Freezer Eatin'

Blessings Darlings!

The funniest part of Eating While Broke - and there really are LOTS of funny things to it - is the 'creating meals out of the stuff buried in the freezer' part.  We're spending almost no money at the store any more - only milk, cat food, and a few odds and ends this week (small yogurt, can of water chestnuts, egg roll wrappers, etc) - but the Chubby Hubby thinks this week's menus are totally outstanding.

Sunday - Home made pizza, salad, fruit.
Monday - Stir Fry using Reduced price Mystery Raw Meat, home grown cabbage, home sprouted       bean sprouts, and rice.
Tuesday - Shish Ka Bob, using reduced priced beef, home grown zucchini, and onions, tomatoes, mushrooms, served in home-made pita. May need yogurt for sauce.
Wednesday - Korean Seafood Pancakes and ... probably seasoned bean sprouts.
Thursday - Kalbi (Korean BBQ Ribs) using reduced price thin flanken, rice, green beans, salad
Friday - Fried Chicken - from reduced price chicken, potatoes, broccoli, salad
Saturday - Pulled Pork - last of those 50 cent a pound pork shoulders, cole slaw, rolls, fried leftover potatoes
Sunday - Egg Rolls from scratch, using the pulled pork and some salad shrimp.  Will probably buy rather than make wrappers.
Monday - Rumaki - we now have a bag full of frozen livers from whole chickens we've bought. Will need to buy a can of sliced water chestnuts, spicy green beans, rice, salad

And when I type reduced price I mean the meat was already on sale but hadn't moved, so the store knocked the price down lower.  Cabbage, bean sprouts, and green beans from the garden are the main vegetables used this week.  Zucchini will start taking over next week.  Garden cucumbers and more cabbage are in salads.



The fried chicken and the rumaki are the only things that use 'intact' pieces of meat ... and in the rumaki's case the pieces are accumulated livers from whole birds made extraordinary.  The rest all use meat cut small and mixed with other stuff.

I've got sweet corn, but no idea where to fit it in.  I may freeze it.  Also have 6 granny smith apples, which I'll probably bake for desserts.  As a result of that ... we may need to buy some whipped cream.

Frondly, Fern

This week's eats.

Blessings Darlings!
We just inventoried the freezers - okay, the Spawn did it for me. Which means some meat is labels "Mystery Meat" because he doesn't recognize it on sight and didn't ask me.  And the list doesn't tell me what FORM the meat is in - is the beef slices, a roast, or cubes?  Dunno!

We'll be eating mostly out of the freezer this month, since last month Spawn's work hours were cut radically so he can't buy much in the way of groceries this month.  Which is life, and it's not TOO bad because last month the stores had a HUGE amount of meat reduced/sell NOW and I bought what I could then.  The freezer's pretty full, and we have spring greens coming out of the lawn and a few from the garden.  And we still have some canned green beans, and I'm sprouting mung beans, etc.

So, this is what we'll eat from May 5 till May 18:

Thursday, May 3 - baked chicken (4 pieces for 3 people), rice, salad, zucchini

Friday,, May 4 - Yaki Soba (it's Japanese Lo Mein, sort of) with 1.5 lb of veggies (cabbage, carrots, mushrooms) and 9 oz pork

Saturday,  May 5 - Home-made Pizza (Cheese, red pepper, some pepperoni), Salad

Sunday, May 6 - Pulled Pork (Leftovers from making it a few weeks back), rolls, slaw (I had mine as part of a green salad and no slaw)

Monday, May 7 - Leftovers.

Tuesday, May 8 - Bi Bim Bop - sort of Korean Fried rice, with bean sprouts, carrots, spinach, mushrooms, zucchini, fiddleheads, some beef, special sauce.

Weds, May 9 -  egg rolls (using the leftover pulled pork, some shrimp, lots and lots of cabbage)

Thurs, May 10 - tacos. Filling will be half bean, half beef.

Friday May 11 - Fried chicken.  Because we can. Salad, broccoli, potatoes

Saturday, May 12 - Spaghetti, red sauce, salad.

Sunday, May 13 - Ribs, slaw, corn bread/hush puppies, salad

Monday May 14 - Leftovers

Tuesday, May 15 - Fried Fish, broccoli, buns? or some other starch.

Wednesday,  May 16 Kalbi (korean BBQ), rice, salad, green beans

Thursday, May 17 - Veggie Omelets, fresh bread, fruit

Friday, May 18 - baked whole chicken, salad, baked potatoes, spinach

I'll need to buy egg roll wrappers, eggs, milk, OJ, salad stuff, butter, ketchup, and a few more items, but not much.  Still, more than the $15 (1/4 of his take home pay) that the Spawn will be kicking in for the next few weeks.

How's your food budget doing?

Frondly, Fern