2025 Frugal Living Challenge

mandy47

Busy day in the kitchen. Half a carrier bag of gifted bramley apples prepped for the freezer.
Huge bag of gifted plums prepped for the freezer and a large jar of jam with the last of my jam sugar.
Dehydratedhome grown tomatoes and filled a jar with them. 
Cooked sweetcorn and pasta for salad lunches for the next few days.
Sourdough loaf slowly rising. Will bake tomorrow. 
Just cleaned up from lunch comprising of all homegrown veg and potatoes. 
Happy to sit and relax with a cuppa now.

Highlanddream

Gem-gem said:

@Highlanddream, I have never thought about growing sweet potatoes. Do you just do the same as new potatoes etc?

I planted them later than usual potatoes about May, I put them in a polytunnel but my friend is growing them outside, they are doing just as well but not flowering. They can sometimes break the surface, just cover them up with some more soil. I am very hopeful this will be a good year. You don't touch them until autumn, very hard not to have a dig around. They are like squash, grow everywhere, lol. 

Highlanddream

Gem-gem said:

Up at 5am to do another boot fair. £70 profit made. £50 put towards household bills. £20 kept for enjoyment money. We are going on another football weekend soon and this means I can treat myself to some things whilst away like a hot choc from G@il's. 

At the boot fair some know me as the 'jam' lady. Today a gentlemen came up to me and said, 'Are you the jam lady?'I replied that I was and he said that he had a present for me. It thought that he was going to come back with some jam jars, but no. He returned with 1.2kg of damsons, that he picked from his mother's tree, and asked if I would make jam with them and bring him back a jar. I said that I would. That I would be back in two weeks time. 

ohhh lovely, damsons are my favourite . Well done about the boot fair, we keep meaning to do one , going to run out of time this summer if we are not careful. 

Gem-gem

@Highlanddream, dawn was 5:37am this morning. I have set up my table in semi darkness before but am hoping to complete all boot fairs this year before this happens.z 

Gem-gem

mandy47 said:

Busy day in the kitchen. Half a carrier bag of gifted bramley apples prepped for the freezer.
Huge bag of gifted plums prepped for the freezer and a large jar of jam with the last of my jam sugar.
Dehydratedhome grown tomatoes and filled a jar with them. 
Cooked sweetcorn and pasta for salad lunches for the next few days.
Sourdough loaf slowly rising. Will bake tomorrow. 
Just cleaned up from lunch comprising of all homegrown veg and potatoes. 
Happy to sit and relax with a cuppa now.

It is always nice when you are gifted bramley apples. 

We think we have a squirrel who is coming into the garden in the early hours and is using it as a buffet bar. Sunflower heads keep disappearing or we find them in a raised bed with the seeds removed. We also are finding apples partially eaten. Too much for it to be birds.