Eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge - part two

maddiemay

Meal plan done, not assigned to specific days, suits us better to be flexible. Main ingredients from freezer and stores, fruit, veg and salad bought as required.

In - chicken liver pate. 2 GF loaves, 6 GF Sub rolls
Out - GF pizza, Mozarella, plums for crumble.

Hopeless_Case

Thanks for all of the replies - I started off really enthusiastically, then a month on, started wondering exactly what I was aiming for, but of course it's an ongoing cycle

I do still have loads of forgotten old stuff to use anyway, and having thought about it, ! don't want to downsize my freezer, just keep on top of what's in it and use it wisely!

Out: small pot of passata, turkey stock, 3 pork medallions, pot of chana massalla, small pot of left over spanish chicken, 5 more pitta breads, frozen carrots and kale

In: 3 plaice fillets

Frogletina

Posted this early for the end of the month - 31 OOD items

In my cupboards

custard powder -
oats -
sponge flour -
1 packet of coconut flour -
coconut oil x 2 -
PG tips and Nescafe -
basmati rice -
boil in the bag basmati rice -
1 packet tilda plain rice
5 packets tilda coconut rice
Sultanas
stuffing mix
ginger paste
12 tins of mock duck

fridge/freezer

brie
davidstowe cheese
potatoes
2 smooze fruit ices

I've not done very well at all using items up, only 3 OOD used up since my last post and 19 more added.

I know a lot of these items will keep ok, and the cheeses and potatoes will be used in the next couple of weeks. But I really want to be down to no ood items by the end of the year.

It doesn't help that I've got another 14 items coming up to use by the end of July and I'm away after the 10th - but 10 of them are fresh items so I'm sure I'll have eaten them by then!

The good news is that I've only got 17 others items to be used up by the end of the year - so the end is in sight.

The sultanas may have to go - they are getting hard, I really should buy the smallest packet that is on sale as I rarely use them.

The home made items in the freezer are slowly reducing, all the bread should be gone soon, plus a couple of scones, some cheese straws, some thai green soup and 4 samosas hopefully before I go away.

Left will be the coconut tart mountain, a large baked bean pie (family sized) and the remaining rissoles, along with the newly frozen cheese sauces.

frogletina

Suffolk_lass

Dried up sultanas can be revived with hot water, half an hour before you use them. I have only ever thrown away some when they got to the welded together crystallised stage, personally....

maddiemay

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

Dried up sultanas can be revived with hot water, half an hour before you use them. I have only ever thrown away some when they got to the welded together crystallised stage, personally....

Or soaked in strong tea if making a fruit loaf/cake/bara brith, or booze if you have any of that and are making a fruit cake:D

caronc

Yesterday
In: nothing
Out: naan, mozzarella, tomato & pepper paste
Used up: gammon

dannie

dannie wrote: »

So a new month:-

- Will aim for 3.5/4 freezer drawers empty this month but my main focus is to use up 6 previously batch cooked recipes.

So by the end of today/June 30th,


- Only 1 freezer drawer full minus about 10%.
- All the 6 previously batch cooked recipes were used up.


N.B At the start of June, it was 3 drawers empty.

caronc

Sounds like your winning dannie!


Today

In: nothing
Out: smoked haddock, chicken crown
Used up: nothing

Need2bthrifty

Today

In – 1 portion of marmalade chicken.
Out – 4 scotch pancakes, portion of liver casserole, mashed potato and a slice of lorne sausage.

mrssd

Could I join and get some desperately needed help, please?

I retired 18 months ago and, since then my stockpiling of food has gotten out of hand. Besides a largish fridge/freezer in the kitchen, I have a concrete outbuilding which, since retiring, contains two chest freezers (one is the giant, economy size chest type; the other a smallish chest type) and the building has been fitted out with old kitchen units. The freezers are so full that I now have to stand multi-pack tins of beans and tomatoes on top to make sure the lids stay down. The cupboards are so full of stuff that I literally cannot find anything and - yet - I continue to buy

This all started when I retired and I realise that my behaviour is not normal to say the least. I think I put it down to boredom: I was certainly compensating for no longer working. In defence (is there a defence for such hoarding), I hunt out bargains and buy huge amounts. The other day, I tried to fit in 6 packs of 12 rolls of toilet paper and I could not get it in. The penny dropped: I have to use some of this stuff up. I started to sort it put and found myself in tears, as I was so overwhelmed at the task ahead. Anyway, I am persevering at sorting it all into some kind of order. So - besides the freezers, I have so far by way of food -

TINS: 56 tuna; 16 red salmon; 36 baked beans; 13 kidney beans; 9 other types of beans; 92(!) tomatoes; 24 soup (we don't eat tinned soup); 5 corned beef; 2 ham; 17 various fruits;

JARS: 16 assorted pasta sauces; 18 other cook-in sauces; 40 assorted jams and marmalades (home-made); 18 chutneys; 2 beetroot; 7 picalilli; 8 Branston pickle; a plethora of ketchups and brown sauces.

That's just for starters! There's a mountain of pasta (all shapes) and endless types of rice. Washing detergent, toilet rolls and kitchen paper and foils.

I feel like just ordering a skip and chucking the lot in, but - and this is good news - nothing is out of date.

I am reading all this thread and hope to get some useful advice. But, right now, I am seriously overwhelmed by it all. Anyhow, sorry for the long post, but I do need some help. Thanks.