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

SunnyGirl

weezl74 wrote: »

Hiya,

Please post even if it's a bit more expensive to make the meal, I need the inspiration, and everyone else does too! This thread is really not meant to feel competitive, just a bunch of friends being as frugal as we can, within our own parameters. So please be part of the gang!

I've not fed the birds yet sunnygirl, I'm still conviced deep down I can salvage it! Reckon lemon juice and sugar and then the base of some sort of lemony trifle... That's me all over though, I'm a stubborn madam when I've set myself a challenge

Thank you that was a lovely thing to say :A

I've just sat and costed the soup out actually and am very pleased:

Half bag of frozen mixed veg 43p
5 Carrots 30p
1 onion 5p
Tin of tomatoes 33p
Half a celery 42p
Stock cubes x 2 22p
Salt & Pepper 2p

Total £1.77 I got 10 servings so 18p a serving :rotfl:

The pitta breads worked out at 25p each and we all had one each apart from DS1 & DS2 who had 2 1/2 :eek: plus a huge bowl of ice cream!

Thank you for yesterdays onion soup recipe it's been copied to my recipe file.

weezl74

oh sian I'm really glad it works in loaf tins, I like recipes which do cos I can make a bigger batch and fit 4 in the oven all at the same time!

Re: welcoming, I'm glad you think so, thanks, I wasn't very good at it for some parts of the challenge when I was all shattered and pregnant, and I couldn't keep up with everyone! But I seem to have a bit more energy now :D

sunnygirl I'm going to Homebargains tomorrow, which dried fruit is good? Does it beat asda 63p for 500g? I'll be well chuffed if so!:beer:

ps crossed posts with you, well done on the soup, totally frugalicious by anyone's standards!

SunnyGirl

Weezl I'm embarassed (sp) to say that I can't remember how much the dried fruit was Let me have a think .......... The bill came to £4.50 and 99p of that was emergency tea bags leaving £3.51. I got 2 packs of apricots and 2 packs of cranberries so about 87p each. I'm sure that I got something else though but can't remember and I can't claim baby exhaustion nowadays I love having a gander round Home Bargains just to see what's in anyway although that's an easy way to spend extra money for me :eek: Let me know what bargains you find

boredofbeingathome

I am sure i will be managing a frugal visit Weezl.

Hmm, inspired by your goodself i went to ASDA today ( well M&S was next door) and bought the smartprice deodorant, toothpaste and handwash stuff ( when shampoo runs out i will buy that too as smells very nice)

Unfortunately the penny bazaar bit had shut when i got there..so a further frugal 5p couldn't be spent.

Off to try your lentil pate recipe..just a quick question as maybe i was having a blind moment, but do you put in the breadcrumbs as well? Saw it on the vegan thread and the instructions didn't seem to say.

weezl74

boredofbeingathome wrote: »

I am sure i will be managing a frugal visit Weezl.

Hmm, inspired by your goodself i went to ASDA today ( well M&S was next door) and bought the smartprice deodorant, toothpaste and handwash stuff ( when shampoo runs out i will buy that too as smells very nice)

Unfortunately the penny bazaar bit had shut when i got there..so a further frugal 5p couldn't be spent.

Off to try your lentil pate recipe..just a quick question as maybe i was having a blind moment, but do you put in the breadcrumbs as well? Saw it on the vegan thread and the instructions didn't seem to say.

d'you know bob, I don't think I've ever put the breadcrumbs in! d'oh, but it still tastes nice!

better dash, fergie is on my lap and I don't think the last rumble was just a fart!!:eek:

In_Search_Of_Me

yeugh!! Poor ferg getting all his bodily functions reported...may be worth waiting a mo weezl just in case theres more to come lol!! Off to try babana cake...bananas were my portion from training..almost free food!

Cazzdevil

We swung by Tesco last night to get a few basic essentials to assist in our running down of the cupboards. Managed to get a couple of bargains (22p punnets of cherry toms etc), but for the first time it actually dawned on me just how much basic foods have shot up in price by. A bag of value basmati rice has practically doubled in price and tins of chopped toms have MORE than doubled within about a year. Little wonder some people are struggling to get their weekly shop within a tight budget. How are you finding this affecting your budget Weezl?

I'm gonna make a batch of biccies tonight, note sure what kind yet but OH seems to be loving homemade ones at the minute so gotta keep the supply constant

fedupandskint

Lovely recipes (thanks BOB and SG) on here today with the BNS soup. I have everything bar the squash lurking in the fridge so off the make either this or the veg soup and onion soup at the weekend for a big batch cooking session.

Will batch cook tomato sauce for freezing too with the 8 cans of chopped tomatoes for £3 offer when I called into Asda yesterday and stocked up on these and 2 bags of 1.5kg rice for £3. I think it was £3 offer, the same as the Penne one you have all stocked up on.

I smiled when I bought these as it made me think I haven't shopped like this for a while and it felt good stocking up on offers - just these though, didn't go mad!

Also bought some chapati flour which was a bargainous £1.97 for a big bag. I thought I will start making them instead of buying them to go with a HM curry. Also tried the smartprice 9p curry sauce to go with left over chicken. Mmmm v.nice and surprised it was 9p! 9p I didn't think things still cost this little

Went to the massive Mr T's next to work for some milk and got some reduced Finest Olive Oil for £1.25 instead of £6.85. The assistant made a mistake and put 2 through for the price of the napoli reduced one I got too. Also bought some finest moncemeat for 49p a jar (BB 04/10) (ready for Christmas :eek:)to make HM mince pies for a change instead of buying them

Had a little look at the 12p smartprice shampoo, v. surprised at this price too!. When I have used up my stocks of £20 shampoo (yes that's right :rolleyes:, pre frugalista days! Have learnt my lesson now, hence the 100 day challenge in siggy etc ) Really interested in lowering the cost of beauty products when I have used all my stocks up. Before I would have bought salon stuff at full whack regardless of the cost - not now, not any longer.

Anyway just thought I'd mention it update of the struggle of frugal living and trying to move away from consumerism. I developed this trait in myself over the last 12yrs and before I changed it was the the trait in myself I despised the most and felt unable to change. Thanks to the forum and the differnt thread incl this one I felt able to change and did do, a long long process of thought and behaviour change ingrained over many years.

Will be trying the SC red lentil recipe soon from Weezl last week. Looking forward to this going with the rice and HM chapatis.

No more rambling now! Keep on frugally living! I am trying!

boredofbeingathome

Fedupandskint, i just have to say the lentil recipes are fab.:T

Have made the lentil pate..you know my greedy lot, well they are spooning into mouths ( it has by passed the bread at the moment)
Have also made Muligatawny soup with the lentils and tesco value curry sauce, oohhh my giddy aunt.:drool: Has made a massive amount, i may get to freeze some yet..but reckon it will keep in fridge:D

Asda value handwash has the aproval above the tesco one and is about the same price, smells lovely.:D

Also made shepherds pie with value dried mash. Worked out at about a £1 in total as only half a pack of mash used and i am very good at bulking out mince;)

Good times in Bob's household:D:D

weezl74

boredofbeingathome wrote: »

Fedupandskint, i just have to say the lentil recipes are fab.:T

Have made the lentil pate..you know my greedy lot, well they are spooning into mouths ( it has by passed the bread at the moment)
Have also made Muligatawny soup with the lentils and tesco value curry sauce, oohhh my giddy aunt.:drool: Has made a massive amount, i may get to freeze some yet..but reckon it will keep in fridge:D

Asda value handwash has the aproval above the tesco one and is about the same price, smells lovely.:D

Also made shepherds pie with value dried mash. Worked out at about a £1 in total as only half a pack of mash used and i am very good at bulking out mince;)

Good times in Bob's household:D:D

well done bob :T:T:T I actually think instant mash works really well on beanfeast as a shepherd's pie and can be made up with a knob of butter to disguise the instant mashiness of the taste:D

cazzdevil, you're absolutely right that the price hikes of those staple things has had a big effect on my budget :eek::eek: and is one of the reasons our budget is nearer £1 a day- £90 a month for the 3 of us rather than 50p a day as it was at the start of my challenge.... I try to compensate for that by planning meals around what's cheapest-I suspect there may be a lot of pasta consumed at weezl towers.

well done too to fedupandskint :T:T:T:T can you post your tomato sauce recipe?

Love to all,

Weezl xxx