sammy_kaye's £100 a month food budgetting

Doom_and_Gloom

jumb1e wrote: »

http://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/recipes

that I wish I had known about when I was working at the supermarket; some of the recipes are very sensible in using up food that would otherwise go to waste, sometimes specifically calling for overripe things! Hope someone else finds it useful

Oo that baked apple crisp on that website sounds yummy. Will have to adapt it slightly to make it vegan but yum. Was thinking of doing a crumble but didn't have enough stailish (sp?) bread to do it this would be a lot easier as I have most if not all of it already :T .

SmellyOldSock

I'm lurking in the background, have read this thread with great interest.

I've invested in a food processor as I have problems with my hands, I've already made my own jam tarts, sausage rolls and quiches!

This is an inspiration to me, thank you!
My hubbie also thanks you as he loves my home baking!

sammy_kaye18

Mics_chick

Lol - questions, questions, questions..............feel free to ask them hun. Im happy to answer them.

The 10p bargains - they do go some way to helping stay in budget but not always. I mean i cant gaurentee every week Ill get them - ok maybe rollsin some form, but there might be other different things reduced instead. I might end up with a cabbage or something and if we simply dont need things then i dont buy them. Any money that i do save on items like this - although its only pence then we put into a little spare change tin. I take an 'inventory' if you like of what i still have left when an up and coming shop is due and then if say i do a shop on a monday and on my sunday shift (like before christmas) i worked the night and picked up 4 bags of potatoes that were reduced because they werent seen as needed and would only have been binned so i had 4 bags for 10p. So when i had the mad dash on christmas eve for my food shop i knew i didnt need potatos. So i could relocate that money to another treat for us.

If its in the year then we put it into the spare change jar and do save it up - even if it eventually ends up on a tesco savings stamp card or it goes towards a cheapy day out for me, the bf and our little one.

The onion - yes it freezes ok. And with the freezer no i have a second freezer (which went bang like two days ago so thank god it was empty ish) but have another recycled one on the way now from my aunt, but htat will store our frozen veg etc and whatever else we bung in it then the small one that ih ave on the fridge freezer is tiny so we can possibly store milk/bread in it.Or even lots of tupperware tubs neatly stacked up. (hmmm...........i wonder)

As for the brocolli it goes anywhere - roasts, soups, whatever i fancy it in - my littel boy also loves his mini trees

Mics_chick

More questions Sammy
How big is your freezer? Iis it a normal-sized one that fits under kitchen counter or a tall one???
There are alot of comments from other posters about how you've progressed since you signed up to MSE so I was wondering how long did it take you to get to your current prize-winning OS standard ???
Finally :rolleyes: when you have a batch cooking day what do you actually cook on that day - I mean what type of meals and how many of each ???

sammy_kaye18

Im enjoying all these questions

How big is your freezer? Iis it a normal-sized one that fits under kitchen counter or a tall one??? The freezer i have in the kitchen is a bog standard small freezer. Its wedged between the draining board and another counter - and has now blocked off access to under my sink. It went bang a few days ago - but liek i said when it comes up to another shop it is pretty run down by then and thankfully my sister in law is across the road so we can store things in her freezer too - fingers crossed my otehr freezer form my aunti arrives soon though. The freezer we have on the fridge freezer is tiny, it can probably store a whole chicken and maybe 2/3 bags of frozen veg and even that is a push.

There are alot of comments from other posters about how you've progressed since you signed up to MSE so I was wondering how long did it take you to get to your current prize-winning OS standard ??? Well Ive been under sammy_kaye18 for i think almost 2 years now but i was on it before that too - I joined just after i had my son in May 2004 so ive been a member for almost 4 years now. We moved house and once we reconnected to the internet I discovered my account had been hacked and I lost my other username (welsh_bird18). So its taken about 4 years - the first year I was more focused on cleaning though adn making homemade baby food - which was a benefit to us but moneys always been tight so i think even when i first joined we were spending about £200 on shopping but like i said i had a newborn so nappies, milk, wipes were alot of that.:rolleyes:

Finally :rolleyes: when you have a batch cooking day what do you actually cook on that day - I mean what type of meals and how many of each ??? I tend to make small batches probably compared to most being as we are a family of 3 but bf isnt here for most of the day, so ill do a basic tomato sauce for things like spagbol, chilli, pasta but ill do it so it makes about 8 portions, soup i tend to eat alot of so i easily make about 12+, i also try to do shepherds pie - it makes 2 decent sized shepherds pies if put into big dishes so we have one big dish for that night and get about another 8 portions in tubs. Also depending on what we are planning to eat that night I might make up pastry and make a pie with left overs, or use up any old veg thats left.

does that help? Like Ive said my family is much smaller than others and i only have to feed me and my son for pretty much 6 days fo the week because bf is working and only home from 5.30/6pm onwards and he leaves for work at 6.15am in the morning and eats in work. :j

sarah1975uk

my bloody oven has broken and cant afford a new one at the moment so batch cooking has gone out of the window for now am sooooooooo missing twinkeys

purpleivy

sarah1975uk wrote: »

my bloody oven has broken and cant afford a new one at the moment so batch cooking has gone out of the window for now am sooooooooo missing twinkeys

How about some nice fresh scotch pancakes or welsh cakes, you can do those on the cooker top?

Mics_chick

sarah1975uk wrote: »

my bloody oven has broken and cant afford a new one at the moment so batch cooking has gone out of the window for now am sooooooooo missing twinkeys

Put a request on freecycle and see what happens...???

sarah1975uk

purpleivy wrote: »

How about some nice fresh scotch pancakes or welsh cakes, you can do those on the cooker top?

Can you pm me recipies pls lol xxx yay:D

purpleivy

Yes, will just have a look!