THE FUTURE IS ONE BIG CHALLENGE AFTER ANOTHER for 3Dogs and friends ..... PART 4

Aesop

Morning Boult

how are you feeling?

boultdj

That's where my 2 recipe's come in handy,I use 1/2 ld of meat, load's of veg & potatoe's,a hand full of oat's or lentle's which OH hate's but hasen't noticed I'm using 'em and 2 stock cube's and when it's not far of finished put in a some gravy granule's to thicken it and add a bit more beef flavour to it OH use to complane about no meat in it before, when I just used 1 or the other and that do'es us twice, so I tend to do 1 for now and then freeze the rest

boultdj

Aesop wrote: »

Morning Boult

how are you feeling?[/QUOTE


Morning Aesop not bad, my leg's aching but I walked up and down the path a couple of time's yesterday, taking advantage of the sunny weather :jand giving me a break from knitting the sock:D, still it's taking shape, I now have a heel done:eek:

Aesop

boultdj wrote: »

put in a some gravy granule's to thicken it and add a bit more beef flavour to it

ooh thanks for that tip!

DH eats what is meant for 3-4 people. He has always had a big appetite, so a chicken that says serve 3-4 people, he eats on his own! :eek: but my local greengrocers shut down so having to look around for cheap seasonal veg. still use sainsburys and asda for it, but try to make sure get it cheap as possible.

something I learnt the other day reading OS boards, Greyqueen said it - supermarkets sometimes sell bananas for 99p in a pack, mine is £1, but if you weigh the different packs, you may find some are heavier than others! so check the weight and get more for your 99p. but I tend to select the loose ones, 7 for the week and weigh them, usually works out cheaper than the £1 ones.

boultdj

That's where home town is handy, got a good market, and 2/3 of the stall's some time's do a bowl of veg/fruit for £1, pity I can't drive at the mo:mad:, but the cheap frozen veg work's well in the savoury mince, does Hubby like soup?Pudding's? Thinking can you do same as resturant's, serve soup first, with bread, then get away with serving a slightly smaller main meal, or meal followed by a pudding, nothing fancy, just jelly or banana's and custard, and I would so like to go to GQ magic green grouser[sp], I'd have a field day in there...........

Aesop

boultdj wrote: »

That's where home town is handy, got a good market, and 2/3 of the stall's some time's do a bowl of veg/fruit for £1, pity I can't drive at the mo:mad:, but the cheap frozen veg work's well in the savoury mince, does Hubby like soup?Pudding's? Thinking can you do same as resturant's, serve soup first, with bread, then get away with serving a slightly smaller main meal, or meal followed by a pudding, nothing fancy, just jelly or banana's and custard, and I would so like to go to GQ magic green grouser[sp], I'd have a field day in there...........

see we have a lot of ethnic shops where I live, but I don't like the fact they all sell bowls of fruit for £1 outside, the shop. We have buses, motor vehicles, van, lorries, etc driving past.... hate the thought of what is on that fruit

and with my greengrocers, as they knew me and DS, we sometimes got a little extra thrown in for free or really reduced. I loved walking away with a carrier bag full of veg and fruit for a fiver.

may need a day trip to GQ's magic greengrocer

there is another fruit and veg shop in town, but hate the trek - it is a bus ride only, but then DS wants to go on the peppa pig ride, which at £2 for one ride, I absolutely refuse, so we have tears :mad:.

I don't know.... might just have to start making the effort. just feel sorry for DS being dragged to Lidl and town and other places to get stuff for cheap. He loves the buses, not the shopping.

boultdj

Know what your saying about shop's next to main road's, but our market's are not near the main road, so don't have that worry, and the stall holder's know me, in the case of Don 66 year's of working on the fruit n' veg stall he know's all the family and I'm the 4th generation of going to him for stuff, so also some time's get a bit extra, but that's normaly if I go later in the day and their wanting to get started on packing up:D

patman99

All the pesticides and other carp they spray on the crops and you are worried about exhaust fumes. Just give the fruit and veg a good soaking to clean all the muck off.
Btw, have you ever thought of growing your own veg ?. You could get DS involved. Seeds cost very little, but produce quite a good crop.

Aesop, your OH isn't the only one to not like toad in the hole. I won't eat it either.

3Dogs and Boultdj, The fog round here this morning was as thick as a Brentwood bimbo (check-out TOWIE to see what I mean). It has now cleared, but am hoping it will not return tomorrow morning as my journey to work is mostly via country roads.

Aesop

patman99 wrote: »

All the pesticides and other carp they spray on the crops and you are worried about exhaust fumes. Just give the fruit and veg a good soaking to clean all the muck off.
Btw, have you ever thought of growing your own veg ?. You could get DS involved. Seeds cost very little, but produce quite a good crop.

You are in my neck of the woods..... :cool:

with my fruit and veg shop, it was all local grown produce, from local farms, etc, you could even see the earth on the spuds.

I am a rubbish gardener, let alone growing my own veg! and our soil is acidic or something? the LL told me when we moved in. we have a mountain of weeds that I need to tackle this winter and then maybe can think about growing things in tubs, like spuds, etc.

boultdj

Aesop wrote: »

You are in my neck of the woods..... :cool:

with my fruit and veg shop, it was all local grown produce, from local farms, etc, you could even see the earth on the spuds.

I am a rubbish gardener, let alone growing my own veg! and our soil is acidic or something? the LL told me when we moved in. we have a mountain of weeds that I need to tackle this winter and then maybe can think about growing things in tubs, like spuds, etc.

Acid[ericasuse]soil is good for the expensive fruit, by that I mean blueberry/cranberry/honeyberry also it's acid soil round here and there load's of wild plum and damson tree's and potatoe's do well in tub's or empty compost bag's, you just need to water 'em well[ do mine 3 time's a day in summer]