Anyone got a nice spaghetti and meatballs recipe?

tattycath

Hi everyone, milk cartons are great if you cut it in half and use the bottom half to stand bags of flour and bags of sugar in (saves flouring up your shelf too and the container just wipes clean). I have also been known to cut the top off and get the kids to decorate the bottom half. We then use them to stand pens, pencils, crayons and felt tip pens in. hth

btw we have also used them for water pots etc when the kids are painting, and you can plant seeds in the bottom half (just make drainage holes with a screw driver or a bradawl(sp?) )

Desperate_Housewife_2-2

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My brother was making his sandwiches for school one day, using some pilchards which has been mashed on a plate ready for the rest of us to make ours. He showed our cat the plate! Needless to say there was nothing left for the rest of us!:rotfl:

Another cat we had was nosing around in a box of chocolates when my mum was choosing one. Mum told her sternly that she could pick one, so the one she stuck her nose on was hers. She gallantly chewed for ages - it was a hard caramel one! We had to eventually pull it off her teeth:rotfl:

These stories remind me of a dog my parents had who would pinch things to eat. One day my dad went out of the kitchen for a minute and the dog pinched 2 rashers of bacon OUT OF THE FRYING PAN! He left 2 rashers behind though for mum and dad!

Just updated my sig and still in budget which is great for me as I always go over. Hope I can keep in budget until the end of the month. I spent £9+ in Sainsburys today but got 2 guinea fowls (£3.32 each) so will have a go at cooking one on Sunday. I reckon it should cook just like chicken although I've never done one before.

I did the kids a lovely pud last night and its handy if you only have one egg to share! Cut rounds out of a thickly cut slice of bread and dip in beaten egg, vanilla extract and sugar, meanwhile fry slices of banana in butter and sugar (to caramelise) in a frying pan. Fry the bread on both sides. Serve on a plate with fruits (I had some blueberries and strawberries left over from my aldi shop) then dust with icing sugar. It looks like a cordon bleu dish too, they loved it!

curly_cabbage

Great posts here today. We must all be on the same wave length as i too have been planning march meals. Next month i am going to set my budget , withdraw the money from the bank and only use cash so i can visically see what i'm spending and saving and at the end of the month put it in my savings account. using the debit card is slowing my speding as much a scash will i hope.
been to Morrisons with the bill multiplier (DS) but was very good, brought
6 Better buy loaves
Cooking oil
Cheese x2 BOGOF
half price fresh loaf in frezzer to have with H/m soup next week
so i need to add another £9,50 to my total. Planning a NSD tomorrow.
CC

nopot2pin

Just a quick note..

When to Tesco's today. They still have 2 x 4 packs of Heinz beans for £2... think someone mentioned it before.

They also have Cravendale milk on offer... 2 for £2 also.

Mortgagefreeforme

I have ordered a big organic pork pack to be delivered next month, at a cost of £79:eek: . The pack will last us for at least 3 months, so do I split the cost over the 3 months for the purpose of my GC? This is where I wish I had a chest freezer instead of my two wee under the worktop ones, what will happen to the pork if it was frozen longer than the reccomended 3 months?
I could have killed for a curry takeaway tonight, but I was good and opted for georgous beef pies for us all, a real treat but worth it and cheaper than a takeaway. I also went to Mr T for a few essentials for the week, I rushed about like a mad woman with my list and side blinkers on so as not to get tempted! I did break into a sweat at the cereal isle, but never got dragged into it:j I must stop stockpileing the stuff!
Miecherox don't kick yourself, you've spent way less than a lot of people I know, and less than you normally would have. Even a pound less is a pond saved, so congratulate yourself, and tighten the belt next month. WELL DONE:T

EverTheOptimist

Hey guys

just been reading back through some of the posts and they have made me chuckle which is good cos i'm really annoyed with myself, went shopping today, took £20 of Grocery budget thinking it would def be enough, and lo and behold i spent £29.84, thankfully had other money on me or could have been v embarrassing at the till. bought some bits for a lasagne, which to be fair will be frozen into single portions, so more then one days dinner there. f & v, yogs and juice. did also buy some treats for OH as he's away with work til mid april and i like sending him little surprises.

just a quick question, does anyone have any probs with fruit and veg from lidl's and aldi? cos oh my goodness have spent a fortune on it from tescos.

any money i'm managing to save is going towards - a holiday and some towards overpaying my mortgage, i have a loan but can't overpay on that.

I'm so impressed at how well everyone is doing, there's only me and bunny but still cant seem to spend less than £75. but i also only have a small house and not much storage so cant bulk buy, which is a pain. only 9 days til payday - yay!!

bails

Hi everyone, I'm off to Lidl tomorrow for the first time since starting this challenge and I was wondering if anyone had tips on what was good, and especially anything to avoid please? I know it's personal opinion but any you have would be much appreciated. We are veggie and prefer to eat wholemeal/healthy.
BTW, I'm assuming you all already know this but apparently Lidl give away food when it's close to date(rather than binning it) - anyone have any epxerience of this/got any real bargains?

Desperate_Housewife_2-2

Hi ETO, Just a quick post to say that the fruit and veg I get from aldi and lidl is great, I actually prefer their stuff to tesco's as it is tastier. I go to lidls when the f&v is 1/2 price and get the 59p stuff from aldi. You can't beat it. I notice that supermarket apples are tasteless but the ones from aldi have been great.

I love the delivered veg boxes but have had to knock them on the head this month with the GC as I can't afford it! £22 per week is a huge amount out of the budget when I can go to aldi and get stuff for a fraction of the price. I'll probably compromise and get one a month or something.

MRSMCAWBER

Hi there Bails

When i was in the uk and used LIDL.. the bread flour is great -in fact i bought 20 bags back here with me after xmas
They do a nice mature cheddar in a black wrapper, the cottage and feta cheese is nice too... sweetcorn -thats good, i liked all the fresh fruit n veg..but not the potatoes... they always seemed to smell fusty to me....oh apart from the charlotte salad potatoes which are lovely ... i don't think i have ever noticed wholemeal items much... but the money you save on other basics there should mean you can afford to go elsewhere for those:D

I now shop mainly in ALDI over here and its even cheaper than the UK :j

Bobbykins

Hi All

ETO - I agree with desparate housewife about the stuff from Aldi. I have been buying their trays of 6 Braeburn apples for a few weeks and they are absolutely delicious. Also the peppers on the 59p offer have been fantastic and have kept for aaaaaaaaages in the fridge. I'm afraid I can't comment on Lidl as my nearest one is too far away!

bails - my daughter lives near a Lidls and quite a few times she been given free stuff when it's going out of date. it's a bit "pot luck" but what she's had has gone straight in the freezer and been fine as far as I know.

rosieben - I had to laugh when I read about you not putting the money away when you gave up smoking....I did EXACTLY the same. Also, with the money I've "saved" on the GC, I planned on saving that separately but what little there has been so far has just been absorbed into our monthly spends :mad: :mad: . Anyway, I've got a bit left this month so I've been a bit sneaky! I've gone back to shopping in cash only, drawn the full amount of cash out and what I don't spend will be MINE! (har har). So, I intend stuffing my little mortgage piggy with it :T :T :T

Went to Aldi today to top up on yoghurts and cereal bars for OH's lunches. Had a trip to Sainsburger's yesterday as well for a couple of bits, so will update siggie shortly. I've still got approx £35 left and will only need a bit of fresh stuff next week, so fingers crossed!