NOT BUYING IT! 2015 - A consumer holiday

pm2326

Hi guys

Still here, using up the food mountain extremely slowly. Fridge is running low so can raid the freezer and cupboards without worrying something will go off in fridge.

Have a headache tonight but think it's weather related, we keep having heavy downpours every half hour or so and headache gets worse just before one starts

Hope you're all ok, I'm heading off to lie down

greenbee

pm2326 wrote: »

Hi guys

Still here, using up the food mountain extremely slowly. Fridge is running low so can raid the freezer and cupboards without worrying something will go off in fridge.

Takes ages doesn't it? I found I kept cooking with 'ingredients' and filling up in the freezer again. I'm about to do it again...

pm2326

greenbee wrote: »

Takes ages doesn't it? I found I kept cooking with 'ingredients' and filling up in the freezer again. I'm about to do it again...

Certainly does, I have things I want to make but can't as I know that I won't be able to find room to freeze it again

For instance I want to make up some chilli, but seeing as I freeze my mince flat in zip lock bags I won't be freeing up a lot of room (I have several packs so will only reduce height by a cm :rotfl:) when I make chilli I end up with 5-6 portions to freeze

Lynplatinum

Ahoy there shipmates!

Tip for those emptying the freezer - re fill the gaps with plastic bags filled with scrumpled up newspaper! Newspaper is an insulator which means that it stays at the temperature for a long time. Therefore you will not be allowing in hot air when you open the door that you will then be paying to cool down! It also means that the freezer isnt running all the time trying to cool down air but that the newspaper is staying cool so the freezer doesnt have to run.

Tip 2 (for emptying cupboards) trying eating more veggie food - tonight was delicious - sweet potato curry with biryani (from left over rice). This used up some rice + coconut block + carrots + sweet potato.

Was NBI today as - apart from 60p on an onion and a garlic bulb from the local shop it was an NSD. A friend came round for tea (unplanned) and previously I would have rushed out and bought chicken/salmon and some cheesecake or sommat for tea and nibbles and other ingredients. As it was, I made a v tasty curry - which friend thought was fab- for 60p extra to budget (and usually I would have onion and garlic so I needed it anyway)! So different to the past where I would have spent at least £10!! Thank you all for changing the way I think :A
To be clear I now think - what have I got in that I can use? rather than - oh heck what can I rush to the supermarket and buy? :eek:!!

Also NBI cos I dryed clothes outside - that stopped the big guys profiting from me again!!

Off now to Fbook to see if there has been any interest in my tumble dryer!! Hopeful???;)

[Deleted User]

Isn't it great when you do that LynP,
So far this month I have spent less than £8.00 as I am hanging on to my cash as much as I can this month and trying to run down my freezer.last night I had some mixed veg (freezer) a piece of battered fish (freezer) and some left over cooked new potatos for dinner for pud I had the end bit of sponge cake with some vanilla ice cream (freezer) and the last of the strawberries diced on top.Tonight I have got a shoulder pork chop (freezer) it had been part of a YS pack that I only paid 84p for and I used the other one last week :):) last of the frozen cabbage and some mash that I had left over (freezer)for pudding I have some diced up melon from the fridge mixed in with some plain yoghurt.No spending for me today :):)
The only thing on my shopping list at the moment to buy at the weekend is loo rolls and maybe a few spuds :)Only 37 days until our holidays
I am out on Sunday doing the RFL with DD then going back to hers for a late lunch and then dinner in the evening.So only three dinners to cook this week,which I know I can find in the freezer or cupboards.
Hope you all have a good NBI day
Cheers chums JackieO xx

GreyQueen

Not a NSD but I have bought something on behalf of someone else (an errand, essentially) for which they will reimburse me tomorrow.

And I paid my water bill. £40 and change for usage since mid-January, pretty pleased with that. Place is filthy and I'm minging, but hey, it's MSE.:beer:

Only joking, I have a bath every month whether I need it or not.

[Deleted User]

Hey GQ I haven't had a bath for over 4 years (Its OK I have a walk-in shower ):):):)
Vhalla Thank you for the donation to RFL I paid it into the site this afternoon.Thank you everyone who has donated its all going up and we are well over £320 plus gift aid now
My DGS Danny is off to Greece next week on holiday and phoned up to say he will come and cook me dinner tonight (and bring all the ingrediants as well :):) ) I think we are having chicken fajitas as its his signature dish :):) So its feet up for this granny tonight :):) He's a lovely lad and works really hard bless him
Cheers chums
JackieO xxx

RicardaRacoon

Ahoi shipmates

Certainly has been a spendy day for me as I renewed my season ticket.... Besides I did a small groceries round for vegs and dairy and quickly went into the pharmacy but only bought deodorant as planned and passed all the other nice things. Oh and got new earphones and hope they'll survive a bit longer than my old ones.

Saw that the basic brand rice is less than half the price as the one I normally buy (which is supermarkets own brand, no fancy brand like Uncle B...) so I know where I will be downbranding next time I need to stock up...
Bought some blueberry yoghurt and filled it into ice cream lolly makers which I bought at IKE@ years ago and rediscovered while tidying up. Much cheaper than buying the frozen yoghurt and easier to take home too as it isn't melting...

Jackie, I hope you'll have a nice evening with your grandson! I'm not surprised they're all such nice kids/young adults with such a granny to spoil them!

Lyn, your curry sounds nice! With a bit of imagination so many nice things can come out of stock. I think one of the best pasta sauces I've ever made came from finding out too late that the eggs I wanted to use for a carbonara sauce had been used for something else... That happens when you tell a man (who apparently has no idea that eggs are needed for that...) to go and check if everything for carbonara is in the fridge...

I'll also use up some stuff from the freezer, found a single, very lonely sausage which will be turned into a pasta sauce. Actually would need 2 sausages for 3 servings, but it will be two servings with less meat and more vegs...

Anyone an idea what I could do with celery? Don't like it too much but needed it for this pasta sauce and shop didn't sell individual sticks but only half a kilo... Could I freeze it uncocked?

Have a nice evening!

Synonymous

Ricarda, make edwink's celery soup! I think it's on this thread if you do a thread search for celery - it's yum, and I'm not even a celery fan

pm2326

Feeling proud of myself tonight, returned some crop pants to Asda and swapped them for smaller size....didn't venture further into the shop so purse stayed firmly shut :T

Tea was filled pasta with a slice of carrot cake for pud, all from freezer

I buy the pasta from co-op when I find it reduced to under 50p a pack. Once home I divide it into 3 portions per pack and freeze it. It's great for when you can't be bothered to cook, it only takes the time to boil a kettle and 3 minutes in the microwave from frozen.