£50 to feed two adults till Sept 27th

Annie_O

I used to keep chickens and sell eggs to work mates. Old chickens don't lay well but they do make very nourishing and tasty stews and soups, with lots of vegetables and potatoes. If your chickens are free range you will have people queuing up to buy them. I usually cook up a lot on mince and make cottage pies, pasties, pasta sauce and currys. Lentils are very cheap and nourishing and can be used in many ways. Porridge Oats can be used to provide protien and thickening to many dishes. You need to think of some of the old war time recipes. They kept a generation alive and healthy.

misscousinitt

meg72 wrote: »

I am also interested in other peoples shopping, cannot resist moving up the till to see what they bought and how much.

Years ago when I was checkout operator at Mr T's I used to check out peoples shopping and see what I could figure out about them from what they had in their trolleys - sad I know, but I can be a very thankless job and you have to do something to pass the time!

bramble - glad its going well - keep up the good work and well done for resisting the takaway (better than me - didn't manage it last night - had fish & chips!)

minstrel57

Hiya Bramble, I have just posted "I need to spend at least as possible, to feed two adults for 4 weeks" and now just found and read your thread. Wow I will be taking a few tips from here.

Thankyou

J x

bramble1

Afternoon all! I have been meal planning this afternoon.

Steak and chips for OH tonight, Fishcakes and chips for me
S - Kebabs, wraps and salad
S - Stew
M - lasagne
T - Curry
W - Sausages chips and beans
T- Jerk Chicken and chips
F - Burgers

Can't wait .

ETA also did my good deed of the day and rehomed homed an abandoned kitten

LizzieB

Hi Allegra, I've looked for the upload photo link and I can only find something that links from a http... Any advice (from anyone!) on posting a photo from your computer desktop would be welcomed! I'm not a luddite but am stumped at this!

No food spend number 2: Bacon/mushroom baguette for breakfast (I know, naughty! but using up remainder of pack!), lunch OH other half of bacon baguette (yes, I was greedy and ate the whole lot!) me - thai noodles in a carton I know, but they were lovely! Tea, OH pork steak and veg, me.... ahem, cough, pizza (well, it is in the freezer!).

I normally manage at least 6 veg a day and eat generally lower fat so am disgusted by my wanton junk food gluttony Will promise to do better - in fact I've decided to attempt to plan my no food spend month around lower fat/at least 5 veg/fruit a day. I have seen how it would be easy just to eat junk for a month - I definitely have enough - but I want it to be more than a fad 'prove a point'.

Meg72 - I'm in my early thirties and I remember my mom really working hard to look after me, brother and sister. Parents split when I was 5, and although mom bought us up by herself she can't have done a bad job as she ended up with an Accountant, a Lecturer and a Software Engineer as kids (I do love my mom so much :j)

Winged one - part of my 'big buy' was due to the VAT increase (along with a 'crisis moment' ) about rising wheat prices!

Bramble - cheese on toast is nothing to balk at! Imagine, a cold winter's night with a melting hot round of welsh rarebit and a glass of cider!

LizzieB

Bramble, speak of these kebabs you are planning!!!!

bramble1

I'm afraid Lizzie they are made already (£2 for 8 kebabs for Mr S!) pork and pepper ones and lamb mince onces. I do make a mean lamb leg steak kebab with oil, curry power and other spices as a marinade mind! But, it's a saturday, we'll be staying in to have our beer and kebab in stead of going down the pub and stopping off at the kebab van on the way home! (see...totally not missing out life just because we're poor!)

OH is off to silverstone tomorrow with his dad, i've got to deliver the kitten to it's new loving home and i really want to sort my kitchen cupboards out too! (OH put the shopping away the other day...it's horrendous!) i've taken the sausage meat out to defrost for the sausage rolls, and need to learn how to make a cheese sauce for my lasagne too! Busy weekend ahead of me!

Allegra

LizzieB wrote: »

Hi Allegra, I've looked for the upload photo link and I can only find something that links from a http... Any advice (from anyone!) on posting a photo from your computer desktop would be welcomed! I'm not a luddite but am stumped at this!

I'm afraid MSE is funny like that You will need to host your photo elsewhere (I use flickr), then once it's uploaded to that site, get a link (by right clicking the photo and copying the http link) and copy it into the little image box on the top of the post.

A bit of a kerfuffle, I know, but once you've set up an account on flickr or similar, it'll be much quicker in the future.

LizzieB

Allegra, I've set up a flickr account, so here goes (sorry about the picture quality, took it with my phone). Let me know if you can see anything!



Bramble, easy cheese sauce - 1 tbs butter/marj melted in saucepan. Mix in 1 oz flour (I just use what I have but cornflour does make it yummily smooth) and when it turns 'to a ball' begin to stir in your liquid. I use a mix of water and skimmed milk as I don't like mine too rich but you can use just milk (I have in the past used white wine and that was v. decadent). Start off with about 100ml liquid and as you gradually bring to the boil - constantly stirring - add more liquid as you require. Once it's come to the boil, simmer and stir for a couple of minutes and add a good handful of cheese. Season to taste, and if you have a bit of nutmeg that can be a very nice addition.

I am under orders by OH to always leave some in the saucepan for 'testing' purposes....

bramble1

Hasn't quite worked lizzie! not sure how to fix it mind

I have 200g of rhubarb, is that too little to make a crumble with?

Already cleaned the house sorting my hair out then will make a start on some baking i think!