cheap/ healthy snacks

gayleygoo

I eat a lot of chocolate, I used to spend about £15 per week on the stuff I now shop at cheap shops to get my wispas, caramel nibbles etc at half the price of the local garage, and attempt to cut down (:rotfl:).

Baking is great too. I like a simple chocolate cake with chocolate fudgey frosting, or a tray of brownies. If you don't feel like cooking there's always rice krispie buns/cake - also excellent made with cheerios.

Have you tried Fifteens? I often make them with the kids and if you have the ingredients in your cupboard it is all the better!

Fifteens
15 digestive biscuts
15 marshmallows
15 glac! cherries (I don't like them, so I replace with a handful of chocolate chips )
75g dessicated coconut
150ml condensed milk

Put the biscuits in a plastic bag and crush with a rolling pin. Place in a large bowl. Snip the marshmallows and glace cherries in half and add to the bowl. Mix to combine and add the condensed milk so the mixture comes together. Spread the coconut over a surface and lay the mixture on top, and form it into a thick sausage shape. roll in the coconut, then wrap tightly in cling film and refrigerate for a couple of hours. Remove cling film and cut into thick slices (traditionally, 15 slices) to serve. The mixture could also be spread out on a coconut covered baking tin and be cut into squares when firm.

Seakay

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

could you replace the choc chips in the millie cookies with sultanas? got all the ingredients except them, and I am trying to o a JackieO and not go to the shop unless I need a few items:D

I don't see why not - add the same weight and maybe a teaspoon of cinnamon if you have it?

meritaten

JackieO - my mum would never allow us to eat in the street either! as it was considered 'common'! we never sat in front of TV with food on our laps - mainly because we didn't have one until the early sixties! we had the radio but that was turned off during mealtimes. which were mostly eaten in silence! no chatter allowed. mum or dad were allowed to talk but us kids weren't. and woe betide you if you didn't clean your plate. There were kids starving in Africa. I didn't see quite how me eating all MY dinner would help them, so often would tip the remains of my dinner behind the sideboard while mum or dad was out of the room - and as mum barely let you finish your meal before whipping the plates and cutlery off to the kitchen- I had plenty of opportunity until she started smelling 'a rat' (honestly, that's what she thought it was) and got dad and grancher to move the sideboard! I thought my backside would be sore for the rest of my life! I think I was four at the time - I couldn't have been five or my brother would have been there.
Waste was a huge no-no then - though she is terrible today - she caught the 'throwaway' bug in the seventies! and nothing old is safe from her - I regularly have to rescue antiques or sentimental items from her bin!

Spendless

Something that was quite common was to have a pudding after your main meal. Things like rice pudding or a steamed pudding with custard. We didn't have this often because my Mum doesn't like milk based dishes. You might find this to be more cost effective and filling.

candlelight_2013

Meritaten my Mum always called her Grandad grancher, is it welsh because they lived in Wales but originated from Gloucester?

meritaten

TBH - I don't know, some of my friends called their grandfather Grancher too, but many called them by Pop or Grandda. Which is Welsh I believe.

candlelight_2013

Thank you, I just hadn't heard anyone else use it except Mum, memories

Candlelight

Frogletina

mardatha wrote: »

But we had that fabulous thing...a high tea! A tableful of cakes ! ll

A traditional high tea does not contain cakes, but is a cooked meal in the afternoon served with tea.

An afternoon tea has cakes along with a pot of tea and sandwiches.

meritaten

Sorry OP, I go wandering down Memory Lane and totally forget that you wanted snacks and treats!
We didn't have 'tea' as such except on Weekends when Nan would make her fabulous Welsh Cakes or Pikelets. served hot and dripping with butter! She wasn't one for sponges but her cakes were lovely. The nearest I have ever come to replicating her recipe is Boiled Fruit Cake. its very Similar to hers but she never used Dates and the mixed fruit was boiled in tea and left to steep overnight.
It is an easy recipe and delicious to eat (both versions)! I can post it if you like.

She often baked Apples for us - eating apples not Bramleys. filled with Sultanas and Golden syrup. then really thick Birds custard poured over.
She did a mean Syrup Steamed Pudding too - and her rice pudding was divine! I dunno how she got it to taste so creamy as I know she could never afford real cream (she may have used that tinned cream though).

I often look back on the years spent living with Nan and Grancher - and thank the lord for Nans cooking! Mum has no interest in food and does a very limited repertoire! in fact I took over the baking when we moved into our own house when I was ten. and I rack my brains trying to remember how I made 'so and so' or how Nan showed me how to make it. But, it was a long time ago!

nightingalesgarden

My Mums Norwegian and we didn't have a great deal of money but our favourites were....

Waffles - made in a cast iron maker that was only wiped - never cleaned.

Drop scones...

Both with butter and home made jam...mmmmmmmmm...

I still make drop scones and lust after a waffle maker...a bit of batter and you are in a very special place...

otherwise

digestive biscuits with a (thin) slice of cheese - still a great favourite.