Eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge - part two

Hi Jensfeet,

I suppose that I have become more selective in my food purchases meaning less coming in. However, if an item is exactly what I want and a "bargain", usually I will stock up on a lot of them! No, I don't take the "inventory cards" with me shopping. I'm always checking/updating them each day so have a good memory of their contents.

It perhaps does seem like a "process" this challenge. I also remember a (stronger) phase wanting to go food shopping; yet requiring nothing. It's quite all-right about your initial query Jensfeet. Glad you feel you are making some "progress".

As for "seeing space" in my stores, not today!

My Muscle Food order also arrived today and I will be adding 50 chicken breasts (some chopped, some chopped and cooked, some left whole, some made into goujons, some mixed with Southern fried spices and breadcrumbs) So tomorrow I will be fit for nothing!!

I also got some sausages and meatballs as well. So we have sufficent meat for the two of us for two months, all at a cost of £79. Probably more in fact.

I have updated my freezer list and put them all away very tidily. Does anyone else have a mischievous imp who comes along and re-organises your tidy freezer and then leave chaos and mayhem?

When I politely suggusted to my OH that it would help if it was kept tidy, he calmly agreed and said that would mean him not cooking anything - I don't think I quite meant that.

Hello ladies. Went to the shops and didn't ram cupboards etc full. Just a pack of bacon, milk and ice cream in the freezer, cupboard stuff was replacing what was empty. No full fat goats milk so cheese making will have to wait. Used sausages today from the freezer. I resisted buying discount Ariel on account of having 1.5 big boxes. I'm counting it as a win. I was really tempted, but it's nice knowing I've not bought any since before I started budgeting in November.

Everybody seems to be doing so well. Suffolk Lass well done on more weight loss - that's really great.

I've been shopping and spent more than expected but have stocked right through for when I go away next Friday for a week - leaving OH with 'treats' and 'easy foods' and rib eye steaks for 3!! So I'm okay with what I've spent and how full the fridge and freezer is today.

In: Freezer = 1kg chicken breast, 8 chicken kiev, 1kg bag fries, 450g pork fillet (YS). Also bought several items 'off list' but needed for my LCHF plan so nothing extravagant and all needed. Fruit, veg, dairy all restocked.

Out: x1 pack cooking bacon, tatties, 2 bendy leeks, a YS bendy broccoli, brie, cheese; 2 tins heinz tomato soup (kids) with last of the past it's best bread! Used up leftovers from yesterday's tea for my lunch.

I made kids and OH a leek, tattie, bacon and cheese bake which went down well and has a large leftover portion. As I'm eating low carb and high fat I made myself a broccoli mornay thingy with cream, blue brie and cream cheese. At least 6 more portions left of this. It tasted better than it probably sounds but WOW it is hard work to eat like that. One of the reasons it works for me is my small appetite and need to eat high calorie (because of malabsorption) and I don't get dreadfully bloated from fat and protein. Starchy carbohydrates (which I ADORE far too much) make me so uncomfortably bloated - my abdomen bloats by at least 10 - 12 inches (literally).

Sadly high fat makes my troubled gallbladder and pancreas unhappy but medicines helps with meals. It's only day 3 and it's the first time I have been hardcore LCHF since being discharged from hospital - after nearly dying from malnutrition - so I'm quite weary at present. But it's definitely made a difference in just those 3 days as the sugar cravings are already less and my waist bands are definitely less tight. And I'm supplementing to the hilt, under a dietitian, gastroenterologist and specialist intestinal failure unit to keep me right.

Dannie - thanks for your ongoing help. Much appreciated. I don't feel let down by my shop today - even though I did buy unplanned YS but we didn't have any of what I've bought and I know we will use it relatively soon as different than our 'normal' choices. Sorry you're not seeing the progress today in your space but slowly slowly.... x

Pauline that sounds like a great deal on the MF order. I might have to have a look at their deals come March / April when I will be restocking (planned bulk butcher order).

Franalamadingdong well done on resisting the big box of washing powder. I am planning on stocking up on the L!dl non-bio powder on offer this weekend for 99p (instead of £2.15) for 1.625kg. We always use less than the box directions so lots and lots of washes for 99p and we normally use their brand anyway.

Yesterday
OUTTrek bar
IN Two twin packs of hoagies

Today
IN Sainsbury's shopping worth £48 odd. Had to buy staples for DD2 and a few Vegan bits. Also, lettuce, Pure spread and milk for DD in
OUT Trek bar, half a tub or Quorn soup.(Nice but will make myself next time), pack of crisps, one frys pie, one Quorn chicken lattice, scrag end of frozen cauliflower, same of frozen broccoli, few spears of asparagus, tin of potatoes, end of wraps and some bread,500g flour, some vegan marg for baking, half a jar of conserve, bit of suet and quite a bit of sugar to make Vegan roly poly; and finally about half carton of Alpro custard.

Happy so far with spends