Food bill- help!

kboss2010

Horace wrote: »

Porridge definitely for breakfast - Aldi do a lovely everyday essentials porridge for 75p (it is the nicest porridge I have ever had).

I make fridge forage soup too, this generally consists of whatever veg I find in the fridge. In my case, I always have carrot, onion and tomato - I chop these and sling them in the slow cooker with a handful of pearl barley, cover with water, add herbs and a load of black pepper. I cook it on auto/or low all day and then I put the stick blender in to blitz it (it looks better) and serve it with a crusty bread roll.

I second that porridge recommendation, it's really creamy!

Tommelise

Nothing in the first post indicated that the OP was looking for anything but advice.


Be nice to all Money savers ......

fairy3

I agree that we should be nice to all moneysavers especially on their first post, we do not know their circumstances and to be judgemental does not help. I have been around a fair while and know that the good people on here can sniff out a troll or scammer a mile away and deal with it accordingly. I hope the OP does return and make use of the advice available.

[Deleted User]

Guilty without trial??? guilty because someone has decided it's so??? so very sad that no one is given the opportunity to stand up for themselves before accusations fly, no proof, no evidence, not very democratic is it?

Horace

Lavendula Rosemary your attitude is sad, after reading some of your comments on other posts, I am starting to think that you are either a troll or another lazy journalist.

Others maybe interested in the thread that you started - fishing for information about other food blogs https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5018841

Perhaps we should start judging you in the same way that you have judged someone else who has asked for help - your comments at the start where unhelpful.

BTW there are lots of books in the library about self-sufficiency, I suggest you read them.

Butterfly_Brain

There is a site called cheapfamily recipes sadly now taken down from the main internet but lo and behold found on the wayback machine :j it was created by o'sers and it is really very good, with lots of tasty recipes, meal plans and costings.

http://web.archive.org/web/20130815202750/http://www.cheap-family-recipes.org.uk

stealthelf

Lavandula Rosemary: Why would they reply? They asked for help and
got told they was suspicious and maybe conning people.

I only signed up a few weeks ago when I wanted help but had the same kind of things said about be that I was not telling the true when I was but had a few people arguing with me about things I put, it did make me want to not reply. But I also got some helpful things too.

As I never needed to sign up before as I didn't have anything to ask or add, But have been read posts that others have put for over a year, How do we know that this person has not done the same?

rosalie-lavender

Lavandula_Rosemary wrote: »

It's a classic con.... Oh poor me I have 'only' £41 for me and my disabled child. The fact that they never bothered to reply says it all.

Perhaps they never bothered to reply because they were put off by your unhelpful judgemental attitude to the fact they dared to post in the first place.

It would certainly have put me off when I was a new poster.

WantAnOrange

I am so confused by these responses. Isn't this question exactly what MSE is for? :huh:

What's the point otherwise?

ampersand

Horace wrote: »

...... fridge forage soup.......

:T
#
That's a new one to me, Horace - like it very much.

That aside, let us sincerely hope that a very welcome, new member of the mse family 'afreshstart2014' - clue in her i.d.[highlighted for the sad minds on this Thread] is at least lurking and selectively reading.

I also feel some sense of poetic[or horticultural]justice in that rosalie-lavendera rebuts a Lavandula Rosemary, very much a newbie herself[June 2014] who shows the sort of attitude discouraged and in some cases banished from mse. This poster also felt unmoved to use the Thanks button on the Thread she started, asking for help in a frugal, os- lifestyle - irony!
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5018841

People in any sort of fragile state, who have felt brave in posting at all, can do without off-topic side-issue snarlings, which suggest discontent and ugly mindsets or events in their own lives.

To afreshstart2014 - I hope you are making use of the good advice given so far and enjoying this Bank Holiday as a family. We can all help much more too. Join us again: nice peeps outnumber nasties on mse, esp. on OS Threads.