How long can I make £187.15 last?

mumtoomany

Hello, @mumf. Please don't apologise, it's lovely to know that other are reading this thread and finding it at least interesting and even useful. Glad your chickens are all laying. Ours seem to be on strike, although to be fair several of them are now a little long in the tooth, or should that be beak? I've got Jerusalem artichokes, nobody likes them! The sheep and chickens have been known to eat any small ones, the large ones i sell on the gate. We've some Welsh onions too. I'll have to look at perpetual cabbage, never heard of that. I hope your health continues to improve.

Tea went down well, although two of the children left a little. One piece of sausage thing left, to be fought over at lunch. I didn't make any cakes yesterday, the egg yolks were still a bit frozen. Good excuse to have the oven on today, and keep a bit warmer. I need to find a use for a pack of filo pastry, also 10p. Answers on a postcard please to, the crazy lady, snow covered house, wales. Thank you.

Hugs, mumtoomany.xxx

Paspatur

https://www.olivemagazine.com/recipes/collection/best-filo-pastry-recipes/

newlywed

Filo?
apple strudel
Portuguese custard tarts 

beckstar1975

If you've got mincemeat you can make little mince pie tarts or parcels, else some kind of filo galette?

mumtoomany

Thank you all for the ideas.I'll have a good look through them all before defrosting it.

Forget to add in the £3.30 for the milk. Have done it now. 

I think it will be curry for tea. Just eating the last wrap, defrosted for the enchiladas, with salad and the last of the ham. To snowy to shop. The roads are clear, but the driveway is not. A friend called this morning, and had to be towed back onto the road by the 4x4. Good job S-i-L is working from home today.

Hugs to all, mumtoomany.xxx

C_J

@mumtoomany One of my favourite filo pastry dishes is to line a pie tin with layers of the filo, then fill it with cooked rice mixed with grated courgettes, or chopped steamed spinach, some grated cheese, diced onion, and some chopped parsley. Wrap it all up, brush with a little oil or melted butter, and bake.

mumtoomany

Morning all, I always mean to pop on here every day, but then life gets in the way. Still got snow on the ground, it's beautiful to look at. Not so easy to live with. It's very cold, lots of layers weather.

Monday night's tea. I was going to cook curry for us all, then DD1 reminded me they were taking the children to a Christmas lights display and needed to eat at four thirty. I had forgotten. So I found a pack of 8 sausages, and cooked with math and peas. OH and I then had curry when they'd gone. Used the last of the chicken i cooked. We have had 16 portions from it, and still have pie filling in the freezer that will feed the seven of us a meal. 23 in total from one chicken, plus the stock.

Last night I made fish pie. Fish, peas, and HG leeks, in a white sauce. Topped with mash and cheese. Served with, at the request of DGD1, carrots. 

I've used half the frozen egg yolks in cakes. Two coconut loaf cakes, two bara briths, a chocolate loaf cake and a dozen chocolate fairy cakes. Frozen egg yolks are not very runny, makes the cake mix a bit stodgy. But they taste fine. Half the above have been frozen. I still have half the egg yolks to use.

Today we are having stew. I've taken three bags of meat, don't know what type, and put them in the slow cooker, one may be diced lamb, the other two are possibly pork. 

I've found out that two of the big children are coming for four or five days over christmas. Looking forward to seeing them.

Hugs to all, mumtoomany.xxx

beckstar1975

Ooh glad you're looking forward to big children coming, I'm nearly 50 but still went and stayed at my mum and dad's last weekend! Will yours eat mixed meat stew? One of mine doesn't like pork, another lamb so that would be a total no go.

I'm London suburbs and there's still many side road/drive that's too frozen with snow, the kids school is a bus ride away at the top of the beginning of the Downs and they have to walk up a big hill - the 17 yo texted to say he'd fallen over many times - so it must be so much worse by you. 

Hope the drive thaws soon, the sun out today is definitely melting

Auti

@mumf really enjoy your post please keep writing. I am having to make many frugal choices and adaptations for me and my child. We have health constraints as well as financial but i have decided that instead of it being in my mind all the time and being scary I will treat it as something as a challenge like learning a new hobby/skill/language. Now I am more relaxed about it and smiling more which is better for both of us -  sorry I find explaining my processes difficult but I hope you understand what I mean So please keep posting

mumtoomany

Hi, @beckstar1975. If i don't tell them, and they don't read this thread, they will eat most things. DD1, OH and I eat whatever is served up. S-i-L is a bit more picky, but eats most things, including things he doesn't like, if he doesn't know they're there. The grandchildren seem to change their minds on what they like or don't like all the time. So the meal is put in front of them and they eat it or go hungry. Their parents do encourage them to eat some. Mostly most things get eaten by most people. I have been known to change the names of foods for those that "won't" eat certain things. For a long time all meat was chicken. "Tea is chicken" i would say, larger people would ask what type, "Chicken of a cow/pig/lamb," etc would be the reply. Even salmon, would be called Abyssinian chicken. 

Hi, @Auti. Beware when you treat frugallity as a challenge, ir becomes addictive. Be a millionaire by Christmas!! haha. hugs Mumtoomany.xx