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

mumtoomany

Hi all, still busy! Thanks for your suggestions @Brambling, @kayannie and @gwynlas. I used half of it in a sausage casserole, nobody noticed! The other half is in the fridge, will probably get used this week. 

I managed to get all the bread in the freezers, eventually. We now have enough bread to last well into April. Not been to the shops again, partly because nothing was needed desperately and partly due to no time. We do need milk today, probably get that from the village, dearer but easier.

Frugal meals in the last week have included, slow cooked cockerel legs with roast potatoes and veg, enchiladas made with some of the cockerel meat, sausage casserole made with yellow sticker cocktail size sausages (red onion and gorgonzola flavour) £2 for the bag, used around 50p worth and scotch eggs made with yellow sticker pork patties and home layed eggs.

I have almost used all the butter that I bought at £6 for 2kgs, before Christmas I think. I've been making spreadable butter with it using oil. When it's finished we'll be back to spread/margarine. Been nice while it lasted, but I can no longer justify the price of butter at full price.

 Today for lunch we will have left over casserole, no sausage left, just veg. Tea will be stir fry beef and vegetables, with chow mein sauce and noodles.

The snow has just started falling again, it showed in the night.  Can't believe yesterday I was digging and wedding without a jacket. Strange weather.

Hugs to all, mumtoomany.xxx

beckstar1975

Your meals always sound so nice, I imagine cockerel meat to be a bit tough but tasty, is it? Amazing about bread and butter, I am trying to lose weight so currently eating neither but love both  my dd popped over with a gorgeous crusty load monday and I just about managed to not eat half of it with butter and jam

mumtoomany

To me cockerel tastes much the same as chicken, but much darker coloured meat. I do slow cook it though as it can be a bit tough, often fairly old birds.

Mumtoomany.xxx

LunaCatty

Do you have a farm foods nearby mumtoomany? They currently have both salted and unsalted butter blocks (meadowchurn) on at £1.29 for 250g plus you can use the £2 off £25 vouchers (download from their website) for an extra discount. I think it said until 13th March the offer is on.

mumtoomany

Hi, @LunaCatty. Thank you. Yes we have farmfoods, I called in the other day for fish fingers and cheese, (mature cheddar that at the moment works out cheaper than aldi), didn't see any butter. I'll check it out of I manage to get down before then. It's only really me who prefers proper butter, maybe because that was what we had growing up. My mum thought only "common people" are margarine. Even during the times when my dad was out of work, for a year or more at a time, she still refused to buy it. She didn't work because "she had children", this being her reasoning even when we had all left home. She also still had a newspaper delivered and her magazines, and shopped at Sainsburys rather than Tesco! OH will quite happily spread cooking marg on his toast, and the children/grandchildren don't seem know the difference.

The last of the early lambs arrived last night. Sensible mum had gone into the barn, where OH had made a bed of hay for her. Mum and baby doing well. No more due now for about a month.

mumtoomany

Hit the wrong button and posted early! 

Tea last night was enjoyed by all the adults, the children picked at it and moaned, which fell on deaf ears.

Tonight will be 'sort of' carbonarra. I've got bacon pieces in the fridge. These along with mushrooms, onions and peas, in a white sauce, served over spaghetti, topped with grated cheese. There will be complaints from at least one of them. I might make some muffins too. I've got some blueberries going past there best.

Hugs to all, mumtoomany.xxx

sheilavw

hi we always had butter growing up. My late mum called it best butter.

mumtoomany

Hi, @sheilavw. Yes, I remember my mum calling it best butter. I wonder what worst butter was? And who are that? I also remember falling in the playground at school when I was about six, grazed my face and bumped my forehead. The school dinner ladies rubbed it with best butter. Possibly not the best first aid!

Tea last night, the youngest DGD, who moans about onions and mushrooms, ate every scrap. DGS who doesn't like sauce or gravy, ate everything. DGD1, the least fussy, ate almost none!

Snowing again today here, hope it clears soon. Just about to put a chicken in the slow cooker for tonight.

Hugs, mumtoomany.xx

sheilavw

I too wonder what worst butter would be. My late Aunt used to call bacon 'real bacon' not sure what fake bacon is!

annieb64

Think I may have had "fake bacon" at breakfast on an "all inclusive " holiday in Rhodes a few years ago.