I'm back! Trying to spend less on food!

mumtoomany

Thank you, @Deleted_User. Most of ours are due  mid April, these three managed to get pregnant early!.  Hope you're feeling a bit better. Hugs, mumtoomany.xxx

mumtoomany

Still here, just been crazy busy.

The little ram lamb, sadly, didn't make it. Having tube fed him all the first day, by evening he was much better. I went out to the barn around seven o clock, to feed him. He was stone cold and stiff. But for one ear twitching, I'd have been sure he was dead. I brought him inside, he spent the night in front of the wood burner. By the early hours he had perked up and was feeding well. Next day I put him back with his mum and sister. For the next couple of days he continued to improve. Feeding  every couple of hours, shouting for milk whenever he heard my voice. He got better and better, then I went out to feed him at eight pm, to find him lying on a pile of hay, dead. Sheep!

So having been feeding night and day, life got too busy to post.

I had to throw out some food, from the fridge, last week, first time this year. A couple of slices of bacon and half a cucumber. Not much, but it really annoys me to have to do so. 

This morning I made 13 jars of lime marmalade. I bought the limes at the weekend, four kilos for £1. Very tasty. Tonight we are having shepherds pie, with broccoli and gravy. Pancakes tomorrow, stew Wednesday, pizza Thursday, Friday will be leftovers of some sort, only OH the children and I, steak, or burgers for the kids, on Saturday, then roast pork for Sunday. Unless plans change. After all two more ewes are due in the next couple of weeks. 

Hope to be back a little more regularly, hugs to all, hope everyone is well, mumtoomany.xxx

beckstar1975

Aww been off so didn't see this, you're fully off with lambing now. Sorry about the dead one though, especially as you'd laboured so long with him.

Can't believe you've found the time for making the marmalade though, you are so dedicated!

Just reading back for what I've missed! On Slimming World so making more of an effort to cook from scratch daily - going to be harder when back into swing of working full time

mumtoomany

Forgot to add how much I'd spent in the last week. 

£8.11 at a small supermarket,mostly reductions, but also a pasty each for OH and I, when we went out to get lamb milk. £22.08 in Morrisons, mostly veg and salad. £14.50 in the veg shop, including biscuits and sweets, (OH came in with me). Not many boxes with veg in, mostly fruit, hence the spend above in Morrisons.

Total for these is £44.69. Total to date, £358.48/£2640 for the year.

I'll go and update my signature.

Hugs, mumtoomany.xx

[Deleted User]

I am so sorry to read about your tup. I wondered how you were doing when you hadn't posted for a while. Lots of love x

mumtoomany

Thank you, @Deleted_User. It happens, especially with sheep. He was obviously weaker and sicker than his sister to start with. Gave him his best chance. 

Pancakes all made and eaten. Followed by cakes and fruit. I love shrove tuesday. Easiest tea all year.

Hugs to all, mumtoomany.xxx

mumtoomany

I've started this post four times now! Each time I get called away, and it wipes itself by the time I'm back. Try again.

Still doing ok here food wise, just time  I'm struggling with. The first ewe lamb is now a couple of weeks old, growing well and happy on the big field with mum. Monday morning another ewe have birth. This one has not had a lamb before. She abandoned said lamb under the hedge and wandered away! Spent the whole morning persuading her that it was her lamb and that she must feed it, not kick it! We had them penned together, so she could not run away. They are now doing ok. Mum has accepted the baby and is feeding and caring for it. One more early ewe to go, been checking on her every couple of hours.

Tuesday we did a big shop. Cash and carry, reduced sausages and Christmas cakes, but no cheap bread. Iceland  reduced pork pies, reduced milk, reduced brie. Farmfoods, cheap passata, also got fish fingers, fish, cheese. Vegetable shop, lots of £1 boxes, ideas on what to make with celeriac, please, so that nobody knows what it is, nobody likes it, even the ones who've never had it! 
Aldi had reduced bread and other bits. Spent a total of £75.75. Very little needed now for a few weeks. I've also bought, or actually got son in law to buy, four bottle of milk in the last week or two. Today we had to go to town, OH needed car parts. Called into the cash and carry to kill some time, while we were waiting for the man. Had DGD2 with us, teachers strike day, and they sell bacon rolls for £1 with free tea and coffee. They had bread today, after I stocked up at Aldi, I bought all they had, seven loaves for 70p the lot. Now of anyone has any freezer space I could borrow?

I'm going to make a serious effort to empty at least one of the freezers, this month. Watch this space, or that space. 

Yesterday's lunch. On Christmas eve DS1 and DD3 came shopping with me. They bought some reduced sandwiches and wraps. Two packs of chicken and bacon Caesar wraps were left over. I froze them. Yes I now realise they had lettuce on them! Got them out yesterday and deep fried them. Sounds awful but they were actually quite nice, I'd eat them again. Last night's tea was chilli and rice, left over Bolognese with added beans. Today is fish fingers.

Right I must dash, there is a ewe needs looking at, and I need to try and play freezer tetris with this bread, hugs to all, hope all are well, mumtoomany.xxx

Brambling

Hi M2M just delurking with celeriac ideas

add to other root veg usually swede, carrot, parsnip, turnip to make a root veg mash which does freeze.

I usually add to potatoes and onions when making boulangere potaotes, if you are trying to hide it make add other root vegetables

Boulangère potatoes recipe | BBC Good Food

and you can always hide it in soup, it lasts a long time in the fridge so small amounts can be added especially if you blitz the soup

kayannie

I HATE celeriac but my husband loves it so I buy it occasionally for him. I sometimes make a celeriac bake which is just cooked & mashed celeriac with a cheese sauce poured over it, cheese & maybe breadcrumbs sprinkled over the top & baked.
KA

gwynlas

I love celeriac remoulade and always buy it in France but have never made it from scratch.