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

monitorsit

cw18 wrote: »

Have threatened my son with the pigs head -- but not sure I have the stomach to handle/cook one or pick the meat off it after cooking

Pigs head! One look at that on the serving dish and the whole family will turn veggie and save you a fortune!

In_Search_Of_Me

unless youre weezl!!
Hugs cw and sammy....wish I could do sommat to help although suspect being here for you as a listening ear helps...:) and hopefully being innovative with shopping! Just did a mr sains shop with last cash but will "take back" 30 cos of cat food. Its more expensive at the mo due to Alfie kitten food...he'll only be on it a couple more weeks and then will be promted to big cat food! Will try & live on that 30 until pay day so some cupboard usage req'd. Feeling quite tired today though so will have a snooze...always works a treat!

cw18

HUGE ((hugs)) to Sammy_Kaye and family

monitorsit wrote: »

Pigs head! One look at that on the serving dish and the whole family will turn veggie and save you a fortune!

:rotfl: I wish :rotfl:

was actually trying to pluck up the courage to do it sometime in September. If I could get a butcher to time it right, then I'd spend a Tuesday seeing son out to college, then hubby off for chemo, then a dive out for the article in question, home, cook, strip, and all evidence bagged and binned before either of them got home

cw18

In_Search_Of_Me wrote: »

so will have a snooze...always works a treat!

I seem to have had a lot of afternoon siestas in the last couple of months..... have to say I think the countries where it's the "norm" have the right idea

loocyloo

i have just had to dig up all my potatoes .... it was either food for us or the mole! :eek: :mad:

we won't eat them all before they get too old, plus i have 1/2 a bag in the cupboard that i bought last week, as i didn't think mine were ready!

so ... how on earth do i keep them? can i freeze them? should i make endless boiled/mash potato to freeze? can i chop them up into wedges and freeze them like that ... 'hm frozen 'chips'????

thank you in advance for any help!

loocyloo x

just hoping the mole doesn't find my carrots now!

ravylesley

why dont you just rebury your potatoes in sand and store them in a cool place.I've heard of this being done to preserve new potatoes for xmas so dont see why it wouldnt work for you

Lesleyxx

2cats1kid

If you don't wash them - leave them with a little soil/compost still on them - and put them in a brown paper bag/sack then store somewhere cool they will keep for quite a while. If you don't have brown bags I *think* homebase have them at their checkouts instead of carrier bags - you might be able to snag a few from there? Just don't wash them as they keep better with a coating of whatever they were grown in.

MichH

We've just dug up all our potatoes and have enough to last us till Christmas I'm sure, as there only the 2 of us.

After alot of reading I agree with previous posts, dark place in a paper sack. We have put ours in hessian sacks, after trying to get some for free we ended up buy a few on ebay, figured they can be reused so will last us for years to come.

Home grown potatoes are just delicious! We've had ours just as new pots with a little butter, but my favourite has to be par-boiled and roasted with a bit of chopped rosemary from the garden.

A gardening friend has also advised us to keep a few for chitting (not sure that's the right word) next year so we dont have to buy again.

Lesley_Gaye

cw18 wrote: »

HUGE ((hugs)) to Sammy_Kaye and family



:rotfl: I wish :rotfl:

was actually trying to pluck up the courage to do it sometime in September. If I could get a butcher to time it right, then I'd spend a Tuesday seeing son out to college, then hubby off for chemo, then a dive out for the article in question, home, cook, strip, and all evidence bagged and binned before either of them got home

I have been telling EVERYONE about the pigs head and how much meat you can get for 10p!! I am on a food replacement diet at the moment, so not eating any conventional food at all. Can't wait to try and get a pigs head tho when I am back on proper food, just hope my butcher will get me one and only charge 10p!

cw18

the head was actually free for Weezl -- it was 10p a trotter.....


come to think of it -- did we ever hear what happened with the trotters?