2008 - Live on £4000 for a full year.

Jay1_2

Thanks Keren, that reminded me I had I had some mince in the freezer. I've got it out and its in some cold water - fingers crossed it will defrost sometime today! Now what shall I make... (thanks for the link too!)

flowerofthewest

Mollymop5 wrote: »

I know what you mean.Is home made bread anymore fattening than shop bought? Does anyone have a rough calorie guide.I've been making rolls more than bread recently and get 12 rolls out of the recipe in my Morphy richards Fastbake recipe book.It says to roll into 6 rolls but when I did they were huge!!!

Hi Mollymop - There's website called Calorie Count Plus that's free to join and will let you enter your own recipes. You put in the ingredientd with the amounts used, state how many portions you get (ie 6 if it's for your rolls) and it will work out the nutritional values per portion for you.

Fi

elantan

well finally got some nsds under my belt ..am currently making spring rolls gonna do about 60 any one want one?

funkyfunkymonkey

elantan wrote: »

well finally got some nsds under my belt ..am currently making spring rolls gonna do about 60 any one want one?

Hmm, yes please, or maybe just the recipe? OH loves chinese, but chinese takeaways make me feel ill these days, perhaps HM might be okay.

FFM

elantan

well i put (and everyone else is different you do it to your taste) 1 pckt jusroll wraps (£28 something for 30 pckts so less than £1 a pckt) 2 bags bean sprouts 50p a packet (i get these from the chinese supermarket as well as they have double the contents for the same price as a supermarket) 2 chicken breasts handful of prawns 1 packet of mangetout left over ham (if i have any) 1 large onion, chillis (to taste) small bit of oil in wok wait till it smokes add bean sprouts let them reduce add onion mangetout chicken (already cooked at this stage) prawn(already cooked too) soya sauce bit of oyster sauce stir cook for a few mins then transfer to collander let it sit and drain while you prepare wraps ...open packet seperate wraps over a turned over plate diagonally ...once all juice drained (you can then use this for cooking your chicken noodles) beat an egg in a bowl ...get first wrap (put it in diamond position) use pasting brush to go round wrap with beaten egg put small amount of beansprouts etc just below the half way line lift bottom bit and make sure you keep contents tight roll wrap till covering contents re do sides with egg ..fold them over ..continue rolling re-egg the top before you get there and keep rolling...cook in deep fryer delish..if you can understand that brilliant cause i know when i read it back i wont have a clue just off the night shift and not making sense again ...lol ....any other thing you need let me know i should wake up soon ...oh meant to add that should make 30 wraps so very cheap (compared to take away prices ...and nicer)

System

CharliesAngel wrote: »

i love it! do u mean you tripped him up?!

nah i wasnt quite as naughty as that, i just sort of slyly tilted my hips at an angle that impaired his pushing past...

it was just after 5 when i was in, but i quite often pop in at that time on my way home from work and thats the first time i've seen it, so it might not be the usual 'give stuff away' time

i priced the freebies - £8 :eek: crikey, no wonder i dont normally eat meat

System

oh and there were only a few things, so I bet they always get snaffled up pretty quickly, its probably just luck if you get your mitts on anything

bails

Thanks for that info JumbleBee, good to know and we may still be lucky one day! My NSDs aren't quite as impressive as they look Lollopy, in that I am only counting what I spend for this challenge. I do try to keep the 'other spend' days to a minimum as well, but they are there! I also don't count days when a DD comes out if I haven't spent anything else - my reasoning is that if I think 'oh well, a DDs come out, I can spend today' then I'll end up spending more. Trying to control my OH is the biggest problem - we'd have no NSDs if I let him loose
Weekly update: £56.99 - £47.50 on food (including Valentine's Day) and £9.49 on smoke alarms. So my weekly budget is back up again, now £73.07 and 4NSDs. On a personal note, I've only spent £3.10 this week :j We've only saved ourselves a measly £12.78 (including the oddses to round our total down) but that's bound to happen as we're buying fewer things so all good really.
Here's to a successful Week 8 for all of us! :T Oh, and I checked the price of CBITB in our Co-op - £1.15.
I got another £20 from PB this week too, and free cinema tickets saved us some dosh. I LOVE THIS CHALLENGE!!

Burlesque_Babe

I popped to Asda and just hit it right.

big bag pears - 20p
big bag apples - 20p
filled potato skins - 20p
2 bags chocolate donuts - 15p each
HUGE mozarella, garlic butter and sundried tomato flatbread - 20p

Unfortunately, being at the produce section meant I missed out on all the 10p loaves - I needed an assistant really!!

Oddly enough, they stopped doing the double deductions with stuff still in the fridges (lots of bagged salads, vegetables, mangoes). I waited until a minute or so before 4 and they still didn't do them. Not sure why as they had today's date on.

I've made the stromboli from the mince recipe thread and it is huge - quite a mission to get it off the worktop and onto the oven tray in one piece!!! I could do with having a few friends turn up to help eat it as I'm not sure it can be re-heated tomorrow in any way as the mince is being re-heated now so it can't be done again??

lingojingo

As Martin's given the green light this week for switching energy supplier, :money: I've just been trawling through all the switching sites only to find I can't better the price I've already got, even though they've also put their prices up this week (with my discounts for dual fuel and paperless billing).

Now I don't know whether I'm happy to have already got a good deal :j or disappointed at missing out on cashback, lol