50p a day til Christmas - healthily?! Weezl's next challenge...

Hi all

Got me greenhouse sorted got plants in and everything even though its raining

Brekkie here was - cinnamon raisin toast
lunch - naan bread and yoghurt dip
Dinner will be chick pea curry with pilau rice after swimming lessons !!

i hate eating after 6

Lots of interesting suggestions for protein ...............i won't be participating i am a bit meat squeamish anyway

theres a frustrated veggie inside me trying to get out..................although she's easily quietened by a free range organic bacon butty:rotfl: :rotfl:


Rang our council soil is £30 a ton so £3 cheaper but you have to dig it and fetch it yourself!! the other inc deliveryand comes in nice builders bags which make good compost bins!

Have a nice monday hope it's not raining where you are

Shaz

:rotfl: at the slow cooker story -- hadn't got that far through the original thread yet (starting from post 1081 today). Off to investigate what they have to offer, as I think it's something I need to consider purchasing !?!?

been out to the supermarkets -- took the car to a complex further from home so we had access to large Asda and MrT at the same place, but only 'cos younger son wanted to see if he could get a new coat at one of them.

have hopefully stocked up with enough milk until next weekend -- the blokes have used 21 pints in the last 9 days, so we now have almost 28 pints in the fridge for them

also stocked up some cake bits from the discounted Supercook ranges -- they had nice long dates on them, and cakes are one thing I can't resist from mark-downs, even though they're normally still quite pricey!!

also got bread flour and dried yeast, so plan to try the potato bread (have some spuds need using up in the next couple of days, but very little bread in the house) -- and also the eggless bagels as my younger son prefers bagels to normal bread, but they're expensive so he only gets them as a treat when they're on BOGOF or in Whoopsie. last attempt (10 years ago?) wasn't that good, but will try again now I have more time on my hands.

and I got the chicken livers (and butter) for the pate too..... and discovered (for the first time) that MrT also does frozen lambs liver. Hubby enjoys braised liver and onion with mash every now and again (although I have to do something different for the boys), so I've also popped a pack of that into what little freezer space I have.....

Already have the ingredients in for the humuous and guacamole - so looks like I'm for a busy few days

weezl74 wrote: »

Plum pie the lemon buns sound fab! Can I tempt you to do a little cheeky maths? How many pence for a bun?

OK, you tempted me. When the recipe was first posted, it was costed at 50p, I halved the quantities so that's 25p or 2.1p per bun for 12 normal sized fairy cake cases filled with the original coconut version.

I removed the milk (I worked out the cost of the milk at 35p per pint, as I don't buy it so don't know milk-bargain-hunting tricks!) and bought cheap lemons but worked it out thus, allowing for 1.5 lemons per batch.

If lemons cost 5p each = 2.1p per bun
If lemons cost 10p each = 2.8p per bun
If lemons cost 20p each = 4p per bun

I thought as the buns turn out quite springy, it would be easy and tasty to add some finely chopped fresh or dried fruit or a tsp of jam in the middle, like a doughnut. They're not very sweet and fall into the scone/malt loaf end of the cake spectrum as opposed to the sponge cake end. You could sweeten them up by icing them or adding glace cherries though!

I have some HM marmelade my mum gave me which I'm not really eating and was thinking of doing the same recipe with cinnamon and ginger instead of lemon and putting marmelade in the middle.

Seriously, it'll be a cold day in hell before I cook a recipe exactly as it's given to me, even though when I first read it, I imagine how good it will taste exactly as it is! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Phizzimum - the nettles I picked yesterday were OK, went for the younger looking plants and the tops rather than the older thicker leaves.

red squirrel - thanks, that's what I thought

plum pie - brilliant, broad bean hummous! that's what I call two birds with one stone. OH will eat them if I cook them, I just have never bought them before as he's not keen. He's probably not had them since school dinners!