Eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge - part two

Zafiro, before I became unwell I lost 7 stone with slimming world. Screw the snarky comments and join a club, you'll make great friends and will get brilliant support.

Well done Suffolk! You must be pleased!

Wow jensfeet, I had no idea about malnutrition. Sounds like you are making good progress. Would a crustless quiche be good on your diet? I do one with smoked mackerel. DS will only eat that quiche, the pest.

Half a pack on mince out of the freezer for pasta and nanny sauce (bolagnaise) tonight. Also took ys fruit loaf out of the freezer. DS is a savage for it so it won't last long! It's nearly gone already!

dannie wrote: »

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

I think what is happening, in using up my food ingredients, new recipes are then made in considerable quantity and so need storage. Also, where there was store cupboard space, it is now filled with food items previously just left on top of surfaces. Nevertheless, things are being used up with few food purchases made.

Thanks for your message Jensfeet. Good luck.

I've been making so much bread recently I'm actually on my last packet of wholemeal bread flour and it's even in date! Still got a few bags of white but soon I should just be keeping one of each at any one time. Small victories!

I could not resist the super 6 offers today so I did end up buying blueberries and pears which son will wolf and lemons and limes to slice and freeze for gin and tonic purposes.

The boy and I also made the weetabix brownies recipe (listed in recipes at start of grocery challenge thread) and they are good!

Welcome Penguin8410!

Everyone's very friendly and encouraging here and I can also recommend joining the grocery challenge thread. It's helped me get a grip on how much I'm spending by having to keep a note of it all. There are lots of good recipe ideas too.

Welcome tootallulah and penguin!

DS and I made a dent in to the ice cream and used the last two cones in the 1st tube in the box. Makes it 1/3 down!

DS said he'd rather not go to the cinema and have a home film night instead. I have some microwave popcorn (ys) to use up so that will be used. He's got some Xmas sweets and chocolate left too so he can have a little tuck mix. And given the money I'm saving (cinema tickets, plus food, plus parking and driving the 60 mile round drip and the meal out) I've offered to buy a new film. It's nice to treat him. We were supposed to do some crafting today, but ended up helping at my parents' place again, he cleared leaves and weeded and I painted. He's such a good boy. I'll also be taking pizza out the freezer for tea tomorrow as well. Stores are shrinking back down again!