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

cw18

Re: fabric conditioner -- I'm another doesn't use.... I haven't for years. Apart from anything else it's one more thing to trigger hubby's eczema!

Don't use the 'sheets' in my tumble drier either, much to the disgust of a lot of work colleagues and friends (and yes, I still use that -- but mainly for towels and bedding unless the weather is like it is now and rains for days, in which case it gets anything that we need that will go through)

CoD_2

weezl sorry if it's already been stated but does the head include the brain? (poss dim question i know!)

i've just told my husband and he'd be quite willing for us to have that. but it won't be him preparing it! and hmm would it fit in a range?

ISOM I use an easiyo, just use a tbs of the previous batch of yoghurt as it's cheaper and saves me remembering to put a little tub on the shopping list, a litre of UHT milk, a little bit of powdered milk. you can thicken the yoghurt by straining it through a muslin for a few hours, makes more of a greek yoghurt if that's what you're after?

cw18

I have an Easiyo 'somewhere' that I bought about 6 years ago, but have never used it without the packet mixes !!

Brighton_belle

In_Search_Of_Me wrote: »

Now girls in my attempts to be frugalistic I am going to buy a yog maker. WIth my new diet I eat it by the tub so suss I'll save about 80p a tub which means it will pay for itself in under 10 tubs which is great. I want to make it from scratch and did have a squizz but was a tad confused by various recipes! Can anyone give me step by step instructions & measurements (ie not "up to the line..", whac a bit in" etc as a new yog maker I know that would be a disaster! ). Would be much appreciated! Also does anyone know if you can make HM fromage frais?!

hello, just brousing away from my usual forum haunts:D . I've just got an easiyo last week and it is soooo fab and saving us lots of dosh as we eat loads of yog too. As we are watching our weight we use:
1 ltr skimmed UHT (49p basic brand asda, sains,lidl)
2 tbsp skimmed milk powder (thickens it)
1 tbsp 'live' yog as a starter.
Use can use the yog you make for the starter for 4-5 next times before needing to refresh.
I asked for an easiyo on freecyle and got one within an hr (I reckoned that yog makers were one of those gadgets many had gathering dust in a cupboard.) Usual price 13.99 but lakeland have an offer on at £9.20.

Going to try straining some with muslin to make own greek yog too.

Goodluck
Loving this thread I have just found and learning lots...

ceridwen

In_Search_Of_Me wrote: »

Now girls in my attempts to be frugalistic I am going to buy a yog maker. WIth my new diet I eat it by the tub so suss I'll save about 80p a tub which means it will pay for itself in under 10 tubs which is great. I want to make it from scratch and did have a squizz but was a tad confused by various recipes! Can anyone give me step by step instructions & measurements (ie not "up to the line..", whac a bit in" etc as a new yog maker I know that would be a disaster! ). Would be much appreciated! Also does anyone know if you can make HM fromage frais?!

Errr....<cough> watabout kefir instead of yogurt? Same difference health, etc wise for starters. So - on t'one hand you could make yogurt with a vacuum flask (cheaper than a yogurt maker and more versatile) and no electric to "keep it going". On t'other hand - make your own kefir. Gotta be easy...done it myself....no problemo. Would offer to send you some kefir culture - but at moment its languishing in freezer and not sure if its even "alive" still...will experiment and see at some point.

so - kefir links:

try googling for "Dom's Kefir in-site" - its currently the 5th and 6th thing that come up when one googles "kefir" - cant get that link to work - but you will get it this way

and

www.kefir.net/

Not up on the 2nd one - its the first one I have read through - as its been the "main" one available to date at time I got into it.

System

ceridwen wrote: »

watabout kefir instead of yogurt?

I bought a kefir beastie, and he was really cute, just like a bloaty cross between a cauliflower floret and some sort of mini-jellyfish colony. I trained him up for a couple of weeks (erring on the side of caution, in case he had had a misspent youth) until he was nice and clean and healthy, and then tried drinking the kefir. For a few days, I manfully tried to tell myself that the kefir didn't taste too bad. But then I made the children try it, and they pointed out that it tasted like vomit. And you know what? They're not wrong. It tasted just like milky-baby-vomit smells. Well, after that I couldn't swallow it without gagging, so I bade a no-longer-fond farewell to my kefir beastie, drained off the milk he was sitting in, and put him in the bin. A decision which I have not regretted for one single second.

Generally speaking, I am wildly adventurous with my dairy products, but kefir is really not for me. Yoghurt is much nicer (a million times nicer, according to my rigorous statistical analysis ), and really not difficult to make. And yoghurt doesn't make you feel sick, which is always a plus in a food product.

Edited to add: I use an EasiYo. I have always used their sachets in it, but I'm going to try doing it from scratch when I run out of sachets in a week or two. I used to have an electric yoghurt maker with dinky little glass pots in it that worked really well for yoghurt-from-scratch, but only made small quantities. And before that, I successfully made yoghurt by putting the mixture in a bowl into a very cool oven, turning off the heat and leaving the bowl overnight with the light on. Yoghurt making is fun -- just be prepared to experiment with how long you leave it to sit, because the taste changes and gets more acidic as time passes. So if you don't like the flavour of the first batch, try shortening the time for the next batch.

phizzimum

eselt wrote: »

Have sent OH out immediately to go and catch some, have told him not to come back until he has:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

thanks for those recipes eselt...i didn't realise mackerel was so versatile.

I'm going to have to look into yoghurt making. DD6 has goat's yoghurt but its proving harder to find at our local supermarkets. Is it quite easy to make in a flask? I don't really want to have to invest in extra gadgets.

I've made another batch of the no knead bread and I'm delighted with it. Where do people get their flour from? Weezl costs her flour at 55p for 1.5kg. 1.5kg at Mr T is 93p for wholemeal. I've been mixing it half and half with strong white which brings it down to 71p (I think). when I used the breadmaker I would put some ordinary plain flour in but no sure if the no knead would turn out ok that way?

boredofbeingathome

On the piggy front i used to like nibbling on sliced pigs ear, until i knew what it was..then i got over it! My fav, was a roasted hog on a spit, it really a lot of it left.

Today, HM fish fingers,

Cod cooked and sliced, rolled in bread crumbs and spices..30p in total as used frozen cod fillets.

HM made wedges, we usually cover in olive oil ( 2 tbsp) and paprika and peppercorn mix-22p for potatoes, olive oil about 3p?( Aldi virgin olive oil)

Pud was jam sponge..sorry ISOM..didn't make the cake,wll do tomorrow!This worked out at about 30p
so evening meal 88p ish..cod may be slightly more expensive to buy now, and i only used 2 fillets out of about 12!

breakfast- weetabix-10p, milk-33p, dinner was veg soup-50p HM No bread today, and also had melon ( I didn't have sponge cake-from aldi 69p range-30p)

so barring an attack of the munchies=all in budget £2.14..i have also been drinking herbal HM tea, so that has been free but could add 5p for Mr.B probably less!

boredofbeingathome

phizzimum wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

thanks for those recipes eselt...i didn't realise mackerel was so versatile.

I'm going to have to look into yoghurt making. DD6 has goat's yoghurt but its proving harder to find at our local supermarkets. Is it quite easy to make in a flask? I don't really want to have to invest in extra gadgets.

I've made another batch of the no knead bread and I'm delighted with it. Where do people get their flour from? Weezl costs her flour at 55p for 1.5kg. 1.5kg at Mr T is 93p for wholemeal. I've been mixing it half and half with strong white which brings it down to 71p (I think). when I used the breadmaker I would put some ordinary plain flour in but no sure if the no knead would turn out ok that way?

I use Aldi and Tesco's but have also used Asda for flour all very reasonable.
Aldi had the organic dove flour in at christmas, and sadly i am coming to the end of it..trying to be inventive over what i have in cupboards..far too much:rotfl:

weezl74

phizzimum wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

thanks for those recipes eselt...i didn't realise mackerel was so versatile.

I'm going to have to look into yoghurt making. DD6 has goat's yoghurt but its proving harder to find at our local supermarkets. Is it quite easy to make in a flask? I don't really want to have to invest in extra gadgets.

I've made another batch of the no knead bread and I'm delighted with it. Where do people get their flour from? Weezl costs her flour at 55p for 1.5kg. 1.5kg at Mr T is 93p for wholemeal. I've been mixing it half and half with strong white which brings it down to 71p (I think). when I used the breadmaker I would put some ordinary plain flour in but no sure if the no knead would turn out ok that way?

glad you like the no knead bread :T:T:T

this is the flour I use for it, still advertised as 55p per 1.5kg in asda