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

phizzimum

Hi newly wed - I'd be interested in the pig head recipe too!

weezl - I'm amazed at the protein levels in those recipes, thanks for posting them.

has anyone been eating courgette flowers? do you use the ones on the end of the growing courgette? or are you only supposed to eat the male flowers?

newlywed

Okey dokey - I shall type up the gross pigs head recipe for you guys later tonight hopefully - each to their own - I wouldn't touch trotters, brain, tongue or eyes either

Bunny200

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1033903/The-Frugalistas-Meet-women-beat-credit-crunch-style.html


Please please please Weezl will you start publicising your blog to the press. Everyone it jumping on the bandwagon of cutting the cost and the journos will be sooo interested in what you are doing. Contact the dailies and show them what you've achieved!

Weezl for PM!

System

hello there,

i have been lurking on this new thread, thought i would come out of lurkerdom to offer recipes from an old 'farmhouse fare' cookbook i got at a jumble sale ("recipes from country housewives collected by the farmers weekly" )

it has quite a few of recipes for pigs heads, sheeps heads, with tails n trotters n blood and all that, so let me know what booty you come back with when you go :kisses: the butcher

:eek: i have not tried any of them im afraid, working with any raw meat gives me the heebie jeebies

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another very tasty cheapie

steamed shredded cabbage (lots) pint of white sauce nuts (cashews are nice) tasty grated cheddar

layers and bake 25 minutes. I did mine in the remoska and we had half re-heated the next day. It was really gorgeous

weezl74

thank you jumble-bee for coming out of lurkerdom!

I shall indeed post what we attain from our kiss-up to the butcher (poor ISOM I'm making her sound like a harlot! It's all my idea honest!) and you can tell me what I can do with it!

Subject to weather being ok, I shall be going seaweed harvesting tomorrow with an old friend from school. Before treating her to some HM pasta with pesto. My first dinner party of the new challenge! wish me luck! Hmmmmmn, given that I'm not good at getting the pasta thin enough, maybe I could make gnocchi?

Will trawl google now...

Last 2 days stats have been very low here (c. 40p a day) as Mr Weezl away on a conference (filling his boots!) he also returned with a worthy stash of feeganed bits and bobs. The stores I bought already are holding out extremely well!:T

Weezl x

weezl74

sorry Kittie! crossed posts with you there! I'll add that great recipe to the index. Any idea of the costings? Or I could look it up on mysupermarket?

Love Weezl x

mama67

Managed to win bid the Bernadine Lawrence Feed family for £5 a day this weekend on ebay, so it is now winging its way to me.

Hopefully some good ideas and different things to what I already do in there.

Plum_Pie

Bunny200 wrote: »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1033903/The-Frugalistas-Meet-women-beat-credit-crunch-style.html
Please please please Weezl will you start publicising your blog to the press. Everyone it jumping on the bandwagon of cutting the cost and the journos will be sooo interested in what you are doing. Contact the dailies and show them what you've achieved! quote]

Newspapers are full of advertisements which is how they can be sold to us for the cover price. If the press prints too much stuff telling us how to subvert consumerism, they will lose ad revenue and go bust....

I do think Weezl's blog is excellent and should be read as widely as possible, but I'm a bit cynical. We can't overthrow capitalism, we can only make it work for us, as opposed to the other way round.

I'm going to add something to this, because I think I've come across as a bit gloomy!

If you read the DM article, basically, all the women (and this is also talked about OS and DFW etc a lot,) got into the frugalista/OS/DFW mindset by ignoring a lot of mass media stuff. So these ideas will get coverage in the media but only for novelty value. The norm is presented as 'These people are odd. Their lifestyles are time and labour intensive. You should just resign yourself to being a sheep: be materialistic, be duped by advertising, get into debt and if things are going wrong for the global economy, you're probably screwed'.

moneydribbler

Afternoon all (anyone know an ark-maker?)

growingafamily wrote: »

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) ??

I've had pretty good results subbing in lemon juice half and half with the water and then stirring through chopped coriander at the "fork to fluff" stage, but it doesn't taste entirely the same (I think the packet ones have a fair bit of salt in them?) and it's not hugely cheap even with value lemons/lemon juice because it uses so much. I've also added garlic salt along with the coriander and that was quite nice.

Otherwise, try peeling, de-pith and de-pipping a lemon (about 1/2 a lemon per portion) and chopping it up - retain all the juice, and chop your coriander, then fork through prepared couscous. Again, not the same, but really nice and not quite as much of a bite as using the juice in the cooking process


Meal planning rules :j - I'm a bit of a list freak anyway, and it's one more thing I can score off and feel I've achieved at the end of the day (plus I'm eating nicer, better food...)

Last night's yummy tea:
Mexican twice baked potatoes with garlic roasted butternut squash
potatoes (1 1/2 at 7p ish, baked in with monday's dinner)
Mexicana Cheese (3p. Yay yellow sticker)
bacon (50p :eek: , but it'd be as nice with cheapy ham and it needed used)
1 egg (19p)
Garlic roasted butternut squash (35p, roasted along with friend's dinner on tuesday. again a bit :eek: but needed used up and it's so, so nice)

Chop the potatoes in half (as to fill ) and scoop out a (very) shallow trough in each using a teaspoon, put extracted potato in bowl, add egg and beat together with fork, add chopped cheese and bacon (or ham) to make thickish mixture and spoon onto potatoes, whack under grill until all nummy and golden-brown.

so total:£1.07 , which is over my £1 goal, but storecupboard shopping and easily reduced with cheaper/less meat (I've made it before with a fried onion in place of the meat, which was lovely with plain cheddar and a bit of mustard powder) and a more economic veg - and I think, because the potato's been cooked and cooled (even though it's reheated again) it now counts as a veg portion too?