50p a day til christmas, healthily?!-Weezl's next challenge (part 2)

Cazzdevil

Hi all, hope you've all had a good weekend.

We're not long back from camping with my parents at a rally in Kelso. Had a fab time and got LOADS of ideas whizzing round my feeble little brain at the minute. Bought some veg plants to stick in some pots in the back garden (peppers, courgettes, tomatoes, sweetcorn, chives, coriander, runner beans, lavender), so they'll be getting planted up early this week.

I also bought 2 bags of stoneground wholemeal flour. Doesn't sound very exciting but it was a vintage engine rally and the fella we bought the flour from was displaying his milling machine so he'd had the grain donated by a local farmer and he was giving the proceeds of the flour sales to the Air Ambulance charity so at £1 for 1.5kg I certainly didn't begrudge the man.

Lastly, my mother had given me the opportunity to earn some money from my baking. She's asked if I'll have a stand at another rally/fair they're doing in October and make loads of quiches and cakes etc to sell so from now til then I'll be perfecting my famous quiche (well... Famous among our extended family at least...), trying out some chutney recipes to go with it and also I'll more than likely be asking you lovely folks for help with costings and sourcing ingredients cheaply.

Ooh, another thing (promise I'll be quick), my mother has informed me that down our local dene we have allsorts of delicious foragers delights; sloes, hawthorn, rosehip, rowan and a few others which I can't remember just now. But I'm hunting out my "Food for Free" book and giving it a good read this week because I'm convinced we'll have horseradish down there too.

Phew, what a waffle! Take care all.

Caz x

In_Search_Of_Me

oo cazz how exciting!! Lovely that you had a good w/e with your M&D...the dowager chutney recipe is lush and quite cheap to make...will see if I can find a linky. Shaz also posted a chutney recipe I think and some tom ones for gluts of toms which you should get cheap! Would love to find sloes locally as always fancied a try at slow gin! Weezl...just discovered while washing up that the cath kidson mug was cracked and it broke so I am now maimed...huge gash (ok a relatively small slither) out of my hand..blood all over the place is no exageration...incredible how such a small (ish!) wound can bleed so much!

Heres a linky for you...pleased its findable because my computer wiped and thought I may have lost it...off to copy it myself! Weezl sayd you can do it cheaper but I worry that if flogging it you loose some of the texture...

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=11000865&postcount=556

Sian_the_Green

Wow Cazz, sounds great re the plants and making the quiches and chutneys. I made some tomato and chilli jam last year, it was really yummy, would recommend it, lovely taste, colour and didn't have too many ingredients either
I'm intrigued by the deodorant conversation, I use roll on stuff but it seems pretty gentle aside from today after I had epilated my armpits when it stung like crazy (what can I say, I must be a masochist!). I think you can get special stuff with aluminium something or other in that you use rarely but stops you sweating, but ceridwen's warnings about things travelling around your body would make me think rubbing some kind of metal in your pits isn't ideal
Hope everyone is doing okay x

In_Search_Of_Me

Rosemary-Thyme deodorant taken from Natura beaut basics, Dorie Byers

2tbsp apple cider vinegar
1 tbls itch hazel extract
3 drops thyme essential oil
2 drops lemon essential oil
2 drops rosemary essential oil

Mix above and shake vigourously. Store in a bottle with lid or sprayer and shake well before using.

ooo yes boots sll small spray bottles btw...

There are also lemon-lavender/lemon thyme/bergamot patchouli/lemon patchouli/lavender-rosemary/peppermint juniper and lavender-patchouli if peple want any of those recipes let me know!

nicki_2

How much do you think this would cost to make up if you already had the spray bottle but nothing else? Only I'm not keen on paying out £6.85-7.80 for a 100ml body mist from the Bodyshop :eek:

Sian_the_Green

In_Search_Of_Me wrote: »

1 tbls itch hazel extract,

yikes :eek:

Yategirl

nicki wrote: »

How much do you think this would cost to make up if you already had the spray bottle but nothing else? Only I'm not keen on paying out £6.85-7.80 for a 100ml body mist from the Bodyshop :eek:

you are looking at approx £4 per ess oil BUT... they will last you months if not a couple of years! Don't think witch hazel is expensive and cider vinegar isn't.. so maybe £15-16 to get everything but will last you a long time.. and you know what you are using

Cazzdevil

I got one of the natural deos with Sage and Rosemary in, and although it works it can be slightly offputting when I catch a whiff of my pits and they smell like a herb garden...

Guapa1

weezl74 wrote: »

are you making butter? what happened?:D

I was shaking it, and there was a lump and some separated liquid. I didn't stop there and so it became really thick buttermilk :rotfl:

I used it for buttercream icing so I can't complain I suppose!

weezl74

Cazzdevil wrote: »

I got one of the natural deos with Sage and Rosemary in, and although it works it can be slightly offputting when I catch a whiff of my pits and they smell like a herb garden...

:rotfl:or a sunday dinner!