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

walmerstores

Afternoon all
weezle hope you are comfy in your new bras
has anybody got a vacum sealer and if so whats the best one and how long can you keep things compared to just in cling film? Thinking of using for leftovers
Hope everyone is well

BigMummaF

:eek: Guapa! Are you OK?

Just wondering if anybody has one of those vacuum packing gizmoes that's supposed to help prolong food? Reading about your beetroot glut made me think of it Shaz & I've often considered getting one of them..there's those little devices that look like a stapler but heat-seal open bags...

Money_saving_Diva_2

Hello darlings

I don't have much MSE to post but my puter imploded on thursday so I am busy catching up. I have written about it in detail on the daily so won't bore you all with it on here.

Just to say I am SO glad to be back and that I felt like I had lost a limb not being able to read and post on here.

Going to be spending most of today collecting all the recipes back into a folder that I lost when I had to wipe the entire hard drive. *sighs*.

Hugs to all

Diva.x

phizzimum

oh no Guapa you poor thing. hope everythings all cleared up now, and that you wont keep finding slithers of glass forever.

I remember a similar thing happened to me many years ago (but with a pyrex bowl of soup). I hadn't been married long and I'd got my family coming round for dinner. I'd slaved away for hours cos I wanted to impress them and they ended up arriving as the kitchen looked like a bomb site.

Tightwadways

For a complete change I did Liver, Onion & Bacon in gravy in the slow cooker today and just added loads of mash potatoes....the children ate it all up, the eldest actually asked if we could have it again tomorrow not bad considering its the first time I've made it, and eldest detests onions :rotfl::rotfl:
Last week I tried the tip of adding lentils and oats to mince to make it stretch....:eek: OMG!!!! I couldn't believe how much we got out of our normal 500g £2 pack from Morrisons!!! 16 portions!!!!!!!!!!! :eek: Just by adding two handfuls of each...and it went unnoticed until the next day when hubby saw me doing it with the half I hadn't cooked!!! Had I have been at home and not on our hols at Pointins using the slow cooker to cook (saved the electric!) then I could have had even more fun with it....as it was I'd taken enough food from the freezer to feed us, without stretching anything :rolleyes: So will definatly be doing this every time now!!! :T

Guapa1

Thanks Mumma and phizz, I'm alright just annoyed I lost a dish!
The rolls came out so so, they were a bit wet in the middle, I think they could've had longer... Still ate them though!
Once I go to poundland again, and buy a loaf tin, I'll try again.

Freecycle,16 portions? I think I need to study portion size again. Could be the key to me losing weight as well as saving money.

In_Search_Of_Me

evening lovely weezilites...hope our weezl is ok...def not a weezlesque day for me but hope everyone else is ok...hugs all!

cw18

I went out for around 3 hours yesterday -- which included the 3.5/4 mile round trip walk. Managed to stock up on sugar at 69p/kg (cheapest I've seen round us for a while, so got 6 bags as we've been getting through it since I started making the banana muffins) and 3 more bags of the cheap dog food (about 18 days for the Dalmatian when mixed with a small amount of the Yorkies food - the only way to get him to eat it!). Also got 5 novelty Christmas pressies (all the same) for my sons, my dad, my brother and hubby's brother -- should have been £5 each, but cost me just 49p each Also picked up two 'new to me' cookery books from a charity shop -- both from Maguerite Patten, and a bargain at just 50p per hardbacked book.

DS is at college all day today, and hubby will be out for 3.5-4 hours on a hospital trip -- so I plan to use that time to try and sort/repack my freezers. I had a job getting everything in yesterday, as I got 1kg of Whoopsied! mushrooms from Co-Op over the weekend (£1.96) that had taken most of the available space, and then managed to "acquire" another 975g from S'fld yesterday for a mere 47p!!

The whole family loves mushrooms, and I can get through loads in casseroles, rissotto and chicken supreme, plus DS and I love "a few" on our pizza So the Co-Op ones have been diced for casseroles, and the S'fld ones have been sliced for pizza and spag bol type meals.

I used some of the Co-Op ones when I picked them up, but the rest give enough for a further 7 meals - and I divided the S'fld ones into 8 meals. So that's 15 meals of mushrooms shoved in wherever I could find a bit of space (plus one lot already in there), and tea last night was chosen 'cos it cleared the most space possible!! (Kiev and chips, with peas and sweetcorn)

Guapa - re: mince portions.
I've been using the Mr T value frozen mince, and reckon on 120-125g per person per meal. But I did a Chille last Wednesday using 250g of that mince plus 50g green lentils -- and threw in 2 tins of kidney beans instead of 1 -- and managed to make that into 6 portions instead of my normal 3 or 4 using 350-375g of mince. The meat part of the meal came in at just 21.6p/portion

My most "extravagent" purchase/use of mince recently is some meatballs I made 9 days ago..... I picked up a 500g pack of lean mince from Aldi (Whoopsied at £1.25), and mixed it with some HM breadcrumbs (bread had been thrown in the freezer at the point DH would have binned it), and this made 6 portions (at 21p/portion). We had half the next day with pasta and a Whoospied tub of sauce, and I'm considering pulling the rest out of the freezer to have today with pasta and my first attempt at HM tomato and mascarpone sauce.

Frugalista

Plum Pie that soup sounds delicious - any chance of the recipe, Pleeese !!

mumsrus

haven't posted for a while, but still adding lentils and oats to my mince mixture, cant believe how far it makes it stretch, had a lovely cottage pie last week, have also taken the plunge and bought a slow cooker, have made a green lentil and corgette thingy, with some onions and a couple of spoons of thai green paste for flavour husband loved it even had it the next night and put the rest in the freezer, and thats amazing as he never normally keeps anything let alone put it in the freezer, he says he will eat the MUSH another night, not the most attractive name for it but il let him get away with it for once.
also made a big batch of leek and potato soup which the 4 year old ate horrah and after being inspired last night have got some poached pears cooking in it as we speak, they have been sat in the bowl for a week and nobody has touched them hopefully this will make them more appealing.

thanks to everyone, even if i dont post much i love popping in here and getting ideas from you lot