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ChasingtheWelshdream

ToastLady wrote: »

I have no idea how much goat's milk costs, but if it's a lot more expensive than normal, why not try your first batch with cow's milk and see how it goes?

Good idea 🙂

YorksLass

Friday shop done and went just over my £20 budget thanks to some ys fish that's now in the freezer. Two lovely pieces of plaice which will be used up the week after next. The promotional items I bought saved me £3.10, some store cupboard and some chilled. Otherwise everything was on the list, so pleased with that.

So far this month I've spent just half of my grocery budget and, with a week to go, I shouldn't need to shop for anything else except for fresh milk. When that day comes I shall take just enough cash so I can't be tempted to buy extras.

Easy dinner tonight, the usual battered fish from the chippy and hm mushy peas.

I have to make an appointment for an eye test soon and I think I will probably need some new specs, so the spare cash will no doubt be diverted to pay for them. Still, needs must I suppose.

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Morning chums ,just knocked up a tray bake for DGS Mikey as he reminded me yesterday that he hadn't had one for simply years Gran ,bit of an exaggeration there ,probably since before Christmas

I have a quarter of a cabbage left to use up today so that will be steamed and some will be used for tonight's dinner and any left will make a bit of bubble and squeak for tomorrow breakfast with leftover mash and a small handful of diced onion from the freezer. Probably dig out the bit of Y/S lamb steak to go with it as well from the freezer.

Finished off the last of the Christmas cake last night and so far this week used about half of the edam given to me by DD as it was still unopened and left over from Christmas as well. So far this month I have only spent around £41.00 odd so I'm hoping to only have a few bits to buy before the end of the month and a tenner will go into my holiday fund
The rest of the edam cheese I have grated up and its boxed up in the fridge I may have some with the roasted red pepper from the fridge and some salad for lunch for a change .I like to cut the top of the pepper ,scoop out the middle and chuck some cheese inside and I make up a small amount of sage and onion stuffing and plug that on top then pop the lid back on and cook in my Remoska its delicious with a light salad .

Right time for a cuppa I think

Take care all onwards and upwards

JackieO xx

balabooberlies

Dear Jackie O

You just made me all weepy.

Love your posts along with others. I want to be like you all one day. I am not young.....am coming late to life in many things......but kindness...........my Mum taught me that. She is 78 soon.......and still thinks and cares for many. As does my Dad who is 80. I am so lucky to have them........and now I have found people like you.

Bala

x

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Used loads of bits & bobs from fridge & freezer to make a soup. Have just zizzed it & taste tested - it has a lovely zing to it :T Really looking forward to lunch tomorrow 😋

MrsSD

candygirl

balabooberlies wrote: »

Dear Jackie O

You just made me all weepy.

Love your posts along with others. I want to be like you all one day. I am not young.....am coming late to life in many things......but kindness...........my Mum taught me that. She is 78 soon.......and still thinks and cares for many. As does my Dad who is 80. I am so lucky to have them........and now I have found people like you.

Bala

x

She's ace isn't She ? Full of brilliant advice , n great stories:D

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I made some sweet potato oven chips a few days ago which I had coated in fajita spices prior to cooking - very tasty and leftovers in the fridge

Today I have made ethiopian lentils, I didn't have any onion so just left it out, and served them with homemade flatbreads stuffed with the mashed leftover sweet potatoes. :drool:

I'm shopping tomorrow for fruit and vegetables so Ive made my shopping list and menu for the next week - I'm only doing a max of 4 dishes as we always have leftovers and days that we don't eat.

Shopping list: I'll need to get some plain vegan yoghurt, a cauliflower, parsnips and a savoy cabbage.
I have everything else in the house although I will buy additional fruit and veg for juices/smoothies/ snacks etc through out the week.

Tomorrow, I will serve the leftover lentils with Injera; Apple and pear salad; red cabbage relish and a mint and yoghurt dressing.

Monday, we will have a black eyed bean lasagne - I have homemade 'zebra' lasagne sheets; tinned cherry tomatoes, half a pack of black eyed beans (I'll put them in to soak tonight and then cook the dish tomorrow); the remaining yoghurt as the topping and I'll grind some almonds to finish it off. Served with salad leaves with a balsamic dressing and a homemade rosemary and garlic foccacia bread.

Wednesday I will have a pie - I have the remaining filling from the one I made at solstice in the freezer so just need to defrost that! I'll serve it along with marmite roasted potatoes, roasted parsnips, vegan yorkshires, carrots, cauliflower and savoy cabbage.

Friday I will make sweet and sour cauliflower balls, ginger and chilli seitan, lemon fried tofu and fried rice with crispy cabbage.

We'll have leftovers for lunches, occasionally we'll eat the same thing for dinner, lunch and dinner again! :rotfl: we don't care but I'll generally just repurpose;)

I've wasted nothing so far so feeling pretty pleased with myself!

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

DH made cheesy pasta last night. Enough lo for tonight with the addition of slices of tomato & mozzarella. Will oven bake.
Nothing thrown away :j

YorksLass

We're having a chicken stir fry with noodles for dinner tonight using thigh meat from the freezer. I normally wrap the thighs separately before freezing but there were two in this pack, so I think I must have had a brain meltdown when I did these! :doh: The dilemma was: do I cook it all and risk having waste? Of course not. Sliced one thinly for the stir fry and wrapped the other in buttered foil, bunged in the air fryer for 15 mins and sliced when cool. That's tomorrow's lunch sorted then - chicken sandwiches with a bit of side salad.

We had our first snow of the year this morning so soup will be on the menu somewhere this week. I know I have some spicy parsnip & potato in the freezer but will make more as I've plenty of veg to use - I'm thinking carrot & lentil, tomato & red pepper or celery & bacon. Maybe all of them.

A few more bits gone from the freezer use-it-up list: two sausage rolls, 4 mini pain au chocolate and 2 cheese topped baps.

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Morning chums, grey, damp and drizzly here in north Kent,soon be spring time thank goodness.:o:o:o, gosh thanks chums I feel a bit embarrassed as I really am nothing special at all, just an ordinary old woman who likes to be like my Mum, and as she would have said make a shilling do the work of two at least:j

I have enough salad and fruit and veg to keep me going until tomorrow when I will get the last of my few bits for January. Definitely enough cash left in my purse to pop a tenner into my holiday spending cash stash. February will be a quick month as its a couple of days shorter. Still using up freezer stuff .Freezer roulette is a nice surprise as I keep finding odds and ends that I had forgotten about, and hadn't labelled

Still it brightens up a grey day doesn't it. Is anyone stocking up because of tomorrow's date ?
I haven't bothered as I can't see shops suddenly having empty shelves overnight.

I have had three seperate coupons arrive through my laptop as I have a birthday coming up so at some point I will have three free meals from local pubs, plus Dobbies send me a coupon for cream scones and tea for two Plus my sis-in-law in Faversham is taking me out to dinner and my friend from Dartford is coming down during February to take me to lunch so not a lot will be needed during February for cooking

Hopefully a bit more to go into the holiday fund

Right a quick cuppa than I am going to make my lovely son-in-law Simon a nice coconut and cherry cake as he weekly cooks me a lovely sunday dinner and its the only cake he likes

Take care chums

JackieO xx