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

backtowales

Well its taken me a while, but I've finally read the whole thread!!:T

Hello from another Welshie!

Just wanted to say that this thread is a real inspiration. Weezl - your thread and blog are great!

Bf and I have £30 for food, and we are trying to get this down until he finishes uni in October. Had quite a good week whoopsie wise.

I'm based in Cardiff, and I'm starting to look into foraging, so if anyone has any tips I would be very grateful.

moanymoany

Money saving diva, on a spendaholics programme one young woman who was addicted to posh coffee kept some of the cups and used those for her home made coffee.

cw18

backtowales wrote: »

Well its taken me a while, but I've finally read the whole thread!!:T

well done you :T

cw18

Just put tonights tea costings into my spreadsheet (caught up on the past week last night), so now have my average per head over the month of July (main meals only).

In June it worked out at 76.4p, with 13 meals being above that (with 5 of those being over £1 a head, and the dearest coming in at £1.42 !!!)

In July I've pulled it down to a 68.5p average (for the geeks that's a massive 10.3% reduction), with 11 meals being above that figure (4 of them being over £1 a head, and the dearest -- which was younger sons birthday tea -- coming in at £1.31 each).

Feeling really pleased with that result :j


August is going to be fun to cost..... not!! I'm planning on making as many meals as possible from what I have in (which is far too much) as I've just had to pay around £215 on general car expenses (service, MOT, and first payment on car insurance for the next year) out of the same pay pack as has to feed us for the next month.

A lot of what I have in is stuff I can't afford to replace though. I can't put it into my spreadsheet as zero, otherwise my average could be something silly like 30p! But if I put it in at replacement prices I reckon we could be well over last months figure, especially as not much of it could be replaced with cheaper versions

So I think I'm going to have to cost what I spend as well as what it would cost to replace (out of interest), but generally cross out August as being a month for reducing the averages and start again in September

backtowales

Well Done cw18.

We're having a store cupboard pasta bake tonight. The only I had to buy this morning was some mushrooms, but I always buy the big value punnet and slice the rest for the freezer.

Made some cheesy chilli garlic bread out of half a left over part bake ciabatta

Also made some spicy biscuits, which I haven't done for ages. I'm so pleased they've turned out as our oven isn't the best for baking.

In_Search_Of_Me

Evening all! well i've failed miserably...confused my pet & shopping budget so have no idea what i spent on what...re the cat food try mr t own or lidl with gravy - my fussy b***** cats will eat it and one of ems a pedigree princess! I have about 30 left in food budget but have paid for cat food & litter (fogot I was meant to keep it separate)...think what I will do is add 30 to it but see how I go. Plus with meals out, lack of planing have been rubbish (our weezl would have coronary!) and bought lunch twice and dinner once...oops! Re the piggy I am banned from talking about it with collegues cos they allthink it gross - esp the snout...brains didnt seem to bother them as much...did point out that I didnt eat any (eek...couldnt)...Wonder if our weezl about but not seen her so will send a wee text to seeif still decorating. They had loads to do so suspect that they still are tho pooped...will report back!

cw18

mentioned the pig head to my son in the past hour -- when he was saying that Weezl must have stocked up on stuff (and not costed for it) prior to starting this challenge.

his response --- let's just say his favourite meal is pork chops, but he said that next time I say it's pork for tea he's not going to eat it :rotfl:

BASHFUL_2

hello.....does anyone have any ideas for stale bread other than bread and butter pudding????? x x x

EagerLearner

Hi Bashful how about french bread? Milk, egg, cinnamon... mix, let bread soak both sides for 30 secs so it's not too mushy, and fry in butter... yummy yum yum x

Doom_and_Gloom

BASHFUL wrote: »

hello.....does anyone have any ideas for stale bread other than bread and butter pudding????? x x x

You could make them into crutons and use them in soup or something like that maybe .
P.S I'm not actually doing the challenge but reading it so I can try and do it soon as I need to put more money aside for more important things :T .
This thread is really interesting. Thank you OP :j .