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

Penelope_Penguin

freyasmum wrote: »

Actually... you only have to look at my avatar to see that

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Just making a summer vegetable risotto. 4 portions (and there's usually some left for me to freeze for lunch):

risotto rice 36p
HG courgette, beans, peas, onion, garlic 0p
HM veg stock 0p
Handful of frozen sweetcorn (to add some colour ) 14p
HG herbs (basil, coriander, mint, chives) 0p

4 good portions - 50p :j

I'll be trying the nutrition-calc later. I'm 83% geek apparently :rolleyes: :cool: :T

Penny. x

shaz_mum_of__2

weezl74 wrote: »

19p dinner for me tonight, and just what I fancied! Nomnomnom.....



the asda smart price sausage and the HM bread (not shown!) were the bits I paid for, but the salad, (including the thinnings from the beets and carrots) and cucumber I grew, and the rhubarb and ginger chutney (far right- nomnomnom) was a gift from the lovely shaz:A, to commemorate the end of the last challenge.

I'm too stuffed for a pud, so I think that's a pretty good result! :T

Love Weezl x

How was the chutney we havent had any yet ??? still using the chilli and tomato and the red onion marmalade

Although egg pickling will be on the agenda this week ...............(Mr A is doing 18 free range for £2 again by the way) although i just got a tray from my lady

Got to do some baking for summer fair on thursday but got my specialists appointment tomorrow re: neck wish me luck i am a bit scared..............

Might do some later hubby got a late clinic so not back till after 8 at least


Must admit your sausages look good but i cant bring myself to buy them



Shaz

ceridwen

weezl74 wrote: »

great tip DebbieMc, thank you!

Just downloaded Mrs Beeton, as given in Stephen Leak's new thread - Fab!

I think there will be some great recipes, but I'm too busy chortling at her manners advice at the mo:

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Love Weezl x

I'll start embroidering my "Home Sweet Home" sampler now shall I?:D

weezl74

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

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Just making a summer vegetable risotto. 4 portions (and there's usually some left for me to freeze for lunch):

risotto rice 36p
HG courgette, beans, peas, onion, garlic 0p
HM veg stock 0p
Handful of frozen sweetcorn (to add some colour ) 14p
HG herbs (basil, coriander, mint, chives) 0p

4 good portions - 50p :j

I'll be trying the nutrition-calc later. I'm 83% geek apparently :rolleyes: :cool: :T

Penny. x

reeeeeeeeeeesult! That's a bargain penny penguin! :T:T:T

Are you trying recipecal? or another one, do pop back and share your findings?;)

Wish I had been successful with courgettes. Planted 10 seeds this year, and not a single one came up!:mad:

Still everything else is doing well, so mustn't grumble!

Shaz the chutney is superb! Those spices! DH yet again wants to move in with you!:D

about the smart price sausage, I compared its meat, salt and fat content with their posh brand and it's within 1% of the same breakdown. I genuinely think it's a packaging issue. Has anyone read the 'undercover economist'?

mary43

Trying hard to convert OH into this 50p a day thing (he does most of the cooking as he's a lot better at it than me !)
Tonights meal was huge pile of cauliflower cheese with grilled bacon -nice and lean - and grilled tomatos..............worked out at about £1.50 the lot - enough for the two of us.

(Kids wanted pizza !)

freyasmum

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Just making a summer vegetable risotto. 4 portions (and there's usually some left for me to freeze for lunch):

risotto rice 36p
HG courgette, beans, peas, onion, garlic 0p
HM veg stock 0p
Handful of frozen sweetcorn (to add some colour ) 14p
HG herbs (basil, coriander, mint, chives) 0p

4 good portions - 50p :j

I'll be trying the nutrition-calc later. I'm 83% geek apparently :rolleyes: :cool: :T

Penny. x

Yours are really pretty :D (I might have been going to say 'your cherries are really pretty'... but it didn't quite sound right :A :rotfl:)

That sounds absolutely delicious, and weezl :drool: 19p a portion is excellent!

ceridwen

weezl74 wrote: »

I make it 51p per portion :T:T:T and if we could find a better price for haricots than nearly a quid for 500g, it'd be even better!:D

Excuse my ignorance - but arent canned baked beans made from haricot beans? - in which case couldnt anyone requiring haricot beans just buy the canned baked beans and rinse the sauce off? Just a thought...

shaz_mum_of__2

weezl74 wrote: »

about the smart price sausage, I compared its meat, salt and fat content with their posh brand and it's within 1% of the same breakdown. I genuinely think it's a packaging issue. Has anyone read the 'undercover economist'?

We saw an article (in the mail i think it was ) a few weeks ago and they praised them too

I do try and buy ethically i do slip occasionally with lamb and pork more because of the lack of choice than anything else but always try to buy best sausages and buy em reduced!!

Shaz

just popped a couple coconut cakes in the oven with some glace cherries added ,got bran flakes soaking in apple juice for a dairy free bran flake cake too might do some hobnob flapjack tomorrow or do some cupcakes with all the supercook bits on top - i think i could stock the cake stall at school single handed my mums done a lemon drizzle too:rotfl: :rotfl:

In_Search_Of_Me

Evening me lovelies! Just popping in before going to make bread & a lemon cake if I can find the recipe...all from stuff in the house (checked BB today it it was of the oh :eek: variety - thankfully its pay day Friday & I should get a 300 tax rebate which well covers it but still!). Just made a yummy but simple pasta dish (on green Weezl!)l pasta with stir fried.cooked frozen soya beans, diced pepper (yellow for the color people!) and a smidge of tom paste all stir fried with a bit of fry light (for the non slimmers you can use olive oil) and then a bit of parmesan cheese on top. Yummy! Feel I need more though so will have pelenta caks (if I can be patient!) or HM "free" yog ice cream if I cant!! Back in a bit!

ceridwen

Hi ISOM

Any chance of the recipe for the polenta cake purlease?:D