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

missychrissy

Seakay wrote: »

Ooh! Just realised that I have acquired a silver medal! Excitement!

I suddenly realised one day I had a star. Does anyone know what are the bench marks for achieving them?

Seakay

I think that it's something to do with the number of posts made, but really that is just a guess and I have no idea what the actual benchmarks are

In_Search_Of_Me

hello all..back from hols which was frugal in cottage, self catering and lovely with sheep wandering round the very remote cottage (go through 3 fields!) met up with shaz and ds2 which waslovely, esp as she bought wool, jam and cake! non nom as weezl would say! Am back to trying to be saintly as really need to get the cc's down cos of horrendous interest so here goes!!
re ths stars etc its for the amout of posts...mine will go up at 10,000 I think but kinda like being delicious!
re the merangue I have a foolproof recipe from come dine with me which I'll try and find...never failed once and dead impressive. Secret is to leave the oven to cool overnight so it doesent crack!
http://www.channel4.com/food/recipes/occasions/dinner-parties/come-dine-with-me/lemon-pavlova-with-kiwi-fruit-recipe_p_1.html
there ya go...dead impressive and I've done it for dinner parties and people love it and its SOOO easy!!

nicki_2

I think I'm going to have to jump back on this bandwagon the best I can.

Can anyone point me in the direction of some frugal tofu recipes? I've got 4 packs of Bluedragon Tofu to use up by the 3rd Sept :o

In_Search_Of_Me

if youve got loads would it be worth using some for smoothies? If you google it will come up with loads of recipes ...keep us posted as to results!!
Am def on the bandwagon!! Will see how little I can spend to next payday!

Sian_the_Green

Was this from home bargains by any chance?
I cubed mine and fried it with the frylight buttery spray (low cal!) until it went a little crispy and then added some seasoning with soy sauce, on its own it is fairly tasteless but would be good to add moisture to other things like a veggie bake or lasagne.

BigMummaF

We were watching "Bank of Mum & Dad" on $ky last night & there was a young chap who spent an horrendous amount on food each month, in the name of 'body building'. Anyhooz! They had a female world champ who trained as a nutritionialist[?] when she left body building, who took him around various places to show how you could get more bang for yer buck. I'm 98% positive she said around 50g of kidney beans was equivalent to a 185g tin of tuna protein-wise, but--of course, at the time of filming--at less than a quarter of the price.
Just thought--on a par with Weezl's geek--this might be of interest to folk, but personally I'm not so sure I'd fancy them in a sarnie with cucumber :rolleyes::rotfl:

Gigervamp

BigMummaF wrote: »

but personally I'm not so sure I'd fancy them in a sarnie with cucumber :rolleyes::rotfl:

Actually, cheese and bean wraps are really nice! I grate the cheese and mix it with some kidney beans and mayo, then put it in a wrap with some lettuce.

lightisfading

tofu always is tasteless - you need to marinade it or cook in a nice sauce - i love it and wouldn't really eat it 'plain'! (though deepfried with sweet chilli sauce I could handle

I've got some as well but haven't cooked with it yet as it seemed too soft to stirfry.. might have to give it a go ...or oven cook I guess as then it won't need stirring around all the time and therefore breaking up.

nicki_2

Sian_the_Green wrote: »

Was this from home bargains by any chance?
I cubed mine and fried it with the frylight buttery spray (low cal!) until it went a little crispy and then added some seasoning with soy sauce, on its own it is fairly tasteless but would be good to add moisture to other things like a veggie bake or lasagne.

Yes its from Home Bargains :rotfl: I also got a pack of spring roll wrap things

lightisfading wrote: »

tofu always is tasteless - you need to marinade it or cook in a nice sauce - i love it and wouldn't really eat it 'plain'! (though deepfried with sweet chilli sauce I could handle

I've got some as well but haven't cooked with it yet as it seemed too soft to stirfry.. might have to give it a go ...or oven cook I guess as then it won't need stirring around all the time and therefore breaking up.

Thanks for the ideas - so far I've cooked a pack (lightly fried in spray oil first) in sweet & sour sauce and served with rice. I wasn't impressed Last night I made another pack up into a cottage pie I was making with beef mince bedrock thing from Economy Gastronomy. It tasted better but I still have another 3 packs to go :rotfl::rotfl: