From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future

Greying_Pilgrim

Morning MFW'rs

Good start to the morning.  Homework currently being done 😬  LG's school tops are in the wash, supposed to be a good drying day today 🤞 Breakfast munched for those that partake at this ungodly hour 🤢School clothes for today set out ✅

I intend to walk to MrL today.  I need to get a couple of things - I've listened to the groupthink, and I'm going to have another go at making the veggie version of Irish stew today, for Saturday.  I am however, going to make it in the PC, and then reheat tomorrow, as I am going to be using the SC to make tonight's tea - which is going to be 'made up', but will use veggie 'meat' balls and some of the mushroom condensed soup and anything else I have to hand.  Possibly served over rice..... we'll see.  

Right, best pop a sarnie into a snap box.  

Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

Right, back from my walk to MrL, and I took in MrS as well.

I am glad to report that MrL had a load of swedes in a range of sizes, so I bagged one (it weighs 1.3kg), and I was doubly delighted to see, not only was a MrL employee re-stocking the shelves of the purple porter, but it's on offer too, so 6p saved! 😁  A grand total of £1.98 spent in MrL today, cash.

Then I popped round to MrS (I didn't use the new-found path, as it's muddier than the pavement), and purchased several bits, including some green lentils (£2 for 1kg, n*ctar price), and some mixed frozen veg.  Total spend in MrS was £3.89, but I used n*ctar points for £2.50 of that, and £1.39 cash.  

I was reading the other day that 'weighted backpacks' is a new fitness 'phenomena'.  As I was walking home, I decided that 1kg of lentils, a kilo swede, a bottle of beer and a kilo of frozen veg worked just as well, and so I won't be rushing out to buy 'weighted plates' to put into my rucksack.......  

Right, away to update my siggie and to start cooking.  

Greying X

rtandon27

Greying_Pilgrim said:

...I was reading the other day that 'weighted backpacks' is a new fitness 'phenomena'.  As I was walking home, I decided that 1kg of lentils, a kilo swede, a bottle of beer and a kilo of frozen veg worked just as well, and so I won't be rushing out to buy 'weighted plates' to put into my rucksack.......  

OOOO - I too am ahead of the trend!  I was just thinking yesterday that my work bag (i.e. laptop rucksack) weighed me down and gave me a cardio work-out every day, especially when running late for the train home!

FrugalHedonist

@Greying_Pilgrim I often trek about with a shopping backpack (non driver) i did break one recently as it wasnt really designed for hefty shopping but my partner bought me one that is probably designed for hiking, it is huge. I certainly get a workout 

edinburgher

@Greying_Pilgrim - that sounds like "functional fitness" to me - you'd spend a fortune for a class that simulated the joy of lugging lentils and frozen veg around

Greying_Pilgrim

edinburgher said:

@Greying_Pilgrim - that sounds like "functional fitness" to me - you'd spend a fortune for a class that simulated the joy of lugging lentils and frozen veg around

🤣🤣 - You're sooo right!  Super fab to "see" ya 😁👍

Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

FrugalHedonist said:

...... my partner bought me one that is probably designed for hiking, it is huge. I certainly get a workout 

FrugalHedonist - if I had too big a backpack, I would be in danger of keeling over backwards and getting stuck on the floor like a Ewe or a turtle 🤣  Good on you for shopping like this all the time.  I'm afraid I'm something of a 'fair weather' foot-based-shopper, and a round-trip of 5 miles is about my limit 🥵

Greying X

MisterPym

Greying_Pilgrim said:

LotsOfTea - I'd say go for it with the recipes.  In my (very) humble opinion, it is well worth adding in the vinegar with the lentil soup.  I think the recipe says red wine vinegar, but I used white wine vinegar, and really any palatable vinegar would do - OR lemon juice.  It's the acidity that just makes the soup 'sing' somehow.  But obvs don't buy a bottle of vinegar that you don't need/wouldn't use again.  I've certainly used the little conkers recipe a few times now (only once with a plastic pudding bowl), and each pudding has been a success and far less steam created.  I know steam puddings are 'ordinary' food, but I'm far more likely to make one for a 'soup and pud' night than I was before I found the SC recipe. 

Greying X

Even a wee slug of vinegar out the jar of finished pickled onions ?

EssexHebridean

Just stopping by to confirm the tomato purée situation - it was indeed down to a bit of an issue about provenance of ingredients…there was a shortage of quite a lot of makes for a while, and then that seemingly reduced to just the store owner-brand ones. I managed to get some in A’s last weekend though (phew!) so it is re-emerging, thankfully! It’s just such a staple ingredient - I usually work on the basis of one in use with a backup in stores - then when I start using the one from stores I buy the next one. This time round there was no availability of “next one” though! 

themadvix

Rather than being Italian tomatoes, they were Chinese, and farmed with slave Uighur labour. 😢