Lots more Sneaky Ways to save the pennies

summertime_2

Here's a challenge l do.
l write down 7 days of money saving tips ,each one on a piece of paper ( back of junk letter paper of course) pin one each daily on the fridge and when you follow the days tip, pop a £1 coin in your kitchen money saving jar. By this time next year you will have  saved at least £365 or  even more!!!
Save that money as you go,you have worked very hard to be frugal.

This weeks 7 days money saving is saving money in the kitchen.

Tuesday,
shop around to see best deal for meat mincemeat to bulk buy., then put £1 or more of the savings into your saving jar, use the meat, padded out with lentils, breadcrumbs etc in recipes. have batch making day to make for freezer ie meatballs, burgers, meatloaves, Bolognese, shepard pies etc.
Wednesday
 make your own yogurt using l pint milk,ltbs milk powder(its makes the yogurt thicker) 2 heaped tsp of natural yogurt.There are  lots of info on internet how to make it in thermos flasks. Compare the cost of this to shop bought yogurt and you will see how much you really can save. Use your hm yogurt in hm cakes, salad dressings, yogurt cream cheese, dips,hm yogurt icecreams, yogurt mouse,yogurt jelly etc  Every time you make one of these recipes put a extra £1 in your jar as you are making more savings from making hm recipes rather than shop bought cakes etc.Make the cakes in slow cooker to save using the oven.
Thursday
 after lv made a yogurt and orange cake, l save the orange peels and make slow cooker orange peel marmalade.
Friday
l buy the large bacon offcut packs from Heron foods, and make very budget friendly meal, ie Bacon Savory flans, bacon burgers, bacon and cheese bake.bacon toad in hole, bacon and chicken salad dips,bacon and onion suet puds or roll, toppings for hm pizza
Saturday.
 make your own store cupboard food items  ie pickle onions,  war time apple chutney, war time piccallii, bread and butter pickles. jams, sage and onions mix, castor sugar etc. you will save at least £1 or more on making your own. A packet of 1kg of caster sugar is £1.60 and packet of granulated sugar is 60p for 1kg..you will have saved £1 just by making your own castor sugar for few seconds at home ! Same with making your own sage and onion mixes.
Sunday.
 Use a large frozen chicken that you shopped around for on Tuesday to get best deal ( any saving you made put in jar) and use chicken to make at least the nk 5 days meals ie roast with yr hm sage & onion. chicken pie, chicken toad or chicken and onion suet pud, chicken and bacon salad and carcas to make soup with veg etc. then every meal you eat put a extra £1 in jar as you will have saved at least that amount instead of shop bought ready meals.
Monday.
buy and sow a packet of Spring Onion seeds. you can get approx 1000 seeds for 99p, that can be sown all year round(Under cover in winter) Look how many bunches of spring onions you get from a packet of seeds. Sow a few every week, all year round. l have a large £1land container on patio backdoor where l can go out and pull a few up as needed. l think it works out at 1p a bunch.

* next week ll post the next 7 days money saving for cleaning items.

Sallygirl

Hi summertime_2, that sounds great. Please can you post some of the recipes? Eg yoghurt and orange cake, bacon burgers, wartime apple chutney.....
I haven't tried growing my own spring onions from seed, but if I get a 10p yellow stickered bunch then I keep them in water in a jam jar and keep harvesting the green bits. One bunch lasts me about a month this way.

summertime_2

Sallygirl said:

Hi summertime_2, that sounds great. Please can you post some of the recipes? Eg yoghurt and orange cake, bacon burgers, wartime apple chutney.....
I haven't tried growing my own spring onions from seed, but if I get a 10p yellow stickered bunch then I keep them in water in a jam jar and keep harvesting the green bits. One bunch lasts me about a month this way.

yes of course, ld love to.. ll post the recipes on here as l make them during the weeks. Im making the orange yogurt cake tomorrow when my delivery comes with some oranges that's on sale and im trying it out in my slow cooker, so ll post the recipe/ results on here tomorrow night.

here's another tip about the yellow sticker onions you mentioned..did you know that the super market parsley that sold in pots can be divided and planted in garden or containers. You can get approx 6 to 10 plants from one pot thats cost about £1.29 or cheaper if yellow stickered. iv been doing this all year and iv got parsley growing all over my veg plots and now in the greenhouse for winter use. We always pick a few leaves for our salads  as its very rich in Vit C and l  always pop a few stems into any stews lm making. far better  and cheaper than using dried parsley.
* parsley does grow all year round in my garden but l think you would only get it to root from spring to sept,
 l did my last planting in Sept, and its growing really well. it works out about  12p-21p a plant.(might work on windowsil during winter but who wants 6-10 parsley plants on windowsill lol) ..but at least you could try it nk Spring for the garden.

l do the same with Greek  basil in the summer, it seems to grow on my window sill or greenhouse only though, but again a pot from supermarket for £1.29 gives me about 6 to 10 new plants..

iv got that many moneysaving tips to share, just not enough time during the day to post, but l'll definately share as many as l can on here. 

summertime_2

Sallygirl said:

Hi summertime_2, that sounds great. Please can you post some of the recipes? Eg yoghurt and orange cake, bacon burgers, wartime apple chutney.....
I haven't tried growing my own spring onions from seed, but if I get a 10p yellow stickered bunch then I keep them in water in a jam jar and keep harvesting the green bits. One bunch lasts me about a month this way.

l made this afternoon in my small slow cooker, lined with greaseproof paper, took approx 1 1/2 hrs on high.l l used everything the same as below ,but mine was gluten free flour. My slowcooker cake turned out like a very moist sponge cake, we loved it.

Eggless Yogurt Orange Cake (Oven approx 30 min or slow cooker on high approx 1 1/2 hrs.)

  l and 1/2 cups all purpose flour+l tesp baking powder+1/4 tesp Bic soda+1/4 tesp salt, sieve all into bowl.
mix 1/3 cup veg or sunflower oil with l cup plain natural yogurt+3/4 cup sugar and zest  (2tesp) and juice (1/4 cup) from l small orange into another bowl,
, then fold this into the flour mix, * do not over stir the mixture* just fold it in gently to combine.. pour into lined cake tin, cook in oven approx 25 to 30 mins but keep checking on it that its not burning as l didnt make mine in oven.

PipneyJane

@summertime_2, thank you for the cake recipe and the other meal suggestions.  They're excellent.  I'll look forward to reading some more.

My money saving tip for today is what I do with lemons.  Forgive me if I've shared this before - I can't remember and the search function is rubbish these days.  Anyway, when I have a recipe that calls for the juice of a fresh lemon, I'll zest the lemon first and, if the recipe doesn't require lemon zest, add the zest to a tub I have in the freezer to freeze for later.  Then I'll cut the lemon in half and squeeze out the juice.  After that, I carefully slice the remains of the lemon and open freeze it.   The slices get added, frozen, to the occasional G&T instead of "ice and a slice".  

Someone once suggested to me that you could use the lemon "shells" to descale the kettle.  I did try boiling them - it smelt lovely - but it wasn't a very effective descaler.

- Pip

Sunfl0w3r

PipneyJane said:

@summertime_2, thank you for the cake recipe and the other meal suggestions.  They're excellent.  I'll look forward to reading some more.

My money saving tip for today is what I do with lemons.  Forgive me if I've shared this before - I can't remember and the search function is rubbish these days.  Anyway, when I have a recipe that calls for the juice of a fresh lemon, I'll zest the lemon first and, if the recipe doesn't require lemon zest, add the zest to a tub I have in the freezer to freeze for later.  Then I'll cut the lemon in half and squeeze out the juice.  After that, I carefully slice the remains of the lemon and open freeze it.   The slices get added, frozen, to the occasional G&T instead of "ice and a slice".  

Someone once suggested to me that you could use the lemon "shells" to descale the kettle.  I did try boiling them - it smelt lovely - but it wasn't a very effective descaler.

- Pip

They are very good if you put them in a jug of water then in the microwave on high for 10 minutes, it makes the microwave easy to clean and gets rid of any odours in there too🍋🍋

summertime_2

My daughter is here visiting and l told her l made my hm  yogurt  in my flask  yesterday that worked perfectly, but that l had half a tub of the supermarket  natural yogurt left over from making my batch. and shes just given me a tip l didnt know about.
is to save some of the live yogurt for the nk batch  is to freeze portions of it in ice cube trays .Then all you have to do is take out what you need to make your yogurt, (let is defrost first.)
l thought it was a brill idea, and l had'th thought it would work but
 she makes a lot of yogurt and she said this works... 

annieb64

Thank you. Will try that next time  I make yogurt.

PipneyJane

Sunfl0w3r said:

PipneyJane said:

@summertime_2, thank you for the cake recipe and the other meal suggestions.  They're excellent.  I'll look forward to reading some more.

My money saving tip for today is what I do with lemons.  Forgive me if I've shared this before - I can't remember and the search function is rubbish these days.  Anyway, when I have a recipe that calls for the juice of a fresh lemon, I'll zest the lemon first and, if the recipe doesn't require lemon zest, add the zest to a tub I have in the freezer to freeze for later.  Then I'll cut the lemon in half and squeeze out the juice.  After that, I carefully slice the remains of the lemon and open freeze it.   The slices get added, frozen, to the occasional G&T instead of "ice and a slice".  

Someone once suggested to me that you could use the lemon "shells" to descale the kettle.  I did try boiling them - it smelt lovely - but it wasn't a very effective descaler.

- Pip

They are very good if you put them in a jug of water then in the microwave on high for 10 minutes, it makes the microwave easy to clean and gets rid of any odours in there too🍋🍋

@Sunfl0w3r Thank you for the idea.  I hadn’t thought of using the remains of lemons to clean the microwave.

- Pip

Brie

Lemons!  I like to use them to clean the kitchen sink.  A bit of bicarb and use the wrung out lemon rind instead of a scrubbie.  It's amazing on stainless steel.  Good too to drop them in the washing up water as the bit of left over juice will help cut the grease.  

Meanwhile I've realised that I'm officially old as most of the youngsters at work seem to thing that every meal comes in a packet and it either has to all be eaten or thrown away!   But they always ask me what I'm having for lunch as my leftovers always smell so tasty!