Anyone got a nice spaghetti and meatballs recipe?

tattycath

Jacks (((hugs))) Not heard from you for a while (unless it was while I was sleeping!!) How are you? I've blown my budget this month with the help of my 2 DDs!!! I have £2 left to last til month end!!!

dan1979

My cat turns her nose up at anything home-made.

It's like she knows I'm trying to be cheap! Even when it's a really nice bit of chicken or fish she's just not interested. Likes the expensive ham from the butchers though of course.

Also turns her nose up at any cat food out of a tin, talk about spoilt. :rolleyes:

If anyone knows anything a cat is likely to go for I'm all ears..

taffy1969

Hi all. Hope you are having a good day. Not posted on here this month yeet, can't believe we are in the middle of Feb already! Where does it go?
I have updated my sig doing quite well so far. I was over on Jan GC but it was my first so I let myself off! £216.19 spent so far of a budget of £350. DH due back from offshore sometime this week so will have to do a big shop most prob. I need to list what I have in cupboards as I'm very bad at buying what I don't need. Example, while doing MrT online at beg of Feb Heinz BB were 2 lots of 4 tins for £2, excellent I thought, give me some of that. My shopping came and when I was sorting I found I already had 3 tins! Took 1 lot of 4 to mum's, hubby would have moaned!
Anyway, as I said on the last 2 threads I have been on this morning I really MUST do some work!!! lol
Have a good day and I will try to catch up with the zillion threads later.

Justamum

Jacks_xxx wrote: »

:wave: Hiya lovelies!

My cat eats tins of tuna and I cook him chicken thighs, - plus he *is* partial to a handful of prawns now and then. Most days he eats the meat component of whatever we're eating. He has what's left of a bag of IAMs for back up but he hasn't had any for months.

When I come home and start rattling pots and pans in the kitchen he follows me in and I swear the expression on his face says "Excellent! What're we having??"

We had a couple of real characters when I was younger. One was a rescue cat from the Cats Protection League. Before she was re-homed with us she had been looked after by an old lady who only fed her on corned beef. So she would only eat corned beef when we got her. It took us ages to get her to eat anything else. She would never eat any tinned cat food, only the dry. She did love bacon rind but you had to throw it in the bin first and she would flick it out with her paw on to the floor before she would eat it. She also loved chicken giblets, and when my parents ran a hotel my mum would cook a few chickens at a time. The cat would gorge herself until she couldn't move!

Another cat we had understood the word "fish"! Every time anyone said it she would trot off to her food bowl expecting to find some there. Once on a children's cartoon the word was mentioned and off she went!

mama67

Going to be another NSD for me today.

Have no plans on going anywhere until I have to pick up DS2 from after school club.

Dinner is in the SC (Liver & Sausage in a tomato and onion gravy).

I think I'll make the Bakewell Tart for pudding. Also need to make some shortbread for DS2, his request.

bails

Ha ha, I'm loving the cat stories!
Still haven't done my menu plan *slaps own wrist* and have a nagging suspicion we are going to go over this month :rolleyes: Lidl is now on Thursday so I'm going to make do except for milk til then and do Mr S after Lidl. I'll do the menu plan today and see if I can keep us as close to target as possible. If I can also keep OH away from the shops, that would help!
Here's another ingredient site to try.

mhe

Does anyone have a good recipe for homemade pizza sauce - or do i just use tom puree? Thanks

mama67

I use either tom puree with a bit of sugar added and water to thin down or a tin of chopped toms whizzed up with hand blender.

galacticgreen

Just updated my signature. Bought some essentila toiletries yesterday. That leaves us with £21.93 for the rest of the month. I know we won't spend anything today, but will need some milk tomorrow and will need some cereal, milk and some fruit before the end of the month, so fingers crossed, its going to be tight......:cool:

BigMummaF

Not doing too badly, but if this ruddy poota carries on the entire budget for the next thirty years will be taken up in bail money! Not so much the poota's fault, more the twassucks who feed the hamsters to keep the wheels turning:D

Went into Savers & got some nice looking loo paper, but it's terrible...you need half a roll at a time just to blow yer nose! This week's update includes a pair of black trs from Mr T, but when --more likey if--I get the money back I'll adjust accordingly. Also the milkman actually called, but I tend to put his money into a jar when I remember to do it!

Can I ask if you have a preference in which flour you use? I tend to keep MrT value plain & a tub of baking powder to hand, but was wondering about investing in some SR....The offspring fancied scones on Sunday, & I could only get the small MrT own brand SR cuz the budget one was sold out, & that got me to thinking if it would be false economy to get it if it had of been there....IYSWIM:rolleyes:

This week's total is a mind-numbing £77:71, but that's for the coming week's veggies & some stuff for easter hampers for the offspring.:o