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

Penelope_Penguin

munchki wrote: »

Not sure if this will be of use to anyone, but I have a home made recipe for bisquick that I use if I cant find it or if it is too expensive to buy.;)

6 cups plain flour
3 Tablespoons baking powder
1 Tablespoon salt
1 Cup Vegetable shortening (white lard)

sift the first 3 ingrediants together 3 times in a large bowl
cut in the shortening until it looks like little crumbs

Put it all in an airtight container and store in the fridge for up to 4 months. use it exactly like you would for any recipe requiring bisquick

Not sure what the costing is on this but I know it does work and is lovely in recipes.

Kath xx

There was a thread earlier in the week on Bisquick here - it has a link to a thread on Convenience Mixes (similar to yours) too 1.5kg value flour is 36p, whick makes the Bisquick 500g for 40pliik expensive IMHO.

Will you wave to Sutton in Ashfield from me - I was born there :T

Penny. x

ceridwen

miggy wrote: »

Wow what a fab thread - thanks Weezl!:A



I agree wholeheartedly with the person who said you have the makings of a book here. :T

Well....it would certainly save me having to write down all the recipes I fancy manually:D

Penelope_Penguin

miggy wrote: »

Question - pretty please can someone link to the Impossible Pie and Impossible Quiche recipes for me? I have been trawling through the thread backwards for an hour or so (pig's head saga backwards was interesting!) but I can't find it and I must have been looking in the wrong place on your recipe links Weezl.

Impossible pie

Penny. x

weezl74

ceridwen wrote: »

Well....it would certainly save me having to write down all the recipes I fancy manually:D

thanks miggy and ceridwen.:A

In an arrogant 'sees self as author' moment t'other day I did checkout prices of self-publishing a book.

But then got a bit confused by what it would be! Is it like a recipe book, or is it a story book of mad foraging debacles?:D

Hmmmmn. Perhaps I'll just stick to me day job!;)

Weezl x

cw18

Plum_Pie wrote: »

There was some discussion on the first Weezl thread about how much pasta/rice to cook and I personally think it comes down to the individual. If your sons aren't overweight (and I'm assuming they're not!), then they need to eat the amount they're eating! If someone has a small appetite then 125g might be too much.

No, they're not overweight...... tall and scrawny the pair of them, whereas I only have to get a whiff of something tasty to pile the pounds on to my 5' 2" frame :mad:

I'd ideally like to change some of the chips over for extra veg (would work out slightly dearer, but they don't tend to eat any fruit/veg other than what they get with their main meal), but they both grumble about having any veg at all with pie and chips or sausage and chips (which are the only times we have chips now!)

cw18

Hubby's just been upstairs waving today's paper at me -- Asda have a 50p promotion this weekend, but nothing on it looked worth me making an effort to get there (bus and reasonable walk or take the car)

what I recall.....

pack of 8 pork sausages (454g)
closed cup mushrooms (250g)
minced beef (250g)
butter (think it was the smartprice - normally 80p+?)

shaz_mum_of__2

weezl74 wrote: »

thanks miggy and ceridwen.:A

In an arrogant 'sees self as author' moment t'other day I did checkout prices of self-publishing a book.

But then got a bit confused by what it would be! Is it like a recipe book, or is it a story book of mad foraging debacles?:D

Hmmmmn. Perhaps I'll just stick to me day job!;)

Weezl x

Its a lifestyle book or a diarytype thingy......... the allotment book hubby gave me for anniversary is a similair thing its a year in his life as a new allotment holder

http://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Man-His-Dig-Adventures/dp/1847391281/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216386606&sr=8-1

Shaz (the book was good by the way)

newlywed

cw18 wrote: »

but they both grumble about having any veg at all with pie and chips or sausage and chips (which are the only times we have chips now!)

What even peas? Sausage chips and peas is a must Or what about baked beans - still count as veg

cw18

newlywed wrote: »

What even peas? Sausage chips and peas is a must Or what about baked beans - still count as veg

only person to eat mushy peas in this house is hubby, and I can't stand baked beans - physcological issue (even tipping them out of a tin has me shuddering), though I've managed to eat them if they're cooked in with minced beef for the last 10 years or so after some serious talking to myself about how silly my 'problem' is (I know exactly what caused it!).

Sometimes do baked beans for the blokes and frozen veg for me, but it's a pain and means 2 gas rings (and 2 pans to wash up). Plus hubby often does beans on toast for his lunch, so having had that twice in a week he doesn't want them for tea as well

I normally do garden peas and sweetcorn, or mixed veg (peas, corn, beans and carrots).

newlywed

yeah I didn't mean mushy peas - I only eat frozen peas
Have served mushy peas to OH but won't touch them myself

Too many memories of mum and dad with no money and not much food and dad making veg soup and adding processed peas.... even the carrots went green and none of us liked it so we had bread and butter instead