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

weezl74

Hello All,

Well done everyone on your very cheap and freeganed dinners :T:T:T:T.

Penny penguin yours sounds fab, will DD not eat an animal she's known?

CW18, how fab! I know you were feeling it would be really hard to get your budget down, but I think with shear grit and determination you've been slicing pounds off it in the time we've known you! Hat is well and truely off to you. :j

This morning's trip to ahem, befriend ISOM's butcher went well.

I enquired about both a head, and some trotters, and he was genuinely very helpful. The head will be free:money:and the trotters will be 10p each! Wowzers. Very thrilled. ISOM then kindly :beer::A treated me to an ironically named millionaire's shortbread, and we proceeded to morrissons for the bargain chicken, Lidl for bargain dishwasher powder. Good times.

A couple of people have asked what the new challenge includes, ie is it cleaning stuff too.

Nope! The last one did, at 64p each a day, but this one is 50p without. But in my head it's 55p each a day inclusive of those things. I thought that was the least complex way of doing things!

Hypno:T, you did really well on your freeganism! I need to take a leaf out of your book. Thinks, now where can I get a supply of friends with issues about use-by dates....?!

BigMumma, alas it rained to hard to go Larva gathering, so we bought topsoil for the new raised bed (the brick one, not the one with the copper edge!) but will go a foraging for it very soon!

Interesting find at the farmers market today with ISOM, people selling marsh samphire they'd foraged, for £2 a bundle! Worth a thought! Ceridwen, I hope your ears just pricked up then. Given its location, surely an organic cache?

Some comfrey arrived from a very lovely MSE friend (I don't know whether to embarass you publically;)) and Mr Weezl has planted it today:j

Will go update sig accordingly....

Back soon, love Weezl x

p.s we do enormous, healthy, painless, but loo-blocking poos sian the green!

cw18

weezl74 wrote: »

CW18, how fab! I know you were feeling it would be really hard to get your budget down, but I think with shear grit and determination you've been slicing pounds off it in the time we've known you! Hat is well and truely off to you. :j

Thanks


But the best of it is the reaction I had from younger son (17 next week).

It's not unusual for him to still be chomping through a meal an hour after it's served -- but today I had an empty plate (he'd licked it clean!) wafted under my nose after about 10 mins..... accompanied by a request that next time I put food on it before telling him tea's ready :rotfl:

redsquirrel80

Hi guys, not posted much the last couple of days, been quite busy. Have 20p to add to my total for some reduced sesame burger buns picked up in Sainsburys the other night, other than that have still been using what I've got here. Ate out last night on work night out, and it was very disappointing, bad pub food (budgeted for that seperately as part of night out, spent £15 altogether so not too bad).

Today's food has been hangover-friendly!
Breakfast - two buns toasted with butter - 7p
Lunch - spicy tomato soup (1/3 tin tomatoes, onions, garlic, chilli, spoonful of hot & sour paste) - about 9p, and another sesame bun - 3p
Snack - muffin - 6p
Tea - potato bake (potatoes and onions from garden, with herbs, butter and topped with parmesan) with lettuce from garden and pickled cabbage - mostly free but estimated about 10p for everything else

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Total for day 35p!!! Plus a few cups of tea and a huge amount of water!

weezl74

redsquirrel, thanks for posting your stats, so inspiring!

I can't work out if you have a more delicate appetite than me, or you are queen of the bargain price find, or a bit of both!:rotfl:How do you get parmesan so cheap? I love it, do share!;)

Also, what's 'hot and sour paste', sounds intriguing!


Weezl x

weezl74

...forgot to say that ISOM was very good at registering the daftness of the supermarket only letting us have 2 packs of chicken each. I love it when people are brave and assertive (in a very good way) and I think it's absolutely what MSE is all about, consumers being more savvy, and asking for what's rightfully theirs.

I was a big wuss though and stayed out of it. Dunno who was the bigger chicken, me or my purchases!:o:D

shaz_mum_of__2

weezl74 wrote: »

Hiya shaz! that looks like an amazing 27p per batch :money:Did you say how many servings you thought it made?

Loving your sig!;):p

Love Weezl x

Hiya


It does 4 lunch servings so really good then about 7p per serving :T


Made the gnocchi as you know .........................what a disaster it tasted great but i made it the night before and it all stuck together even though i had floured it ......................and there wasn't enough i had to have pasta instead ..............the recipe you did would need to be doubled for my lot .....although i didnt use as much flour as the recipe said


Anyway it was really nice but will make fresh and do more next time,thank god for the foccacia or there would have been be a riot:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:


Had another busy gardening day gazebo thing nearly done and topsoil coming monday .................i hate not been able to do anything (because of the trapped nerve )i will be pleased when its all done

Hubby had a week off work and hasn't stopped .........and tomorrow he has to drive to kent for a meeting monday morning re his Dads estate (he died in february)

Went to local market today and got loads of bargains also went to farm foods they have tropical smoothie mix 500g for 39p im thinking ice cream???


Hope everyones ok

Shaz

redsquirrel80

weezl74 wrote: »

redsquirrel, thanks for posting your stats, so inspiring!

I can't work out if you have a more delicate appetite than me, or you are queen of the bargain price find, or a bit of both!:rotfl:How do you get parmesan so cheap? I love it, do share!;)

Also, what's 'hot and sour paste', sounds intriguing!


Weezl x

I certainly don't think I have a 'delicate' appetite - the potato bake should probably have served two! Have been very lucky with bargains lately - and the parmesan was one of the things I bought with vouchers in Sainsburys (though I seem to remember there's was quite a reasonable price anyway) - obviously without the 'free' stuff all those meals would cost me more... and I guess the homegrown veg has cost in terms of seeds, soil etc, but I'm not even going to start trying to work that out!

The hot & sour paste is a Thai paste for making soup - have a look for Tom Yum or Tom Yam - I buy mine off eBay, usually about £2 including the postage but a packet lasts me ages as I tend to use just a spoonful in soup or curry. I've tried a few brands, they're all slightly different, but I love the 'Maesri' one. Had another lovely similar paste that was from the Philippines, but can't remember what that one was called, it had some sort of fruit in it and a lovely tangy/ sour taste.

ceridwen

weezl74 wrote: »

This morning's trip to ahem, befriend ISOM's butcher went well.

I enquired about both a head, and some trotters, and he was genuinely very helpful. The head will be free:money:and the trotters will be 10p each! Wowzers. Very thrilled. ISOM then kindly :beer::A treated me to an ironically named millionaire's shortbread, and we proceeded to morrissons for the bargain chicken, Lidl for bargain dishwasher powder. Good times.

Interesting find at the farmers market today with ISOM, people selling marsh samphire they'd foraged, for £2 a bundle! Worth a thought! Ceridwen, I hope your ears just pricked up then. Given its location, surely an organic cache?

oOOH..marsh samphire eh? Never even tried it - as have never come across it ...yet. Envious...like trying new things.....:cool:

I think I'll "leave" you to try that pigs bits on your own somehows...my excuse for that is I'm a vegetarian (whew!! relieved about that;) ). But - imagine a pigs head has a noticeable amount of meat on it for those that aint. Now - I hope you're remembering any useful hints you picked up on those Supersizers eating in different eras tv programmes:D Every one of those eras (apart from the 1970s) seemed to eat every bit there is of an animal....:eek: Well - I guess thats what you call "good utilisation of available resources".

shaz_mum_of__2

I have had samphire grass it came sauteed in butter with a whopping great piece of monkfish on yum yum its a bit like firm spinach and is quite salty but nice probably hugely nutritious too??

its hugely popular in Norfolk



Shaz

Whose hubby is still banging away outside ..................behave :A

cw18

shaz_mum_of__2 wrote: »

Whose hubby is still banging away outside ..................behave

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: