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50p a day til Christmas - healthily?! Weezl's next challenge...
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Good Luck Weezl! I'm watching from the sidelines too, but I'm hoping to pick some ideas up.
Starting with the cocunut cake, that I will be making when the kiddy winks get in from school.I also remember the words of my friends, but I would rather have enemies than friends like you
would like to make it known that ZubeZubes avvy is a DHN, she's not dancing 
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hi kaleoma,
these look like good lemon balm recipes:D
bunny200, oooh I'm torn now, good weather for you, and a bit of rain for ISOM's allotment! Not sure what to wish for now!!! But have a great time. Valley's girl eh? Ah that explains a lot;););):D
Just done a pot of grapefruit marmalade with a ruby grapefruit that ISOM got given and didn't want!
And 4 lovely steamed strawberry jam sponge puddings are gonna be bubblin away in the slo-cooker this afternoon and evening. 4p per enormous serving :money::money::money::j
Weezl x
:hello:Jonathan 'Fergie' Fergus William, born 05/03/09, 7lb 4.4oz:hello:
Benjamin 'Kezzie' Kester Jacob, born 18/03/10, 7lb 5oz:)
cash neutral gifts 2011, value of purchased gifts/actual paid/amount earnt to cover it £67/£3.60/£0
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Just having a giggle to myself here as my workmates are discussing how good M&S's "two eat for £10" deal is.. I wonder what they'd think of "two eat for £1!"
Debt@16.12.09 £10,362.38, now debt free as of 29.02.2012."I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better."0 -
:rotfl::rotfl:redsquirrel I don't think my marketing is as good as M and S.
Perhaps I should start saying in my breathiest voice:
'this is not just lentil pate..... this is freshly-soaked, lovingly roasted, lentil pate, with home grown garden herbs.....'
:hello:Jonathan 'Fergie' Fergus William, born 05/03/09, 7lb 4.4oz:hello:
Benjamin 'Kezzie' Kester Jacob, born 18/03/10, 7lb 5oz:)
cash neutral gifts 2011, value of purchased gifts/actual paid/amount earnt to cover it £67/£3.60/£0
january grocery challenge, feed 4 of us for £400 -
shaz_mum_of__2 wrote: »mmm don't know i guess flor can be an issue as in some absorb more/less liquid than others or maybe it wanted a bit longer cooking than the instructions suggested i tend to ignore cooking times and go by doneness ..............................sorry no help at all:o
Weezl
Asda do a tin of ground coffee near the big tins of well known branded instant coffee for £4 not had any though so don't know what its like
this is the tin it just under a kilo in weight
Shaz
just re red your post and yours is cheaper.....doh
I have this at home and use it when I want 'posh' coffee - its very nice and comes in a tim with a resealable plastic lid so keeps fresh for ages!MFW 2011 challenge - Aim: Overpay £414.26 a month/£5,000 a year. Overpayment Total to date: £414.26:jMortgage start 28/9/07 £46,217.00 :TMortgage balance as of 25/05/11 £24,490.58 :T
Interest saved as of 25/05/11: £2,849.84 Projected term reduction as of 25/05/11: 9 years 11 months0 -
that jam sponge sounds yummy nice - any chance of a quick post on how u made it for 4p lol and how the heck u cook a cake in a slow cooker (ive never done that before lol). Very interested thanks in advance x 0
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LilMissEmmylou wrote: »that jam sponge sounds yummy nice - any chance of a quick post on how u made it for 4p lol and how the heck u cook a cake in a slow cooker (ive never dont that before lol). Very interested thanks in advance x
Yes please weezl - slow cookered sponge puds sounds like a good plan can we have more info please??? 
working on clearing the clutterDo I want the stuff or the space?0 -
Hiya newlywed and lilmissemmylou,
well, partly it was 4p cos I made the jam out of blackcurrants from my garden hope that wasn't misleading!
I also used a pat of butter for 50p from asdas price war weekend. You could do it for 6p a serving if you use stork marg instead of butter, and with asdas own blackcurrant jam, or 9p a serving with their jam and real butter. I've tried it all ways, and they're really nice!
OK here's how:
750g self-raising flour
250g butter/stork/sunflower marg
1 large 454g jar jam
cold water (start with about 200ml and keep adding til it's a wet slippy dough.)
Makes 18 servings, so you might want to reduce the quantities if you don't have an enormous freezer/skinny husband/excessive need to do enormous batch cooking!:rotfl:
Combine the butter, cold and cubed into the flour using finger tips, until you've achieved a breadcrumby consistency throughout. Then add the cold water, little by little, mixing with your hands until you get a wet slippy dough and all the floury mix is incorporated.;)
Put a dessertspoon sized dollop of jam in the base of a pudding basin. Add a layer, about 1 cm thick of the dough on top. then another layer of jam, then dough again, until the pudding basin is just over half full (it will grow when you cook it!:eek:) repeat this in 3 other pudding basins till you've used up all your dough.
I then normally put them in the microwave for 3 mins, pause and then 1 min to activate the self-raisingness of the flour, then transfer them to the slo-cooker to steam so they are lovely and moist. You can do the slo-cooker part after freezing and defrosting to end up with steamed puds just before you serve.:T
Boil a kettle and put 2 ins water in the base of your slo-cooker. switch SC onto high or auto. Make a foil lid for your pudding, with a little fold in the centre for expansion, and secure with string or a rubber band. Place the pudding into the slo-cooker and steam for anything from 1-4 hrs!
Makes 18 very generous, Mr Weezl sized servings. Most women I know ask for about half the portion. My brother does too!
:hello:Jonathan 'Fergie' Fergus William, born 05/03/09, 7lb 4.4oz:hello:
Benjamin 'Kezzie' Kester Jacob, born 18/03/10, 7lb 5oz:)
cash neutral gifts 2011, value of purchased gifts/actual paid/amount earnt to cover it £67/£3.60/£0
january grocery challenge, feed 4 of us for £400 -
:rotfl::rotfl:redsquirrel I don't think my marketing is as good as M and S.
Perhaps I should start saying in my breathiest voice:
'this is not just lentil pate..... this is freshly-soaked, lovingly roasted, lentil pate, with home grown garden herbs.....'
:rotfl::rotfl:Getting there... A deal at a time. :T0 -
hi kaleoma,
these look like good lemon balm recipes:D
bunny200, oooh I'm torn now, good weather for you, and a bit of rain for ISOM's allotment! Not sure what to wish for now!!! But have a great time. Valley's girl eh? Ah that explains a lot;););):D
Just done a pot of grapefruit marmalade with a ruby grapefruit that ISOM got given and didn't want!
And 4 lovely steamed strawberry jam sponge puddings are gonna be bubblin away in the slo-cooker this afternoon and evening. 4p per enormous serving :money::money::money::j
Weezl x
Thanks will give the lemon balm pesto one a bash and let you know how it worls out:T 2008 will be the year I finally get organised!:o
:eek:Failed miserably-will try harder in 2010!:eek:0
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