Pudding and dessert recipes

JCS1

tori.k wrote: »

The cheapest thing i found when the kids were little was home made ice lollys, they cost pennies to make. or a cheap tub of ice-cream can last weeks if served in cones

That bought back memories of making home made ice lollys using the fruit juice from canned fruit :T

BitterAndTwisted

I used to make ice-lollies from orange-juice or quite strong Ribena. Diluted for drinking results in rather insipid-tasting lollies. I'm sure you could even make them from diluted orange-squash and that would make them really cheap.

Sometimes, if I couldn't be *rsed to make a pudding my young charges would get a fromage-frais or a yoghurt with a biscuit. Fruit-salad can be made quickly and easily with only two or three different fruits using orange-juice and honey for a syrup. They thought it was special, bless 'em.

meritaten

while I applaud the OP for being thrifty - I am also concerned that the 2 children arent getting enough actual nutrition.
I dont want to upset you OP, but if you are only spending a maximum of £20 for four persons a week - I fail to see where the children are having enough fresh fruit, milk, meat, fats (children need them) and veg along with carbohydrates.
as another poster pointed out - for the children you have a certain amount of money coming in - for the both of them this would exceed your weekly budget of £20.
I survived the miners strike in the eighties - and even though the kids didnt go hungry - I knew thier diet wasnt the healthiest as i couldnt afford fresh veg and fruit and meat was mostly tinned.
why is your food budget so low? isnt food a priority?

flea72

S_Wales_Saver wrote: »

LOL my mother used to make sugar sandwiches and I ate condensed milk on bread as a child

Whispers quietly 'I still love it on porridge :rotfl::rotfl:

but that was in the day when condensed milk was cheap - since the rise of the banoffee pie, its gone upmarket, and is now priced accordingly :rotfl:

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MILLYMOLLY

meritaten wrote: »

why is your food budget so low? isnt food a priority?

Don't you think this is a bit harsh, I'm sure food is a priority but so is paying rent to have somewhere to live and paying for heating. For some people, and I speak from recent experience, there is a need to juggle money and do the best you can with what you have available, as you already know if you survived the miner's strike.

jollymummy

I'd go for jellies, trifles with tinned fruit and custard, fruit crumbles with tinned fruit or sad left over fruit, we have fruit bowl crumble. I chuck in whatever is left
Scones using, whatever you have, handful of dried fruit, leftover cheese or plain with a bit of jam. I batch cook using my BERO book make lots of ginger buns and choccy buns, pop in freezer and just get them out a few at a time, can have on their own or with custard. I also use up my manky carrots to make muffins, buns, cakes and chuck some carrots in.
My DS loves ice cream, so like someoneelse suggested, we give him a cone, he puts a few smarties or sprinkles on and thinks it's the bees knees. Ice cream wafers at Tesco are 14p for 48, so they last a bit with a block of icecream.
We also make ice lolllies out of value juice. I've got a big bag of popping corn in the cupboard, which lasts forever, and then DS has the novelty of making it and scoffing it
Pancakes are pretty cheap and can pop a bit of juice, jam ice cream, stewed fruit on them.
We sometimes have Tesco value yoghurts and choccy mousses that are ok.
Hope that helps a bit.

Valli

last week I got three fruit bread loaf things whoopsied in Morrisons for 9p each. That'll be three bread-and-butter (well marg;) puddings (two are in the freezer, I've used one). Just add a couple of eggs and a pint of milk and they will easily serve 4. I add extra dried fruit to mine but it's already in there so you don't need to. Equally you don't need to add much sugar.
So puddings for less than 30p each altogether, I would guess...

Penelope_Penguin

MILLYMOLLY wrote: »

Don't you think this is a bit harsh, I'm sure food is a priority but so is paying rent to have somewhere to live and paying for heating. For some people, and I speak from recent experience, there is a need to juggle money and do the best you can with what you have available, as you already know if you survived the miner's strike.

The poster may have been clumsy in their choice of words, but the Tax Credit system has been designed to lift children up from the "bread line" so that there is sufficient money to feed them a balanced nutriitious diet, with enough calories, vitamins and minerals to allow them to lead a healthy lifestyle, and grow big and strong

meritaten

during the miners strike i had £14.95 per week for food. for 5 people. 2 adults and three children and that was well below the state guidelines - but thats what we had! for striking miners families.
rent was paid for or waived by our wonderful council
but - my normal food bill was about £40 then
i did my best - my nan was alive and i took advice from her - but with the best will in the world - I couldnt keep my family healthy (fed yes) on that amount of money.
they didnt starve - they didnt go hungry - so what did i worry about? I couldnt provide the basics they needed to grow. I knew that more than a few months of the food i could give then would result in malnutrition. my mum bought them fruit, my mum in law gave us veg. without them i wouldnt have coped.
I know what food costs - my OH and I eat well and spend little.
I just dont see how you can feed two children on less than £20 a week and the OP claims that is with another adult or two.

BitterAndTwisted

I think it's possible but it certainly isn't easy. People often over-estimate just how much meat a person needs to eat a day to be healthy: it's only about four ounces a day and that's excluding protein from other sources like dairy products. eggs and pulses.