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

ceridwen

Elfinwings wrote: »

Thanks Weezl and Confuzzled for the using-up-scones ideas :T Tonight I shall be blitzing some up and trying a crumble - if it's successful I'll probably make a boxful of scone-crumbs to go in the freezer for later too, for thickening of stews and soups. Great ideas, and will report back on success :j

And Ceridwen, you'd be welcome for dinner (!) but I suspect it would be a fair way to come from Wales - I'm near to Evesham
Are there any other Worcestershire people here?

LilMissEmmylou - Good luck for starting your challenge, I hope the list is useful. I recommend the purchase of a blank notebook for Day One too - my OH and I note down every day what we have made / cooked / spent / invented, and we stick receipts and photos and things in too. It's become quite an interesting record of our journey!

Aw shucks....and I'm house-trained too - I bring wine and offer help with washing-up afterwards....oh well...

That sounds like an interesting/useful record of your "journey" that you are keeping - errr....and maybe a possible book at some point?;):D

Frugalista

Elfinwings wrote: »

I'm near to Evesham
Are there any other Worcestershire people here?

I'm sort of halfway between Hereford and Worcester Are you on the Worcester side of Evesham?

ceridwen

XSpender wrote: »

Hi, hope you don't mind me joining in

I have been lurking on here for a bit too and have really enjoyed your 'religion' discussions, so much so I took the quiz too! Can't say I was suprised about the 100% secular humanist, 99% Unitarian Universalism () but was suprised I scored more on Scientology than Roman Catholic which was how I was brought up. I even have an o level in RE.

Like Bunny200 I too would like the community aspects of an organised religion but without religion! There must be some organisation to it as my grandma had a humanist funeral service.

I am going to get my OH to do the quiz as he was brought up with no religious input at all but is very much more spiritual than me. Should be very interesting. Thanks for the link.

To use up the scones I would make a veggie stew/casserole and pop them on the top for the last 20 minutes or so. I like the way they are crispy on top and soggy with the gravy on the bottom. Yum!

XS

I've not forgotten my experience of a humanist funeral - Monty Python's "Always look on the bright side of life" featured as I recall ...well it was pretty apt for the friend concerned. I've also been astonished before now to find myself at a Latter Day Saints funeral service - I hadnt even known the person concerned was one.....so I'm working my way through the whole "range" I think. I dont actually know quite WHAT to do for my humanist father come the time - I do hope hes left instructions...My mother = VERY VERY traditional High Church of England (think I've got my ideas straight on that)....with my mother I know its always a safe bet to pick THE most conventional/traditional option there is in any context.

Oh well...in my family I had to learn to accept differences of opinion in that respect very early on....

Confuzzled

paulies_nixie wrote: »

All this Chutney - do you have to use "lumps of stuff" my OH doesnt like the texture if it's lumpy. Do ya reckon you could make smoothe chutney?

Ta

Nixie

well mango chutney is usually fairly 'smooth' so i reckon ifyou just chop everything up really finely after it cooks down for say 30 minutes or so it would be smooth, though it might be a bit runny. maybe a little corn starch added at the end could thicken it up a tad, not sure but i would think that would work... hmmmm got me thinking now!

In_Search_Of_Me

re smooth chutney the dowager recipe (lumpy) that I did was tweaked by weezl and is smooth me thinks....she was going to do it last week but dont remember seeing an update...did the quiz and came out confident believer...didnt see the one which religion are you but know that I would come out Christian through and through...would have been very different 15 years ago when a very dissalusioned catholic!

SunnyGirl

Hi all. Not been on much for the last couple of days as my Dad was in hospital today having angioplasty and 2 stents put into his coronary arteries. It's all been a success thankfully, Mum & I are just shattered now :eek:

I haven't done the quiz on religion yet I'll look at it tomorrow. The reason I said what I said about christian people sitting in church was because my DS1 isn't actually 'my' DS1 even though he truly feels like it. He is my daughters boyfriend who was thrown out of his family home on Christmas Eve last year by his parents. He slept rough for 2 nights (including Christmas Day - I didn't know) before going to a friends house. They kept him for 2 weeks but when he couldn't contribute to finances they also asked him to leave. He was going to go into a hostel for young people (he was only 16 at the time) when I said he could move in here with us. He's been here ever since, is a valued member of our family and is happy & settled. He made a few youthful mistakes the worst of which was getting arrested for drunkeness & he smoked w**d on occasion. He wasn't an angel, I know, but his parents couldn't cope with it all. What makes it worse is that he was adopted by them at the age of 4. They have little contact with him now, don't want him home & have basically washed their hands of him. So has his elder brother & the rest of his family. He doesn't touch w**d or alcohol anymore, has got into full time college starting in September and looks happy & healthy. I talk to him about his problems and he is learning new responses to his feelings every day. In the meantime his parents go to church every week, are involved in the scouts, take holidays with his brother, don't contribute to his upkeep and yet continue to ignore this lovely young man :mad:

I'm sorry for typing such a long post it just seemed an appropriate moment to bring it up. Thanks for reading so far.

Savvy_sewing

Think I am going crosseyed reading recipies etc. I have so much to try now.!
I want to be more focused on my meals and snacks then I have been. Its still strange to me to be only making meals for one or sometimes two of us, after having fed 6-8 of us for such a long time. (And a pub full of customers before that!). The last time I really only cooked for 2 was 1981-1982. After that I was then cooking in large quantities as I was running the first pub by 1983).
Time to rest tonight. DS is not having dinner, and I really cannot be bothered to cook anything for myself. Had a couple of cheese rolls at lunchtime, whoopsied rolls from somerfield yesterday. The cheese, which was still in the packet, and well with in the eat before August, but was starting to go mouldy!! So thought I better start to use it up. Had to throw out the sliced ham as it was out of date!. Feel bad about that, I think I still buy too much of some things.:mad:

Confuzzled

weezl74 wrote: »

Hiya Munchki,

apple cheese lovely and sweet and cinnamonny, a kind of apply low fat version of lemon curd, and several chutneys made with apple all appeared successfully in our christmas hampers for family and friends last year. Could that be an idea? I made them in October...

Weezl x

i put apples in most of my chutney's even the savoury ones, they don't have a strong enough flavour on their own so they bulk them out nicely and allow the stronger flavours to shine through

if you have any way of drying some of the apples that would be good, i love apple crisps myself and they make a healthier snack than most quick sweets you can grab these days

if you have a way of juicing them you could make up some with the apples and use the pulp in some baking (or give it to the birds)

Confuzzled

carebearbecky wrote: »

Hmmmm... a lunchtime wander to Mr Ts has produced a 1kg bag of carrots for 25p. Anybody have any ideas for them, or should I just grate and freeze and throw them into my mince at a later date?

i've just stuck carrots in the bag they came in in the freezer and used them in soups later with no problems. i should think that you could also let them thaw most of the way and use a peeler to make thin peels/strips without ill effect

Confuzzled

naturally wrote: »

Carrots roast ok too, or maybe you could get creative with a "puree" side dish. Reading my new WW recipe book yesterday and they suggest boiling then mashing carrots with coriander and having it as an accompaniment to a meal.

that reminds me, i once made a so so mock pumpkin pie using carrot puree. the texture isn't quite right however sweet potato does make an excellent substitute so, if you wanted to do mock pumpkin pie a little cheaper you could do a mix of carrot and sweet potato and i suspect that would be quite acceptable