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

ashia_2

Well, I just went to see the doctor (just a checkup for my migraines and panic attacks) only to find out the appointments 2mr....:rotfl: Only I could manage that.Well guess it gives me a whole extra day to prepare, plus I plan to sort out some sort of tracker for keeping tabs on how much stuff cost so I can start costing meals...also hoping that by spending more time thinking about cost and food, I might start thinking about what I'm feeding us. well I can hope.

Mrs M - Its not that I dislike fruit and veggies, infact I have an extraordinary sweet tooth which can be satisfied by fruity things like melon, mango, banana etc. but no matter how good my intentions I still manage to eat lots and lots of bad stuff. The only thing I can't abide is raw toms, in any other form they're fine, but raw I just can't swallow them, except in salsa.

Well, I've woken up this morning with lots of good intentions (again) and my plan for the weekend is to comb through lota and lots of threads, find yummy nutrious recipes that use good foods and create a whole new eating phenomemnon in sky city....sounds good in theory but we'll see. Got lentils on for some of weezls pate so thats a good start....here we go

cw18

Have been out and checked our local stores for bargains this morning - but nothing to be seen

Home and changed into "work" clothes (after a shower and hairwash now the house feels warmer than when I got up - and it's not 'cos the heatings been on) 'cos I have the first meeting of my redundancy process this afternoon. Sounds like I'm gonna have more people/more senior people at it than normal, as my Staff Manager had failed to pass communications on to me so I've kicked up a bit of a stink !!!

Before that I'll have to make lunch - and it'll have to be cooked as I've no idea what time I'll be back this evening, but it'll be after we normally eat and I don't plan to cook a meal at that point

But before I can do that, I'm off to a local supermarket to meet a local "Weezlite" who's scrounged some apples for me from a neighbour -- so guess what I'll be doing tonight once I finally get home from work :j Absolutely chuffed to pieces to discover there's someone following this who's local to me, and really appreciative of the trouble said member has taken to get in touch after I mentioned briefly I'd no freebie apples to go with my foraged blackberries :happyhear

Anyway, best run or I'll be late and that would never do :eek:

ashia_2

Quick question about the pate....where do you put the breadcrumbs in? They're on the ingredientslist but I cant find when they join the recipe.

P.S - Mrs M, If you have any beginners veg recipes feel free to throw them my way.

Allegra

walmerstores wrote: »

Mrs m try again:D

alegra should that be 100g not 1009?

Drattit. Of course it should

Here, have a recipe for Polenta Biscuits to make up for it...

50g raisins or sultanas
75g cold diced butter
150g polenta (cornmeal)
75g plain flour
50g sugar
1 egg


Cover the raisins with cold water and soak for an hour or so. Mix polenta and flour with diced butter (using your hands and making them all greasy and squelchy, of course), then add sugar, egg and raisins. Once they've formed a dough (of a rather fetching yellow colour), tear off small balls and stick them down on a lined baking sheat. Bake on 180 C for 15 mins or so - let them go golden, but not brown, or they'll be too hard.


Nigella has a version of this recipe in her Feast book - hers calls for golden sultanas, rum to soak them in, vanilla essence and lemon zest - if you have any of those knocking about, by all means bung them in - the more frugal version, using Asda value sultanas, 50p smartprice butter (even though my stockpile has now sadly been used up)whoopsied cornmeal (15p for 500g I got it from Morrisons), tastes delicious enough.

phizzimum

hi everyone

I've got pigs trotters!! :eek: no I'm not talking about the state of my feet, just what's in my slow cooker.

DDs asked if we could have spare ribs for dinner this week. So I bought enough ribs for them and thought DH and I would have the trotters. Butcher gave them to us for free - but now it's actually coming to cooking them I'm feeling quite squeamish. I've put the trotters and ribs in the slow cooker with some plum sauce and apple juice. Hopefully by the end of the day there will be something edible to put on the table! (even if it's marmite sandwiches)

cw18

Whoo Hoo!! I'm home, and with two large carriers of apples :j

The lady I met (not posting a name, as she said she's currently only a "lurker" -- but I've told her to join in as she'd be more than welcomed) also gave me a small rosemary plant as she'd ended up with three and wouldn't use them all

She also gave me a tip for getting some tubs for my garden.....

Apparently Asda will let you have the black buckets they keep the cut flowers in, and all you have to do is drop a donation into their current charity tin. As I've read in the past that potatoes will grow well in buckets (and they're easier to harvest this way as all you have to do is tip the bucket -- which is good news for my bad back) I can see I'm going to be fighting her and her husband for them at the local store now :rotfl:

hmkn

phizzimum wrote: »

hi everyone

I've got pigs trotters!! :eek: no I'm not talking about the state of my feet, just what's in my slow cooker.

DDs asked if we could have spare ribs for dinner this week. So I bought enough ribs for them and thought DH and I would have the trotters. Butcher gave them to us for free - but now it's actually coming to cooking them I'm feeling quite squeamish. I've put the trotters and ribs in the slow cooker with some plum sauce and apple juice. Hopefully by the end of the day there will be something edible to put on the table! (even if it's marmite sandwiches)

They'll be fine!! Think positive!!


Re: flavoured vodkas, I did Werthers Original vodka for my friend for last Christmas, and it was all I could do to give it away It was gorgeous, and she loved it. I'm thinking of Dime bar, jelly baby or pear drop this year...

HMK

BASHFUL_2

Shaz...you're not canadian are you by any chance???...just saw this article and had to check!! hehehe!!!!!!
Support guy held hostage

A Canadian woman has been charged with holding a technical support guy hostage after losing her broadband connection.

Sorry....couldnt resist!!!! x x x

MRSMCAWBER

Just a quick pop back folks

My mum has been into town today..and on her way back has noticed lots of blackberries out... so Munchki..Get off up garden lane..the bit that goes up the side of the playing field/all weather pitch and get picking :rotfl: .... There's nothing like "virtual" foraging from another country is there

Well done on the apples cw18 :T result..and come out, come out where ever you are mrs lurker who told cw18 about them ....

Lesley Gaye.... fancy showing me more places that sell seeds :eek: :rotfl: ... had a quick nosey..and will have a proper rummage through that site in a moment-shhhhhh

Those pumpkins might have to go on my list -they look lovely;) how succesful have they been so far?..Its my first attempt at squash (only my 2nd year growing veg at all)..so its good old butternuts im having a bash at ...fingers crossed .. my biggest wish is that the sweet potatoes I am growing from a supermarket sweet potato do "something" ... the weather hasn't really ben that warm or consistent... but they are in a tent, growing in crates -so I live in hope
Tomatoes seem to be my THING.. i love growing them -i think because you get so much fruit from 1 plant... no doubt i will be looking at the tomato seeds on that site too

right i had better go and look at seeds :rotfl:

Lesley_Gaye

MrsM - the Jack Be Little's are by far and away my favourite squash. I have grown them every year for oooh, I don't know, at least 10 years. I have grown butternut, turks turban, one with a blue inner, one that tasted a bit like chestnut, the spaghetti type one and various others, but I am gradually losing interest in any except the little fellers. Our new house has a much smaller garden than the old one, so I have to be really selective now.

I like them because they grow easily, the fruits are a convenient size and I get LOTS of them, at least 30 per plant, I take 1 or 2 when I go avisiting and people love them, but I haven't had to give away a monster, which would be a large % of the crop and most people don't want anyway. Oh yes, and the most important thing is they taste lovely.

The organics catalogue has lots of heritage style seeds that really do taste better than some of the overbred hybrids that are offered everywhere. Hope I haven't cost you too much in new seeds :rotfl:

The sweet potato sounds interesting, I would love to know if you get a crop from it