Living on next to nought - is that the key?

sonas_baby

Hello,

Not been on the forum for years but thought I'd better get myself focused again. Your posts are really inspirational and cheerful and I'm glad that I stumpled upon your diary. Hope you don't mind me lurking around and using your recipes.

little_sweetie

Thanks for the picci of Jack's burgers, Greying, I am salivating just looking at them! I will definitely have a go at making some when my new cookbook arrives. Meanwhile, you have so inspired me and kind of given me permission, in a way, to experiment with making new dishes, that I am planning a baking/ otherwise cooking sort of day tomorrow when DH is at work I have even bought a packet of Sainsbugs crusty white bread mix today. It seems I don't need yeast to use with it so I spent the remaining 80p of the food budget for this week on said packet. If I fail in my efforts at least I will have tried so many thanks, dear GP, for all your inspiring posts. Long may they continue!

Hello to any new readers too :wave: Prepare to be both inspired and entertained on this thread. It's absolutely wonderful :T

Enjoy the sunshine everyone :cool2:

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

WOW!! to your lovely messages - I'm humbled..........

I have read through them, but I want to respond properly. I'll be back tomorrow to be a proper correspondent - and to answer mizmir's question

Today has been fab - claimed a NSD

I haven't stopped all day, but we've eaten dinner, and I've made bread rolls, banana lime and coconut buns and done baked potatoes, in addition to the pizza and wedges. I took a photo and will upload if any good tomorrow.

Today I am grateful for these 3 things;

YOU - pure and simple

Hoovers - would the inventor please step forward and take a bow

that ski-cross was never offered as an extra curricular activity at our school :eek: :rotfl:

I'm away to shout at the telly and watch the rugger

Thank you so much for dropping in, reading and commenting. I truly appreciate it.

See y'all later.

Greying

Pippilongstocking

Enjoy the shouting, hope there is also pizza and wedges too and perhaps a cheeky wee red.



Look forward to the weekend Greying update.

Have a good un one and all I'm off to find a sofa and something not to shout at, unless the garden programmes have started early.

satchmo1

Bliss in Satchmo world tonight. Away with DH in a hotel with a view of sea and mountains, rugby on telly, real ale on tap, wine consumed, crosswords being completed.... bliss

kackleful

Karmacat wrote: »

kackleful, you're commenting fine, no problem. Don't even worry if you hit the spam button - its very close to the others, and my mouse jumps sometimes (erm, the electronic one), all I do is push the spam button again, and it un-reports it, so to speak. Have a mooch around the site won't you? Even though you're in Oz, there's a lot of benefit to be gained on hints for everyday stuff.

Greying, hope your NSD is going to plan, and there's mucho 'roadkill' where you are

Thank you! I'm on a Tablet, and its quite difficult to use at time's! I just love coming here to MSE, such great hints on living frugally!

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Right, first things, first. Lets reply to all the lovely comments that have been left on this thread

mouche - lovely to *see* you. You missed out one important bit; mumma to one energetic bundle of fun! You are so busy - mortgage busting too! I appreciate you making the time to come and see me

mizmir - Super easy m'dear. I use a couple of wide-mouthed food flasks. They were destined for the charity shop/rummage sale, but I always dithered in donating, as although they worked perfectly, they were stained from carrying tomato based soup. But I'm glad now that I kept them, as they are just perfect in keeping the milk and yoghurt culture warm enough to make yoghurt in our stone cold house They are quite old, plastic ones - cost about a £5 each new as I recall (many moons ago) and one is .7l and one .5l so I make a litre batch of yoghurt at a time. Although because I use fresh milk and do the 'heat and then cool' method, you lose a bit to 'skinning'.

The first batch I made in our stainless steel food flask, as I thought it would be easy to sterilise, but the neck is actually quite narrow, where as with my old flasks, I can get my hand inside each of them - the smaller is a bit of a squeeze! to scrub after each batch.

I was incredibly lucky, in that yoghurt making saves me money, and I actually didn't have to buy any equipment to do it - which because I had never made it before, was a blessing, as I didn't know if I could do it/would take to it/could make edible stuff etc

How do you/did you make yoghurt?

cocalls - I can see the headlines in the local paper;

'Child steals breakfast cereal from aged parentals cupboard in order to........ make CAKE!'


:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I put a frozen banana (one of the YS'd ones bought a couple of weeks ago) into the cake mix last night - worked well. We could taste banana and the lime, but the coconut powder didn't make itself apparent.

Mmm, so egg curry - they're usually hard-boiled in a curry right? I'm pretty sure that there was an egg curry recipe in Ricky-boy Stein's latest cookery book......Mmm, one to ponder - y'all know how I like an experiment or two.....

sonas_baby - from one 'happy' person, to another - WELCOME This whole site is addictive isn't it? Hard to stay away

Yes, I mind you *lurking* - don't mind you joining in though :D:D And yes, I try to link to the recipes, so that if folks see something that they might like to try, then they can. Although I'm always keen to point out, I'm not on a mission to convert folk to veggie-ism

little_sweetie - I'm sure that I am not the only one on this thread that is loving the way in which you are pitching into your cooking with renewed vigour and verve. You know that you don't need my permission really - heck - even DP doesn't listen to me half the time! :rotfl:(until things got wrong, and he wants to know what my original idea was for getting something done.... usually works :rotfl:)

Those bread mixes usually work really well. I know that my friend has a bread mixer and uses the mixes all the time. So I'm hoping that it works for you - and for 80p that is still much cheaper than a loaf from the shop eh?

Pippi - no glass of red last night. I can actually write that we had a glass of brains........ now, as y'all imagine a glass full of grey pulpy matter (bleurk!), the folks who know the name of one of the biggest brewers in Wales will be thinking..... 'ah, a glass of 'Brains SA' was it Greying?' (Yup! )

I can't imagine shouting at a gardening prog.... well, actually, when GW went down the 'populist' route, come to think of it, I was shouting at Tobes and Joseph all the time........

satchmo - a sea view..... bliss indeed

kackleful - another tablet user..... mmmm, i'm feeling left out


So, today I have mucho, lots of chores to do. Better get off here and get on with them then! :rotfl:

I've started stage 2 of operation 'declutter'. The thing is, we're into DP's 'stuff' territory now..... <insert rolls-eyes smilie here> *sigh* Mind you, I did dump a load of hoarded paper (technical magazine articles) yesterday, by starting my sentence.... 'I'll broke no argument on this....' :rotfl::rotfl:Actually, I'm not as harsh as I seem - there is an alternative way of accessing this type of information... it's called the internet, and we pay a hefty wedge of dough per month to be connected to it - so use it! :rotfl:

Dinner this evening is going to be Vegetarian Gu1ness Stew. I made it yesterday evening so that the flavours meld nicely for today. I would love to be serving it with Colcannon, ideally in 'potato cake' form (see, one-trick pony me ), but as I have no cabbage nor spring onions, I think I'll have to pass on that idea

I noticed last night that this month, so far, we have had every dish on the menu planner bar one night when I made something totally different. There has been some 'shifting round' of what we have on a particular night, but 21 dishes out of 22 is pretty good going. However, whether I could actually do it every month.... you know, when things in RL scupper planning...... But this February and my little self-imposed challenges seem to be paying dividends

Right, can't procrastinate any more...... :rotfl:

Thank you all for popping by, reading and commenting. I greatly appreciate it.

See y'all later.

Greying

beanielou

If it is any consolation I don't have a tablet either.

Happy weekend Grayling & friends

Karmacat

Yep, I'm on a laptop ... its wireless, so I cart it around the house; I like to contribute easily and I can't do that as well on a lappie.

And you're decluttering too, Greying! Its nice to be able to breathe in properly, isn't it, enjoying the space. Have a good day

Greying_Pilgrim

Doh! :doh:What am I like?

*Student Special* here;



I'd be surprised if it cost more than £1 a plate...... and was yum - if a little carb heavy...... :rotfl:

Greying