Living on next to nought - is that the key?

Shortie

Eating light and cheap can be expensive can't it Greying? Unless you have salad stuff growing and ready to eat, it can cost quite a bit for a salad for example

Salad stuff gets reduced at the supermarkets but I'm rarely around at the right time for the good bargains

beanielou

I too am not around really for bargains at supermarkets.
Also have to weigh up if worth driving to one.
There is only one supermarket in my wee toun.

Shortie

Same here Beanielou - it's a fair distance to out SM (we're very rural now) so I don't see the value of going just to check out bargains that might not be what we want/need

Not grumbling though, we've been lucky in the past and had stonking bargains too :-)

sunnyskies2

Thank you for your very kind welcome.....aah, cucumber :rotfl::rotfl: that's why I'm subscribing...to make this journey through to debt freedom and beyond more, in your words, 'joyeous'.

....re: Nigella and books - me too - but gave to D S-D just starting her culinary exloration:)....I'm trying a bit of at the Lebanese at moment - very interesting and delicious:)

Well, - have to go and earn some pennies - have a super day all:)

Sarah

Cheery_Daff

:rotfl: you daft lot :rotfl:

Your meals always look super gorgeous greying! :j :j

Quite agree about the cost of salady things. I have relinquished all control for food shopping in this house to Mr Cheery (who is far more frugal than I) and therefore very rarely eat anything salady these days :rotfl: Mushrooms, the occasional giant cucumber :rotfl: but never leaves etc.

HOWEVER... I have recently been growing a few bits in pots outside the back door, and recently had some marvellous salads with pea shoots, little spinach leaves, the tops of radishes, (a few weeds :rotfl: ) etc in - which I'm VERY pleased about! I am NOT a gardener but have managed to harvest a few additions to meals already :j

Also got into sprouting lately too Some things I just make rot but I can do chick peas and lentils - lentils do in a couple of days and are a lovely crunchy addition to a salad and chick peas take a bit longer but are SO substantial and tasty I always have a jar of each on the go now for a salady fix :j :j

(sorry, wittering on, just quite excited about my salady-ness :rotfl: )

EssexHebridean

Cheery that's it though - salads aren't just about a few lettuce leaves, half a tomato and some slices of Greying's 17" whoppa any more - I mean, they CAN be, and those things can certainly be part of them, but there are so many more options! If in any doubt as to that you'd just need to scroll through this thread a way....yum!

Welcome to sunnyskies - and Beanie - hope you're feeling OK this morning?

little_sweetie

Hello Greying and chums :wave:

We got back safely from sunny Suffolk yesterday afternoon and, boy, have we had a good week weather wise :cool2: Thank you so much for all the good vibes, peeps. They certainly worked! We met up with my dear Sis and had a jolly good natter, a lovely pub meal together ( BiL bought us a tasty bottle of red to share ) and a late night coffee at theirs. We left them, all of us a bit tearful, but with a promise to try to meet again soon. Their health is rather worse than ours, no doubt due to the 10 year age difference *, so it will be up to us to make the effort. We had some fab walks, saw some fantastic scenery and our second campsite was on the beach within constant sight of the sea. We only had to open a gate and walk across a bit of ' sandy heath' to get to the shingle beach...lovely!

I spent last night catching up on posts and you had me in stitches with your cucumber antics :rotfl::rotfl:what are you like you lot :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:I had to do a double take on some of the retorts before I grasped what you were referring to :eek:

Re salads and light eating...I always find salads to work out quite expensive, Greying, so I will be watching your salad teas very closely for inspiration. No pressure, mind you...:D

BTW * Yes, Sis is still extremely elegant but I actually wore sparkly toe post sandals instead of trainers

little_sweetie

Beanie sorry to hear about your accident. I hope it was just your pride that suffered not you. Have a <<hug>>

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

Well, what a day weather-wise. I think we've had most things - except perhaps for snow :eek: I was beginning to think that Pippi - the little tinker - had sent on her *bouncy rain* type weather, but it came in from the east, so can't blame Pips

Shortie - ain't seen you for yonks - are you well? I agree and I will try to sow some salad leaves, but not until we've been away for our hols - too risky - but in the meantime, I'm relying on shop-bought, which even from mrL is expensive . And no, I don't have the benefit of being in SM's at the right time either

Beanie - how ya feeling today?

sunnyskies2 - you are leaning against an open door taking about Lebanese cuisine on this thread And Persian, and Turkish and Asian, and.... and........


Cheery - Queen of Salad-Y-ness How ya doing? See now, you've more patience than me. I've never got into sprouting - although it would be logical, being a veggie and all, but I can't get past the faff of the rinsing - which whilst important, is still a faff. C'mon, have I got it all wrong? Have I been missing out all these years?

EH - thank you for making sunnyskies2 welcome, mucho appreciated Hope you're whizzing north as I type

little_sweetie - Ya back! :j Your break sounds just marvellous Super campsite locations And YAY to sparkly sandals :j I trust that you will break them out again to post on this thread - rather than reverting to your comfy slippers

I still can't claim a NSD! I decided to go for salad for dinner - momentarily blinded by a chink of sunlight at one point during the day, obviously :rotfl: And bought a white and red cabbage to make the salad, and about 3 tonne of coleslaw to keep us going until the end of the month - as there is nothing else in the house and I've blown the housekeeping! :rotfl: Still, the cabbages cost a total of £1.06, so reasonable value for money. Cheaper than buying a bag of ready cut coleslaw mix

Oh, and a BIG UP for the natty trust - I ordered membership online on Monday morning - prior to office opening hours, and what was waiting for me in the letterbox tonight? Yep, the membership cards and handbook. Good eh?

Dinner this evening was mackerel skies salad (Leon book 4), yellow rice and peas (but made with mung beans instead of red kidney beans) and chickpea quiche - which I have made before, and we decided that it was just like crustless quiche. The recipe (for the quiche) is from The Jewelled Kitchen by Bethany Kehdy - which I suspect would be right up sunnyskies2's street I have adapted this recipe for a vegetarian diet.

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As I only had 3 small sun-dried tomatoes left, I chopped them up and put them in the chickpea batter, rather than putting them on top, as per the actual recipe. I think I cut them a bit small - i'm having trouble spotting any! :rotfl:The quiche has mixed frozen veg and spinach in it. DP said that this was the most colourful meal that he's had so far this year - is he right? it should have been halloumi cheese with the salad/rice, but I used that for our *emergency* picnic on Sunday. So the quiche is a substitute - and I must admit, better than the fritters of yesterday - even though both items use chickpea flour. As I had the oven on, I whipped up a spiced fruit cake too - YUM (bero recipe)

I'm counting the above as a salad - as it would have been if I had made the same dish, but topped with grilled halloumi

If you'd like to see Bethany's quiche recipe (the meat version) have a look HERE - one for lamb lovers I'm afraid that no-one has yet blogged about the mackerel skies salad, so I can't do a link for it

A reasonably frugal meal, and there is plenty left over for snap. The *yellow rice and peas* didn't work quite as well as I had envisaged, but it was ok. I think I was a little heavy-handed with the turmeric, and too light-handed with the lime juice and coriander

Today I am grateful for these 3 things;

We've our NT cards - adventurising here we come :j:D

that DP didn't cycle to work, and therefore didn't get caught in a torrential downpour

that 'knocks on the door' interrupting us tea, won't now yield eager campaigners, imploring me to vote for their preferred candidate - #nearlyoverforanother5years

Thanks so very much for popping in, reading and commenting. Very much appreciated.

See y'all later.

Greying

beanielou

Pretty shoogly & very achy but ok