April 2008 Grocery Challenge

chimp_choker

faye1978 wrote: »

Thats where the korma recipe came from I posted. I agree - THE best curry recipe site. :A I wasnt sure if we could post links.

OOPS !! I didn't know there was a ban or possible ban on links... Oh Well still a great site.... How do you find making the base sauce ??

chimpy

mandy_moo_1

well the start of another week for me today, and i haven't spent a penny :j

i went to tesco armed with some vouchers, picked the youngest cashier i could see, and got 12 tins of dogfood, and 12 foil trays of dogfood.

it came to £6.75, and guess what.... i had coupons to the value of £6.75 :rotfl:and the cashier took 'em all :D i couldn't believe it!! i only tried it on the off chance!!!

what a fantastic start to the week :D

ifonlyitwaseasier

very nice mandy_moo

not so lucky and with no coupons i went to Mr S at lunchtime, OH called in a panic saying we had no potatos (me thinking 'sure i had some left') went and bought some, and some onions and some carrots. and whilst ther i got the extra turmeric and ground cumin i'd been needing.
£4.54 later, i get home, what do i find in the cupboard, potatoes!!!!

grrr @ daft OH looking in the wrong cupboard!

angelavdavis

chimp_choker wrote: »

OOPS !! I didn't know there was a ban or possible ban on links... Oh Well still a great site.... How do you find making the base sauce ??

chimpy

i think its ok as long as you don't financially benefit from the link.

funkyfunkymonkey

Hi Victory :hello:

I love this thread, it's saving me so much money - but it does threaten my waistline because there are so many lovely recipes to try. I find it very hard to resist homemade cakes and biscuits, shop ones I can easily ignore.

FFM

betterlatethannever

Hello

I've had some 'whoopsie' Braising steak (organic too and only £1.50) in the freezer for ages. I hadn't a clue what to do with it
Last night i glanced through the recipe section and found you can make Chill-con-carne with it. We're one of the few countries that makes it with mince, most use cubed beef.
Decided to give it a go and it was ace:j so had a lovely, warming dinner, very cheaply too.

funkyfunkymonkey

Hi everyone

Do any of you have any ideas for flavouring homemade yoghurts?

I've just bought a Lakeland Bulk Yoghurt Maker (naughty I know - but I'm looking longer term here).

I've made my first litre of homemade yoghurt from UHT Milk at 44p and it is really scrumptious. I'm happy to have it with a little honey, but it's my little monkeys that I want to encourage.

They are used to shop bought yoghurts which are quite strongly flavoured. They have given the thumbs up to the addition of toffee sauce which we use to top icecream - but jam was not strong enough for them - I also don't want to have to buy bucket loads of icecream topping as it had stacks of sugar in it.

I have a feeling that fresh fruit will also be quite faint as a flavouring. But I haven't tried it yet so will be very happy to be corrected on this.

TIA

FFM

faye1978

chimp_choker wrote: »

OOPS !! I didn't know there was a ban or possible ban on links... Oh Well still a great site.... How do you find making the base sauce ??

chimpy

TBH I haven't made it as DH HATES Currys :mad: but my Mum makes it all the time and said it's not too bad - she doubles the recipe and freezes most of it so she gets 3 or 4 currys from the one cooking session. I don't suppose it's too bad when it's done that way.

faye1978

funkyfunkymonkey wrote: »

Hi Victory :hello:

I love this thread, it's saving me so much money - but it does threaten my waistline because there are so many lovely recipes to try. I find it very hard to resist homemade cakes and biscuits, shop ones I can easily ignore.

FFM

I made THE most amazing bread today in the BM and I think it was a mistake cos a 2lb loaf has quickly halved in the space of an hour and there's only 2 of us! I was SHOCKED when DH said - This is BETTER than shop bought - he's never said that about BM Bread before. I think I've done myself an injustice and I don't think I'l be buying shop bread in a hurry........but, like you say, the waistline, SPECIALLY with those HOBNOBS. mmmmmm :drool:

faye1978

funkyfunkymonkey wrote: »

Hi everyone

Do any of you have any ideas for flavouring homemade yoghurts?

I've just bought a Lakeland Bulk Yoghurt Maker (naughty I know - but I'm looking longer term here).

I've made my first litre of homemade yoghurt from UHT Milk at 44p and it is really scrumptious. I'm happy to have it with a little honey, but it's my little monkeys that I want to encourage.

They are used to shop bought yoghurts which are quite strongly flavoured. They have given the thumbs up to the addition of toffee sauce which we use to top icecream - but jam was not strong enough for them - I also don't want to have to buy bucket loads of icecream topping as it had stacks of sugar in it.

I have a feeling that fresh fruit will also be quite faint as a flavouring. But I haven't tried it yet so will be very happy to be corrected on this.

TIA

FFM

How about stewing some fruit down and adding a bit of sugar for sweetening? If you use the tiniest of water it'll concentrate the flavour and the juices would go syrupy. :rolleyes: I think?

Mmmm! Jus thought chhoped peaches and concentrated peaches (ie slowly boiled down) with passionfruit and Mango would be DELISH!!!