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

shaz_mum_of__2

Hi weezl

we sometimes have

Cracked wheat salad

bulghar wheat soaked as per pack instructions with chopped onion, diced cucumber ,sliced radishes,chopped celery, cherry tomato halves a few cooked chick peas maybe a bit of sweetcrn or pepper ,you get the picture and some toasted nuts/sunflower seeds in a salad dressing /soy sauce


yummy nutty and filling

Shaz

ps i buy lots of interesting salad dressings and condiments from home bargains and B&N for 39p

Tightwadways

:T Wow!! Just seen this thread and it's taken me just over a day to read all of it. Many thanks to Weezl for all the inspiration....it certainly has been an eye opener on how much I've been spending on food for the four of us. I'm hoping to join you in your efforts...although I have a feeling my bottomless pit of a 5 year old may raise the spending threshold slightly I've now reserved a copy of Food For Free at the library so when it arrives we'll be having a go....and if we're successful then I'll get us a copy. Can't wait to start reducing my spending and joining in now....made cakes today as a starter for in hubby's lunchbox....

weezl74

Thanks freecycle


vegetarians and ISOM look away now,


I've been a makin' plans for the pig's head!

Apparently my first task will be to scrub him well. I have been disinfecting a nail brush today for this very purpose .

Then he must be rinsed and patted dry.

Then I'm to pour a kettle of boiling water over his head in a colander in the sink...

I plan to make a rub for the skin with salt, ground black pepper and chilli. The butcher will score the skin for me so that should work out nicely. He's also removed the eyes (thank the Lord!)

Then I place him in a roasting dish with some wine (leftover from friends coming round, and now slightly acidic, with honey, bay leaves and maybe some thyme or sage, not quite sure yet. I shall baste him with this as he roasts for 3.5 hrs!:eek:

How's it sounding so far? Total cost so far about 1p for salt and pepper.:money:

I may need to be a bit clever when thinking what to serve him with. Is mash acceptable?

Erm, another dumb question, is all of him edible?:o (other than bones!) and a final dumb question, how do I singe off his bristles? I've got some 10 inch long matches, will those work?

vegetarians you can come back now! and I hope I haven't offended you forever!

moanymoany does that all sound ok to you?

Love nervous Weezl x

mary43

eeek !!!!:eek:
Not a vegetarian but couldn't...........no way, not if you paid me....................:eek:

Tonight dinner was Tandori chicken (tandori mix from the lamb on Sunday)
Salad - (lettuce from garden)- bought tomatos,springonions and eggs for hard boiling
and new potatos (cheap at market)
with mint from the garden

Cost: £3.50 -to feed 4

Think we're doing ok:j

In_Search_Of_Me

Of course we couldnt look away cos w might miss something. I shall say a prayer for poor piggy...shuffles away muttering "what is the world coming to...dont think about poor, already dead piggy just look for yoghurt info instead & definately dont think about poor piggy while eating sushi later"

ceridwen

weezl74 wrote: »

Thanks esselt and CW18 for the photo compliments. It's quite a deliberate strategy actually, to really try to make the foods look delicious.

It's my small way of trying to turn on it's head this thing I've been ranting about before, where TV programmes use very vivid, bright, saturated colour photography for (expensive) food. And so we all crave it.

Brings a new slant to DIY - as in Do It Yourself as a "food stylist" - thinking of that newspaper article I read recently pointing out all the "tricks of the trade" to give us those tempting-looking photos on the outside of readymeal packs - and then we open them and see a load of "glop":D

- but in our Weezl's case its all "proper" food - and not served on teensy plates to "big it up" like what they do:D

ceridwen

In_Search_Of_Me wrote: »

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: I was wondering that!! Mr Weezl I can confirm is an absolutely lovely bloke and these wee snippets just confirm this as he would have known that Mrs Weezl was close to a coronary having to CHUCK food! Yay up for AM!! (Hello if youre lurking at w*** BTW...I am on strike!!)

yay! You go gal.....gotta give a bit of trade union solidarity here....:T

weezl74

In_Search_Of_Me wrote: »

Of course we couldnt look away cos w might miss something. I shall say a prayer for poor piggy...shuffles away muttering "what is the world coming to...dont think about poor, already dead piggy just look for yoghurt info instead & definately dont think about poor piggy while eating sushi later"

How were those bacon misshapes you picked up at the weekend hon?

:rotfl:


(bad weezl, mustn't tease lovely friend!)

p.s been meaning to say: the good news, yes there is a brother!

the bad news, he has a long-term girlfriend and they are very settled.

Sorry chaps!

ceridwen

[quote=Plum Pie;12546043

I know you can make vegetable tartlets with a scone base made with flour, veg oil (instead of butter or marg) and water and filled with tomato sauce and some veg. I guess you could also add a bit of cheese or ham if you happened to have it. I bet they would be freezable and easily transportable.
I saw the original recipe in a dairy-free cook book (too much milk is bad for my nose!) which I no longer own and I cannot find a decent recipe online or in the index here but perhaps you could find one in a library book.
[/quote]

You know me - and my liking for "precise" recipes that sounds good to me (with cheese for myself personally - not ham - being veggie). Errrr....if anyone has a spare moment to work out a "precise" type recipe on this....'twould be ever so nice of you purlease;)

weezl74

mary43 wrote: »

eeek !!!!:eek:
Not a vegetarian but couldn't...........no way, not if you paid me....................:eek:

Tonight dinner was Tandori chicken (tandori mix from the lamb on Sunday)
Salad - (lettuce from garden)- bought tomatos,springonions and eggs for hard boiling
and new potatos (cheap at market)
with mint from the garden

Cost: £3.50 -to feed 4

Think we're doing ok:j

your dinner sounds nomnomnom Mary43! :T:T:T Your OH sounds very talented. I think tandoori chicken would be pretty hard to do on the Weezl budget, even with the morrissons 12.5p chicken portions!

Tandoori trotters might be a goer!