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

fedupandskint

Where can you get a reduced gammon joint from? Its making me feel hungry all this talk and I was already craving gammon steaks!

nopot2pin

Yategirl wrote: »

Also bought lemons... lots... was going to make lemon cordial yum! however.... I cannot get hold of citric acid... apparently there has been a run on citric acid because everyone is making elderflower cordial and the manufacturers cannot make it quick enough..... :rolleyes: O.K... now to think what to do with my load of lemons........ :rotfl:

Do you live anywhere near a home brew shop ??
They should stock it, if your normal place doesn't have it.

Jammie_Dodger_2

Somerfields have gammon on offer at half price hth

Frugalista

Lidl have gammon steaks, smoked or unsmoked (2 in a pack) on offer at 90p - half price :money: - hurry though, as the offer is only on for a week and I bought mine on Saturday.

We have had these before, they are a good size and very nice - bought 6 packs to freeze.

nopot2pin

I have just made a batch of each.

The lentil pate, I made as per Weezl's original recipe, and its lovely :drool:
I think due to the increase in price, in products within the shops, the whole recipe cost me 77p to make.

The yellow split pea pate, I made slightly different... although I did follow Weezl's methodology
Split peas were soaked for about 10 hours. Instead of adding mixed herbs, I used cumin and paprika... just to produce a different flavour, ifykwim.
Also the peas did not require any breadcrumbs to be added, as the mix was quite dry... I had to add a little water (saved from the lentil water) to losen it up a bit.
The total cost for the yellow split pea pate was 54p :T

Taste wise...
The lentil pate is lush... a smoother pate.
The yellow split pea pate, is also very tasty... but has a nuttier texture.

I deffo will be making both again. :j
Many thanks for the idea :beer:

Potty

PS... tonights tea should have been stirfry...
But its a little of each pate, spinach salad and warmed pitta breads :drool:
The rest of the pate is going in the freezer.

Yategirl

nopot2pin wrote: »

Do you live anywhere near a home brew shop ??
They should stock it, if your normal place doesn't have it.

we don't unfortunatley... but I will be keeping an eye out now and grabbing some to store when I can!

Found a recipe to make cordial without citric acid - just lemons, sugar and a little water so currently have my mix cooling and will bottle shortly

got-it-spend-it

Popped into Aldi today and was most impressed with the fruit offers. Got punnets of cherries, peaches, plums for 49p each and they're a decent size. Also got a pineapple for 49p. Definitely worth a look. None of the veg offers aprticularly stood out for me- they have a reasonably good size pack of tomatoes for 49p, but I'm not keen on fresh tomatoes at this time of year as they tend to be a bit anaemic- I prefer tinned until summer.

Cooking up a big batch of bolognese (with plenty of lentils and grated carrot) tonight. Will make a pasta bake tonight and freeze a few portions.

Also have some baby beetroot from the in-laws garden. Roasting them tonight then will turn into risotto tomorrow night. OH won't eat it, but as I have lots of parmesan due to a leaving-shopping-at-work-baby-brain incident (had to buy replicas of a few items)it is the perfect yummy thing to make. In-laws may be a pain but their garden has given us some real yummies this week- beetroot, new potatoes, spring onions and baby carrots. I love free home grown food!

In_Search_Of_Me

evening all...new recipe for ya!100g gnocci (think ww servings here so add more if you like!!), 3 slices smoked ham, mushrooms, low fat cream cheese...
Chop and wash mushrooms and boil up with a bit of water, at the same time boil the gnocci, while theyre doing chop the ham and faff in the kitche a bit (usually washing up in my case!) drain gnocci and add to the mushroom mix with some fry light then add the ham and just when ready the cream cheese and some black pepper...serve with salad...nommy as weezl would say...for the weebles among us (I reacon I weigh weezl, am and ferg combined and I'm not joking!!) I get that as 5 ww points for the meal...not bad at all and you dont feel depraived...o is it deprived...always get that one wrong...only problem is that I definately need to invest in some windease...nough said.

weezl74

Potty thanks for doing a taste test and costings! A[STRIKE] geek[/STRIKE] girl after my own heart! :T:T:T

GISI that's fab about the homegrown veggies, may I be a teensy bit overprotective of a preg laydeee and just make sure the inlaws scrub those veggies well cos of potential toxoplas-thingie from any lurking cats!:D:o

ISOM I've always thought you were more depraved than deprived

*runs for cover*

welcome to the newbies and lurkers :beer:

got-it-spend-it

Thanks Weezl. Does cooking kill toxo-plasmosis? Either way they were well scrubbed by OH and I have peeled the beetroot so should be ok. I am quite paranoid about my own garden though as we have tons of lurking cats!