The Simple Bare Necessities feat. Gratitude & Recipes

Greying_Pilgrim

Hey brizzie :wave:


Yes, I'm not sure about food with BG. They didn't really take to weaning - but didn't like formula either :think: And i was too worried about salt/spice content of our food to get them started on what we ate. The possible exceptions are that they eat wholemeal bread, natural yoghurt and lentil bolognese - which are all things that DH and I eat - oh, and porridge - DH eats porridge for brekkie and thankfully, BG has followed suit. Coupled with a bit of wholemeal toast, I don't think it too bad a start to the day.


We enjoyed the south - south west just before half-term scorchio :cool:


Trying to grab my mojo back with food - summer is the time to do it with colourful salads


Great to see you - and hear wonderful progress in the brizzle household Was thinking of you the other day - zero waste weigh shops seem to be the thing in 2019, in Greying Town and saw loads on hols. To me it's just going back to how I used to shop in wholefood/co-operatives years ago. But I DID have folnd memories of last year's pootle up the gloucester Road


Keep on keeping on lovely


Greying X

brizzlegirl

Glad you've been over our way again next time you'll have to come over for tea and cake (DM me..honest, please )

Plastic free/zero waste shops are getting more popular. The one nearest is now where we make our own nut butters (top tip, grind the coffee first before you make walnut espresso butter says OH :rotfl:) and buy dried goods, fruit etc. We also use the local fruit and veg shops - which although sometime the produce last a little less long its much cheaper and the packaging on veg when I do go to the SM is crazy. Embarassingly so. I may just have to stop it as feel too sick.

Was meant to be foraging today. Will have to see if I can skip out in-between showers!

Enjoy Sunday xx

brizzlegirl

Re porridge, I am in love with bircher muesli...which we add fruit compote to. Love it as a start to the day. Make a load every few days (it lasts in the fridge) so speedy too

x

Greying_Pilgrim

Well, how envious am I of Suffolk Lass being able to say 'Howdee-doodee' over the hedge to the chucks that provide her eggs? I have just had a second egg - from a box of 6 - explode on me when boiling it, because it was so.dang.old! First of all it pirouetted like Angeleena-Balla-reena, then exploded. And the things are supposed to be ok until 7/6! Blessed mrL FR eggs - I've had this problem with them before and swore off buying 'em. HB FR eggs went that way for a while (that and cracked and broken), but I can only assume that HB listened to customer feedback and told their suppliers to shape up or ship out. mrL customer services don't even bother to reply, if reports on the food and groceries thread are anything to go by :mad: Might as well buy organik gold-plated eggs at the price I'm paying for 'useable' eggs. Humpf!


Food shopping for most of the week has been purchased. Milk and bread will be as and when - although there is currently room for one extra loaf in the freezer, so that will cut down trips to the supermercado for DH. Trouble with storing bread in the freezer is that I can't then do much batch cooking - but if I batch cook, there is no room for bread, so swings and roundabouts. HB didn't have any satsumas/easy peelers (again), but their apples are lovely, so I'm glad I got plum-pick of them


Lunch was sangers, a couple of egg ones and a cheese and tommie. With peanut butter for fuss-pots.........


Right, I'm away to do some food prep. Determined to rail in our grocery spend and be more on the ball.



Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:


Up and at 'em with the larks (second shift division) this morn.


Today's activities are weather dependent. I could go to a couple of shops a bit further out to pick up the bits we need for this week's meals, but no point in doing so if we're gonna get soaked in the process


Tea this evening will be lentil bolognese & pasta. The bolognese has been made and will just need a reheat, and the pasta will be cooked at tea time.


I need to pay the CC today, but am also waiting on another invoice to arrive so that I can pay that. The money is notionally all in place ready to meet these expenses, its just a bit of a risk of a flurry of activity meaning I lose sight of balances etc. But it should be OK - note to self; the money is in place!


Can't think of owt else :money: so i'll get on with the day.


Ta for popping in. Appreciated. As ever.


Greying X

Silver_Queen

Anywhere local where you can pick up eggs from a farm, Greying? Otherwise, I have had good experiences with the Sainsbury's barn eggs - can't tell them apart from the super posh expensive ones that used to occasionally trip and fall into my basket...£1.45 for 15.

Suffolk_lass

If you want reliable FR eggs from a SM I had been using the variable size packs of 15 from Morries for years before my neighbour got the additional chucks this year - £2 for 15

Cheery_Daff

Aw Greying, I wish you lived closer for many reasons - the main one being this morning being that we often have a profusion of eggs and give many away - in fact gave three to the local farmer who dropped in for a chat this morning - I spotted them in a bush when we were talking :rotfl:

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:


Thank you for popping in and for all the lovely suggestions


Silver Queen - unfortunately I can't think of any local farm or 'garden' chucks that sell eggs 'at the gate' And our mrS is the furthest away from Greying Towers. It takes 1hr+ to walk there and isn't (routinely) on the way to anywhere occasionally I get to go to one when we visit a nearby-ish town - but it's not regular enough (IYSWIM)


Suffolk lass - our morries did (at one time - don't know if they still do), stock the eggs from a local poultry farm - they were 'factory' farmed FR (IYSWIM) but they were local, and were as 'FR' as any other supermercado supplier. But I haven't been there for a while, as it suffers (again) from not being 'on a route' for us - it's not easy to 'nip in'. But if I have to go for coriander (fresh), I shall certainly look out for the ones you mention.


Cheery - are you sure if it were announced; 'Coming to a field near YOU, Greying &Co!' you'd be that thrilled? Really? :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


So today has seen lots of itty-bitty-bitty bits achieved. I have paid my 2 outstanding bills, as I was finally invoiced for the bigger bill, so paid it immediately.



I managed to get to the further afield HB, which did have the remaining things off my list in stock :jAnd I was very good, and stuck to my list and only bought what was on my list, which is just as well, as I succumbed to buying 2 books for BG in a chazzer on the way there! Still, I sort of don't begrudge buying books for BG, and I did get tremendous value for money. One of the books was only one fourteenth of its original cover price and was in spiffy condition, the other was marginally more expensive, but contains 3 stories, so :j Mind, I'm well aware that £1 here and 50p there always adds up, and it's easy to fritter £'s that way. I hope I'm reasonable in my purchases, and a) BG doesn't become spoilt, b) we don't become destitute and c) that BG appreciates a bargain, and knows to look in chazzers first for owt they may need! They already ask to go into 'charibee' shops, and know that they don't always leave with something - a) because mumma has no money, or b) because there was nothing for us that day.


I realise that...........looks back further up the thread.........dearest Fortune kindly suggested that I use the remaining M&$ voucher (got with insurance purchase) for a treat, but I have to report that today I was somewhat prosaic and pedestrian and purchased...... pants. Y'all will have to consider for yourself if I was all :money:about it, and went for enough fabric to get my money's worth and to cover buckinghambighouse should the need arise :rotfl: Or perhaps I threw caution to the wind, and got meself some skinny-minnie-stringy skimpies, jus for the sheer heck of it..................... :rotfl: Anyhoo, the vouchers are spent (only had 'til tomorrow), and have bought T-shirts and pants I did also pick up some YS'd nectarines. Who knew M&$ had started stocking nectarines (4 in a punnet) for 70p? Mine were YS'd to 31p They are just beginning to ripen. I tested one - it was a clingstone, but wasn't quite fully ripe (yet), so I have high hopes for the remaining 3 I hope BG remembers that they like nectarines


Tea this evening was lentil bolognese and pasta. Full plates, full tummies and there is a splodge left for lunch tomoz


Today I am grateful for these 3 things;


bargains

bill-settling

backpacks (make shopping with BG a little easier.....)


Ta for popping in, and joining in the conversation. Appreciated. Always.


Greying X

Fortune_Smiles

Life is short - wear party pants :rotfl:

Fortune x