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

nopot2pin

Nitha wrote: »

Hi guys, I'm going to join this thread as I'm TTC again. DS took me nine months :S but I was so stressed and really unhealthy. I'm stocking up on wholemeal pasta and rice, plus I'm trying to grow my own veggies (have been eating lettuce from the back yard already). Do you guys know how to start off elderflowers in your garden? I'm really tempted by the elderflower cordial recipies (I've heard elderflower drinks are a good substitude for wine).

Hi :wave:

A woman I work with bough a small elder tree from the garden centre. I'm not sure how much it was though.
To be honest, if I wanted an elder tree in my garden, I would be inclinded to look for a tree locally in hedgerows, and take a cutting from it, and plant that.
Or alternatively, you could just forage locally for elderflowers....
There are still some around at the moment, but round here, they are fast turning towards the berry stage now.

Hope this helps

weezl74

lesley hoorah for your tomato find! :T:T:T:money:Could you roast some toms with salt and black pepper and then combine with a houmous?

HTH

Love Weezl xxx

Lesley_Gaye

weezl74 wrote: »

lesley hoorah for your tomato find! :T:T:T:money:Could you roast some toms with salt and black pepper and then combine with a houmous?

HTH

Love Weezl xxx

ooh, that sounds good, I'll try that

Nitha

Oooh also Lesley what about doing some brushetta with tomatoes, garlic, ciabatta and olive oil? Yum.

I'm getting jealous now!!!

Lesley_Gaye

Nitha wrote: »

Oooh also Lesley what about doing some brushetta with tomatoes, garlic, ciabatta and olive oil? Yum.

I'm getting jealous now!!!

oh yum, that sounds delish

poohbear59

Hi, I was pointed in yur direction by a kind soul. I aim to have a whole month of NSDs in August but was recommended to see you for help and advice. Fascinating thread!

Lesley_Gaye

poohbear59 wrote: »

Hi, I was pointed in yur direction by a kind soul. I aim to have a whole month of NSDs in August but was recommended to see you for help and advice. Fascinating thread!

nothing to spend at all? do you have anything in the store cupboards? It's amazing how many meals this thread has on it created out of very little

poohbear59

Lesley_Gaye wrote: »

nothing to spend at all? do you have anything in the store cupboards? It's amazing how many meals this thread has on it created out of very little

I aim to do basic food shopping (no biscuits, crisps, snacks), pay DDs and SOs and then try to spend nothing on anything not absolutely necessary. Luckily no B'days or anything like that coming up and I don't need newspapers, coffees out either. I am not sure how DH and DSs are going to take it but there it is, a decision made.

Lesley_Gaye

poohbear59 wrote: »

I aim to do basic food shopping (no biscuits, crisps, snacks), pay DDs and SOs and then try to spend nothing on anything not absolutely necessary. Luckily no B'days or anything like that coming up and I don't need newspapers, coffees out either. I am not sure how DH and DSs are going to take it but there it is, a decision made.

sometimes, when people need an extra frugal period of time, they list what provisions they have and the lovely people on here come up with LOTS of ideas on how to get the most out of them

ceridwen

BigMummaF wrote: »

I did a "Stuffed Cue" once..trying to think how I did it...but know I found the recipe in a veggie cook book in the library. Got a feeling the filling was chopped toms, onion & peppers & think it might have involved boiled rice too--cue cut in half length-ways & seeds scooped out, filling in, wrapped in foil & essentially dropped into a pan of water for x time. We had half a cue each as I recall, for a main course meal.
I didn't mind it as it came out a bit like marrow but the offspring were not keen to say the least Maybe google the recipes for marrow & adapting them could be an option?

Hmmm....thats giving me summat to work on....that and the earlier post about the Victorians having eaten boiled cucumber with white sauce....thinks: "hmmmm....some sorta combination of steamed stuffed cucumber with cheese sauce....way to go....." I like a bit of stuffed marrow....so maybe...