a month without supermarket - new challenge for 2011 starts at post 1013

kscour

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

good thinking batman.......:rolleyes: didnt think of it like that the whole lot on my little work top.....

once you said it.. i had visions of hubby with his chainsaw...:eek: and the dog chewing the ends of the legs...:eek:

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piratess

thanks for the welcome, Im just wondering how many of you are using the "old" family cook books i know my mum has a family cook book from when we were little (in the 70s) .... and i bet its just good wholesom cooking not all this fancy stuff you have nowadays! ... ooo just thought i can do pasties!! .. see a meal already without even thinking about and plus! my Gran would be proud to LOL
many thanks xx

kscour

I've actually got my nans cookbooks from the 40's onward. Haven't looked at them lately so thanks for the reminder - I shall dig them out tonight and have a browse.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

piratess wrote: »

thanks for the welcome, Im just wondering how many of you are using the "old" family cook books i know my mum has a family cook book from when we were little (in the 70s) .... and i bet its just good wholesom cooking not all this fancy stuff you have nowadays! ... ooo just thought i can do pasties!! .. see a meal already without even thinking about and plus! my Gran would be proud to LOL
many thanks xx

blow the dust off those cookbook covers and.... when you got a quiet mo.... have a nice cuppa and have a nose through.......

i personally like the older cookbooks...... as you say nothing fancy..... plus they are using more or less british ingredients..... as lets face ..up until the late 70's possibley early mid 80's...... there wasnt half as much food imported.......

plus you can pick up these types of cookbooks in charity shops and car boots for next to nothing....

plus they got recipes for cheaper cuts of meat..... not like some of the fancy cookbooks of today.. where its only premium cuts they cook with....

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi Guys!

I have a confession to make:o .....OH has been so ill this week that I did an online shop last night for today as we had no fridge stuff/essentials/fruit in and have no one to ask...I feel really bad, but needs must and all that:D

We have managed OK so far, but this week has been so bad. After all the offers...I only spent £39

PP
xx

COOLTRIKERCHICK

hi.. penny-pincher......

hope oh is on the mend........hope nothing too serious....

sending you :grouphug: .....take care hun......

COOLTRIKERCHICK

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007120370,00.html

here is another reason to use your local butcher instead of buying meat in the supermarket......

as i think this is where this meat goes.....

dont like what she's doing to paul......but good on her...

little_miss_thrifty

Hi Guys!
Well, my month is up and it has been great! I have learnt so much its hard to remember it all, but i am glad to say that this challenge, for me, wasn't going to be just for a month, but steps to a total change in the way i shop.

I have used farm shops for a good few years now, but still got dry goods from the supermarket. Now i know however that, my local health food shop does near enough the whole range of ecover products, marg and other bits i need, i can get a whole manner of things at the old ironmongers in town (and lots cheaper too), i have got 2 great pharmacies that i can get near enough all our toiletries/medicines from and an independent warehouse/superstore that i can get odd bits from, like icing sugar, tinned toms etc; aswell as 2 butchers and a market with cheap fruit and veg and a huge fish van that comes round on a Friday (possibly not the cheapest but never mind).

The only things i have not sourced from the local town, i have got off Ebay!!
They were 5 packs of Nouvelle toilet rolls and 5 packs of razors, saving me over £15 :T :T

Right: the most important bit! I set our family (of 4) a £200 budget for food and i came in at...£163.22!! I am so please with it. I have a well stocked freezer, with joints of meat or left overs, and loads of veg that has been frozen. My fridge needs stocking tomorrow.

I shall certainly continue to do this, funnily enough i seem to have more time AFTER popping in and out of all the different shops several times a week I just hope that the shops stay open in town to enable me to continue shopping as i am now doing as the DREADED T's has put in an application to build a new store:mad: :mad:

I'm off to join the 'friends against Tesco's group'................

Many thanks to ALL, couldn't have done it without your help xx

thriftlady_2

piratess wrote: »

thanks for the welcome, Im just wondering how many of you are using the "old" family cook books i know my mum has a family cook book from when we were little (in the 70s) .... and i bet its just good wholesom cooking not all this fancy stuff you have nowadays! ... ooo just thought i can do pasties!! .. see a meal already without even thinking about and plus! my Gran would be proud to LOL
many thanks xx

Ooh, I love those sort of cookbooks:) . I have my Mum's 1959 Goodhousekeeping cookbook. Nice, simple and straightforward, not a lemongrass stalk, or a chili in sight - a bit bland to be honest :rotfl: but nontheless good basic recipes.

Second-hand bookshops are a good hunting ground for this sort of book. I picked up a Family Circle one on budget cookery, but stupidly got rid of it in a decluttering fit :rolleyes:

little_miss_thrifty

thriftlady wrote: »

. I have my Mum's 1959 Goodhousekeeping cookbook. Nice, simple and straightforward, not a lemongrass stalk, or a chili in sight - a bit bland to be honest :rotfl: but nontheless good basic recipes.

I'll have to go to my mums and dig hers out - i remember a blue book with all these simple recipes in, and get the recipe for her stew - it is lush!!