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

munchki

cw18 wrote: »

Let me know when and where -- if it's a choice of one or the other, then I'm a-coming with you

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In_Search_Of_Me

Ok I meant realistic challenges of a frugalistic nature! Re skydiving I would rather eat the pig brain! I watched my cousin do a tandem dive & was almost physically sick just watching so the chances of me skydiving & um...about nil unless I was sponsored a HUGE (& I mean thousands & thousands not a few hundred) amounts and could go with someone who didnt mind if I had hysterics! I fear that therefore unlikely! (phew!)
I was thinking more along a forraging style adventure rather than a death defying one - unless you wanna pay me to scuba dive in barbados in case I'm your woman!

cw18

not SKY-diving -- we're a-going SKIP-diving

you wouldn't get me sky-diving either, 'cos I can't even look out of a window from a 5th/6th floor without feeling queasy :rotfl:

hypno06

Well done Weezl and Acetate Monkey :T Feeling a little queasy myself, but just jealous that I am not up to your standards yet!!

Having said that.....OH has got himself a new job today - that pays even less than his previous not well paid job.....so budgets have been done and battle lines drawn.

I have got a budget of £1 per person per day for food......that is for 5 of us, (2 adults and 3 teens) so I think that is reasonable and covers packed lunches all round......

....so I think I have my work cut out - I am going to have to learn how to do spreadsheets because I need to keep a close eye on the costings so that I can do the "good'uns" over and over!!!

Today was good - evening meal consisted of burgers left over from a barbecue we went to at the weekend (were still frozen so went straight in our freezer), home made oven chips and baked beans - well within budget! Lunch consisted of bread rolls from the same barbecue that I put straight in the freezer when I got home on Sunday.....plenty more where they came from as well.

A friend gave me some courgettes from her garden and two beef medallions as well, so I can do something with those later in the week.

In_Search_Of_Me

hypno is that £1 for all of you or each? If its for all of you rather you than me! I think this month I'll go back to cash shopping as always think more than when using a card. What do others do?
Forgot to say...re the pura its meant to be a 500g bar but I weighed it for the recipe and unless my scales are fauty its at least 50g out! May email them & see what they say! Naugty of them as thats quite a bit!

cw18

I've been trying to shop with cash -- but it's not always possible, as it depends when direct debits are going out in relation to when hubby gets his Incapacity and DLA, passes it to me, and I can get to the bank to put money in. So I tend to find I have a few days now and again I have to use my 'not-so-flexible friends' for shopping (essentials such as bread, milk, veg, rice, pasta and loo-rolls only when possible) and then pay it off as soon as I get the pennies from hubby.

But I am finding I'm having to do this for fewer days each month, so I guess I'm getting better at spending less the rest of the month so that I (almost) always have enough cash in hand for the essentials.......

meanmarie

Well done Weezl...there would be open revolt here if I tried a pigs head for dinner...DGS2 (almost 6) would probably the only one interested and he would ask too many questions which I would have to answer rather than not think about it if you know what I mean!

Never going to get near 50p (€.80c) per person per day but getting the budget down and eating better is worth the effort.

Night all

Marie

mama67

I had some bits of veg to use up from last weeks box and some from this weeks which wouldn't get used during next few days, so into the slow cooker went onion, carrot finely diced, crushed garlic, cougette diced, aubergine, diced tin Mr S basics chopped tomatoes, 2 tbsp tom pure!( end of jar), 2 value veg stock cubes mixed with boiling water.

Set cooker on low and left it all last night and most of today, now have a lovely ratatouille style mix which I have frozen most of in 500g marg tubs, and I had some over pasta for my tea tonight. (DH working away, and both boys just wanted egg on toast as had Karate).

Veggiea according to price list from organic supplier were as follows:

Aubergine 80p/ea - used whole one = 80p
Courgettes £1.95/500g - used 150g = 83p
Carrots 75p/500g - used 100g = 15p
Onions £1.10/500g - used 100g = 22p
Garlic free from garden
Chopped toms 21p
veg stock cubes 4p
tom puree 5p

So that £2.30 for the big potful whih divided down into 8 portions = 29p serve over value pasta 4p so a good dinner for 33p. :T

DH was telling me how the restaurant he's eaten in tonight has pictures of Chef Ramsey on the walls and certificates for this that and t'other.
Also said it was the best steak he's ever tasted.:drool: (all on expenses mind)

tattycath

Hi guys. I don't know how much it cost exactly but today after sending DD out to buy flour I made the following out of store cupboard stuff: Impossible pie, impossible quiche, anzacs and carbonara then I made a banana loaf. The carbonara fed 4 and there are 2 portions left. The impossible pie has nearly all gone-again fed 4 of us and there is a small portion left. The impossible quiche and banana loaf have not been touched left and out of 15 anzacs there are 12 left so that's quite an achievment for me. The impossible pie was a huge hit, it tastes gorgeous and I can see I will have to make one regularly.
Right I'm off up to bed.
Well done everyone you're all doing really well

Herewegoagain

Not been around for a while, no waste but have gained a lb using up bargains, god I'm good for saving but oh, have to watch the ol figure.

Have managed to keep under 50p by doing the above:D