Twelve Weeks to Pay 1K!!

frazzmunch

okay...inventory is done....the food plans could take a bit longer...i didn't realise how much stuff i had lurking around!! :rolleyes:

Until i have eaten my way through the food mountain i seem to have acquired over the last few months, I am aiming to spend £5 - £7 a week on fruit and veg, the same on household stuff and £5 per week on milk and miscellaneous items keeping my weekly spend at £20 or less...i will post the inventory now...food plans to come later (probably weekly as this looks scarier than i thought it would be :eek: !!)

FREEZER

[STRIKE]1 Leg of Lamb[/STRIKE]
1 Joint Brisket
2 Chicken Breasts
1 pkt thin steak

3.5 pks black eye peas
2 pks chickpeas
[STRIKE]2[/STRIKE] 1pk cannellini beans
1 pot chicken soup
4 pks Lasagne
1 pk Tagine
[STRIKE]3[/STRIKE] 2 pk roasted baby tomatoes with thyme
4 tubs bolognese
1 pk seitan

1 pk romenesco with garlic & ginger
[STRIKE]handful cauliflower, broccoli & broad beans[/STRIKE]
1 pk green beans
0.5 pk cherries
3 bananas
0.5 pk figs
2 cartons apple juice

1 pk shortcrust pastry
1 pk puff pastry
3 pk rye bread
1 nan bread
1 bag cooked rice
2 trays bubble & squeak
Yorkshire puddings

1 pot of something???

TINS & JARS

4 tins sweetcorn
[STRIKE]2[/STRIKE] 1 tins plum tomatoes
4 tins baked beans
1 tin corned beef
1 tin coconut milk
1 tin pineapple
2 tins strawberries

1 jar capers
1 jar black olives
9 jars roasted red peppers
5 jars saurkraut
1 jar sweet & sour sauce
1 jar red ragu sauce
1 jar white ragu sauce

Variety of mustards, ketchups & chutneys/spreads

DRIED GOODS

8 kg tvp mince

10 kg basmati rice
8 kg long grain brown rice
3 kg arborio rice
3 kg sushi rice
5 kg polenta
1 kg quinoa
3 kg millet
1 kg oat groats
8 kg porridge oats
6 pks noodles
5 pks pasta
1 pk lasagne sheets

25 kg butter beans
10 kg red lentils
3 kg kidney beans
3 kg black eye peas
3 kg green lentils
1kg adzuki beans
0.5 kg mung beans
3.5 kg cannellini beans
3 kg puy lentils
1 kg brown lentils
2 kg yellow split peas
0.5 kg green split peas

2.5 kg raisins
1 kg figs
1 kg apricots
1 kg dates
1 kg cranberries

1 kg almonds
1 kg brazil nuts
0.5 kg cashew nuts
1 kg hazelnuts
1 kg pine nuts

1 pk sun dried tomatoes
1 pk porcini mushrooms

6 pks gluten flour
2 pks spelt flour
1 pk bread flour
1 pk self raising flour
1 pk plain flour
36 pks quick yeast
6 pks suet

FRIDGE/STORE

1 pk onions
1 pk red onions
10 kg potatoes
1 pk cheese
1 pk carrots
1 lettuce
1 cucumber
garlic
chillis
ginger

variety of sauces, pickles & additives!!

Right...thats what i am working with...any suggestions gratefully received :rotfl:

Gemmzie

I'd ask on the OS board frazz - they are the experts

Overthetop

You really are aiming to make a big difference re your inventory of food stocks-you are going to make your budget work for you Frazz-keep smiling and being determined:T

frazzmunch

Okay...have decided to do the food plans week by week depending upon what i have in...there is always the possibility of leftovers from the leftovers but they will do for lunches!! This is the weeks menu:

Sunday - Sardinian Lamb, Yorkshire Puddings, Cauliflower, Green Beans and Mashed Potato

Monday - Pasta in Sardinian Lamb Sauce & Salad

Tuesday - Scotch Broth and Dumplings

Wednesday - Shepherds Pie & Veg

Thursday - Tuscan Bean and Lamb Soup with Polenta Slabs

Friday - Roasted Onions with Lemon Rice

Saturday - Lasagne & Salad

Today, i am cooking sardinian lamb..recipe to follow...before i did it this time though, i cut a slice off the end of it about an inch thick and kept that to one side.

1 leg lamb
2 cloves garlic
few sprigs rosemary
salt & black pepper
4fl oz olive oil
1 onion
1 tin tomatoes

make slits in the lamb, fill with sprigs of rosemary and slivers of garlic. rub with salt pepper & oil. heat rest of oil in pan which is hob & oven safe. brown lamb all over, add finely sliced onion and chopped tinned tomatoes. cover with a tent of foil and cook in the oven for at least two hours a gas 3/170c/350f. baste occasionally adding a little water if sauce is becoming too dry.Once cooked, remove lamb from sauce and serve with mashed potatoes, veg & gravy.

With the sauce that remains... warm the sauce and add to cooked pasta for another meal when served with a salad.

I am making stock from the lamb bone...i have put a couple of carrots (they had seen better days!!) and an onion into a stockpot with some oregano i had lurking, a couple of bay leaves, a sprig of rosemary from the garden, some roasted garlic cloves i had in the fridge, the fat from the lamb i cut off the leg and some black peppercorns with some water and will add the lamb leg bone when the lamb is cooked..i will leave that cooking for several hours reducing then strain.

With the lamb I reserved, I chopped an onion and some carrots and sweated off in olive oil. i diced the lamb and added to the pan until brown, added some chopped potatoes and dried mint, sauted for a couple of minutes then added the remnants of a bottle of wine (about half small glass full). I added about half a litre of vegetable boullion and left to simmer for a couple of hours. Once the meat is tender, add a handful of pearl barley and some of the homemade lamb stock and cook until barley soft..adding more stock if necassary. Serve as either a 'scotch broth' soup with homemade bread or add dumplings for a lamb casserole!!

With the mashed potatoes, vegetables and lamb i have left from the roast I will make a shepherds pie for another meal.

i will make a tuscan lamb and bean soup with the remaining stock and lamb. I have some roasted baby tomatoes with thyme and some cannellini beans in the freezer, so I will saute some chopped onion and garlic in some olive oil, add the remainder of the oregano and lamb stock, blitz the tomatoes and add to the onions along with the cooked lamb and cannellini beans and warm through. Serve with bread or over polenta.

For roasted onions, slice red onions in quarter inch thick slices horizontally and lay flat in a dish. Mix together some olive oil, coarsegrain mustard, maple syrup, black pepper and some honey with a splash of balsamic vinegar and water and pour over the onion slices. Roast in a medium oven for about 30 mins. Serve with lemon rice..heat some oil in a saucepan, add some finely chopped onion and cook until translucent, add some rice and cook for a minute. add some vegetable stock, lemon peel, lemon juice, thyme salt and pepper. bring to boil over high heat, then reduce, cover and simmer until liquids absorbed and rice tender about 12-20 minutes depending upon what rice used. when cooked stir in a good handful of fresh herbs of your choice..I like to use either mint or basil.

Lasagne is already in the freezer from some i made weeks ago!!


So, that is my weeks food...I have everything in the house already for this so no shopping needed this week other than household goods, milk and bread!!:j

Starting to get hungry now so will catch up tomorrow :rotfl:

Mappygirl

Hi Frazz,

Well done on much you've done so far!

I've only just found this thread and think it's great! I've got £2000 on my last credit card and need something to keep me focused on paying it off and, if you don't mind would like to jump on your wagon?

I was talking with a freind at work today and said I wanted to cut my weekly shop from £30 to £20 and then I read your post - great minds and all that;)

Misty_Blue

Wow, I will be reading this thread just for the recipes! Your organisation is inspiring as well. Best of luck with everything.

Re: the dogs - Science Plan is definitely not one of the best processed foods around, despite a lot of vets recommending it, (they're usually paid commission by Hills to do so!), and it is expensive. If you look here:

http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/

you'll see that Science Plan gets 2 stars from a possible six. This is a completely independent site that rates foods purely on the quality of the ingredients used.

Have you considered feeding your dogs a raw diet? It's the best possible way to feed any dog, IMO. The health benefits are amazing - better coats, great teeth, better digestion, less "doggy" smell, less to pick up after them.... and you can feed a dog a raw diet very cheaply as a lot of what you'll need a butcher will sell you for next to nothing or even give you for free. A poster on a dog forum I frequent has a boxer who suffered terribly with colitis until he was fed Raw and he's never had it since. The lady who runs The Utonagan Rescue Society had a dog brought to her and the owner said he had had diarrhoea every day for almost 18 months. He was switched onto Raw straight away and from day one he was fine.

There are some links here if you want to read up about it, anyway:

http://www.rawmeatybones.com/
http://www.rawlearning.com/
http://rawfed.com/myths/

frazzmunch

Glad to have you on board Mappygirl and thanks for the information Misty Blue...i will check out those websites

all is quiet on the home front...had to go and buy some coffee this morning as had run out and not a very nice girl without the caffine !!! that means i am down to about £12.50 for the rest of the week..but my fridge is so full of food ready to be eaten i don't think i will need to spend anything else!!!

Phone bill has just come out of bank and managed to come in £25 under budget :j so another lump off the credit card paid today!!! I must say that paying the cash as soon as i have it is working a lot better than saving it to the end of the month...this way, i can't have it lying around and thinking that if we need spare cash i can dip into it .....i've done that before !!

will have to buy some toothpaste unexpectedly....puppies got into the bathroom yesterday and annihilated two packs of unopened stuff which i had bought while it was on offer :mad: not convinced that toothpaste is the best diet for dogs, but they certainly seemed to enjoy it !!:rotfl: Nothing to worry about really...i managed to retrieve it after they had destroyed the box but before anything other than a massive amount of ventilation happened to the tubes!!

anyway...off to walk the hounds..hope you all have a good day!!

frazzmunch

woohoo!!! :j ds just put £2.89 in mortgage pig....he is getting very good at that..one of the benefits of him developing a social life is that he seems to come home with lots of change these days and is very happy to donate...wonder if he will feel that way when the pig is opened and he realises how much money he has contributed!!!:rotfl:

Mappygirl

Ok, I've been working out all my outgoings for the next 12 weeks and this is what I've got - cartax £100, FIL 60th birthday, fathers day (3 gifts), a hen do, MIL birthday and my mom's birthday, nephews birthday. We also had some damage to the garden fence from the winds a couple of weeks ago and we need to get it fixed and DH has got problems with his car! Phew, what a list!!!!

I'm still going to go for £1000 in 12 weeks though, if I don't make it then I don't, but I'll have a good go!

How are you getting on Frazz?

lindens

Hi Frazz
Just found this thread, wishing you luck on your DF journey.
BTW I think all your recipes are fab, really different but healthy too. I will be trying some out.Please keep it up lol!