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

ceridwen

Bunny200 wrote: »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7482670.stm

seems like a good idea to me, grow locally, less food miles and we might be able to get under 50p a day then!

Good article. Glad to see anyone making progress on urban foodgrowing front. You might be interested in a Swedish blog (but it is in English):

http://indoorgardener.blogspot.com/

she is experimenting with trying to grow enough food indoors for the 3 of them and features various other gardening experiments on it..like vertical gardening, whats happening in Cuba (I seem to recall), roof gardening, etc.

ceridwen

cw18 wrote: »

me too

think Weezl should have her own show.......

Feed a family on peanuts - Weezl shows you how

Yep - me too for agreeing with Weezl's post about us being encouraged to "want" so much. I always try (sometimes not succeeding) - but most of the time manage to remember it is my precious time that is going on down the drain for stuff I dont actually really want myself. (When you are on the sorta salary I am on - even £100 means I've worked for nowt except satisfying the "Consumer Society" for days).

Ps: Hey - theres a thought - dont think we have had a husband and wife cookery show since the days of Fanny Craddock (though I'm sure Acetate Monkey is very different to Mr Craddock!:D ).

growingafamily

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Ps: Hey - theres a thought - dont think we have had a husband and wife cookery show since the days of Fanny Craddock (though I'm sure Acetate Monkey is very different to Mr Craddock!:D ).[/quote]

ROFLMBO :D:D:D

ceridwen

In_Search_Of_Me wrote: »

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?

Hi ISOM

I'd be interested in any weezlised Slimming World recipes going too purlease.

You and me as Weezl's bodyguards - well I HAVE been a "pacifist-type" bodyguard before now and recall stopping punch-ups (both of the physical and verbal variety). So - I guess I can put a bit of experience down on my C.V. for any vacant position in this respect......

Yep....I can be very forceful when I want to be (in a peaceful way of course;) ).

Of course....I would need feeding at intervals:cool:

weezl74

ahhh, the Craddocks! Yes, well I've just texted Mr Weezl asking if he'd like to be Johnny to my Fanny.

Hope the poor love doesn't get the wrong idea...


hehehe. Naughty Weezl.:o

Hiya growing a family :hello:, sorry you did ask this before! Yes I do freeze both pates, sometimes in sarnies, sometimes tubs. No unwanted effects so far!

oooh the microwave's just pinged, back in a min...

boredofbeingathome

loocyloo wrote: »

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

If you like pizza, i make mashed potato pizza. Mash up spuds with milk and butter/marg, salt and pepper. Place on tray and put in oven, until top slightly hard.
Tomato base is -1 tin of toms, hebs, and garlic, all in pan and reduced down, about 20 mins,
Toppings-mushrooms, toms, meat and of course cheese.
Place tom sauce and layer your toppings of choice-should come in at anything from 50p -£1 depending on price of goods.
And it is so filling i defy anyone to move after, and very moreish and free on green day on slimming world. (minus the butter)

boredofbeingathome

We have had bean curry for tea tonight, not done much baking as have had a really bad back and neck, Virus off daughter or..probably hunched over computer all the time!
so will price up later....

phizzimum

loocyloo - yes I did base the pea pod soup on the broad bean soup recipe - basically pea pods, potato diced and chicken stock, simmered and whizzed up with my stick blender.

I was going to de-string the pods but soon got bored of that! After whizzing the soup in with blender I strained it through a sieve. a quick squidge with the back of a wooden spoon and it went through very easily leaving the fibrous stuff behind.

different subject - back to the idea of pigs' trotters, ears etc. I was talking to DH about it to see if he'd be willing to give them a try. He said that recently he was talking to a butcher who said they actually have to pay to have stuff like that taken away! If that's true then surely they would be more than happy if we frugalistas put pigs' extremities back on the menu. I just need to get the courage to go and ask my local butcher! I'm a bit of a wimp when it comes to going to the butchers anyway - I'm never sure if I'm asking for the right thing.

growingafamily

I can't believe you can freeze a sandwich - What a revelation !!
Can't wait til this baby arrives - liver pate and liver and onions on standby LOL

cw18

Pigs trotters etc..... other than not knowing what to do with them, and being pretty certain neither hubby nor my son would touch them, I haven't had a local butcher I can ask since Easter 2007 --- he was open one day and gone the next with no warning :eek: