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JayJay14

Mooloo this is exactly how I feel - just like meeting up with an old friend you haven't seen since school or something:rotfl:

Savvy_sewing

JayJay14 wrote: »

Mooloo this is exactly how I feel - just like meeting up with an old friend you haven't seen since school or something:rotfl:

Well I hope that she does manage to get another book I would be one of the first to buy it.
Now I have to drag myself off into the grotty kitchen here and clear up the mess from the twins cooking before I attempt to do a little bit or ironing.
Nice to chat to you.

kellyplanet

WoW!!!!! I cooked Jenids meal last night, not the desert for that we had the Giant Jaffa Cake!!!!

Jenid it tasted fab if you have any more recipes like that get them posted!!!!! It taasted so good. There was only the two of us but i cooked for 4 and froze the rest!

chelsea.housewife

kellyplanet wrote: »

WoW!!!!! I cooked Jenids meal last night, not the desert for that we had the Giant Jaffa Cake!!!!

Jenid it tasted fab if you have any more recipes like that get them posted!!!!! It taasted so good. There was only the two of us but i cooked for 4 and froze the rest!

Wow, Jenid is a Star I love her recipes.

Thankyou Mooloo and JayJay15, I wonder what I look like too. It will be interesting to see if I still look good, 10 years after, on this diet of basic essentials and seasonal produce.

It's so homely to have this picture of you all raising your families and thriving against the odds. It's marvellous, it seems that because the book is real life and not just somebody's idea it really is useful and practical.

This is such a lovely thread, the way we help each other out. We're in for a wobbly time, fiscally, and food prices are rising rapidly but we can help each other weather the wobbles.

thriftlady_2

Does anyone else use a magnifying glass to look at the groceries in the photo on the back of Bernadine's book, or is that just me ?

I've been trying to find bottles of concentrated apple juice and orange juice ever since I bought the book -no luck so far.

I too use the book as a blueprint for my family's diet

Homemade wholemeal bread is the cornerstone with potatoes (£4 for a 20kg sack), oats, pasta and rice and loads of seasonal (local if poss) fruit and veg. Lots of pulses and some cheap cuts of meat and fish, cheese, milk and homemade yogurt. Who needs anything else ?

I like the fact that Bernadine's book doesn't have too many recipes for cakes and biscuits, although I still seem to make a lot of them (I have other recipe books:rotfl: ).

I also agree with her opinion of breakfast cereals -porridge and toast reign at breakfast in my house.

Btw according to this site £5 in 1991 is now worth £7.74

Savvy_sewing

Well I havent costed dinner tonight, but I used some prawns that one of the twins "had to buy", so did a sort of rissotto. Certainly looking at the costings again, the thought of the adverage housekeeping spend on food going up by £600 a year makes me sqwerm inside becuase I have the babies here as well. There are 6 of us in total. I am trying to get us into £290.00 for this month. Approx £65 a week. That includes most of the babies things as well.

Rice (cup full approx ) 30p
1/2 onion 3p
1/2 pepper 25p
Bit old cabbage 15p
2 cloves garlic 3p
1 chinese Oxo cube 10p
2 packets prawns £1.94p
bit hot water
hand full mushrooms 20p (bag full off market at £1.00 )

Main meal for 4 cost us £3.00
Jelly Mr T 12p

Not quite a 3 course meal but we are getting there.

Savvy_sewing

thriftlady wrote: »

Does anyone else use a magnifying glass to look at the groceries in the photo on the back of Bernadine's book, or is that just me ?

I've been trying to find bottles of concentrated apple juice and orange juice ever since I bought the book -no luck so far.

I too use the book as a blueprint for my family's diet

Homemade wholemeal bread is the cornerstone with potatoes (£4 for a 20kg sack), oats, pasta and rice and loads of seasonal (local if poss) fruit and veg. Lots of pulses and some cheap cuts of meat and fish, cheese, milk and homemade yogurt. Who needs anything else ?

I like the fact that Bernadine's book doesn't have too many recipes for cakes and biscuits, although I still seem to make a lot of them (I have other recipe books:rotfl: ).

I also agree with her opinion of breakfast cereals -porridge and toast reign at breakfast in my house.

Btw according to this site £5 in 1991 is now worth £7.74

Hi Thriftlady, I had a look at this link, and it says that £28 in 1989 would be worth £50.22 now. so I was on the mark when I said it cost me £50 to do Bernadines shopping list.
Now I have just to stick to it all.
Looking at that then my Groceries should be well within the £50. The rest is all baby stuff and cleaning.
Perhaps we should remember that we are now buying what ever Mr T has forsale and using them within our main shopping budget.
So now I must remember to cost the food not the whole shopping. !!!:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

chelsea.housewife

Hi thriftlady and Mooloo, I used to get pure, concentrated fruit juice from Neal's Yard in the Chelsea Farmer's Market. They did apple, blackcurrant, pear etc and it was really economical. But they stopped doing it. If I ever find anything else like it, I'll let you know.

Home made Lemonade
ingredients:
3 lemons, thinly peeled (keep rind)
4-6 oz sugar
1.5 pints boiling water
method:
Place the rind and sugar into a large jug and pour the boiling water over it.
Cover and leave to cool. Stir with a spoon occasionally.
Add the freshly squeezed juice of the lemons and stir. Strain the lemonade and serve chilled. Makes about 2 pints. Enjoy.

Batty_3

NO

Not with a big stick! :rotfl:

Is anyone else sick of Jamie telling us how to eat for a fiver? (a night)

This thread is just a bit of fun, but surprising how little you can spend IF you have to economise

At the end of the month (like as now as I get paid on the 20th) we sometimes have to eat for around a tenner a week (family of three - MAIN meal of the day)

This is a weeks typical Shopping list. Obviously it doesn't include Milk or Bread, but then neither do his ideas.....

Large Pack of mince £1.65
Pasta 40p
Pasta Sauce 39p
3 pack of Garlic bread £1 = £ 3.44 and lasts TWO nights

Potatoes £1.65
Mince (half the pack mentioned before) 0.0p
Cottage Pie Mix 74p = £2.39 again lasts TWO nights

Chicken £2.00 lasts TWO nights one night as a roast and then in a curry on a second night.

Korma Sauce 74p
Rice £1
Naan Bread £1 £ 2.74

I get my veg from the Market. If you hang around just before they close they pile it into carrier bags and I get a big bag of mixed veg for a quid.

I serve the veg with the Roast and the Cottage Pie and then make soup with the rest, by adding a tin of chopped tomatoes to eek it out, and serve with the last Garlic bread from the pack

That's 7 nights food = £11.57

I also make the 'reduced food' section my first stop in the shops. Sometimes I can get Family Sized pies for 9p! Sometimes I splash out on a pudding, but if I have store cupboard ingredients I knock up a cake or sponge pudding

I learned this thriftyness from my Mum. Here's what we used to have back in the 60's

We had a Roast on a Sunday
Leftover Roast Monday
Rissoles Tuesday (leftover meat minced and shaped)
Chops Wednesday
Liver and Bacon Thursdays
Fish Fridays
Saturday Meat and Potato Pie.......

Good Food costs less at LIDL, ALDI and NETTO!!!!!

This might be a thread Students could join in?

Pink.

Hi Batty,

Some good ideas there. I've added your post to the current Show Jamie how to cook thread to keep all the replies together.

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