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

jo1972

In_Search_Of_Me wrote: »

aww Jo! Not sure I'm amazing

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In_Search_Of_Me wrote: »

I would get a few carrots, pots and rice or pasta and a couple tins tom. How about a quick n easy recipe which I'll make up off top of my head! Chop few potatoes into squares & par boil then drain. Put pots back in pan with a drizzle of oil or nob of butter & bash pots against pan (or is on SW use fry light!) and then put in roasting tin at 200, giving a shake after 20 mins. Meanwhile pots Get 3 chicken breasts and chop into bits...fry an onion (if you have one!) in a large pan with the moroccan spices (i usually use a wok!) then fry the chicken in it; add tin (or two if larger quanity needed) of toms and add seasoning to flav; chuck in a tin of chick peas and leave to simmer (at this stage give the pots a shake - they should start to be getting crispy by now!) and leave for 20 mins or low heat for 3/4 hr...then dish up and enjoy!

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Have you heard (read) yourself? You're amazing and that sounds yummy! Thank you so much ISOM

mdhughes03

Am sure someone will beat me to this but can think of five meals with little expense...

moroccan lamb chops with chickpeas and cous cous
chicken curry with rice (use 3 breasts)
chicken "Burgers" (breasts in a bun) and onion rings
sausage casserole (using 8ish of the sausages)
sausage pasta ("recipe" below)

buy 1 bag cous cous, 2 Value bags of pasta, 1 bag rice, 1 pack rolls and some extra veg?

"Recipe" for sausage pasta
remove skins from sausage (don't need very many as the meat is quite rich) and break up into a frying pan. Then treat it as if it were mince-add tinned toms and herbs or lemon juice and creme fraiche and any veg lying about. V cheap and makes a change!

hope this helps x

mama67

Frugalista wrote: »

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!

I used to holiday as a girl near the hamlet of Glyn Ceriog on a farm called Cefn Ucaf.

Used to go into Chirk and Llangollen regularly whilst on holiday there.

growingafamily

if you had a £10 tesco voucher (from surveys) - what would you buy to stock up ?? (if baby not here by Sunday will be on a raspberry leaf hunt LOL)

jo1972

mdhughes03 wrote: »

Am sure someone will beat me to this but can think of five meals with little expense...

moroccan lamb chops with chickpeas and cous cous
chicken curry with rice (use 3 breasts)
chicken "Burgers" (breasts in a bun) and onion rings
sausage casserole (using 8ish of the sausages)
sausage pasta ("recipe" below)

buy 1 bag cous cous, 2 Value bags of pasta, 1 bag rice, 1 pack rolls and some extra veg?

"Recipe" for sausage pasta
remove skins from sausage (don't need very many as the meat is quite rich) and break up into a frying pan. Then treat it as if it were mince-add tinned toms and herbs or lemon juice and creme fraiche and any veg lying about. V cheap and makes a change!

hope this helps x

Thank you so much for these ideas, lucky I've looked at this thread early cos I nearly went to work without taking something out of the freezer for tonights dinner :eek: better go do that now while I'm thinking of it!

Thanks again

In_Search_Of_Me

In mega haste as off to w***! Jo thank you for saying I'm amazing. Dont feel it much of the time but do appreciate I have facets!! Hugs for you Softstuff no offence to me caused and I agree that many havent got understandng that they dont need it all and I'm still a bit of a consumerist (love shopping - its genetic - I get it from my dad!!) but I guess what I mean is that I have found more precious gems in the non consumer stuff IYKWIM! Like many new o/s bought BM (Then flogged it!) & going back to even more basics now and even save yog pots "just in case"...of what I dont know!
Growing a family hope it comes soon! S E X, pineapple are also said to be good but appreciate you may feel the desire for either right now!! As for whT I would but it would be staples but suspect our weezl will be much better at guiding anyone in that!! I'd get diverted by nice things like ...well anything really - esp if in shiny packaging lol!!
Have a good day all! Going for a no spender and its my first lunch swap today and I'm the recipient which is extra fab!! Hope you had good sleep Weezl and Mr Weezl home same & sound and without feeling sick after sampling at least 3 buffet meals in the last couple of days lol!!

Ibex

boredofbeingathome wrote: »

loocyloo wrote: »

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)

What a brilliant idea I'm definetely going to try this.

Kron

Hi

I've been lurking on this thread and find it fascinating.

I notice some of you are doing slimming world. I've know a really cheap recipe for tortillas that are free on a green day.

1 pack of value lasagne sheets

Put oven on hottest. Spray a baking tray with fry light oil (free).

Bring a pan of water to the boil and put in a few sheets of lasagne (I used ot put in no more than 3 at a time). Boil for three minutes.

Take out and cut into any shape you want. Place on baking tray. Keep going until baking tray is full up.

Spray with fry light and put in oven.

They should take about 8 mins. But watch them really carefully as they can be uncooked one minute and burnt the next!!

They keep for ages in an airtight container. However they are very moreish!

I hope its ok to put this recipe here.

All the best Weezl for today.

Karen

newlywed

Who was it who wanted to buy a pig head?

I just bought a traditional greek cook book (from charity shop) that has a recipe where you boil the whole head up and then chop off the meat - made me shudder to think of it :eek: but if anyone would like the recipe I'll post it???

weezl74

newlywed wrote: »

Who was it who wanted to buy a pig head?

I just bought a traditional greek cook book (from charity shop) that has a recipe where you boil the whole head up and then chop off the meat - made me shudder to think of it :eek: but if anyone would like the recipe I'll post it???

newlywed, hello it was me!:hello:

If it wouldn't make you hurl, the recipe would be much appreciated.:D

Penny-pincher :hello:, here are 3 of our recipes and their protein values per serving. They are all high protein, and not a hint of spinach!

Tomato dahl and rice

Food energy (kcal) 802.50
Protein (g) 26.491
Fat (Total lipids)(g) 11.866

Spicy chick peas

Food energy (kcal) 305.76
Protein (g) 9.65
Fat (Total lipids)(g) 17.02

4 bean salad

Food energy (kcal) 717.239
Protein (g) 25.376
Fat (Total lipids)(g) 13.245

26.6 grams to 47.3 grams protein daily is the usual protein range for an adult woman, so you will be well provided for there! The chick peas are crunchy, a bit like a dry roasted peanut, but lower in fat and higher in other nutrients.

HM wholemeal bread is very good for protein too: shaz's seeded bread is Protein (g) 7.211 per 2 slices for example, so 2 slices each at breakfast and lunch, with perhaps 2 poached eggs at brekkie, and ham/cheese/houmous at lunch, would be another 30g protein (assuming 1 oz cheese on sarnie!).

Another thought, diets high in protein can make our bodies shed too much of our calcium stores, so it might be worth having lots of milk and yoghurt too!

Hope all those thoughts help!

I think I've fixed the problems in the index now.:D:o

Love Weezl x