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

beckstar1975

Bless - I follow a few farmers on Insta and there's been loads of sheep dying - poor farmer on Skye had three one day

Good luck at the dentist later, that's terrible about cancelling when you were already there!

MatyMoo

Another silent follower!

I live alone but hate food waste. I try to batch cook at least once a week (6-8 portions) and will happily eat the same thing 2 days running so freeze the rest in double portions to use another day. I make lots of stews, casseroles, curry’s, chilli’s and spaghetti bolognese so that during the week I can defrost and cook potatoes/rice/pasta to go with.

My biggest problem is fresh veg. A stew pack can be used to make a casserole or stew with the rest used for a soup. I use lots of tomatoes and mushrooms too in spag, chilli and curry’s but get to the point where I crave veg!  I then buy a mixed bag of prepared veg and eat that over two days. It isn’t the cheapest but does save waste! Sadly the only frozen veg I like is peas!

mumtoomany

Hello all, I'm back again. Normal service should now be restored. Visitors have gone home, grandchildren are back in school and no more dental visits till summer.

I worked out the Tesco bill. It came to £46.04, this was after 15% discount. I bought pasta, rice, fruit squash, sugar flour, deodorant, toothpaste, gravy granules, stuffing mix, salt, oats,washing up liquid, etc. And of course milk! All were the same price as Aldi before discount. Won't need any of the above again for several months. I also called in at Lidl, at the request of DS-i-L yesterday, picked up some reduced bread and some pepperoni, spent £2.67. Total spent for the year to date now stands at £120.87/£2640.

@asparklyblonde, no idea what they died of! Two of last years lambs, both were under the weather, hiding in the shelter. Jabbed them with antibiotics, took them into the barn, in the warm/dry, gave them a hay bed, lots of food/water, then they died! Ask any sheep farmer, sheep do that!

@MatyMoo, I've found veg keep for quite a long time in the bottom of the fridge. I often have carrots there for several weeks, i buy 10kg sacks, onions keep in the barn, 20kg sacks, if I keep the rodents off. Salad veg keeps for more than a week, cabbage, etc ages. Will you eat veg you've frozen yourself?

Tea yesterday was HM pizza, using the pepperoni, frozen HG tomatoes, frozen YS mushrooms, cheap grated cheese, part of giant tin of YS pizza sauce and YS pizza bases. Some left for dinner.Served with potatoes and peas.

Off to decide what to make for today, hugs to all, mumtoomany.xxx

sammy_kaye18

Im reading through your other thread at the minute and taking notes as I seem to have fallen off the wagon quite a bit with spend days this year already so Im hoping to get myself back on track. 
Loving the old thread and hoping to be able to offer tips etc on this one if I can. 
Like you I seem to have a fair bit squirreled away from when Covid was lurking around because no public transport made my little welsh valley cut off practically if you dont drive. Im down near Mordor if you understand the reference - most welshies do. So Im busy using things up and only looked in the fridge today to see that I have quite a few odds and sods to make use of before they start going funny and between me and husband there isnt a pay day now until the end of the month and Ive £23 to tide us over with! 

mumtoomany

Hi, @sammy-kaye18, lovely to hear from you. I hadn't heard of Mordor, but then I'm not a native Welshie, one of those migrants from England! I've googled it though now. Good to have you on board.

Tea was chicken thighs, cooked in a bag with piri-piri spices. It wasn't very spicy. Served with carrots, cauliflower and broccoli, (not much cauli left so added the few bits of broccoli growing in the tunnel) and "cheesey spuds" sliced potatoes layered with onions and cheese, bit of milk and oven baked. Afters was Manchester tart, made by DGD1. 

Hugs, mumtoomany.xxx

tooldle

Hi @sammy_kaye18 I’m also an English migrant and have lived in Swansea for over 30 years now. I don’t know why, but I always imagined you as being Cymmer way. Not the same valley but still RCT.

mumtoomany

Hi, @tooldle. There seem to be a lot of once English, now Welsh in Wales. We are just North of Carmarthen. Almost every neighbour was once English. 

Hugs, mumtoomany.xxx

kayannie

mumtoomany said:

Hi, @tooldle. There seem to be a lot of once English, now Welsh in Wales. We are just North of Carmarthen. Almost every neighbour was once English. 

Hugs, mumtoomany.xxx

Me too! Moved to Snowdonia 2 years ago after holidaying here for over 50 years. I am half Welsh though!
KA

sammy_kaye18

mumtoomany said:

Hi, @sammy-kaye18, lovely to hear from you. I hadn't heard of Mordor, but then I'm not a native Welshie, one of those migrants from England! I've googled it though now. Good to have you on board.

tooldle said:

Hi @sammy_kaye18 I’m also an English migrant and have lived in Swansea for over 30 years now. I don’t know why, but I always imagined you as being Cymmer way. Not the same valley but still RCT.

kayannie said:

Me too! Moved to Snowdonia 2 years ago after holidaying here for over 50 years. I am half Welsh though!
KA

@mumtoomany
Yeah I think its just a nickname we get given because of the steel works - Im just outside in one of the smaller villages. Very pretty but if theres any kind of weather disruption or mudslides then we get a bit stuck and traffic backs up badly 

@tooldle
I mean Im probably equally half way between Cymmer and Swansea if you looked on a map lol Im in NPT.

@kayannie
Oh where in Snowdonia? We use to visit there a lot with my grandparents when I was younger and it holds such a fond place in my heart - hoping to go back up there this summer to show my kid places we use to visit like Porthmadog and Beddgelert. 

tooldle

Ah, good old PT and the works. I can see it from my office window and used to work there myself. 
I thought you meant Mordor in RCT as despite a long association with the works and people who both work and live in the area, i've never heard it said as a nickname. You learn something new every day