Trying to only spend £100 a week on food and petrol and use up what we have in the freezer

[BlueJellycat]

Luckily I'm not totally broke. But I need to pay off some things I put on the credit card. I'm not a massive overspend generally but I want to try to be strict for as long as I can and in turn pay my card off.

I'm going to spend £100 a week max food and petrol and see what I can use up.

I filled the car up today and bought the milk in the garage. If I stay away from the shops/ supermarket or only take cash to the supermarket I think I could manage for a few weeks and use up my freezer food. Any other ideas? I wish I could walk to the corner shop with £5 everyday but I'm very rural. Shop is two mile round trip and expensive.

Like I say it's not dire times. I just need a reset really. At some point I need to check my freezer and meal plan

I am quite chuffed it's worked honestly. I am glad the card is paid off and looking forward to a organised freezer and better habits too.

Yes Costco is somewhere I'm avoiding right now. We are still working our way through our loo roll stash but when we go again I'm going look harder at the list and see if we are saving. Costco is always fun as we get food from the cafe after. I might need to go with costed list and cash! We don't generally buy branded anything. Just my tea but the own brand red label is just as good really.

Don’t worry too much about proper meals - today DS had some Cajun chicken in a taco with mashed avocado, some carrots, broccoli and green beans and some sweet potato. Oh and some bisto!! Was very much a leftovers evening and he didn’t care a bit. I had cabbage, cauli mash, some Cajun chicken, some leftover roast chicken. Was lovely but random!

You've done brilliantly OP! Keep going - I don't worry too much about random meals. It's just snobby innit? And who decided that certain things go together and certain things don't? Who is this self-declared judge of a "normal meal"? A meal contains a carb, a protein and some vegetation - any combo is fine. We get a bit unusual when running the freezers down (or when things are tight) - we are still fed and it's still delicious!

We have defrosted and turned off one freezer now. A fewthings have been Binned due to freezer burn. I have used up lots of shower gel and stuff like that too. I'm going to see what we have left.

We also had a fair few tins of things like spaghetti hoops that have got close to their bbf date so they went to schools harvest festival collection on the basis they won't be eaten if they have been in our cupboard this long.

Netaporter Your curry sounds great! What is yr simple naan recipe please!?!

It’s within this recipe called cheats naan

https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/chicken-breast/claudia-winklemans-butter-chicken/

Thank you !