Eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge - part two

Welcome to the thread CasperCat and Rebelle... Hope you also find the inspiration here that's been helping me and my family to save a fortune on not shopping!!

Meal plan gone perfectly so far this week and the freezer is showing teeny tiny gaps. I went to Lidl yesterday for courgettes but there weren't any - I read that the floods in Spain has affected their availability. Oh well we coped just fine without them. Did top up with milk, bread, single cream and x2 breakfast cereal for the kids £5.29 for the week - although I'm away for the weekend with friends and OH and kids are on a steak promise so will need to buy in as there is none 'in stock'.

Still have 2 portions of spicy bendy parsnip soup and think that will go in freezer today as I have zero appetite and nobody else will eat it. Meal plan for chicken, bacon and kale soup so chicken breast out but it is HUGE! So think will also make a chicken korma for the kids curry tea tomorrow - hot and spicy for me and OH tomorrow so another chicken breast out.

Love the sound homemade limoncello and gutted that I never thought to save a wagon load of lemons after Christmas but will remember to look for interesting ways to use up everything before they get past useability from now on.

My courgette, cheddar and brie soda bread was sliced up into 16 thick slices and frozen - it defrosts in the toaster beautifully so have used a couple of those up over the last few days. I also made some mashed celeriac cakes to use up leftover celeriac so they are also in freezer in x8 bags of 2 (one portion but only I will eat them). Used up ;ast chicken kiev, a frozen piece of pork that I cooked after defrosting one time last week but didn't eat and it remained lovely when I suspected it might be very dry and a bag of celeriac cake things. Also a bag of lidl own brand supernoodles and some sweetcorn from stores.

Hope everybody is continuing to do well and make savings. I can't believe it's nearly February and my freezers and food cupboards and fridge are still full (yet to freeze that brie!!!) I really must make that a priority over the next few days... 'Only' 4.5kg and a huge camembert to find space for.

I love this thread and will be keeping an eye on it. My freezer habit is a bit of a running joke at home and work! To be fair the problem extends to store cupboard bits too which isn't good as we live in a flat with not much cupboard space..

I'm trying to run mine down a bit (both freezer and cupboards) - my food spend so far this month has been £42 which includes a main shop when we got paid - budget runs payday to payday which is mid month - but I have plenty of food (including veg/milk/bread) to keep us going for now. I make a meal plan for dinner each week which is really helping me to stop buying unnecessary food and limit any waste. I'm aiming to spend no more than £100 a month on two adults which includes our lunches for work but no breakfast as to be honest neither of us really like eating first thing.

I'm off work this week so you've already inspired me to defrost a portion of this: https://cookingonabootstrap.com/2014/05/13/mixed-bean-goulash/ which I had for lunch in a wrap. I've also defrosted some beef to make into a stir fry for OH tonight. I'm a vegetarian and although I'm not militant and am happy to cook and feed other half meat fairly often, I'm fortunate that he likes a lot of my veggie meals and will eat practically anything I give him bar chickpeas (hummus is fine though) :rotfl:.

NSD today. So nothing to add - I have put in a MF order for the end of February though. 2.5kg chicken breasts for free was a bit too much to turn down. But that's a month down the line. I should have got through a lot by then:D

To be eaten tonight - 2 sausage and frozen mash, 1turkey chilli.

To take out for tomorrow -

1 blueberry muffin, 1sausage roll, 2turkey muffins, 2 portions Veal and Pork lasagne. Nothing will go back.:T

Glad to see you all doing so great. Appetite hasn't been good due to stress - unknown for me! DS has now gotten poorly so I've not bothered with tea. Annoyingly I defrosted some sausages. Will have to make changes to the plan . Unsure if DS will be able to go to my parents' as they're so busy. Mum said she'd watch him, but has suggested jobs he can do, but he's not up to much more than lying down at the moment. I'm supposed to have a pretty serious meeting tomorrow.

Nothing used, but nothing in either