Living on next to nought - is that the key?

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

I hope that any households waking up for English GCSE results day are calmness and serenity personified.......... And that all the young people get what they need Thankfully, we are 'arms length' with a younger member of the Greying clan being involved, but all we can do is offer 'good wishes' via text

rosieben wrote: »

They both look good GP, I think it would be useful to post them on the Grocery Challenge (I'm not involved in it anymore, I passed the front page recipe list onto Bluegreen143 a long while ago, I think she still keeps the list updated).

Hey rosieben - I thought you had handed on the baton for the list - after ALL YOUR HARD WORK, for which, I hope people continue to be grateful I just wondered if you thought it was the sort of thing to post - I have posted, but I am wondering whether it has got kinda 'lost' in general posting. I'm not too sure if people read posts or just post on that thread iyswim. Perhaps I should pm Bluegreen143 directly - what do you think?

little_sweetie, Hopefuljoy and stressed.mum - when you've really had a chance to look/try let me know what you think. I'm going to be trying recipes too. The 'From Scratch' is not as penny saving as 'Good and Cheap', I don't think, but they're both still good. Nice to get a US perspective too - although......

Let me be the first to say...........

'TAKES A CANADIAN, eh?'

Aiming for a NSD today. I got lucky yesterday - I passed mrm at lunchtime and they had reduced (by 50%) a lot of their fruit and veg.

I've no idea about dinner. Last night we resorted to chipper chips (been taken over - marginally better and we now know to share 1 large portion between 2, more than plenty), HM jack's smokey burgers (from freezer) and the last of the 4p mushy pea tins (bereft, bereft I tell you :rotfl:)

See y'all later.

Greying

beanielou

No voucher in todays Sunny AFAIK.
But happy to be contradicted.

Greying_Pilgrim

Thanks Beanie - I was going by THIS thread, but it seems that the information was wrong The voucher is for poundland it seems.

Felt sure the way mrm was discounting stuff yesterday, it'd be true - they'd even done salad stuff down to 9p!

I'll amend my original post, I never intended to mislead - Thanks for correcting me Appreciate it

Greying

rosieben

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Hey rosieben - I thought you had handed on the baton for the list - after ALL YOUR HARD WORK, for which, I hope people continue to be grateful I just wondered if you thought it was the sort of thing to post - I have posted, but I am wondering whether it has got kinda 'lost' in general posting. I'm not too sure if people read posts or just post on that thread iyswim. Perhaps I should pm Bluegreen143 directly - what do you think?

aw shucks , thank you GP it was great fun to do; sadly there seems to be few recipes posted on there these days; yes pm Bluegreen and ask if she thinks it useful to post on the front page list.

I'm stressing at the thought of using the last tin of mushy peas

little_sweetie

Hi GP and chums,

It's a shame about the lack of coupon but sunny has been more than generous over the last few weeks. However, NO big reduction in fruit & veg here and

and the last of the 4p mushy pea tins (bereft, bereft I tell you :rotfl:)

Uh? I want some! No wonder you are bereft....:D

I have been wondering this morning if I have overslept and woken up in October? It is freezing cold here this morning. So cold that I didn't want to get out of bed Mr Sweetie is wandering around in a T shirt and won't let me put the heating on but we have compromised and put the fire on in the living room. Now it's warmed up a bit I'll go and eat my brekkie in there. Brrr.....hope it's a bit warmer for everyone else.

Have a great day! x

mrsinvisible

More rain! cold grey and wet, it is and l am. Haircuts day for dgs and dd and will need to go to Ald* for some veg, potatoes beans and tomatoes are fine, but variety is called for. I need to be organised for the bank holiday as DGS and his dad are taking my car for 3 days, to go to Alton park. I have emptied my wardrobe of things l won't wear again, currently in 3 heaps, DD and her 2 sils, friend and her mum, and clothes bank, as no CS worth its salt would entertain them! I haven't looked at the recipes yet, but will do it tonight and get inspiration.
Free dinner today, at the wrinklies, a Pie and peas do, so I will put extra into the food bank to the value of the meal. Now, need to clean the chez and stuff. xxx

rtandon27

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

although......

Let me be the first to say...........

'TAKES A CANADIAN, eh?'

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


(...at least I think that was funny! Head is a bit fuzzy as I've been lurgified since Sunday! Caught something that is going around at work:eek::eek::eek:)

Hope your topsy turvey has ended well!

XO
RT

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

Sorry for my late arrival - we have yet again been wasting hours of our life, which we cannot get back - on 'comparisons' Well, that and DP has been 'on hold' with a certain large organisation for the last hour, trying to 'renew' - *sigh* Still, the upshot of losing hours of our life that we cannot get back [can you tell we're not amused?] is that we are, in effect, getting the best deals/prices that we can for what we have purchased........ with.......EXISTING providers :mad: I suppose if we hadn't wasted hours 'comparing' we would not have got £30 knocked off one thing and 2 months 'free' added to another....... but even so.........

Right, onto other more interesting matters.........

Upsidedown Bear has been doing a swell job of making more people aware of those recipe PDF booklets I mentioned yesterday, over on the 'Old Style Thread' :j:j:j If you know of anyone that could benefit from seeing them - pass them on. Do not hesitate, do not worry about asking me - pass them on. Get the links and pass them on They are free to electronically distribute (it says so on the inside front cover ) and I really do think that folks will benefit from having seen them. I think they are swell for families feeling the pinch, for students wanting to cook *interesting* food (maybe for the first time - or to *impress* ) or for folks on fixed incomes - working or retired Let's make Leanne Brown the toast of Canada!

I got a NSD today :j

rosieben - I knew you would *feel my pain* at mushy pea gate :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

little_sweetie - the mushy pea price *war* was several years ago now. It must have been, as the BBE on the last tins was August 2013 :rotfl: I'm pretty sure that they went down to 3p at one point. It was through MSE that I got onto it, and snagged us a few tins :whistle: The supermercados valoo ranges went head to head on price, and I think mrAl may have joined in, but their peas were dire - I liked mrT the best (and they were british peas :j) I see the 300g tins are now 16p each Hope you managed to get warm

mrsinvisible - how does one gain an invite to a - wrinklies pie and peas - *do* ? Sounds just my sorta gig You're a generous soul with your FB donation - well done

Dinner this evening needed to be warming, and I have some YS'd mushrooms - from mrW t'other day - to use. So one punnet went into Mushroom Dopiaza (and I will save the other punnet for dinner tomorrow, they are still fresh ) and I did Chana masala and basmati rice to accompany. Although I got my recipes from two different sources, the recipe links are exactly the same as I made Picture here;



If you are wondering why the mushrooms look slightly fuzzy, you make a paste with the onion, ginger, garlic and chilli and it isn't silky smooth iyswim. Tastes cracking though

Today I am grateful for these 3 things;

the help, guidance and support of others - THANK YOU

for patience and perseverance - and that we'll not have to do it again until next year....... :rotfl:

for vacation time - let's get this party started

Thank you so very much for popping in, for reading what I write and for prompting me when I'm talking hogwash Mucho appreciated

See y'all later.

Greying

Greying_Pilgrim

Ay up rtandon! Hope you've given the lurgification BACK

Yep, Leanne Brown - a Canadian doing great things for the culinary arts in NYC, and for folks on food stamps. So generous, she deserves all the plaudits she gets :T



Greying

Upsidedown_Bear

Hello Greying and friends :wave:

Just wanted to share this that I found via a link on a link (Are you keeping up? Glad someone is) that Greying posted.
http://kindnessblog.com/

Be aware that side affects of reading said blog may include leaking watery eyes and a sniffy nose. (No, not hay fever )

Greying - you have some seriously stylish food photos on here