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

ceridwen

Guapa1 wrote: »

Morning all! Thanks for the suggestions, I'm going to do a search for egg custard tart. I don't have any raisins, but it's big bit of pastry so I'll keep Ceridwen's suggestion in mind.

Suggest you do it in bits about 3" - 4" in length then - not the length of a typical swiss roll:D

The more I think about it - the more I reckon I musta added the slivers of butter - as well as the sultanas and brown sugar.

Weezl's idea re nuts as well could be a possibility - I'm thinking chopped hazelnuts perhaps?

In_Search_Of_Me

oo forgot to say weezl...yes have tins a pleanty so let me know how many you want...also have 4 bread pans is you want a mamouth bread making session!
Well done fed up and skint...I used to spend loads for shampoo (kerastase) and body stuff but now spend less...havent quite got to the asda basics yet but wouldnt rule it out...our weezl has lovely flowing locks and ya wouldnt know from looking at her that she is a 12p shampoo girl...maybe a close up photo of hair as proof weezl?

SunnyGirl

The talk of pastry leftovers has brought happy memories of my Mum baking apple pie when I was younger. She always rolled the remaining pastry out onto saucers to make little treacle tarts. She mixed either breadcrumbs, or sometimes crushed cornflakes, with a couple of tablespoons of golden syrup and a squirt of lemon juice and piled it on the pastry base. I always got to cut strips of pastry and twist them to put over the tart

On the subject of cheapie shampoos etc I buy the cheapest that I can find and fill the handwash bottles up with it. I think that the kids think it's strange to buy 'normal' bottles of handwash. I know soap is much cheaper but the boys are more inclined to wash their hands if it's something squirty

weezl74

fedupandskint wrote: »

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.

I'm really impressed with your willingness to try a cheaper shampoo. One idea before all your stocks of pricey stuff runs out might be to try the smartprice stuff for everyday use, but then using the posh stuff just before going out as a treat, to feel like you're doing something nice for yourself. You could make your last bottles of the posh kind last for ages that way, and maybe not feel totally deprived of treats

weezl74

In_Search_Of_Me wrote: »

our weezl has lovely flowing locks and ya wouldnt know from looking at her that she is a 12p shampoo girl...maybe a close up photo of hair as proof weezl?

:o:o:D

awwww shucks!


imagine if someone ever did say to you 'hey you look like you use 12p shampoo!' imagine the bird's-nest mop that implies:rotfl:

weezl74

right, I'm off up the stairs to bedfordshire...

DH is joining me in a minute with his home-made raspberry ripple ice cream ready for the apprentice...

*Hums the dance of the nights by prokofiev in her head in anticipation...*

fedupandskint

Thanks for the tip! I'll get some next week when I call in for some petrol again and try this 12p shampoo and alternate it with the 20x more expensive stuff.

weezl74

fedupandskint wrote: »

Thanks for the tip! I'll get some next week when I call in for some petrol again and try this 12p shampoo and alternate it with the 20x more expensive stuff.

just to be really geeky, it's actually 166.6666666 times more expensive :rotfl:

sorry I can't help it

Guapa1

@ Sian, thank you for the recipe. I'm going to give it a go when I've get some more eggs, I only have 2 left.

@Weezl, the tarts... Well I decided to make the jam ones today, but the pastry really difficult to roll out. It's that recipe that was given in that huge mince pie thread.
They came out OK. I used one egg trying this recipe that looked really easy, and halved the quantity. After 2 minutes, the top didn't look very brown and so I put it on for another minute and the top burnt I'll keep practising though, tomorrow I'll try the egg custard. (God loves a trier eh?)

@Cazz, it really is ridiculous, and when you use mysupermarket.com you'll see that all the basic are the same... Did someone say price fixing?

Ooh Apprentice!

fedupandskint

OMG!!!!:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

It really is 166.66666666x more expensive!

What on earth did I used to think that I couldn't manage without a £20 shampoo when there were ones that were 166.6667x cheaper!!!

Thank god for the frugalista who can show me this! Light leads the way to freedom from consumerism