The land of the eternal stripey list returns.

taxi73

bah to working weekends at exhibition instead of looking around it x

Karmacat

taxi73 wrote: »

bah to working weekends at exhibition instead of looking around it x

Yeah, I kind of lost it on that one :rotfl: sorry Pippi! My previous post now makes no sense to me whatsoever

Still, whether gardening, or pootling about under your own steam, I hope you're finding things to enjoy

Pippilongstocking

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Morning Pippi and Stripey Gang members :hello:

Pippi - thank you! Hope it is not a huge disappointment to you when it arrives!

Yay!, we have the shiny ball here so I'd better get lively and shake a tail feather - I've my own house to muck out and garden to attend to - so best get on with it!

Thank you all for your kind wishes, I'm touched by your thoughtfulness.

Have a great Sunday one and all.

Greying

They're a great bunch aren't they hope the sunshine was good.

taxi73 wrote: »

bah to working weekends at exhibition instead of looking around it x

I got a wee look round, on the plus side working meant I coudln't just go and spend lots of money :T

Karmacat wrote: »

Yeah, I kind of lost it on that one :rotfl: sorry Pippi! My previous post now makes no sense to me whatsoever

Still, whether gardening, or pootling about under your own steam, I hope you're finding things to enjoy

It was FUN KC - great to talk to folks about composting too and have a bit of crack!

Hope your weekend was exciting too.

Pippilongstocking

EssexHebridean wrote: »

Hope the teaching went well Pippi! (I have visions of you chucking sparkling clean storage jars at any student daft enough to try blunting your secateurs! )

No need they all behaved lovely!

And the bonus of being in town all weekend for the exhibition meant I had free trips in :j and got to go to my plots on Sunday at the same time as a bit of reduced food shopping.

Win/Win

So stripey stores have been bolstered by a whole lot of reduced meat/veg/fruit and some bread.:T

Grocery spends are now at £105.95
Petrol spends are at £86.54 (alot of that will be back in expenses too)
We had a takeaway over the weekend so eating out is now at £49.00

Need to do another meal plan as aside the takeaway which we had over three meals we've not done too badly!

:A

Pippilongstocking

Ok more reduced shopping

Chicken breast (fr) £2.42
Turkey breast steaks 2 x £1.50
Beef stew - £1.60
Meatballs (87%) - 63p

This months shopping upto £114.08 loving this little spending ap thing :-)

Which gets added too the other reduced goodies
One tea portion bolognese
Chipolatas
Chicken breast
Cooked chicken breast (half pack from last week)
One fish steak n batter (reduced)
One nan bread
One tub sauces from curry frozen to make a new one
Two portions frozen chips
Two portions chick nuggets
A hundred weight of cheese
One portion of mince (1/6 of a 750g pack)

All the usual suspects lurk in cupboards and fridges

Reduced veggies
Onions
Kiwi
Cabbages
Neep
Carrots
Beetroots
tatties
Ginger
Banans
Apples
Oranges

Will need milk and bread at some point but ok the now.

Off to stripey meal plan

Pippilongstocking

Meal plan

Meatballs with couscous a la Morrocan style (with mnt dumped in) there's enough bubbling away for two teas
Beef and root stew with dumplings, and clapshot plenty beef to make up a lunch or a pie maybe?
I feel a chicken curry coming on with nan and rice
Some kind of fried rice thing too (turkey) using up old takeaway sauces
A bitsa night on one day this week to use up fish/nuggets and random leftovers
Frog in the bog with roast veg and tatties
And, possibly lasagne with the hm bog sauce in freezer

Pippilongstocking

Gads our meals are so boring!

Must try harder.

I did some homemade Danishes (al la EH) for dd at the weekend before I left for work. I did cinnamon and apple and cinnamon. 4 of each, 8 Danishes from a 35p reduced pastry block, bit butter and a manky apple.

Easy peasy just cut pastry into squares and dollops stuff sugar/cinnaom with a bit butter and (on half) chopped up apple on top, I guess they didn't cost much :-) and the apple didn't end up in the bin (or on the bird table)

As she has exams they appeared to go down quite well :-)

Mara_uk7

Pippi ! You must be the person who clears out the reduced section before I get to it ! Mind u , mr T and I don't have the same idea of what a reduction should be ! And I live too far from town to be in there at the late hours. Darnit ! ( yum to clapshot )

Pippilongstocking

Mara_uk7 wrote: »

Pippi ! You must be the person who clears out the reduced section before I get to it ! Mind u , mr T and I don't have the same idea of what a reduction should be ! And I live too far from town to be in there at the late hours. Darnit ! ( yum to clapshot )

Hey therE

I always only take a tiny bit of each, I promise, mser's honour, I never clear the shelf, it's just not polite.:p

The worst thing about my job is events in the evening and at weekends.

The worst thing about my darling family is all the activities they do :rotfl:

So the best thing about it all is that I'm often in town/near shops late. Which I guess is a bonus

Mr t's is t as good for bargains as it use to be these days it's co-op and lidls who supply me with swag.

You're right, reduced prices aren't what they use to be. I'm having. To be more creative than normal when faced with odd reduced ingredients :rotfl: like beef burgers, not something we eat but chopped nt eight they make amazing meatballs:T

Sending great vibes for good barganious food all round

And clapshot is the food of the gods :-)



:A

Karmacat

You realise I had to google clapshot :rotfl: we used to have carrot and turnip mash, with a bit of butter - but we just called it carrot and turnip who knew there were so many links between Scotland and Merseyside? Mind you, my grandad worked on Glasgow Docks during the war, maybe he ate it then and brought the idea home ...

Very impressed you did HM cinnamon danish, pippi, tres good I'm stuck at the mse home made hobnobs for now - might move on to cheese straws next :cool:

Weekend was indeed lovely, I went out a-bluebelling, which will be on the blog soon.