Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

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Well I'm back from the shopping and I bumped into a friend and she insisted we went for a coffee, so my trip took a bit longer than I expected ,but it was nice to have a natter as I hadn't seen her for a few weeks

I spent a whopping £6.06 :)and bought in Aldi's,
Celery,
Lettuce,
Charlotte potatoes,
Cucumber,
a huge red pepper
Four large oranges
Six tomatoes
500g carrots
Head of broccoli
and some red pepper hummus
so quite pleased and have enough to keep me going for at least 5-6 days

added to what I have indoors at the moment it means no shopping for me for awhile I took some salmon from the freezer and will have that for dinner tonight with salad and some small charlotte potatoes. I brought a tub of low fat plain yogurt back from the farm shop near where I was staying and I still had some grapes in the fridge so yogurt with diced up grapes will do for pudding. I had some HM soup from the freezer at lunchtime and some crispbread with soft cheese so fairly healthy eating for very little cost.I think I bought the salmon y/s about a month ago and it was £1.25 so a nice meal that hasn't broken the bank I am at my DDs for dinner as usual tomorrow and my neighbour gave me some of his rhubarb so I will make a crumble to take with me tomorrow as I normally bring the pudding on a Sunday

Blooming weather can't make its mind up at the moment and my washing can stay out for a bit longer as its trying to brighten up a bit .

Cheers chums
JackieO x

Mummy2cheekymonkeys

Hi everyone. I haven't posted for a while. Life has been hectic as usual.
I'm also trying to buy a lot less when going to the supermarket. We have been monitoring our food spend this year and found that at the start of each month we kept saying "we've got lots of food in the cupboards and freezer so won't spend much this month" then by the end of the month would have spent way over what we wanted to. This month I decided enough was enough. I have made a meal plan each week and made sure that I am only making things that I don't need to buy anything to make. We need to buy fresh fruit and veg, bread and milk but that's about it. I have bought the odd couple of bargains from my work when they were too good to say no but have been very strict.
Another incentive is that hopefully we will get a decent amount of produce from the garden and never have any room in the freezer to store it and some gets wasted. My goal this year is not to waste a thing!

PasturesNew

I'm moving ... without a forwarding address ... which means I need to eat everything I can in the next few months.

I don't mind popping, say, 1 bag for life of tins into storage, but other foodstuffs is a no-no.

I'll hate the sight of food soon as I'll start by eating the most interesting things and end up staring at the stuff I was always putting off getting through

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Sunday I finally plucked up the courage to make a soup ;)not a sweetcorn kernel in sight :rotfl: Made completely from los from the freezer with a ‘stock’ made from adding water to the pan used to fry bacon & pork steaks :T Very tasty - had 2 mugs yesterday.

Will try & post more, but am still a bit wary of being banned

MrsSD

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Soup makers of the world unite well done Mrs SD, you will get hooked on it and its so cheap to make and a great way to use up odds and sods from the fridge

JackieO x

takingcontrolatlast

Mummy2cheekymonkeys wrote: »

Another incentive is that hopefully we will get a decent amount of produce from the garden and never have any room in the freezer to store it and some gets wasted. My goal this year is not to waste a thing!

Hi,

What do you grow in your garden... I have never attempted to grow anything and admire people that do.... :T

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TCAL Why not grow a small box of mustard and cress on a window sill easy to do and get in a salad or sandwich,if you have children they love to see stuff grow they can eat.then progress to perhaps a tomato plant My neighbour grows tomatoes in a hanging basket and her two little girls carefully give it a drink before school I have a garden which sadly I can no longer grow much in as my gardening days are past owning to very ancient bones but I do grow stuff in pots on the patio.I have a chap who comes once a fortnight and mows and weeds my garden for me bless him.But when younger and more able I grew virtually anything I could . I even grow on spring onions from the cut off root in a little pot in my conservatory. and last year I had a small box filled with earth on the garden table outside that i grew a few little gem lettuces in ,but it was a bit of a race between me and the insects as to who snaffled them first. But do have a go and ask anyone locally who does gardening as gardeners are great natterers and like to help out . My young neighbour always gives me some of his excess chilli's that he grows and also some of his rhubarb (that will grow almost anywhere and is very hard to kill off ) Anything you can grow in a pot to eat is better than buying it even a tomato plant which yields a dozen or so tomatoes is worth the effort as you can buy one already started off for about 50p and fresh home grown tomatoes would cost more than that to buy

Siebrie

I buy 6-packs of celery and fennel plug plants for €1,25 and plant them. If I manage to harvest 1 it will have been the same price as the supermarket; any more and I'm making a profit. If I don't harvest them (they bolted quickly last summer), they make lovely plants, as well, and dds enjoyed snacking on the fennel leaves.

Mummy2cheekymonkeys

We have a few fruit trees in our garden which have been pretty productive the last couple of years. A plum, pear and apple. We have some fruit bushes like raspberries and blackcurrants which have been good also now they are established. We normally just grow easy things as we are pretty new to it and don't have a lot of time on our hands. We normally grow tomatoes, runner beans and courgettes. We have had good luck with squashes as well. I would definitely recommend growing courgettes. They don't need much looking after and are prolific croppers. We tend to stick with what we know grows well in our garden and that we know we will eat.

takingcontrolatlast

JackieO wrote: »

TCAL Why not grow a small box of mustard and cress on a window sill easy to do and get in a salad or sandwich,if you have children they love to see stuff grow they can eat.then progress to perhaps a tomato plant

Hi JackieO,
I wish I could turn the clock back and my daughters were little again :rotfl:

We've recently moved house and I have a garden that backs on to woods and I love that However, the garden has false grass !!! It looks green all the time and low maintenance but I do miss grass and colour in the garden - the border is stones Maybe a job for the future - so I would have to take a leaf out of your book and grow in pots or on the windows sill... I do have a conservatory but I find this really cold in the winter.

I think I will look out then for mustard cress or even tomatoes... I'll let you know how I get on !