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

Sorry forgot to say - I am ripening tomatoes on the window sill too, and it works, plus I made some of my Green tomato chutney as I had so many.. Thought I would post it just in case it was useful..

Divas' Green Tomato chutney
This is my tried and tested (and favourite) recipe.

1 pint vinegar
1lb demerara sugar
1 lb. chopped green tomatoes
1 lb. chopped cooking apples
½ lb. chopped sultanas
¼ lb. chopped onions
½ lb. sugar (granulated is fine)
½ tsp ground ginger
Pinch of salt
1 chilli finely chopped (You can skip this if you want a more traditional recipe)

• Put the vinegar and demerara sugar in a pan and heat gently until sugar melts.
• Add all the other ingredients
• Bring mixture to boil and cook slowly stirring all the time until it thickens.

It's ready when you can pull a wooden spoon across the bottom of the pan and the line you make stays clean.

Diva.x

First off sorry for my naughty post, must remember to think before I type (yeah right).

Just dropped a dvd back at blockbuster (I got a voucher thing for a book of 15 free rental voucher for £10 so we've been on a movie renting splurge...we love movies) and as its right next to morrisons I thought I'd have a looksee (don't usually go in) and they have a Dr Pepper substitute...okay, I'm prolly the only one who's gonna get excited by this (I'm a slave to the caffine) but I had to tell someone, and you guys drew the short straw.

Interesting info on pregnancy eating (and funny story, though suprising its quite common for veggis to get meat cravings during pregnancy) and I have to agree with ISOM, if your hungry weezl, you must eat, thats what the bat signals there for!!!!

cw18 wrote: »

I luuuuurve what the family (and my friends) affectionately call my "old biddy" trolley. I have back problems which mean I can't carry much even from our local shops -- 2.5kg of spuds or 4pt of milk I can cope with, but not both at the same time -- so a few months back I bought a trolley from Argos. It's fab, and I also take it for a walk to our closest Tesco (3 mile round trip) or on the bus to the next closest which is much bigger (and due to be extended :eek: )

Not very MSE but check these out

http://www.funky-shopping-trolleys.co.uk/page2.htm

I have a similair size one i bought at ikea some years ago and its also a cool bag i used it for transporting food to college on my catering course

Shaz

wow them trolly's are good very funky
well been away saurday to dh's cousins wedding, managed to get fed on the saturday, (wedding buffet) and his uncle bought us all a big fry up sunday morning, lovely, have also come away with a carrier bag of pears off their neighbours tree, not sure what to do with them though, some are still a bit sour tasting, any idea's??????

Here's the recipe for those of you that asked (it's from a book called The Farmer's Wife Cookbook, published in 1973 ! :eek: - some rather yummy stuff in there too !)

I have adapted it but have also done it with other bits and bobs that I will list at the end:

1lb of cooking apples
12oz self raising flour
6oz butter (I used marg, works just as well)
6oz soft brown sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
2-3 tbsp milk (may not need, depending on how juicy your apples are!)

Method

Peel, core and chop apples and cook in a little water on hob to give about 1/2 pt apple puree (I left mine a little bit chunky, didn't let it go as far as a puree).

Meanwhile, in a bowl sieve the flour and rub in the butter until fine breadcrumbs.

Add sugar and cinnamon (I did add a bit more than the tsp as you couldn't really taste it and I like cinnamon !)

Then add the apple puree and milk (if a bit too stodgy) and mix.

Spoon into a 2lb loaf tin.

Bake in centre of a pre-heated cool oven for about 1 1/4 hours (300F, 150C, GM2). Check with a skewer to ensure mix is thoroughly cooked. Turn out onto wire rack and cool.

I have done some variations with mixed chopped nuts, dates and apricots (as well as the apple puree) but much prefer just the apple.

Freezes well too although is a little more stodgy once defrosted (but I like it that way !)

Enjoy !

Edit: Not sure how much it would work out per loaf but if you managed to get your apples for free then I think it's a pretty cheap loaf to make ! (Depends how thick you cut the slices too - it doesn't last a day in our house ! lol)