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Have already made the shopping list for next Fri (obsessed much?! lol) and we really shouldn't need much at all so hoping to do it for £40ish, or even less.
AprGC:£/£320
Do you have any macaroni pasta?
My mum always used to make "milk pudding" which was macaroni pasta, sugar, butter and milk topped with nutmeg and slowly cooked in the oven for a few hours. One of my favourite winter puddings.
Whether this would work with other pasta I dont know as have ever tried but I would assume that if Macaroni is like another pasta it might work.
Otherwise use it for smoothies if you have any fruit laying around.
Then going to make up some pasties with the left over chicken and the cold gammon I have in the fridge. Plus some mushrooms and some creme fraiche and stock sauce. They will do for lunches over the next few days.
I am also planning on making some fools for deserts. Yummy!
I have got back into eating porridge and it is lovely
Have a good day all
Trying to reduce monthly bill by not buying juice, will stick to plain water, milk and Actimel (the only milk DS2 will drink, so necessary spend for me, he drinks about 5 a day :eek:) and a bottle of cheapy lemonade for me
My fish man just called round - haven't had anything from him for a few weeks now, so got some salmon and haddock - some for tomorrow, some for the freezer - £17.
Pay off £7000 - £841.95
Make £2021 extra income - £1.60
November £300/ £167.14
All you need is;
* 2 table sooponfull sugar
* 1 table spoon dry yeast
* One big glass warm water ( Approx 330 mlt)
* 1/2 kilogram white or brown flour
Mix sugar, yeast and warm water in a big glass and wait for 15 minutes. then slowly mix it with flour , texture needs to to feel like your ear blob. Then cover it with wet cloth and leave it additional 30 minutes.
You can use this as a pizza base but my mum showed me something else.
Cut one onion to samll cubes and slowly cook it with little oil. Get some cheese about 100 or 150 gr maximum- white feta type of cheese works best but if you are using feta you only need half of the amount- Grate the cheese, mix with cooked onions when they are cold, don't cook the cheese also add some herbs , I always add mint.
Go back to your dough, cut into small pieces , you must at least have 20 piece. Put some of the cheese mix to every piece of dough, it will be inside when you shape it in your hand . does not matter what shape, dough should cover the cheese that is it.
Finally fry your dough , bona pettit.
This is lovely with salads or next to soup
not even sure there is enough for the week
Picklepud - I second greent that risotto rice is nicer than pudding rice in rice pudding.
Catznine - what is "Big Brands"? Is it like approved foods?
Tea tonight is the first meal from my half price turkey bought at the weekend. We are having it with Carrot and parsnip mash, roast potatoes and cauliflower, with stuffing and gravy. I found an old (BBE Jan10) sachet of Dream Topping in the cupboard and have made it up and put it on top of some sugar free jellies with fruit cocktail in them for afters.
Made some flapjacks earlier and have wrapped them individually in foil and frozen them (otherwise there would be none left by this evening!) for lunchboxes.
Hope you all had a good weekend! We have loads of Haribo which DD2 got when out trick or treating - we all don't like it so don't know what to do with it!
ENDIS. Employed, no disposable income or savings!
Popped into MrT today to stock up on Rad0x as they are still doing buy 1 get 2 free. Got 6 altogether so that should keep DH going for a while. I use soap.
ok, that should be us for the week and poss into next weekend. getting a bit close to December and the bigger spend so am going to try hard this month. Lots of soup making will occur;).
Will need bananas at some point but that should be it.
Oh - L$dl have cucumbers for 29p - at least I think that's what they were.