocolate as well.

I am so stressed at the moment that I am comfort eating.

frogletina

maisymoo5

In
2 packets of frozen chips (for dh)

Out lamb kebabs
diced pork
6 x beef burgers

caronc

In: chicken thighs
Out: cupasoup

Florence_J

IN

Nothing, huzzah, might just make it to Thursday with my odd 50p.

OUT

14 Quorn meatballs, cheese, 1/4 of my savoury bread and butter pudding, banana

USED UP

Jar of pasta sauce, Spaghetti packet (had to open another though)

zafiro1984

OUT turkey thigh, cooked apple, blackberries, crumble topping, rest out of fridge and cupboards

IN nothing