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Old Style vs the USDA head-to-head challenge...
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I do so admire your enthusiasm for this challenge Weezl. I look forward to the dietary requirements info you've researched along with the recipes & wish that one day, my lot will be tempted to The Dark Side by lentils & pulses:D We are getting there---they just don't know it yet:rotfl:
On the puddings front, I would suggest the milk puddings using whatever pasta you have to hand for a macaroni-type. Or perhaps you use semolina for making pasta SIZE=1]sorry--you do so much I can't remember off-hand[/SIZE that you could use some of that with the added egg. Spotted !!!!!! is fairly reasonable price-wise with flour, suet & dried fruit---soak the fruit in hot black tea first to plump it up, & I never add sugar anyway.
Perhaps use suet pastry to top 'pies' & make herb dumplings...& my dad & I used to love having cold yorkshire pud with a spoonful of golden syrup for Sunday tea.
Milk jellies; blamange[sp!]; using evaporated milk to make milk puds; sponge-cake, banana & custard; trifle; sweet &/or savoury crumbles.....not certain if I'm being any help really:oFull time Carer for Mum; harassed mother of three;loving & loved by two 4-legged babies.
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Just read through all of this & wanted to say well done you! All of you!! Fab challenge that I know I'll never manage but will keep popping in to look for recipes and get some nspiration. My GB is the one huge frustration for e as always !!!! it up somehow!! Just made the hobnobs though...seemed rude not to but wont do it again as theyre too delicious not to eat the lot!! Also good to have a fellow cardiffian around!! Not sure about it being cheap here though!!Nerd no 109 Long haulers supporters DFW #1! Even in the darkest moments, love and hope are always possible.0
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Not sure if this will fit in either, but might make an acceptable luxury!
GRANDAD'S PUD.
I jelly 8p [we use sugar free @ 55p for two]
170g tin evaporated milk 33p
Put evap in the fridge overnight.
Make up jelly & allow to cool.
Whip evap till doubled in size. Slowly add jelly & whip till thoroughly mixed.
Leave to set.
If you mix & leave it in the same dish it's less likely to seperate, but if it does it still tastes fine:p
My mum used to make something called 'apple snow' with stewed apple & meringue--had a quick nosey & found this http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Apple-Snow/Detail.aspx, but I don't think that's quite what she did. Unfortunately she can't remember either:o but it's a bit like folding stewed apple into the meringue & baking in a slow oven.
Then of course, there's baked apple with any manner of 'stuffing' from dried fruits with a knob of butter to dribble down ssssssshhlluuuurrrrppp.aaahhhh:DFull time Carer for Mum; harassed mother of three;loving & loved by two 4-legged babies.
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bigmommaf - wow, that takes me straight back to the 70's, the 1970's not mine lol! We used to call it milk jelly, generally strawberry mixed with evaporated milk at my nan's house, thinking back I find it amazing that she used to work full time as a sister in a mental hospital and still be left to look after at least 14 of us most weekends and hols! She was obviously truley old style! She had 7 children and that was only a fraction of her grandchildren - and obviously my cousins!
My mum used to make apple snow - it was extra sweetened (as was everything back then) stewed applies mixed with whisked egg whites - not cooked, just whisked, mixed and chilled! Obviously salmonellla or whatever wasn't a huge concern back then, or at least not in our house!GC Oct £387.69/£400, GC Nov £312.58/£400, GC Dec £111.87/£4000 -
How about pancakes for pudding? Quick, cheap and versatile - you can have them with a healthy fruity filling, or make them more calorific with butter and icing sugar, or golden syrup, or ice cream and chocolate sauce.
Otherwise, pastry-based desserts are always good for piling on the pounds (don't I know it!!). You could make some individual tart shells and freeze them, then fill them with whatever you had in the way of fruit, either fresh or stewed; or jam; or syrup/breadcrumbs to make treacle tart; egg custard etc...
Sorry, got to go now. I think I need to eat something.0 -
Thank you all hugely for the pudding ideas.
We have just been out harvesting nettles.
Being a nettle virgin, I wasn't really sure what to expect! I've whizzed up cooked nettles with garlic, chilli, butter, oil, salt and some sunflower seeds to make a kind of nettle pesto, which Mr Weezl has manfully agreed to have for his dinner! It is actually rather nice.:T
Apparently it's a good time to get them before they go too old and woody.
I'll make a soup with the other half of the first bag, and then ponder what to do with the second carrier bag full :eek:
It tastes quite like spinach, so I thought a version of saag bhajee with it...
Anyway, free food eh? You can't say fairer than that :j
Off to see which of your lovely puddings I can make next. The cinnamon bread came out really well, so DH has been munching on that today.
Back soon,
Weezl x
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nettle beer perhaps?
http://www.selfsufficientish.com/nettlebeer.htm or theres a recipe for soup!! An old corninsh tonic apparently so good for some vits maybe?!! Where did you get them?!! Sure I've go loads on my allotment!!Nerd no 109 Long haulers supporters DFW #1! Even in the darkest moments, love and hope are always possible.0 -
Devious? Moi?
When I first started monitoring food budget in January of this year, the food went something along the lines of
1)totally meat
2)meat meal with vegi option (say burgers either vegi or meat)
3) meal that can be vegi or not (jacket pots/pizza according to topping)
4) totally vegi
This used to largely be led by whether dd was home or not. We still have meat if she isn't here, but we seem to be having more of the totally vegi options when she is around. I haven't said anything about this and I don't think it was deliberate, but it is definitely happening. I think I need to get the more carnivorous members of the family into eating more vegi meals and enjoying them (they are on the whole) so that when dd goes away for extended periods during her gap year and then goes on to uni, we will still be eating more vegi food![SIZE=-1]"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad"[/SIZE]
Trying not to waste food!:j
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I recommend nettle soup. I look forward to making it several times in spring and early summer when the nettles are young. Even my ultra conservative OH loves it. He was horrified the first time he realised that I was actually serious about making soup from "weeds" and expecting him to eat it.
Nettle soup is yum :T and I like free food too. We grow some potatoes and onions so it is virtually free for us in early summer after we have harvested some of them.
There is a good recipe here :
http://bean-sprouts.blogspot.com/2007/03/nettle-soup.html
I do something similar to this recipe to make nettle soup but usually put an onion in and don't use nearly so much milk. For those OSers who haven't sampled nettle soup yet, the cooking takes away the sting so the soup is quite safe to eat. According to a site I was reading: It is a highly nutritive herb, containing iron, calcium, potassium and silica.
Weezl - thanks for all the inspiration. Please do add lots more recipes. I love trying as many as I can get OH to consider eating. He is improving and is more willing to give things a go these days. It helps when he can see the extra in the savings pot and realises why!0 -
Weezl - and everyone - have you looked at this: http://www.selfsufficientish.com/ website? The talk of nettles reminded me - I just bought their book (with vouchers from Pigsback....of course!) because they are from Bristol and I really wanted to support them, but you can get all the info on the website for free too.
Basically Andy and Dave are nice guys in Bristol who are aiming to live a frugal and self sufficient-ish life, whilst not going the whole "Good Life" hog. (They are identical twins, but I have pored over the book so much since I bought it yesterday that I can now tell the difference...!)
There's a good section in the book about food for free - that's gotta be exciting huh, Weezl?!! Harvesting berries etc. As well as recipes and loads of tips on growing food. Completely recommend it! My problem is that MSE DFW, OS and eco/fairtrade sensibilities sometimes converge and sometimes are completely opposing... so tough decisions have to be made, and, inevitably, compromises. Sigh.
Oh yes. When you get onto Omega stuff Weezl - organic milk has waaaaay more than normal milk..... just food for thought. For us veggies in particular, the organic premium is probably a cost efficient way of getting our daily dose.
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