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

munchki

Thank you ghp, I just came across that recipe as well. Wish it would say what size of pan to use lol. i suppose I can always make two and stack etc and if one works in the end well DH would be more than happy to keep and eat one of the cakes here. Never a waste with him around home!

Thank you again ghp, very much appreciated!!

kath x

Boodle

Hi everyone... hope you don't mind another frugalista wannabe along for the ride? I've only just got to the end of this thread (it's taken a week!) and have been desperate to post all of the way through - been sitting on my hands til I reached the end! So I apologise already for the long post. I can't even begin to thank everyone for all their tips and recipes! (And for the evening of laughter following poor Piggy's adventure.) xxx

There's me, hubby and Boodlebubs (she's almost 2) and could never hope to get to 50p/£1 each per day (we're not so bad, it's hubby costs 4 quid alone :rolleyes: ) I already menu plan and try to keep costs low (can spend between £25-40 per week - big variation but depends on running out of household stuff.) But I've started "Exceling" my usual meals and costing up to keep a better track on it all (tho maths was never a strong point...)

I'm loving accounts of the daily munchings cos it really helps with inspiration. Today was as follows for me and Boodlebubs:

• Toast and butter (BB has half a slice with cinnamon sprinkled on when butter is hot) with orange juice - grapes donated by MIL and some raisins for BB too
• Lunch was HM mixed bean pate in wholemeal bread (again, BB has half a slice) with herbal tea for me, water for BB. I also sneaked 2 HM rock buns from the cake tin (7p each - you guys are converting me already )
• Dinner will be pasta with olive oil, tomato puree and sliced baby corn for BB, and then HM Barbecue-style Pork and Beans with HM garlic bread for us (eating separately as have to nip out later.)

Munchki - If I wanna make a cake chocolate, I tend to just add 2 tbsp cocoa rather than replace the flour - that would be for a usual 450g loaf tin or 18-20cm cake tin type quantity. Hope that helps.

Ceridwen - I realise you now have an abundance of curry recipes (!) but I make a really creamy, easy and cheap korma if you'd like that one too (don't wanna bombard you with another one!)

It's great to find likeminded people (and the more adventurously extreme!) on here so really hope you don't mind me piping up. Boodle.xxx.

Lesley_Gaye

Boodle wrote: »

Hi everyone... hope you don't mind another frugalista wannabe along for the ride?

Ceridwen - I realise you now have an abundance of curry recipes (!) but I make a really creamy, easy and cheap korma if you'd like that one too (don't wanna bombard you with another one!)

It's great to find likeminded people (and the more adventurously extreme!) on here so really hope you don't mind me piping up. Boodle.xxx.

Welcome Boodle. I have 3 very long Word documents with all the lovely recipes taken from here, didn't want to lose any! Don't know about anyone else, but I would love to see your korma recipe (and I don't expect I'll be the only one!)

EagerLearner

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Boodle

Lesley_Gaye wrote: »

Welcome Boodle. I have 3 very long Word documents with all the lovely recipes taken from here, didn't want to lose any! Don't know about anyone else, but I would love to see your korma recipe (and I don't expect I'll be the only one!)

Aw thanks for the welcome

The korma really doesn't sound much... it has to be tried to be believed

This serves me and hubby - it would probs stretch to four if you have rice as well as naans with it.

1 tbsp butter
1 tbsp curry paste (I know it sounds an extravagance but it lasts aaaaaages)
2 tbsp plain flour
2 heaped tbsp dry milk
125ml cold water from the tap; 175ml boiling water from the kettle
1/2 a chicken stock cube
1 tbsp apricot jam (or mango chutney if not feeling so thrifty!)

Melt the butter with the curry paste in a saucepan. Meanwhile, I dissolve the milk powder in the cold water. Stir the hot water and stock cube into the milk. Stir the flour into the butter and cook for a good couple of minutes. Gradually add the liquid to create a sauce. Stir and cook for a bout 5 minutes, stirring in the jam too.

We cook turkey steaks at the beginning of the week for hubby's sandwiches through the week, so I add 1 diced cooked turkey steak to the sauce. But you could cook meat in the butter/curry paste to begin with, or use to coat cooked veg etc.

Lesley_Gaye

Boodle wrote: »

Aw thanks for the welcome

The korma really doesn't sound much... it has to be tried to be believed

This serves me and hubby - it would probs stretch to four if you have rice as well as naans with it.

1 tbsp butter
1 tbsp curry paste (I know it sounds an extravagance but it lasts aaaaaages)
2 tbsp plain flour
2 heaped tbsp dry milk
125ml cold water from the tap; 175ml boiling water from the kettle
1/2 a chicken stock cube
1 tbsp apricot jam (or mango chutney if not feeling so thrifty!)

Melt the butter with the curry paste in a saucepan. Meanwhile, I dissolve the milk powder in the cold water. Stir the hot water and stock cube into the milk. Stir the flour into the butter and cook for a good couple of minutes. Gradually add the liquid to create a sauce. Stir and cook for a bout 5 minutes, stirring in the jam too.

We cook turkey steaks at the beginning of the week for hubby's sandwiches through the week, so I add 1 diced cooked turkey steak to the sauce. But you could cook meat in the butter/curry paste to begin with, or use to coat cooked veg etc.

Thanks Boodle - now added to my doc!

carriebradshaw

Hi Boodle & welcome :wave: thanks for the recipe,I love korma curry

foxy-tigger

Boodle wrote: »

Aw thanks for the welcome

The korma really doesn't sound much... it has to be tried to be believed

This serves me and hubby - it would probs stretch to four if you have rice as well as naans with it.

1 tbsp butter
1 tbsp curry paste (I know it sounds an extravagance but it lasts aaaaaages)
2 tbsp plain flour
2 heaped tbsp dry milk
125ml cold water from the tap; 175ml boiling water from the kettle
1/2 a chicken stock cube
1 tbsp apricot jam (or mango chutney if not feeling so thrifty!)

Melt the butter with the curry paste in a saucepan. Meanwhile, I dissolve the milk powder in the cold water. Stir the hot water and stock cube into the milk. Stir the flour into the butter and cook for a good couple of minutes. Gradually add the liquid to create a sauce. Stir and cook for a bout 5 minutes, stirring in the jam too.

We cook turkey steaks at the beginning of the week for hubby's sandwiches through the week, so I add 1 diced cooked turkey steak to the sauce. But you could cook meat in the butter/curry paste to begin with, or use to coat cooked veg etc.

ooooh! Thanks for that! it sounds Delish! :D:D

Rowan9

Boodle - you know I just wouldn't have thought to cook up turkey steaks for sandwiches throughout the week and I had thought of myself as frugal-ugal!! Thanks for this. Yes, sadly I am one of those who still buys piddly little costly packs of nothingness to put in sandwiches (well, DH's - I have peanut butter usually)
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frugalswan

I am still ghosting this thread - and reading avidly! While I can't hope to get to 50p a day, I too am trying to cost things to save the pennies, and find myself trying to extol the virtues of frugality to my friends! I've started a blog, too, so that I can keep track of my progress.

Finding this thread and this forum has been great for me. I wasn't too bad at meal planning, but this kicked it up a notch. I found myself costing my sweet and sour tonight (it IS a Friday and I tend to push the boat out a teeny on a Friday) and I'm really chuffed to find out it cost me just over £1 for the both of us. I'm getting there!

I saw a little girl collecing blackberries from the hedge outside work on my way home. I wish I'd thought of that. Still, I've plenty of strawberries in the freezer from when I went halves with my friend on a buy one get one free punnet of them. £1.20 for two, but as we had one each it worked out to 60p. It makes me smile.
Boodle - I'm definitely going to give the Korma a try. Is there a specific kind of curry paste you use?