Living on next to nought - is that the key?

supersaver1000

in_need_of_direction wrote: »

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1 packet hobnobs - can use digestives[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri,sans-serif]Half a standard jar smooth peanut butter [/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri,sans-serif]15 oz dark chocolate (approx. 2 big bars of b'ville)[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri,sans-serif]5 eggs[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri,sans-serif]70g cubed butter[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri,sans-serif]200g caster sugar[/FONT]

[FONT=Calibri,sans-serif]Heat peanut butter for 20 secs in microwave to soften then add to crushed hobnobs[/FONT]. use to line base of tin
[FONT=Calibri,sans-serif]Beat eggs, add sugar and beat til roughly double the original size. [/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri,sans-serif]Melt chocolate and butter in microwave. Fold into egg mix and pour over the base.[/FONT]

[FONT=Calibri,sans-serif]Cook at 160 for 20 mins ( I prefer 25mins at 150 but this depends on your oven)[/FONT]

Thanks INOD. I love anything with eggs at the moment. This is great. I also made the impossible quiche earlier. Went down a treat.


GP you made me laugh, but it's a bit nippy out already. Xx

Ps go Hamilton

Upsidedown_Bear

Smilie of the day.

little_sweetie

Good morning Greying and chums :wave:

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little_sweetie - I'm not sure that DP or I are 'fit' - I
missed out the bit about us breathing rather heavily as we climbed up (DP set off at a very enthusiastic, and frankly overly ambitious pace..... :rotfl:) However, I prefer that type of exercise. I have every admiration for folk who can do gym work - it's drier and warmer for a start! But it just doesn't press my buttons like the great outdoors. None
of us know what is around the corner for us healthwise, but I admit, I am certainly taking much more concern over 'moving more and eating less but eating better'. I don't get it right, and I've a ton to learn, but it is in my sphere of control, so I'm trying to see what I can do to improve our diet and access to *interesting* exercise.
GP, you and DP have my undisguised admiration. I beg to differ on your not being sure of being fit. Anyone who rides a bike, IMHO, is fit by definition. I fall off bikes with regularity so I gave it up A bit of heavy breathing is good for you! And I'm with you on the gym thing. I tried it and it's so boring.

Anyway, does the swede microwave cooking method get the thumbs up from the little_sweetie household?

Wow, the 'singing neep' method actually works! To be honest I didn't believe it but it did work and we ate mashed swede with our dinner last night
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Some of the posts last light had me in stitches but I was on the tablet and couldn't type a reply fast enough to bother. I can just imagine us all being in Calendar Girls type pose for the photographs. You on your bike (in a tasteful pose, of course), perhaps Pippi in her wellies holding strategically placed chooks, INOD holding her chocolate torte, UpsidedownBear cuddling a large toy bear...you get the picture :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Me? I would be wrapped in my 'throw for dusting' (or maybe a 'heated man'!

Have a lovely day dear GP and chums x

Upsidedown_Bear

little_sweetie wrote: »

UpsidedownBear cuddling a large toy bear...you get the picture :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Like this?



But probably not like this :eek::p

little_sweetie

Upsidedown_Bear wrote: »

Like this?



But probably not like this :eek::p

Exactly :rotfl: woohoo! Go Bear! :rotfl:

liltdiddylilt

Evening you crazy bunch.

Sorry GP. You told me not to wander orf and I come back to 32 posts :rotfl: oopsies. It is hard work juggling a monitor on a glorified chest next o the bed and a two part, very wobbly laptop with dangling screen and a VGA link to the screen which keeps on falling out. My exercise for the day is just trying to get it all working!!

I did some maths, and I should be able, with big margins for error, the be able to pay back my savings within 4 months if I buy the macbook in January. Starting now, I guess that means in March I shall have the right amount of money again and if I can keep that up I can start building some savings at a nice clip

You had me all giggling with your MSE calendar. Perhaps Hopeful will have Pirin on her lap (PICS PLEASE!!) and I'll just sit on the floor surrounded by the whirlwind that is Jellytot Sure to cover my modesty, she's like the tasmanian devil!

Was in Mr L today and obviously a lot of my local fellow Mr L goers read your thread. Only the piddling little cauli's were left *humph* so I didn't bother. I got the 39p milk chocolate. It is a bad habit to buy 5 bars. At 100g they should last a month. If they last a week I am doing well.. :eek: doesn't really fit in with your theme in this weeks issue of GP magazine does it :rotfl:

Off to bed now. Really need to sleep more, and tomorrow I am choosing paint and starting to paint t'littl'un's bedroom glowing yellow be gone, soft pastille blue and pink welcome

Night peeps xx

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

I am here - just not 'on here'. Car to be de-frosted - end of autumn onset towards winter and hot soup all round to be made :j

I'll be back with a better update this evo, but I didn't want you to think I'd [STRIKE]won the lottery[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]gorn orf in a flounce[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]run orf wif a hunk a burning love[/STRIKE] abandoned Ye

Upsidedown Bear - I love yesterday's smilie of the day - so funny! Although I ain't so sure about your 'Bare 'nd all' one....... :whistle:... jus' sayin'

little_sweetie - *snort* - you paint good (calendar) pictures!

Lilty - you never cease to amaze me with your work ethic So glad you popped in - lovely to see you as ever. Hope the Jellytotster is over her sickness and on the mend. I'm kinda not surprised about the cauliflowers - well, I am surprised that I was in the right place at the right time to nab one, but frankly, if you put monster caulis (honestly in somewhere like mrT they would have been the 'extra large cauliflowers for £1.75+) next to the ordinary sized ones - which are going to go first? I mean, I know that some households only need a small cauli, cabbage bag of carrots, whatever, but most of us greedy gannets go for *shiny* or *big* - or preferably *big and shiny* :rotfl:

GP magazine - *sniggers*

Right, I'm going to love you and leave you - didn't get a NSD yesterday, was undone by a...... bag of sprouts! But at 75p a lb, I couldn't pass on by, and the meal planner changed accordingly. Pic (if it took) tonight.

Ta for popping by, reading, making me roar with laughter and tempting me with chocolate tales first thing in the morning

See y'all later.

Greying

Upsidedown_Bear

Smilie of the day.

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

I don't know if you are interested in what we had for tea last night, but here it is;



All I did was to shred up some Brussels sprouts, cook them with some onion whilst cooking up some pasta twirls. I then pureed some butter beans (one trick pony me ) with some tahini (just ground up sesame seeds in the mortar), lemon juice and salt and pepper and then tossed the whole thing together, with some chopped up pecans (bought on offer from mrW and had to be used up, as they were going soft). I sprinkled a little bit of grated cheddar on top - I'd intended to use parmesan, and have a bit left over, but I need that for Friday's dish and I had the cheddar grated, so...... then topped it all off with a pecan The pureed beans added creaminess and protein without oodles of calories, like a cream sauce might of done, and it didn't make it too sweet either, like cream/butter sometimes can. I didn't get the flavours quite right - it *needs* something else (LOL - all the meat-eaters will be shouting *BACON* at the screen! :rotfl:). But I will make it again, and I think that it can be eaten as a weeknight tea, or gussied up for a *posh nosh* - I reckon it would be good over the festive season Perhaps santa will bring some egg pasta and we can really go all cheffy

I'll be back with news of me day just now.......

Greying

beanielou

If you dont mind me asking, where did you get the bag of brussel sprouts?