Eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge - part two

ma-ri-ella

I don't post a lot but try and follow this thread.going to try and not buy anything for the entire month of Feb as the cupboards and freezer full. Will try posting to keep me motivated

fingersxed

Finally used one of my four chickens! Out of the freezer. Broken oven as slowed down using freezer goods. Experimented with slow cooker n chicken was beautiful. Roll on 5th Feb when new oven is delivered. Hubby will b busy that night

Florenceem

In to freezer - tub of HM apple crumble.
Out of freezer - HM LO balls + fish.
We had HM BPITH + roast potatoes/parsnips + carrots, cabbage, leek + gravy for dinner. No photo - Photobucket site off.

ms_night_ryder

Kirri wrote: »

then I went in Wholefoods for a few essentials and came out £30 lighter :eek:

:rotfl:

MNR - try the Ombar raw organic vegan choc

:eek: please stop this.

I will visit wf once a month and take cash no card!

Yesterday I went to Mr w during reductions, got a massive pizza, some wings that I wanted to try but were too expensive, so instead of the chicken I had the wings and chips instead. Then I went today and got reduced organic lemons, carrots and potatoes.

I am keeping away from the shop's until next week. Back to the chicken, I had the leg and thigh tonight with rice, sweetcorn and the last of the spring greens

Going to attempt, stock, jacket potatoes with chicken and for dinner chicken and pasta, with the half price philly stir in sauce, let's see if I manage it.

Kirri

^ I did take cash, made me feel faint lol. One good thing I thought was that they do a quite good range of half sizes of things I hadn't seen before - savoy, butternut, red cabbage, cauli etc, never seen those types of veg sold in halves before. (apart from white cabbage usually).

That salad I like is the 'red quinoa' one with the wheatberries, had to resist due to the chilli though.

Apart from that outlay in WF, I've just got £20 of veg box stuff this week, that is bare minimum, could easily have ordered more

Dinner tonight was a Taifun wild garlic tofu fillet, steamed broccoli, salad and sourdough.

Mrs_Rachel_Trelfa

Out of freezer this morning was some mince to do chili con carni. Only veg in the house is 3 potatoes, some onions and a small amount of frozen greens beans oh and some mushrooms that have seen better days. Food shop isn't due until next Monday or Tuesday so could do with some suggestions of meals that don't involve much if any veg. I know its not very healthy but until pay day finances must come first.

zafiro1984

I'm going to try and only buy essentials in February. milk, coffee, bread, tea and fresh vegetables. No YS shopping either as I always end up buying other things that are not essential.

The freezers are heaving - I've now done 84 cakes/traybakes with all my spare eggs - all frozen and just need the toppings or fillings when defrosted. So no need for biscuits or I can use them as puddings with custard. Used pieces of gingerbread from a traybake and defrosted some HM orange curd to use as the sauce- lovely.

I've a £9off voucher from MrT if I spend £60 or more plus some unspent vouchers from my club card so I aim to use this on essentials for the month and then to just take cash to our small Sat market to top up on vegetables. If I use home delivery for the 'essentials' it will be cheaper than doing a round trip of over 15mls and I won't impulse buy either

ma-ri-ella

Used the last of my free veg from Tesco campaign to make parsnip and carrot soup. Kind of lucky don't have a waitrose in town or whole foods plus alot of these veg boxes don't deliver in Scotland .makes temptation less

Florenceem

No freezer movements.
We had last of the LO Balls - FF + HM wedges + roasted beetroot/red onion/white onion/red pepper for dinner.

zafiro1984

Out:- a gammon, slow cooked, should last for several days
today had it with ayna potatoes and carrots
tomorrow - toasted sandwiches for lunch, flan for tea - ham and leek
First day in ages where I have put nothing into the freezers

Just wondering if I could do a variation of the Bucks Badger thingy using cooked ham, leeks and potato - may try it tomorrow instead of flan