The Simple Bare Necessities feat. Gratitude & Recipes

beanielou

Wishing you well for your challenge.

Greying_Pilgrim

beanielou wrote: »

Wishing you well for your challenge.

Thanks love, great to know you're in my corner


Greying X

Busy_Mee1

Aw Greying I had forgotten about your beautiful food photos, these had me positively salivating. And thanks for the thread too, I also need to get a grip of my food budget in August.

Greying_Pilgrim

Busy_Mee1 wrote: »

Aw Greying I had forgotten about your beautiful food photos, these had me positively salivating. And thanks for the thread too, I also need to get a grip of my food budget in August.

Ha ha Busy Mee1 - you've reminded me how many cold dinners we ate coz I was faffing around trying to get a picture recognisable of the ingredients wot went into the dish! :rotfl:


I have noticed that the links to Leanne Brown's PDF cookery books on my original post don't work. If anyone is interested in getting ideas/inspiraion for budget dishes (written by a Canadian for an American audience), then please follow the links to FREE PDF downloads. 'Good & Cheap' was written in response to the need to find ways of family's surviving on $4 a day when in receipt of the american equivalent of grocery welfare support. 'From Scratch' was Leanne's first book.


Good & Cheap


From Scratch




Hope that helps someone. Meat recipes are included - as are ideas for all of the day. I certainly use Leanne Recipes - they are very well thought out and written - and work.



Greying X

beanielou

Always in your corner x

taka

Good luck with your challenge Greying!

Those cook book downloads look good. I like cheap family recipes too. That website came together from some MSE folks a good few years ago. The prices are well out of date now but the recipes are cheap and simple. Having a wider range of spices is a help but the food is perfectly edible with only the ones listed. There are some I still use variations of, all these years later.

Greying_Pilgrim

Good evening :hello:

taka wrote: »

Good luck with your challenge Greying!

Those cook book downloads look good. I like cheap family recipes too. That website came together from some MSE folks a good few years ago. The prices are well out of date now but the recipes are cheap and simple. Having a wider range of spices is a help but the food is perfectly edible with only the ones listed. There are some I still use variations of, all these years later.

Too right taka - it was weezl74 and her gang of trusty testers/recipe developers and supporters wasn't it?? Brilliant piece of social enterprise - possibly before the term had even been coined! I always remember weezl suggesting that you buy garam masala for your spice cupboard, if you couldn't afford a range of spices/didn't know if you'd like spices, as garam masala could be used for sweet or savoury dishes.




Well, there has just been a moment of comedy gold here at the Towers. If you have ever been party to the radio recording of a moment in a Test Cricket match where the late Brian Johnson and Jonathan Agnew collapse in a pile of hysterical giggles - because of an unfortunate - and initially unseen bit of innuendo - and become mute on air, because they are laughing so much, well then you can easily picture DH and me a few moments ago. A series of events unfolded - unintended innuendo followed - stoked, entirely innocently by BG, and DH and I were fit for nothing........ BG was left clearly happy that something funny had come over ma & pa, but not really quite sure what it was............................


we've recovered now.............. :rotfl::D


Tea was black olive pizza and HM wedges.


It were grand - and we did listen to Ms Liza on Radio 2 as we munched.....


I've had an idea for an additional challenge in August. I'm saying nowt about it, as it is at the early stages, and not rightly formed in my brain cell as yet. But I hope I can make it occur. Won't be for want of trying.


I've had a look at what the last week in August looks like, and England & Wales have a BH, and we've 2 Saturday's in it. I just hope Family Greying don't get sick of curry in the meantime......... Frozen curry plate, here I come........ :rotfl:



Right, today I am grateful for;


Help from MSE chums who know I only have the best of intentions

Darling BG's sweet, sweet innocence


DH's help, support, yet achievement of farcical shopping efforts (I provided a list!!!) alongside an ability to remember the important things and to make me laugh* :rotfl:


Ta for popping in. Appreciated.


Greying X




* no nudity was involved, neither

beanielou

Making you laugh is just priceless

Smurphington

Ooh thankyou for those links Greying. Ah young Children are hilarious aren't they, my child is at the age where she tries to tell jokes but hasn't grasped the concept of a punch line so it's just one very long bizarre story which actually does end up making me laugh

taka

Nothing like a good laugh!

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Too right taka - it was weezl74 and her gang of trusty testers/recipe developers and supporters wasn't it?? Brilliant piece of social enterprise - possibly before the term had even been coined! I always remember weezl suggesting that you buy garam masala for your spice cupboard, if you couldn't afford a range of spices/didn't know if you'd like spices, as garam masala could be used for sweet or savoury dishes.

Yes it was weezl74 et al. I was (very peripherally) involved - still make carrot cake with garam masala as a result!