Get a grip !

Skint_yet_Again

I need to do a proper food inventory later as it looks like I have very little left, but hopefully enough to not need to go shopping for another week. From memory 

Freezer
1 haddock and cheddar fish cake 
2 faggots
1 half pack mince
1 chicken breast
1 portion meatballs in chilli sauce 
1 portion skinny fries
1 portion curried parsnip soup 
assorted bread (rolls & sliced)
2 portions of cooked belly pork
1 corn on the cob 
half a tin of kidney beans (washed & bagged)
2 frozen cooked sausages (edit)
1 pork breakfast burger (edit)


Store cupboard 
1 tin chick peas 
1 tin tuna 
1 tin mackerel in tomato sauce
2 tomato cup a soup 
2 chicken cup a soup
rice
noodles
Pasta
spaghetti
various spices & soy sauce
6 jacket sized potatoes 
olive oil
onions
1 crumpet

fridge
pak Choi 
broccoli 
1 parsnip 
1 courgette 
2 peppers 
3/4 of a cucumber 
2 eggs
butter
milk
small piece of cheddar 
mayo

Today will be crumpet for breakfast, jacket potato with tuna mayo & cucumber for lunch (tin tuna can do 2 lunches) and belly pork with stir fry broccoli, pak Choi, onions, a bit of the peppers & noodles, soy sauce and Chinese 5 spice. 

I will chop and cook the whole broccoli in the steamer, put some in the stir fry and freeze the rest. 

I wonder if it’s possible to make a “pasta bake” in the slow cooker? Just chuck in mince, onions, peppers, courgettes, kidney beans, uncooked pasta & tomato cup a soups for the liquid? It would stretch the mince and I could have some with a jacket potato to stretch it further & maybe a bit of cheese on top. Hmm might give it a try. Will get the mince out to defrost for tomorrow 😁

Skint_yet_Again

Received an email from V Media advising phone /tv / broadband will increase by £4.25 a month on 1/3/22. Finally managed to get through to tier 2 retention & they have cancelled the increase and extended my discounts of £17 for 18 months. If I move I can take the deal with me. Increases without discounts would have been £21.25 so I was happy with that. 

MovingForwards

There's several pasta bake slow cooker recipes online, they look quite nice too. You've not got much food in stores and could do with building it up a bit each month.
Well done haggling!

Skint_yet_Again

Also got a letter today from my mortgage company to confirm the base mortgage rate increase from 1 Feb now 2.25% From £219.95 to 221.30. It won’t break the bank but we will see if it is the start of rate rises. Not worth fixing at the moment especially if I end up selling and paying off the mortgage. 

Skint_yet_Again

Food today will be sausage sandwich for breakfast, curried parsnip soup for lunch and mince beef & veg pasta bake in slow cooker for dinner. 

Decluttering yesterday was
2 cellophane wrappers - from around Christmas cards I bought and sent in December- binned. 

Empty tissue box - into recycling

Lonely sock - removed from kitchen table where it has sat for about 3 weeks into sock drawer where hopefully it will find its mate 😆
Pair of sandals - removed from under the stairs into pretty shoe boxes in my bedroom. 

… small steps 

Skint_yet_Again

Nice dog walk this morning sunny and no frost. Soon clouded over though. Very cold forecast & hard frost tonight and tomorrow night. Will send in my monthly meter reading in next few days and see what we have used. 

Pasta bake was a bit of a disaster. The pasta melted into the soup & was overcooked. Still ate it though 😆 2 portions for freezer. 

Decluttering today was
- biscuit tin gift now empty, in bin. I do like nice tins and this one is a mini size with a Christmassy Robin on, but I can’t find anything to store in it so into the bin it goes! Must stop keeping things “just in case”. 
- council magazine from November into recycling 
- shredded some junk mail (no I don’t want to join post code lottery or reclaim plevin ppi!!!)

MovingForwards

Oh no, hopefully you'll know what to do next time so it resembles pasta.

You're doing well with the decluttering, it all makes a difference.

Skint_yet_Again

Skint_yet_Again said:

Freezer
1 haddock and cheddar fish cake 
2 faggots
✅1 half pack mince
1 chicken breast
1 portion meatballs in chilli sauce 
1 portion skinny fries
✅1 portion curried parsnip soup 
assorted bread (rolls & sliced)
1 portion of cooked belly pork
1 corn on the cob 
half a tin of kidney beans (washed & bagged)
✅2 frozen cooked sausages (edit)
1 pork breakfast burger (edit)
Add = 2 portions pasta bake
Add = cooked broccoli 

Store cupboard 
1 tin chick peas 
1/2 tin tuna 
1 tin mackerel in tomato sauce
✅2 tomato cup a soup 
2 chicken cup a soup
rice
noodles
Pasta
spaghetti
various spices & soy sauce
6 jacket sized potatoes 
olive oil
onions
✅1 crumpet

fridge
✅pak Choi 
✅broccoli 
1 parsnip 
1/2. courgette 
1/3 pepper
1/4 of a cucumber 
2 eggs
butter
milk
small piece of cheddar 
mayo

Cannot sleep so I am updating my food list

Thursday will be egg on toast for breakfast, lunch jacket potato with tuna mayo & cucumber. I think dinner will be chilli meatballs with rice or spaghetti and I will add the kidney beans to the sauce and warm through in the microwave. 

Other meals will be 
- fish cake & fries & broccoli cheese 
- belly pork & jacket potato and corn on the cob 
- faggots, roast potatoes and parsnips and broccoli & gravy 
- chicken curry with chick peas and remaining broccoli & courgettes and peppers with rice

breakfasts 
egg on toast
breakfast pork burger on bread roll 
2 x mackerel on toast 

lunches
jacket potatoes 
2 x pasta bake
3 x Instant curry noodles 

This should be enough to last over the weekend but I will need to do a big food shop to stock up next week 

riotlady

Sounds like the decluttering is going well, can’t tell you how many lonely socks I have lurking around my house! 

MovingForwards

Food looks good and you can produce some yummy meals.
Hope you managed to get some sleep.