50p a day til christmas, healthily?!-Weezl's next challenge (part 2)

ashia wrote: »

maybe I should create a mini 'me' challenge to try and conciously(sp) eat five fruit and veggis of all different colours...hmm, get the feeling this maybe called life:rolleyes: .

I started that one It began at weekends when we have the stepkids coz their meals with their mum don't seem to feature much veg unless you count chips and spaghetti hoops I made it my personal challenge to get as much veg into meals as I possibly could (most of it hidden in pasta sauces or shep pie etc).

Then I realised I didn't actually always eat my 5 a day in the week so started eating soaked oats, raisins and chopped banana each morning - that gives me 2 as a starting point

Gone a bit by the wayside again so need to look back at it again with all the sniffs and sniffles time of year coming up

Morning all

Here you go Cherry blossom.. I have just placed my 1st order on the phone and the guy was lovely n helpfull.. Lots of lovely stuff on sale :T

http://www.kempswoolshop.com/home.aspx

Ooohh and here is mums bonfire toffee recipe -have just placed my order for 1 batch to be sent here:j lovely mum

Bonfire Toffee Recipe
makes 1 1/4lb

1. 1lb demerara sugar
2. 1/4pt water
3. 2oz butter
4. 4oz black treacle
5. 4ox golden syrup

• Dissolve the sugar in the water over a low heat
• add all other ingredients and bring to the boil -stirring occasionally
• bring up to "hard crack" stage -149c -154c
• when a bit is dropped into a mug of cold water it should go into hard strands
• tip onto a greased swiss roll tin and leave to cool - Don't use Non stick -it will pull it off -my mum uses the 99p ones from wilkos;)

I nipped out this morning and managed to get 16 x4ply andrex loo rolls at €3 -so i grabbed 2..13p a loo roll :T may have to get some more tomorrow
right off to get my lunch -warmed up shepherds pie n veg mmm then on to my knitting -hope everyone is well

Mrs M that yarn shop is FANTASTIC! :j

I'm not a gadget person but anything crafty is my weakness - there are so many bargains on that site, I can see what I'll be looking at all evening tonight - if I can drag myself away from it now of course.

Hello peeps!!

Can someone help me ? I want to post a picture on here, but when I use imageshack the picture doesn't show up and you all have to click a link which seems like a pain inthe proverbial to me, so can someone who is clever tell me how to actually get a picture to appear in here?

Thank you all in advance and hope you are all having a great day - I just wanted to show off a strange shaped tomato I found in the garden... thought it might make people smile.:D

We had corned beef casserole last night and it was delicious and even my sceptical OH who didn't think he would like hot corned beef, really loved it.

Diva.x

This site:
http://www.overthegardengate.net/garden/herbs/reci_hedge.asp
has recipes for sloe jelly and hedgerow jam.

This site:
http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/?p=54
has a recipe for apple and sloe jelly.

I have used sloes in a hedgerow jam combined with equal amounts of blackberries and elderberries and using 12oz sugar to every pound of fruit, plus the juice of a lemon to every pound of fruit.
The only problem was getting the stones out when the fruit had cooked. In future I think that I shall put the sloes in a piece of muslin, cook them with the other jam ingredients and then either strain or sieve them into the whole before adding the sugar.
You can add chopped hazel or cob nuts to the jam as well, but if you are going to be picking out stones add the nuts after you have finished to avoid confusion!