I'm having a DFW baby!!

Snaggles

mrsspendalot wrote: »

I used to pee into a plastic jug and then pour it into the sample pot if I did it at home Snaggles - worked fine.

I honestly can't believe I never thought of that, thanks! How silly am I??? I'll definitely do that on Wednesday, the midwife will be stunned!

Snaggles

Right, money update time:

Shopping - £66.51 :eek:
Petrol - £0 (none needed until at least the weekend hopefully)

Overall spend £66.51. Total spend so far this month £151.43

Budget remaining £198.57
-£40 approx needed for petrol
= £158.57

We do our weekly shop every weekend, and there's 3 weekends left until payday, so that gives us £52.85 per week, which doesn't sound too bad. We've got quite a lot of food in, so I'm going to do a meal plan next to make sure we're not wasting anything.

immoral_angeluk

Snaggles wrote: »

I honestly can't believe I never thought of that, thanks! How silly am I??? I'll definitely do that on Wednesday, the midwife will be stunned!

Just make sure you wash the jug out before using it again!!!

Snaggles

Meal plan for this week:

Monday
Gammon for hubby/ds (Quorn sausages for me), carrots, sweetcorn, croquette potatoes and gravy (must remember to wash that jug )

Tuesday
Pasta & quorn (again :rolleyes:) bolognaise sauce

Wednesday
Chicken, salad, new potatoes

Thursday
Jacket potatoes and beans, salad

Friday
Fish, oven chips, peas

Saturday
Quorn curry & rice (there's a rogan josh cook-in sauce lurking in the cupboard which needs using)

Does that seem well balanced? Maybe it'll be a bit heavy if the weather stays nice, but we'll have to resist the lure of the bbq and use what we've already got in I think.

Snaggles

Things I have found in the cupboard that need using if anyone can suggest meal ideas for next week:

Bulgar wheat
Dried lentils
Split peas (dried)
Noodles
Cous Cous

Maybe I should pay a visit to the old style boards for some inspiration!

Tondella

There was a lovely recipe involving bulgar wheat in the Guardian saturday magazine a few weeks ago, republished here ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,2045371,00.html

I'm hoping this is leading up to him publishing a book as all the recipes he's published in the column so far are delicious.

Snaggles

That sounds really nice Tondella - I'm not convinced hubby or ds would be keen, but I could just cook it and put it in front of them and see what happens!

Bunnyinthelights

I got a great rice salad recipe from the Daily Mail yesterday with avacados and onions, sounds really nice if you want it...

Bunny x

Snaggles

Yes please Bunny, I've got a big bag of rice in the cupboard at the moment, and I love avocado. How are you doing today?

Bunnyinthelights

I'm really good-got the 4 little rugrats today................it does try my patience just a TAD (read-I'm going LOOPY!)

Green bean and avocado hearby rice
serves 4
225 g rice (lady recommends basmati or wild?)
2 lg handfuls green beans trimmed
8 tops of purple sproutuing broccoli
1 cucumber-cut into bite sized pieces
10 'deep red cheery tomatoes' in 1/4's
1 tbsp of fresh basil
1 tbsp fresh coriander (yack! I hate coriander!)
1 dessert sppon of parsley (any kind)
2 avocads cut up
4 spring onions, finely chopped
juice of 1 lime
a nice glug of olive, avocada or any other vegetable oil
lots of fresh ground pepper

make up rice (soft but not mushy)
mix all the herbs, veg etc together but NOT Lime juice and oil
and that in last...
Sounds good doesn't it?!

Bunn y x