Eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge - part two

zafiro1984

Buttonmoons wrote: »

Out - Tonight - chicken thighs and a packet of bacon
Going to stuff the thighs with haggis and wrap in bacon,

Interesting!!! never heard of using haggis to stuff chicken, may try it as I love haggis.

Freezer:-
Out, Some turkey and ham bits. I'm desperate to try a Christmas present, an electric mincer, but I've no suitable meat so I thought I'd try it with cooked meat and make a 'sort of pie' for tea.
In:-4 portions of cottage pie.

Diet started, using smaller plates at the moment as I'm sure portion size is a major factor in my being overweight. Also, there is so much that needs using up I can't justify going shopping. I've frozen what I can but hopefully smaller plates will help as what can't be fitted on the plate won't be eaten.

weather here UGH, no flooding but the land can't take any more water

fingersxed

In:2 loaves

Out: 1 portion of curry, 2 salmon fillets

I can actually start to see spaces:rotfl:

Baileysonice

Hi all. My original goals were these:

No buying of any meat/fish for a good few months none bought to date
Eat something out of the freezer every daynot managed every day but so far I have taken out some mince, 4 teacakes, a pack of bacon 3 chicken breasts, a pack of pita breads
Avoid where possible putting anything back in bar the cooked versions of my used up freezer meat (wont waste anything though )put a portion of chilli in from a batch cook over new year also need to put in some lemons that will go off if I leave for much longer
Do a full list of both freezers (todays task) and keep it in view all the time to avoid any temptation to go out and buy done
Post on here every time I have a meal at home from the freezer not quite managed but todays is a coverall

so not doing too bad and I am sure I can keep this up for the whole of january. Its already saving me money. I managed to cook a meal last night for friends that only required me buying some greek yoghurt and some feta cheese, normally I would have just gone and bought everything from scratch.
tonight I will be having the same meal again to use up the yoghurt and feta. Very pleased with progress so far

themull1

In - Nothing.


Out - turkey and beef leftovers from christmas, made a curry for tea. Lamb joint to defrost for tomorrow, and leftover stuffing from Christmas defrosting for tomorrow.


Spent more than I thought in December, so im going to have a frugal month this month!!

Florenceem

Baileysonice wrote: »

Hi all. My original goals were these:

No buying of any meat/fish for a good few months none bought to date
Eat something out of the freezer every daynot managed every day but so far I have taken out some mince, 4 teacakes, a pack of bacon 3 chicken breasts, a pack of pita breads
Avoid where possible putting anything back in bar the cooked versions of my used up freezer meat (wont waste anything though )put a portion of chilli in from a batch cook over new year also need to put in some lemons that will go off if I leave for much longer
Do a full list of both freezers (todays task) and keep it in view all the time to avoid any temptation to go out and buy done
Post on here every time I have a meal at home from the freezer not quite managed but todays is a coverall

so not doing too bad and I am sure I can keep this up for the whole of january. Its already saving me money. I managed to cook a meal last night for friends that only required me buying some greek yoghurt and some feta cheese, normally I would have just gone and bought everything from scratch.
tonight I will be having the same meal again to use up the yoghurt and feta. Very pleased with progress so far

Well done!

Edwardia

OUT

Daylesford organic chicken drumsticks, Mr Freed's gluten free fish balls, Waitrose organic beefburgers

IN (from Ocado and Iceland orders)

Organic petits pois, garden peas. sweetcorn; Young's Scottish kipper fillets w/butter, Atlantic cod fillets, haddock fillets, Iceland Posh Grub wild salmon fillets, Daylesford organic chicken legs, President butter x3, Cropwell Blue Stilton, Kerrymaid lard

For OH
Waitrose organic oven chips, Musk's gluten free Newmarket sausages, Waitrose organic gluten free beefburgers, Young's gluten free dairy free fish fingers, Birds Eye mini potato waffles, Genius gluten free bread

Did manage to refill freezer under budget need to rotate chicken tho.

Happy New Year everyone xxx

Welsh_Poppy

Out

2 pork sausages

IN
Nothing

I think i am getting the hang of this:)

cheerfulness4

Welsh_Poppy wrote: »

Out

2 pork sausages

IN
Nothing

I think i am getting the hang of this:)

:rotfl::rotfl:
I'm not.

OUT:YS Lamb chops, prt HM turkey curry (took out yesterday after posting)
Also, YS Pork joint today.

IN: 3x beef lasagne (reduced 50p @asda), 2x 3pk garlic bread (ditto Asda 50p)

The bargains are just too good to leave at the mo and as things will be getting much tighter for us in the coming weeks I'm unashamedly grabbing them!
Still trying to eat really sensibly from the stocks, though.
Writing things down on here is really focusing my mind.

Dinner today was HM Irish stew and dumplings in the slowcooker. Turkey curry and couscous for DS.

Tea was YS free range boiled eggs and fingers. The yolks were so creamy and silky like I remember duck eggs when I used to get them from the farmers market when I was more affluent. Really lovely texture and bright orange.

Florenceem

In to freezer - nothing.
Out of freezer - bacon + bone for dog + bread.
We had LO roast pork - FF + roast potatoes/parsnip + HM Yorkshire Pudding + LO sage/onion stuffing + broccoli + carrots + gravy for dinner.
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Jelly_Biactol

I know there's a few vegans on here, so this might be of interest.
50p money off coupon for dairy-free milk
http://www.mydairyfreedream.com/campaigns/coupons
several varieties, but the Rice Dream variety is reduced at Asda to 69p, so only 19p with the coupon.:)

Thanks to OP on Elite thread:T:T:T