Eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge - part two

Frogletina

Frogletina wrote: »

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Foods in the freezer past the bb date

Fry's vegetarian beef style strips
Pastry
1 cheese and onion pasty

In my fridge

[STRIKE]lime juice
lemon juice
carrots
root ginger
stir fry[/STRIKE]

In my cupboards

custard powder - don't know when I last made custard
[STRIKE]1 tub golden breadcumbs [/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]almond flour
millet[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]marmite[/STRIKE]
oats - I use in muesli, but not made it for a while - new resolution
sponge flour - no idea when I will use this up
1 packet of coconut flour - no idea when I will use this up
[STRIKE]2 packets of crisps[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]thai curry paste[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]lemon cheese[/STRIKE]
Self raising flour - no idea when I will use this up
Plain flour - no idea when I will use this up
Gluten free flour - no idea when I will use this up
Thai curry paste - packet for 10 -12 servings - will take ages to finish and I have more in date ones
Tin thai curry - not ever tried this, waiting for the day I decide to try it
Keralam curry - not ever tried this, waiting for the day I decide to try it
coconut oil x 2 - one started, not using as quickly as I thought

PG tips and Nescafe - I don't drink either so depends on who visits as to when they get used up

December's food left as follows

basmati rice - I'm not that good with rice, tend to use tilda packets
cathedral city spreadable - use tomorrow
cream - use tomorrow

I've also home made frozen vegetarian rissoles, and two type of buns using coconut flour in the freezer - obviously no best before dates, but must not forget them.

Now I have to write up in my book what is to be used in January.

dannie

December 2017 challenge to use up freezer batch-cooked recipes made before 7/12/17 and empty three freezer drawers before the end of 2017:-

- In 3 weeks approx., the total amount of recipes used up were 19.

- 2 freezer drawers were emptied. Another drawer with careful arranging could make it 1/3. It's difficult to be precise so "at a guess" = 2 and a 1/3 of another.

P.S. Thanks for the update Frogletina.

Florence_J

Used up a big bag of frozen bananas to make banana muffins. That depletes my stock of them a little bit.

[Deleted User]

Happy New Year everyone. I would like to join back. I'm on a final declutter this January. To be honest, I'm mostly there, apart from the Pantry/Store Cupboard, but it's 80% better than it was. I had a bit of help with the freezer, the lodger came home on New Years Eve plastered and didn't shut the freezer. It must of been late, as I didn't crash 'till 4am. Anyway, it was an accident. Thrown loads of fruit, but lots of other stuff was retrievable, it's all vegan, so not much that can kill you (hopefully). Anyway, baby steps for me. The plan
Week 1 I intend to just spend £5 on fridge stuff. Only need tomatoes for salad stuff. I have made batches of onion & garlic soup, bubble & sweet burgers (brussels & sweet potato) some coleslaw and today I'm going to be making some more spicy lentil dip and some tomato soup. That will be it.

lynneee

hi, I haven't been here for a couple of years but I need to save some money and I have plenty of food! My freezer has plenty of yellow stickered bargains in it, my cupboards have lots of food in them so I just need to save myself a shopping trip or two, and have a few smaller ones where I only buy necessities rather than keep buying stuff I need. I'm a sucker for looking at the reduced to clear stuff!!! So lots of bargains, but none of them are bargains if they just sit in the freezer for ever.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Highland_Fling wrote: »

hi everyone
I am attempting to eat out of my freezer. I seem to be good at prepping and freezing foods but not so good at revisiting them and using them up.

I now have one freezer drawer empty but hope to empty at least another one by Christmas.
I will them have some room to freeze bread, milk, butter etc. just in-case the bad weather comes and I am not able to go out for essentials.

So next week will see me making soup with some of the bags of prepped carrots, leeks etc. I have in the freezer.
I also hope to bake using up some of the oddments in my baking cupboard. E.g. half packets of choc chips, walnuts, dates.

No doubt some of the baking will find a home in my freezer.

Hi everyone,

Like you HighlandFling I am attempting to eat out of my freezer but not put anything back in. However my efforts are being scuppered by my DH - he kindly does the shopping (an excuse to take the motorbike out for a run!) but quite often adds to the shopping list that I have lovingly prepared. Means I have to rejig the menu planner which I have specifically designed to use up freezer & larder contents:doh: I still love him to bits though!

Mrs SD:)

ma-ri-ella

my type of plan, don't seem to have that much stockpile though haha .was reading some peoples food budgets - sometimes the monthly is more than what i want to spend in a year... will just need to see how it goes.

caronc

Happy New Year everyone!
Jumping back in as (of course) my freezers/cupboards are full post Christmas:o.
First shop of 2018 today so cupboards and freezer update:
In: Teabags, cuppa soup, lentils, pkt cous cous, pork joint (surplus from New Year), ciabatta rolls, LO peppercorn sauce, frozen spinach
Out: nothing
Used up: Greek Yoghurt, mushrooms, tomato, olive oil

caronc

In: nothing
Out: baked beans, cuppa soup
Used up: Eggs, oatcakes, jarred peppers

Ginmonster

I need to rejoin this challenge. I didn't really make a dent in it last year and I need to clear space and save pennies this year. I think I might approach it by doing mini challenges of lists of things I need to use that week. We'll see how that goes. Off to look at the cupboards and work out my first list.