Help! £40 to feed family for the month

mbaz

anyway, that isnt what this thread is about....let's get back to our favourite subject..................LENTILS!!!

mbaz

Right off to make my veggie sausages - will let u know how they go!
Re-jigged menu again as realised I had beans on toast and gruel pie next to eachother and that would just be cruel!! Gosh only 9 days to go! Feels like it's taking forever mind you!

1st - carbonara (just found a jar in back of cupboard)
2nd Lasagne (with added lentils )
3rd chicken and rice
4th jacket spuds with smartprice beans
5th defrost a curry
6th lasagne
7th omlette
8th chicken dinner
9th casserole in giant yorkshire
10th canelloni
11th Beans on toast
12th Jacket spud
13th ate for free!!!
14th Egg and chips
15th curry (bulked out with lentils!)
16th veggie sausages and chips
17th left-over-bulked-out-curry
18th 4p curry sauce and chips
19th chicken risotto
20th beans on toast
21th Egg n chips
22th Gruel pie
23th Shezza's pasta sauce
24th - Chicken risotto

patentgirl

dont forget the oats lol!

You are doing great mbaz you have certainly given me inspiration and ideas and I know plenty of people on here will agree with that xxx

phizzimum

mbaz wrote: »

anyway, that isnt what this thread is about....let's get back to our favourite subject..................LENTILS!!!

:rotfl:
my name is phizzimum, and I'm a lentilholic...

Beki

Wow! I can't get over how well you're doing! Woooooh! xxxx

donnajt

Well said mbaz - you are doing amazingly - don't let anybody put you off!!! Can't believe you only have 9 days to go. What recipe are you using for your veggie sausages?? would be interested

Well the liver was revolting - OH ate it but he loves liver, i just couldn't bring myself to eat more than a morsel...thank god for value spaghetti and red pesto lol

tonight is chicken, mush, pasta and fajita sauce - OH's favourite - even better he cooks it!!!

Got a couple of recipe books from ebay that my Nan used to have - am going to curl up and enjoy them - i think there's a whole subject on lentils (for you lentilaholics!)

good luck with the veggie sausages mbaz! We used to be takeaway-addicts, since I've been cooking they never taste as good and I agree I get a shock at how much they can cost and it puts me off the food :mad:

mbaz

Well I ended up doing burgers as they're an easier shape to make. They taste delicious and my boys wolfed them down but they are a really strange colour so there's a good chance my cover will be blown tonight! So close to the end too!!! It's the recipe that's on one of the first replies on this thread. Just sage and onion stuffing (value of course) mixed with en equal part of cooked lentils, dipped in egg and flour and fried. As I say an awful colour but very tasty!!

You are going to have to scan that lentil section and email it round everyone!! :rotfl:

morwenna

mbaz - you are doing so well, congratulations! I have been there and done that, as they say.. My exOH left me with a huge amount of debt (some of which I am still paying off) and I have been where you are now.

But I still was grinning all over my face today when I left the Co-Op - spent just under £6 and came out with a chicken, bananas, broccoli, swede and some meatballs, all RTC. Old habits and all that

floss2

morwenna wrote: »

..... Old habits and all that

I'm the same, we're fortunate to have a very healthy income, but we still have bills & debts to be paid and I have a son at uni to support, so we try not to be too frivolous with our (well, OH's!) cash - especially as it's my share of the outgoings that feeds us!

I used to feed my two DS's on YS & RTC shopping - we very often wouldn't all have the same thing, as there had only been enough for 1 or 2! I still buy RTC & YS now, today's bargain was oxtail (:drool:) and a beef joint for my tea & lunches for the rest of the week, last week it was tomatoes (soup in freezer) & carrots (ditto), before then 2 poussin & a f/r chicken.

To my way of thinking it is common sense to make your money stretch further - which in these current days of doom & gloom in the financial world, isn't such a bad thing.

janb5

victoriajj wrote: »

I added a couple of handfulls of oats and lentils to a stock pot full of veg soup, it really thickened it up, I think the trick is to start with a small amount and then it's trialling it until it's right

I so agree! I added half a cup of lentils and half a cup of oats and also added 2 grated carrots to my spag bol. I think the trick is to have some stock handy/boiling water to add if it is starting to look too thick. Didnt tell either of my sons. One adored it and rang me up at work to tell me(!), the other didnt like the` burnt bits` which might have been a bit of onion.

Anyway a great success and I will be doing it again so thanks all!