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

Penelope_Penguin

weezl74 wrote: »

ISOM, I've found a sour cherry tree! All we need now is some step ladders and a tall man! Also does anyone know any recipes using them?

A recipe using stepladders and a tall man Sorry, no

The chocolate amaretto cake was a great hit, btw - thanks again :A

Penny. x

weezl74

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

A recipe using stepladders and a tall man Sorry, no

The chocolate amaretto cake was a great hit, btw - thanks again :A

Penny. x

:rotfl::rotfl:

glad you liked the cake penny! Did you use the almonds in the end, and would you consider brazils or other nuts another time?

Weezl xxx

In_Search_Of_Me

hehe well I recon our weezl has a tall man and if I wasnt such a technophobe could upload a piccie of that there tall hollow legs acetate monkey using a ladder and doing boyhood impressions of climbing trees to get his maiden elderflowers last yr!! I have a ladder weezl! Al we need is a recipe...I'm for one with alcohol...limoncello, rasp vidka and rasp and strawb vodka are steeping nicely...tested the rasperry just to check...

Sian_the_Green

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Had a lovely evening with a friend, we had free tickets to see Sunshine Cleaning courtesy of SeeFilmFirst (probably work best if you are near your inbox a lot as you need to respond quickly) and had some Ben and Jerry's choc fudge brownie frozen yogurt as a treat for being good all day! I worked out that if I only eat ww foods with points that is 1000 calories, yikes that sounds low, so I am going to ensure I have lots of 'free foods' too to keep me going, seems to be most veggies so had sugarsnaps today to pick at.
Hope all is good with everyone.
Sour cherries, any way to use them in an alcohol recipe? Sour cherry vodka? Might need a lot of sugar! Some kind of chutney? Worth a try!

carriebradshaw

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nopot2pin

In_Search_Of_Me wrote: »

hehe well I recon our weezl has a tall man and if I wasnt such a technophobe could upload a piccie of that there tall hollow legs acetate monkey using a ladder and doing boyhood impressions of climbing trees to get his maiden elderflowers last yr!! I have a ladder weezl! Al we need is a recipe...I'm for one with alcohol...limoncello, rasp vidka and rasp and strawb vodka are steeping nicely...tested the rasperry just to check...

I was going to say Kirsch.... but you would have to ferment then distill, so maybe not

THIS cherry liqueur might be interesting to try...
Or a cherry brandy should be easy enough, using the recipe in the link, replace vodka with brandy. They should be ready for the festive season

Elfinwings

cheerfulness4 wrote: »

it's becoming second nature to be tapping away on the calculator working out how much a gram of this is or ml of that and costing a meal or treat.


Hi Cheerfulness, I'm getting better at the costings, but have to admit to not quite reaching your level of accuracy yet. I figure if I still have money in the little wooden 'food money' pot at the end of the month, the meals must have averaged out ok!

I think more accurate costings might have to hbe my next challenge. That, and having a go at making elderflower cordial, if i would stop raining long enough to pick some!

weezl74 wrote: »

elfin, thanks for delurking:T:T:T:T

your budgeting sounds like it's been going really well- any tips you have for us?;)

Tips. Hmm, I'm going to struggle there, as I have learned such a lot from you all, I'm not sure I have many new ideas! *thinks*...ok, one thing I came across recently that I don't remember reading about on here before is vermouth. It's brilliant for recipes that need a slosh of white wine in - it has a fairly strong winey taste so you don't need oodles, and unlike actual wine you can keep the open bottle without it going off. Bit of an outlay to buy it in the first place - in Mr T's it is £3.70 for a litre bottle - but lasts for ages. I recently noticed they do a red one too, but I haven't tried that yet - still have lots of bottle-ends of red in the freezer that were left over from my OH's 30th birthday party earlier in the year!

ceridwen

Vermouth - £3.70 for a litre. Well - thats moneysaving just put like that - without taking into account one maybe needs less "sloshed in" than wine for a wine taste (with vermouth being cheaper per ml than wine in the first place). Double moneysaving "hit".

...of course it would be even more moneysaving not to use alcohol in cooking in the first place....hmm...;):D

shaz_mum_of__2

Hi all

and hello Elfin vermouth is lovely with fish...yummy

Not posted much but been reading oh and ISOM that date would be fine.............................

Shopping is getting depressing i relly do take my hat off to those of you managing to keep your costs so low

I am tempted to have a buy nothing couple of weeks to clear some space but we are going through loads of fruit at the minute with the diet and all

Maybe a buy nothing except for Aldi specials fruit and veg would be better...:rotfl:

I feel that i need to use what i have at the minute and not get seduced by specials for the storecupboard just wish the garden was producing a bit more but it wont be long now

Anyone else finding the prices depressing i keep putting stuff back and saying i am not paying that.............. then go back and get it anyway

shaz

Savvy_sewing

Most of the stuff I got was snacky stuff, becuase I had my son with me. so I am not going to take him shopping last minute for some thing for tea. We ended up with Pasta Bake, chicken fillets, mince, Chicken and Mushroom slices, minced beef slices, Pot noodles, *eek and yuk!!, bread, milk, but I have to confess £10 of the spend was 3 bottles of wine. The BF and I tend to drink wine at the weekends, and have stopped going out these days. (we used to go to the pub once or twice a week, but now its very rare, as its so expensive. ).
Anyway, I have a store cupboard of odds and sodds and so now I am going to trawl this thread today, and come up with a menu plan for the rest of the month!!
DS and I said last night that we are eating far too much meat, that we dont need to always eat.!
Anyway off I go to look at the stock in the cupboards, and see what I have lurking. I brought a lot of stuff across from the old house and it was just shoved into the cupboard. I have a lot less cupboard space here, and I have a large freezer with hardly anything in it. The Fridge freezer is full, but thats quite small.
I have noticed here that DS eats all the snacks, crisps and biscuits with in the first few days I buy them! So I need to think about making snacks that are cheaper, and better for him!.