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

shaz_mum_of__2

weezl74 wrote: »

hear hear, hugh F-W feels the least consumerist chef on telly at the moment. Hoorah for hugh!:T


Weezl x

Mmmm not sure about that

We were lucky enough to be at the show in Dorset wher he has appeared in the earlier shows pig herding etc and he had a stall in a marquee it was a bit too commercialized for me selling books and bags and all the stuff he sells as well as food i think it was ice cream?? He wasn't there on the few occaisions we passed by but the stall was mobbed

If you look at the main website its a huge shop but the forum used to be good

Don't get me wrong i love Hugh and his philosophy i just think its a bit naive to think he is a small smallholder he is running a huge business in fact i read somewhere that since taking this step he has worked harder than ever ,perhaps a reflection on the changing needs of the viewer


Well enough said i am off the soapbox and should you be watching Hugh i still love ya


Shaz

Frugalista

Weezl, I have been reading your blog and can't seem to find the recipe for kalonji bread. Could you post it on here, pleeeeeze!!!

By the way, I'm another (ex) Welsh girl - born in Chirk and went to school in Llangollen (North Wales) - now living in Herefordshire. I remember, as a child, foraging was just a normal part of everyday life in the Ceriog Valley. We used to pick masses of tiny, sweet, wild strawberries walking up the lane from school; along with blackberries, bilberries, etc. My Dad was a keen fisherman (the River Ceriog was just one field away) and we used to eat so much freshly caught Rainbow & Brown Trout, that we were sick of it !!! Dad would also catch Pike and other strange fish that were transformed into substantial, yet cheap, meals. He also did a bit of poaching (oops!!) so we reguarly ate rabbit, hare & pheasant. My parents had very little money but we ate like kings. Happy days!

shadowdragon

shaz_mum_of__2 wrote: »

Mmmm not sure about that

We were lucky enough to be at the show in Dorset wher he has appeared in the earlier shows pig herding etc and he had a stall in a marquee it was a bit too commercialized for me selling books and bags and all the stuff he sells as well as food i think it was ice cream?? He wasn't there on the few occaisions we passed by but the stall was mobbed

If you look at the main website its a huge shop but the forum used to be good

Don't get me wrong i love Hugh and his philosophy i just think its a bit naive to think he is a small smallholder he is running a huge business in fact i read somewhere that since taking this step he has worked harder than ever ,perhaps a reflection on the changing needs of the viewer


Well enough said i am off the soapbox and should you be watching Hugh i still love ya


Shaz

I thought his idea for the River Cottage Series was great, until I visited the HFW forums and found that he didnt live at river cottage full time!!! I was a bit disappointed at that, ok he said that he went back to london because his family was there, but if you were doing it as an experiment, as he said he was, then the experiment was a failure as he was living elsewhere for some of the time, skewing the results for whether being able to survive on the river cottage set up!!!

Just my opinion on HFW, Still good to see the old fashioned barter system and good neighbour ethics though :T

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I made a nice soup in the pressure cooker today: left over spinach, onion, potato, left over celery, frozen peas, garlic, cumin, nutmeg. Whizzed and was very satisfying with a chunk of bread. Dh also had some cheese

zarazara

dinner tonight is HM bread with HM baked beans. yummmmmmmmmm

germish_se

I like cookery programs, I use them as an excuse to rant!
Whatever they are cooking I critisise, huff an puff and tell them off..."Why is he using that, it makes it really expensive when you can use this instead, why make that more complicated than needed, what's the point of making it sound posh if you want real people to start cooking....."and so on.
Actually I get quite abusive , but they shouldn't agitate me, I grew up with a chef as a dad and a very frugal mother with little or no spare money!

Must admit though I've never seen River cottage * quickly ducks, in case a shoe or tomato comes hurtling towards my head*, but by the sound of it I wouldn't get enough of a rant out of watching it so what's the point!

Been doing very well on spending less over the last few weeks, probably about £25 less per week. Thank you Weezl and everyone else.

Been serving new and interesting foods (curries, couscous, corned beef casserole) but also serving DH stuff he likes as he don't want spicy food, fair enough I batch cooked individual steak & kidney pies for him as he likes that and we don't. Now he tells me if he had a choice between cooked food or taking a pill that fills the need for food he'd choose the pill!!!!:eek:
Sometimes I don't know why I bother.
I love food (eating it and cooking) and luckily so do the boys

I love him to bits so I will keep serving him the foods he likes (not always though, have to keep his expectations low so I don't make hard work for myself!:rotfl:)

Germ

PS Weezl, Do you not work in Cardiff? or did I missunderstand what you wrote? Just being nosey:D

Penny-Pincher!!

Weezl-You dont happen to know how much protein is in the chick pea curry do you? I need a very high protein diet. Also, could I substitute the spinach as I cant have this because of medication I am on?

Sorry to be a nuisance. We are on holiday next weekend but when we come back I am going to be doing some of your scrummy recipes and trying to cut down on some costs.

Thanks
PP
xx

growingafamily

sorry for asking again - I blame my about to have a baby in four days brain, but did anyone say how long the lentil and liver pate's keep in the fridge when made and the best way to freeze them ??
My mum is coming for the baby's birth and is making a ton of liver and onions for my freezer - lovely mum cooking !!!

Oh and we had a packet flavoured cous cous the other day that was nice - I just don't seem to be able to make my taste of much no matter what I throw in it (the one we liked was lemon and corriander if that helps) ??

loocyloo

phizzimum wrote: »

made pea-pod soup for lunch

i have just shelled a load of peas from the garden for tea ... and was wondering what i could do with the shells! can you make soup from them? or are they too stringy? is it the broad bean pod recipe? not sure the children will eat it though, they are not that keen on soup!

children are having a treat for tea. pizza ( 3 for £3 in asda ... one pizza will feed 4 little ones, plus some for lunch tomorrow! ) plus a load of veggies... peas from garden, broccolli from bulk buy in freezer and carrots from large bag bought last week! (its the pizza thats a treat! usually try to make it!)

and then yogurt with pureed fruit for pud!

glad i work from home and can keep reading throughout the day ... i'd never get anything done if i had to read it all in the evening! :rotfl:

loocyloo

In_Search_Of_Me

Evening Weezilites! Well the bread is baking & I'm finally going to see if the lentil pate can be slimmingworldised! Re the pate growing family I think weezl spreads it on bread & freezes it as sandwiches, all ready to go! My chicken liver pate I froze whole but will donate to Weezl as too much butter for SW...it really is as good as the M&S one & much cheaper! Fab that pople are doing so well saving money! I finally did a shop i Mr T & (weezl suggest if youre not sitting down, do so now!) I got it under 15!!!! Ok baby steps & nowhere near Weezl proportions but for me thats the lowest ever me thinks & with the exception of fresh fruit will do until next week me thinks! Will be innovative with supplies in and regig recipes to fit with SW & will post so at least Bob can benefit but hopefully others so not only will we be saving money but loosing weight for those of us who need it!
Our Weezl would be fab on TV cos shes lovely! Not only is she super intelligent with maths (which for someone whose IQ test came out at "low average" (translated as useless at maths!)that is FAB!), inventive, creative but also gorgeously gorgeous (avatar doesent do justice!)...Wonder is I should apply for fan club runner in advance before she gets super famous?!! Ceridwen & I could have the job of getting rid of her groupies by being "assertive!" security guards for her! I thought PP had a smallholding too...sure I read about a piggy somewhere...are we going loopy PP?!!
Re Hugh...I dont care what anyone says HE'S GORGEOUS (but in a different way to Weezl being gorgeous I hasten to add! Such a shame hes married with me single and waiting...!!!!
Oo forgot to say re the M&S etc...I think there is a general shift in society re wanting more/having it all. Possibly due to the credit crunch but also because maybe after over a decade of greed generally we are realising that it didnt make us happy? I used to literally spend an OBSCENE amount on "stuff" (still not perfect!) and now have a fit to think that I actually spent 34 on bubble bath once...ridiculous! Plus I am much, much happier than I ever was when I spent in excess of 1000 a month over what I earned although being honest at times it can be so tiring/exhausting that I do struggle to relax sometimes...not sure about others?