Ye Olde Style Coffee Shoppe

mrsmab59

squeaky wrote:

Stir fry onion and bits of veg with some tinned tuna and drop a couple of eggs in

When you say 'drop a couple of eggs in', would this be boiled eggs, raw eggs, eggs that you've already beaten...or what?
I just start to think to myself that maybe I CAN cook after all and then something as simple as this stops me short

Eliza252

any of the above types of eggs would work (except maybe boiled!!) - its just to act as an eggy glue to stick it all togather!

squeaky

Oh dear.

My fault. Crack the eggs and let them slip whole on top of your stir fry.

Let them just ooze into the mix.

When the whites are part cooked gently stir them about a tiny bit - just to move them around. Then leave them alone til cooked through.

What you should have is your mix loosely bound around with white of egg which is laced with strands of nice yellow yolk.

That was what I meant, anyway

I see no reason why you shouldn't beat them first and then pour them in if you prefer.

Or you could drop them in and leave them whole.

Any way you like, really

Eliza252

so far in my basket I have:

Beans (ah yes, now that is back to the student days of yore!)
Bread
1 onion
Some Carrots
Tin of tuna
eggs
Sausages (or a cheap meat'ish alternative - I have a few issues with sausages cus I can only afford those cheapy ones and I watched this horrible programme about what they put in them once - scary scary - and annoying! cus I really look sausages and gravy!)
Some gravy granules (err... I dont know how to make it any other way)
1 potato (cus I'm only little - 1 potato would do the whole week!)
1 cabbage
tin of tomatoes
- now do we think that is eight pounds?
nb. had to leave out the pasta stuff as it gives me a tummmmy ache sorry should have told y'us all before!!

squeaky

Pasta, rice, taters, bread. All interchangeable as far as I'm concerned.

And yes, you should be able to do that for eight quid.

Got any coupons????? Just ask friends and neighbours for any old papers or magazines to er, line your kitchen floor with while you do something messy, and cut out all the coupons you can find.

spendaholic

Over in the shopping tips thread there's mention of a shopping trolley. I started to waffle about this, but then realised I should do that over here.

When I was young and 21 and first married for the first time, we really couldn't afford a car. And so I asked my mom to get me a shopping trolley for my birthday. It didn't look very cool but it was one of the best things I ever had. I could walk to the supermarket or the shops, and so save on bus fare. And it was great. If I couldn't fit everything in then I knew I'd overspent.

Squeaky says he has to walk half an hour to his nearest shops and that put me to shame. We moved to this village last year hoping to rekindle old style values and I was going to walk to the shops and back, and even invest in a new shopping trolley. But our nearest large village with "proper" shops is just under half an hour away on foot, and so I've been putting it off, choosing to drive anywhere outside of our village instead.

When I start my new job I'll be passing the front door of our Tesco twice a day, 4 days per week, and I was thinking, great, I can nip in if ever we need anything and it'll be easier to cancel the milkman.

Now, however, I'm thinking, if I get a shopping trolley I can walk into the next village on a Wednesday and a Saturday and get fresh local stuff from local people. It won't look very cool, but it'll save my pocket and my waistline.

So, cheers all. Don't forget to ask me how it's going to keep me on track.

Right, is there a breakfast roll in this place?

squeaky

It's not actually that far to my local co-op, it just takes me longer to get there

But walking to any nearby shop so that you have to carry stuff home yourself rather than put it in the boot of your car is a very good way to help limit impulse buying because you know you'll have to carry it home.

Walking's good for you, and I know that when I had a car I gradually did less and less until I was using it for trips that were barely five minutes away. Not any more

apprentice_tycoon

Squeaky - I am on record as being the nosiest of all Old Stylers, my Getting to Know you question is there for everyone to see as proof - so tell me to bu

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off if you like, but why the stick, what happened?

spendaholic

Our local Co-op is almost at the top of our street - 5 minutes away. But it's quite expensive and we don't like the way the Co-op bought up every single other retail premises in the village and changed the use before selling or leasing on so that it had the monopoly. We used to have 2 butchers, a bakery, a green grocer, 2 village stores, a freezer centre, and an off licence. Now we have the Co-op.

moggins

How on earth did they get away with that one? That's the meanest thing I have ever hear considering they advertise themselves as so friendly with all their FairTrade stuff

I'm so lucky with our street even though I moan sometimes, we have the Co-op, two butchers, a chemist, a newsagent, a great corner shop that sells really cheap veg, a bakery and more hairdressers and pubs than you can shake a stick at.

Plus within 10 minutes walk there are two brilliant asian stores where I can get anything under the face of the sun