Eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge - part two

OUT
3 x mince pies

IN
1 portion of large turkey pieces from the carcass taken out yesterday.
1 portion smaller turkey bits for soup
1 portion of unidentified turkey bits including some, but not all of the skin - labelled for the dog.
Turkey stock is in the fridge waiting for the fat to come to the surface so I can remove it before freezing.
Just made a large slab of parkin most of which will be frozen, plus most of a chocolate cake, cooking as I type.

I actually saw an almost empty shelf this morning - I had to do a double take. :j :j note to myself........remember- remember it's not an excuse to refill it

Well done Sue, it's hard to make the effort when it's just you. I like to make a tomato sauce and add the sliced beef and have it with pasta as a leftover dish.

We went food shopping on Friday and we've been using and freezing that. Overall I think our stores are quite good. But I can easily slip into bad habits! I must make a new cupboard sheet for what's in the cupboard (ours had a lot of crossings out thankfully!) I need to check through the freezer again as I didn't write what was in there. I have been able to chuck in a couple of loaves of bread each big shop we do without doing freezer jenga so I know we're doing ok. The blasted spinach and sweet corn linger on though. I really must make the effort!

I have a late-ish drs appointment tomorrow at 5pm. I'll be dropping off DS with my parents as I don't want him present. Given the drs is always behind I'll have to factor in more time. So dinner is a quicky. The trout will come out of the freezer tonight for tomorrow, to be had with broccoli, new potatoes and peas (f). Quick and easy! Wednesday we will be having my friend's 2 oldest kids before school and I'll take them in with mine, then after work I should have the gas safety check (4th appointment lucky?!), then helping at mum and dad's again. I'll be there each day after work this week I think. Guests arrive Friday!!! So it's a busy time for us, meaning I have to be on top of things, including food stores, when things need to defrost and what I actually have time to make. Although I put together my new kitchen bench while risotto was cooking tonight!

I need this thread. I'm naturally inclined to stock-pile, and in the main it helps me to save money. I love batch cooking, and like to have options when I look in the cupboard, but the reality is that I have certain things that I always pass over, and it's a waste, especially as things go beyond their best before date. And then I complain because I don't have enough room for my new favourite food I'm buying on special offer. :doh:

This thread is good motivation for me to get rummaging, and to commit to using things up, and not just prepping for the apocalypse. Although now I think about what's going on these days, maybe I ought to get replacements. :think:

K9sandFelines wrote: »

I'd like to join for February please.

Wrote a big reply and lost it

IN
Punnet of strawberries from f+v shop ( normally dearer but £1.50 for a large punnet, compared £2.00 from supermarket)
Two loose onions (from shop above)
2 x snack shortcake biscuits from work that were reduced ( I work in a shop, so even harder to resist buying), for DDs packed lunches

Out
Three pieces of bread with small amount of spread
Last of tube of mushroom Pate
Nakd fruity nibbles
Sesame snack
Apple
Part of tuna Tin
Wholemeal thin
Approx. Two chicken thighs (stuck together so hard to tell)
a jar of Reggae Reggae sauce
One onion
One yellow pepper
Half a bag of vegan Quorn chicken
Two portions of rice from app 4/10kg
Tub of fromage Frais (half ate, some spilt by cat, the rest binned as DD didn't like it )
Banana
Three strawberries
Mrs Crumbles Dutch apple cake

Out this afternoon: 1/4 bag of sweetcorn, a corn cob, dregs of a bag of sliced mushrooms and ditto mixed peppers, a bag of chicken stock and a bag of chicken carcass pickings. Outcome, with some added veg from the fridge, a pot of chicken "chowder" no doubt some of which will frozen later in the week.
In - nothing