Frugal Living Challenge 2011 - Part 3.

mongmoney

Afternoon All,
Sandra, I love when a truly lovely person does something truly lovely!
I've been car booting this am with my Dad. We didn't make much but it should keep me from using the hole in the wall this week.
Just attempted to cancel my blockb*ster subs and it needs a 0845 phone number call, not happy.
Calculator at the ready to work out October's cash flow, bring on pay day!!!!

Let's all have a calm and frugal week.
Mongy

paidinchickens

Afternoon my lovely ladies

Got a load of outside jobs done today :j Put some bits and bobs onto freecycle and cooked dinner.

Whoopsie chicken and cabbage mash and carrots ummmm free homemade apple pie from aunty and 2x6p custards so quite a cheap meal for us. I don't understand how people can get chicken to last for so many meals. I roast and have as a sunday lunch. The horrible meat goes into a stew for the next day and that usually lasts two days as two of the boys refuse point blank to eat it so DH and I will be sick of chicken by Wednesday :rotfl:

Cats get the rest but never the bones as I worry too much

Just had them little widgets come through the post from the water board (free applied online). We have had the shower reducers and toilet thingy me bobs for a while but we never had the normal tap widgets. Quite impressed and (as hubby explained) due to the air that mixes in with the water on the way out of the tap (I think that is what he said :rotfl:) it foams up the washing up liquid a lot more thus reducing the amount needed. We already put it in a hand pump and slightly water down so it means one bottle should last us yonks now :T

Of to ask the kids if they have any homework that should have been done at the weekend and make them have a bath...........watch them scatter and hide :rotfl::rotfl:

PIC xx

23rdspiral

tumptyteapot wrote: »

I'm not tempted, we boycott Nestle - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott

Ditto!:T:T:T

paidinchickens wrote: »

. I don't understand how people can get chicken to last for so many meals. I roast and have as a sunday lunch. The horrible meat goes into a stew for the next day and that usually lasts two days as two of the boys refuse point blank to eat it

hi, I don't mean to sound funny, but if you call it "horrible meat" that might explain why some in your family won't eat it?
There's only 2 of us and a standard chicken usually lasts 6+ plates... Roast with breasts, then fajitas or similar with the oysters, and filets, then curry with smaller bits Inc the back, and if there's enough soup then with the pickings. I am happy to pick the bones clean... It saves me money and most importantly for me respects the creature that died by using all I can.

tumptyteapot

23rdspiral wrote: »

hi, I don't mean to sound funny, but if you call it "horrible meat" that might explain why some in your family won't eat it?
There's only 2 of us and a standard chicken usually lasts 6+ plates... Roast with breasts, then fajitas or similar with the oysters, and filets, then curry with smaller bits Inc the back, and if there's enough soup then with the pickings. I am happy to pick the bones clean... It saves me money and most importantly for me respects the creature that died by using all I can.

That's really helpful, I've just got a chicken to roast and it is only me that will eat it as my son is a vegi that eats fish :-)
I don't buy very cheap meat, I'd rather wait and spend more on organic better tasting stuff and have it less often.

paidinchickens

23rdspiral wrote: »

Ditto!:T:T:T



hi, I don't mean to sound funny, but if you call it "horrible meat" that might explain why some in your family won't eat it?
There's only 2 of us and a standard chicken usually lasts 6+ plates... Roast with breasts, then fajitas or similar with the oysters, and filets, then curry with smaller bits Inc the back, and if there's enough soup then with the pickings. I am happy to pick the bones clean... It saves me money and most importantly for me respects the creature that died by using all I can.

I don't say horrible meat in front of the kids, I think the reason I do not like it was because I worked in many fast food places when I was younger and it kind of put me off it. The same with lamb. My mum does not eat cakes as she worked in a cake factory when she was younger.....oh how I wish I had her problem :rotfl::rotfl: I could do with a good recipe for a curry though as the ones I have tried have been a disaster!

23rdspiral

paidinchickens wrote: »

I don't say horrible meat in front of the kids, I think the reason I do not like it was because I worked in many fast food places when I was younger and it kind of put me off it. The same with lamb. My mum does not eat cakes as she worked in a cake factory when she was younger.....oh how I wish I had her problem :rotfl::rotfl: I could do with a good recipe for a curry though as the ones I have tried have been a disaster!

Ah, I understand now.... I know just what u mean. My ex used to work for Fabulous Baking Boys, so I don't eat their flapjack, and I used to be a silver service waitress... So have an aversion to 'posh' and 'corporate' buffet food. Sadly this can include weddings and work functions!:o

Good curry recipe? Personally I like BOGOF Pattacks!:rotfl: (I do like Madhur Jaffreys dahl and veg curry recipies though. But i just can't get from scratch to taste like a named style (rogan Josh ect) so gave up trying

23rdspiral

tumptyteapot wrote: »

That's really helpful, I've just got a chicken to roast and it is only me that will eat it as my son is a vegi that eats fish :-)
I don't buy very cheap meat, I'd rather wait and spend more on organic better tasting stuff and have it less often.

We're the same with meat, unless it's woopsied . Glad I could help...there's a wealth on old style about making chickens stretch, search 'rubber chicken':rotfl: if we don't want chicken so many nights in a row, I freeze breast meat in gravy or stock (ESP if I slow cooked the chicken, SC BTW makes it so very easy to get all the meat off it.). Or freeze it in Chinese sauce, 9p curry... Just remove all bones and Freeze it in anything really so long as it's not dry.

tumptyteapot

Thai curries are easier to make I think, my ex recreated a takeaway curry only by using extreme amounts of oil!

I don't have any food aversions, sadly. I used to work in the market, on a veg stall and on a fish stall and I still eat heaps of both :-)

I'll roast my chicken tomorrow, then pick it clean and stock the bones. How long does it keep in the fridge once it is cooked?

23rdspiral

Definaltey agree that tai is easier... Oh Aldi has real Thai style pastes on 1/2 - I use those with coconut milk, ESP for thai green fish curry. Nom!

SandraScarlett

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23rd just posted the thousandth post!!! Congratulations to us for trying to keep on the straight and narrow!

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