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Thanks girlleastlikely to!
You'll love this one then, it's how I make our lunches for work so cheap...;)
Houmous
natco dried chick peas (from 2 kg bag) 100g 7.5p
50 ml veg oil 5p
a few tablespoons of the water from cooking
5g grd black pepper (rajah) 4p
2 fat cloves garlic 8p
salt 1 tsp less than a penny
2 tspns lemon juice 2p
=26.5p This makes enough for 4 weeks worth of sarnies for Mr Weezl...:j
Soak chick peas over night. Drain then vigorously boil for 10 mins. Then simmer on hob for approx 1.5 hrs, I do mine all day in the slo cooker on low. Blitz them drained with all the other ingredients in the food processor. Lovely!:T
Super- spendy day, add a few sundried toms, nomnomnom.:o
Anyhow, 3 loaves of HM bread makes 45 slices, so 22 sarnies with this as a yummy filling. 1 month of work lunches batch made and frozen = 69p, just over 3p a day!!!!
Hope you find that useful;)
How do you keep the houmous for 4 weeks, Weezl?0 -
I have recently been reading this amazing thread and thought that any new people to the boards would find it interesting reading. So I am giving it a little bump, I know its a few years old but still very relevant.Jue0
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I wonder how much weezl's shopping costs now in 2016 and if some of it is still viable.Interesting posts on here though
Doesn't seem to have posted for awhile0 -
No problem Jackie.
Google for Thrifty Lesley blog and many of the recipes on there are ones devised by Weezl and tested by others (including Thrifty Lesley).
Lesley is using the basic concept from here. Some of Lesley's recipes are her own - but many of them are from here.
EDIT; www.thriftylesley.com
Somewhere some way back on her blog she gives a link to the Wayback Machine - which has the original website up there.0
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