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Using it up: Cheap meals from the freezer

2nd February 2019 by shoestringjane@outlook.com 7 Comments

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Our freezer is rammed full with the possibility of lots of cheap meals. It looks as if I have been unconsciously storing stuff up for a no deal Brexit… We need to eat it! Here is what is there:

What’s in our freezer

A ton of redcurrants and blackcurrants from the garden.

Two bags of foraged blackberries.

For some odd reason, two packs of fish fingers. We hardly ever eat them, but a fish finger sandwich makes a nice lunch.

A large pack of diced beef, bought yellow stickered.

2 packs of lean steak mince, again yellow stickered.

Pack smoked salmon trimmings.

3 fish in breadcrumbs

2 bags Yorkshires

6 pots home made soup

3 beef burgers – I bought these when we had our last language student

2 vegeburgers

Pack of vegetarian butternut squash sausages

Half pack vegetable falafel

A giant pig in blanket – seemed like a good idea at Christmas…

Jam roly poly

Frozen peas

1 steak

1 salmon steak

4 chicken thighs

2 lots of vegetable tagine, home made

Box of ready to bake sausage rolls

2 packs pitta bread

2 lots of home made chick pea curry

1 lot of home made chicken and chick pea curry

1 naan bread

2 loaves bread plus various odds and ends saved for bread pudding

A container full of veg ends for soup making

Ready for Brexit?

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The start of our Brexit stash

I don’t even know how some of this arrived in the freezer! I think the girls must have bought the sausage rolls and jam roly poly when they were here at Christmas.

Anyway, the meal plan this week will incorporate some of this. I want to make space for some frozen fruit and veg, just in case there are shortages if there is a no deal Brexit. Despite my comment at the beginning of this post, I have started a Brexit store of tins and non perishables in the last couple of weeks.

The media may well be scaremongering, but it pays to be prepared. We will be stocking up on seeds to grow some of our own fresh food this summer as well. We had a year off last year, but now is the time to get the wellies and spade out. (Well, as I can’t dig with my trapped nerve, I will have to stick to the light stuff for now!)

As I have rambled on, here is  a rough meal plan to create cheap meals and use stuff up.

Cheap meals from our freezer

Saturday

Beef stew for Mr S and defrosted aubergine and chickpea stew for me, with kale and potatoes. This will be one of my vegan days.

Sunday

The same for Mr S as there is a lot of beef in that pack! I will have a chick pea curry and we can both have rice.

Jam roly poly and custard for pudding.

If we are home, fish finger sarnies for lunch.

Monday

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Chicken and chick pea curry

Another vegan day for me. I will have lentil dahl with rice . Home made soup for lunch.

Tuesday

Burgers, home made chips and peas.  My daughter is round for lunch so will shall have some of the pittas with falafel, humous and salad.

Wednesday

I will make some kind of pasta dish to use the smoked salmon in. This one looks nice. I will substitute the double cream for a Lactofree version. We will have some broccoli with this.

Thursday

Just me for dinner so I will eat leftover pasta from Wednesday.

Friday

Butternut squash sausages, with mash potato and vegetables.

This week of cheap meals from the freezer should free up a little space, hopefully.  I am hoping my neck pain will allow me to finally make some currant jelly too at some point. Do you plan your meals and find it saves you time and money? Check out some of my favourite frugal recipes here.

This week I am linking up with Katy Kicker. If you want more ideas on meal planning and saving money, take a look at her blog.

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Comments

  1. Eloise says

    2nd February 2019 at 16:26

    I recently posted about stockpiling, Jane. I truly don’t know what to believe – whether we need to or not. It’s all very well to say that hat we can do without those things that we import and eat British, but if we can’t get things then that will mean a greater demand for thos,e British foodstuffs, so in the short term, at least, a good store cupboard seems sensible. I have therefore been buying extras. Nothing will get wasted as I’m only buying things I’d use anyway. Whatever people’s views on Brexit, if there is a shortage it will affect all of us.

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  2. Louise Fairweather says

    3rd February 2019 at 12:47

    I need to do a freezer audit! I bought a bit of meat before Xmas when it was on offer so should use that up. I have bought more frozen fruit and veg incase the Brexit scares come true #mealplanningMondays

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  3. Kim Carberry says

    4th February 2019 at 14:48

    Wow! You do have a lot in your freezer. I need to sort ours out.
    All of your meals sound lovely.

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  4. Sarah - Mud, Cakes and Wine says

    4th February 2019 at 17:49

    wow thats a great amount in the freezer and some brilliant meals. I will be getting bits in that we can have if needed as its a little worrying at the moment

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  5. Catherine says

    4th February 2019 at 21:36

    Fab meal plan. I’ve started putting a few bits to one side in case of a no-deal Brexit too. Hopefully, it won’t be needed, but I’d rather be prepared.

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  6. Katy Stevens says

    7th February 2019 at 07:52

    It sounds like you’ve got some delicious meals planned! Thanks for linking up and sharing with us about your stash!

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  7. Charlotte Zealey says

    14th February 2019 at 09:13

    A freezer audit is for sure something which we need to do at this house. Your meals sound really nice I might have to try the smoked salmon pasta meal. I know it would go down a treat.

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