From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening MFW'rs

So the chazzer clothes didn't fit ☹️ I'm not overly surprised, M&$ have gone the way of all clothing manufacturers and they make clothes for people that are a tubular measure from head to toe, no addition for shoulders, chesticles, waist, hips - and gussets clearly went out of the window when we all started wearing thongs......  (no, I don't......) 🙄 Still, they can be returned, and I can get a refund, so all is not lost.  

DH has found a u-toob vid on how to change the pull cord for the mower......  

I practiced what I was whanging on about earlier, about having a soup and pud night - even though we're not quite into January.  I decided to make leek and potato.  I put some onion, celery, garlic, potatoes and the stalk of the broccoli head that we got from the waste diversion, yesterday, into the PrC and boiled them up with some water and a stock cube.  I then blitzed it all, to form a soup base.  I then chopped 2 potatoes up into small dice, and finely shredded the leek from the waste diversion and added them to the pot, along with the remainder of the broccoli, which I made sure was in tiny florets.  I heated that up again, and let it simmer until it was all cooked.  I added salt and pepper, and the remainder of the herby cream cheese.  It was thick, creamy and nicely chunky.  It made 3 full bowls, and I served it with the 6 pre-sliced wholemeal baps that I got YS'd in h3r0n before Christmas for 33p.  Pud will be for the 2 that want it, and will be the remainder of the crumble with natural yoghurt.  

I managed quite a bit of 'use up' today, in the food stakes - which always pleases me, and yes, I am pleased that the fam. support me with these mad-cap notions.  

I haven't thought what we might have for tea tomorrow - I've changed my mind about my original thought, and am slightly, everso slightly put off doing something 'special' after Christmas Eve's issues. Pizza could be an option, although it could be for Friday night too 🤔  Anyway, don't get me wrong, we will not be going hungry - it's just about making a choice is all, we've still plenty in, and have plenty of potentially nice dishes that we could all enjoy.  

DH was home earlish tonight - due to little traffic.  I'm hopeful that he can be home early-ish tomorrow too.  We're not going out anywhere, or doing anything special to celebrate.  We haven't for many years, but that's ok, I've never really liked the 'enforced jollity/partying' required for NYE.  

Ta for popping by.  Greying X

kayannie

Greying_Pilgrim said:

Ha ha - dearest inod - I've just been reading an article on the beebeecee news site about food "trendz" for 2026 🙄 and I regret that thee and me are in a minority, as foods are going to get even spicier, albeit with fruit as an accompaniment - apparently "Fricy" is the word that will be on every influencers lips......... 🙄  And apparently cabbage is about to attain hero status - so watch the price of those skyrocket beyond conventional folks pockets ☹️ It happened with PSB, with Brussels sprouts, and now it's savoy's turn in the spotlight 🙄How come these once frugal foods, never come back down in price, when they "fall out of favour"?  Oysters, Ox-cheeks, corned beef, lamb shanks, ox-tail.......... Colcannon will be served in an egg cup for €15/£15 a shot..... 🙄

Greying X

GP - I'm slowly catching up with you!  In my late teens, I worked in the offices of a family butcher ( I didn't stay long & stopped eating meat soon after!). There were certain cuts of meat that people only bought to feed to their pets, such as breast of lamb & ox cheek. My old boss would be gob smacked to see these & other cuts being treated as gourmet foods. I remember (with horror!) people buying pigs trotters for stewing & brains to serve on toast!
I'll carry on catching up with you now. KA x