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

nopot2pin · 8 July 2009 at 12:42PM

Sian_the_Green wrote: »

have you tried the library first...

No.......
I have spent quite alot of time recently trying to identifiy stuff...
So I know I will get years of use from this

SunnyGirl · 8 July 2009 at 12:43PM

Weezl I've just seen your post on the cheapest way to get your 5-a-day thread. How do you do it for approx 19p a day? Please share tips

Or is it back in this thread :eek: somewhere. I tend to use grated carrots, home grown lettuce & toms, tinned toms & lentils quite a lot to count towards the 5 portions. I don't let the children have 5 portions of fruit or I'd be bankrupt :cool:

AudreyHepburn_2 · 8 July 2009 at 12:59PM

SunnyGirl wrote: »

I don't let the children have 5 portions of fruit or I'd be bankrupt :cool:

SunnyGirl I am sure the mighty Weezl will have lots of frugal suggestions, but one cheap way is to use dried fruits.

Value sultanas are about 65p for 500g which is a bargain when you think how many grapes you get per packet. Feed them to the kids raw, add to breakfast cereal, sprinkle into salads. If the children find them a bit tough to chew, soak them in water or milk to soften them up first.

Dired apricots and raisins are a bargain too if you think of how many whole fruits go into the bags and the added advantage is they do not over ripend and get wasted , or have bruises.

Keep an eye out for half pirce offers at Holland and Barrett and Julian Grieves.

Tomato puree in tubes or tins in a really cheap way of boosting the daily 5. Cooked tomato products like this have more of the "good" lycopenes" , and far better flavour than watery supermarket tomatoes.

Just want to add how much I enjoy reading this thread daily - you are such an inventive, imaginative and above all informative and sharing bunch!

shaz_mum_of__2 · 8 July 2009 at 1:30PM

Thanks potty will try and get some

got 2 types of the tea wine on (raspberry cranberry and elderflower and the apple and chamomile) also done a fresh cherry one and a jam one(apricot amd apple jam used)

I want to do a christmas beer too for presents so looking for a recipe but hoping adding dried orange peel cinnamon and cloves to my usual brew will work

sunnygirl i think most of weezls fruit is dried Ald! super 6 usually has fruit and i buy lots of whoopsy apples at the village coop to supplement a banana tree would save me a fortune

Shaz

meanmarie · 8 July 2009 at 2:09PM

Shaz...let me know when you have success with growing bananas!

I have made rosehip wine and syrup by boiling the hips until soft and then adding sugar and yeast and straining into a demi-john...was really good....am planning on making some gooseberry at the weekend by same method and some rhubarb by chopping about 8 lbs of rhubarb, pouring over 2 bags sugar ( 2 kilos), the juice will leach from the rhubarb.....will just add the yeast next day and strain after a couple of days fermentation....can't wait to get at it as haven't made wine for years.

Off to find out about 19p 5 a day...

Marie

SunnyGirl · 8 July 2009 at 3:06PM

Well we're doing ok on the fruit & veg front today

I made a spicy lentil soup by putting 2 chopped onions, 1 tin of tomatoes, 200g red lentils, 1 Tbsp curry powder, 1/2 Tbsp chilli powder & 1.5 pints of stock in a pan & cooking for 20 - 30 mins. Put salt & pepper in at the end to taste & adjust curry etc if needed. We had a bowl for lunch with some crusty bread & a sliced tomato. Plus I've made a huge pan of stewed cooking apples (bought very cheaply from the market) so I'm doing a crumble & an apple pie :T I often make a fruit salad with a mixture of fresh, frozen or tinned in juice fruits as all 4 of the children will snack on it and have it after meals too.

I, too, love the Aldi Siper 6 and buy most of it every week. I double up on a regular basis too. They aren't keen on dried fruit apart from apricots & sultanas & I keep my eye out for offers on these. I like the range of frozen fruit in Asda most recently I've bought morello cherries for £1 but not since May as Aldi had cherries on for 49p.

Hope everyone is well :A

nopot2pin · 8 July 2009 at 6:50PM

shaz_mum_of__2 wrote: »

Thanks potty will try and get some

got 2 types of the tea wine on (raspberry cranberry and elderflower and the apple and chamomile) also done a fresh cherry one and a jam one(apricot amd apple jam used)

I want to do a christmas beer too for presents so looking for a recipe but hoping adding dried orange peel cinnamon and cloves to my usual brew will work

sunnygirl i think most of weezls fruit is dried Ald! super 6 usually has fruit and i buy lots of whoopsy apples at the village coop to supplement a banana tree would save me a fortune

Shaz

I haven't tried the raspberry cranberry, elderflower teabag wine yet. But I understand that it does make a lovely wine.

I haven't gone down the making beer route, yet :rolleyes:
To be honest, I only have a lager shandy a few times a year, so it probably not economically viable for me to have the equipment for a few pints a year.

meanmarie wrote: »

Shaz...let me know when you have success with growing bananas!

I have made rosehip wine and syrup by boiling the hips until soft and then adding sugar and yeast and straining into a demi-john...was really good....am planning on making some gooseberry at the weekend by same method and some rhubarb by chopping about 8 lbs of rhubarb, pouring over 2 bags sugar ( 2 kilos), the juice will leach from the rhubarb.....will just add the yeast next day and strain after a couple of days fermentation....can't wait to get at it as haven't made wine for years.

Off to find out about 19p 5 a day...

Marie

Aye... I think I am going to try a rosehip wine this year, its a same to waste all that free foraged fruit. And there is soooo much vitamin C in rosehips.
Last year I made a cracking rhubarb and raspberry wine :drool:
I have some rhubarb in my freezer, awaiting the raspberries, from the PYO, that I need to go and get yet

I find that freezing the fruit prior to using, for wine, helps break it down quicker, and you get more juice.

I buy quite alot of fruit whoopsied, to keep up with the five a day thing.
The way ahead for me, is to grow as much as possible.

Does fermented fruit count towards one of your five a day ?

Might have 2 [STRIKE]glasses[/STRIKE] portions tonight;):D

Confuzzled · 8 July 2009 at 7:11PM

i'm just about to make dinner and it will be a lovely very frugal one indeed!

tonights meal is soup (made this yesterday) made from a small package of smoked 'riblets' (not much meat on them) and 2 lamb hearts that cost a whopping 5p for the packet on clearance (well actually a tad less the package had 3 hearts in it) and some pearl barley, a few onions that needed using up, couple of carrots i inadvertantly got free because of a mess up with my asda order and a few potatoes that needed eating.

we'll be having garlic cheese bread using the garlic puree i got so cheap from AF and a gorgeous salad consisting of homegrown rocket, the tops/shoots off a sprouting red onion i found in my cupboard, some clover flowers we gathered, nasturtium flowers and leaves we grew and a red rose from our front garden! i may take photos' to show you all it looks so pretty already!

anyway i'd better be off to get that ready want to be fed and watered in time for torchwood tonight!

weezl74 · 8 July 2009 at 7:57PM

meanmarie wrote: »

Off to find out about 19p 5 a day...

Marie

Trying to remember how I did it and review the costings...

tomato 1/5th of can 6.6p
80g onion 4p
sultanas 20g- 2.4p
20g marrowfat peas 2.56p
80g sweetcorn-8.5p

total 24.06p to eat all your colours in a day :money:

nopot2pin · 8 July 2009 at 10:19PM

weezl74 wrote: »

Trying to remember how I did it and review the costings...

tomato 1/5th of can 6.6p
80g onion 4p
sultanas 20g- 2.4p
20g marrowfat peas 2.56p
80g sweetcorn-8.5p

total 24.06p to eat all your colours in a day :money:

Wow.....
That is still a very low costing. :T
I take it the marrowfat peas mentioned are dry weight ??

I think eat way more than that a day, as I normally take at least 3 bits of fruit to work... And I normally alternate salad and soup for work too.
But I am not spending any money on red or white meat... so maybe it balances itself out.

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

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