Eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge - part two

carinjo

Out yesterday: pasta to go with chicken, last night: 2 portions mince, 2 portions HM tomato sauce for today. Last of the courgette and rice soup.
In:0

joedenise

In:  0
Out:  bag of cooked cannelloni beans; bag of minestrone soup base - just need to get out some small pasta and that's lunch sorted!

Florenceem

In cheese & onion pasties.
Out - bacon & onion suet roll.

Saver-upper

Finally did inventory of my last cupboard today 🎉.
Cereals (which we rarely eat these days 😑):
2 boxes of Honey and Peanut Crisp cereal
6 sachets of Oats So Simple oats
Box of Shreddies, opened, expire Oct 2020
large bag of Oats
2 bags granola, one opened
1 unopened bag of Bran Flakes (box missing!!)
1_unopened box of Cherios
1 box Fruit and Fibre, plus tiny remains of another box

Binned:
Tiny remains of box of muesli
Small amount of Weetabix crumbs
Container of extremely old muesli
Tiny remains of Tropical Fruits Granola

Out of the house/finished so far today:the
Chicken nuggets
Chicken goujons 
Packet pasta.
Will strike these off my lists 🎉🎉



 

D123456789

Out spicy looking soup for tomorrow’s lunch 

saver - upper I am super impressed with your inventories

i might do mine in a couple of months when I’ve used enough stuff up 😂

Saver-upper

Thank you D123456789. 
I have really enjoyed doing it. I had been telling my partner for a few weeks that I would be doing a  big sort of kitchen cupboards, then starting to run down supplies. And with now being in lockdown, and going out as little as possible, the timing is very good. No more nipping to the shops to get "a few bits  for tea", and coming out £40 poorer 🙃😂.

Further to this afternoon's post, more items have been used up - 
-2 packets of chicken breasts
-a jar each of korma and tikka stir-in sauces.The latter was a few months out of date, but absolutely fine. 
As mentioned a couple of days ago, I defrosted 5 pork chops intending to give them to our dogs because I thought they were too freezer burnt to cook nicely. 
I cooked them up for dogs tonight, and they were gorgeous 😂. Think Penny and Lucy were a bit spoilt tonight 😂😂

zafiro1984

In 0
Out pk of breaded chicken strips 

pamsdish

IN: 0
OUT: Sausage.

carinjo

@D123456789 i ended up making lovely mince and dumplings after reading your post, thanks!
Out yesterday: HM semi-dried tomatoes, parsnips and carrots blanched and frozen from xmas veg sale, herbs and spices, flour all for the mince and dumplings.
Quinoa for batch cooking.
Ms C wants me to show her how to make pizza base, so ingredients for that and the tomato.sauce took out yesterday
Last of the one bag of HM croutons. 
In today: cooked quinoa, haven't portioned yet, looks like about 8. 

D123456789

Ok saver - upper - you inspired me! (Thankyou 😊) Although I didn’t do a full inventory I have been through the cupboards.....
 I have 8 jars of condiments all expire 2016 (!) removed from cupboard.
Once empty I put same items together - who knew I had 4 packets of stuffing and 3 tubs of chicken gravy?!  To be fair they won’t go to waste but it’s not helpful when they are all in different places in the cupboard and you can’t see what you’ve got.....

carinjo I am glad you had a lovely meal - I buy suet for dumplings, use it once, then forget about it and when I come back to it it’s gone like a paste/ sticky dough and I throw it away. Anyone have any storage tips or do I just have to use it up quickly once opened? Appreciate any tips on this! 

Out of freezer - mince for either a lasagne or cottage pie, still deciding 🤔