Free Food Challenge

flourgirl

Just received my 2 kitchen compost bins plus bran activator from Doncaster Council totally free!! Blackwall are sellling them for £35 each plus £4 for the bran. Not bad eh? :T

frugalfairy_3

I've been given the two most enormous marrows I've ever seen! I think they're prizewinning ones! Now all I've got to do is think of ways of disguise them as OH isn't keen and there's only the two of us here. Got a stuffed marrow recipe which is quite nice but we don't eat jam :rolleyes: so may have to make lots of soup or something.

hazzie123

When I was a kid we always had marrows stuffed with sausage meat mixed with sage and onion stuffing.

hazzie123

flourgirl wrote:

Just received my 2 kitchen compost bins plus bran activator from Doncaster Council totally free!! Blackwall are sellling them for £35 each plus £4 for the bran. Not bad eh? :T

Would all councils do free compost bins? It sounds a really good idea.

tiff

hazzie123 wrote:

Would all councils do free compost bins? It sounds a really good idea.

Not all of them do, check your local councils website.

jap200

I live in Kent, surrounded by Orchards (commercial ones). Windfall apples and plums are just left to rot as they are not even suitable for cider apparently, so I sometime collect some - I always feel a bit guilty though!

dandydeels

I went mushroom picking in the forest at the weekend with an expert (my wife) and filled a basket of delicious wild mushrooms (say 5 kilos) . We fried up some fresh ones- which were delicious- the mother in law took the remainder on a preserve and share deal- she is drying them for use as flavouring throughout the winter and we are sharing them. When i was in London over the summer I spotted these mushrooms selling for 20 pounds a kilo in Borough market. I guess I am lucky living in Money saving Poland where wild mushroom picking is a seasonal cultural event and the skills haven't been lost. i am sure there is a rich harvest in the UK - armed with agood book to identify them- or an expert.

JillD_2

apologies if this is a duplicate or whatever.
A week or two ago on here there was a thread where everyone said what food they'd got for free that week - I thought "blimey, noone ever gives me free food"....

well, since then, my friend gave me a load of plums, apples and pears from trees in her garden as they were all ripe and she is away on holidays now.

And today at the cafe in the leisure centre they had over ordered on bananas and they gave ma half a dozen to take home!
Bargain!

What has anyone else managed to acquire this week ?
Jill

Icemaiden

Apples, Apples and more Apples, I just can't stop picking:eek:

Sarahsaver

Unfortunately much free junk food
Mum looked after the kids whilst I was on honeymoon. I bought enough food for the week, and there would have been leftovers. I have inherited the following, those with a * I already had in and she got a 'better quality' (expensive) alternative
Oven chips x 2 bags
birdseye fishfingers *
M&S sausages *
baked beans**
processed peas **
m&s ready made salad
quaVERS
nutri grain bars
rich tea biscuits
robinsons squash * (she got thru 3 bottles of the economy stuff I had :eek:)
m&s cucumber and orange pepper
Jar of sweets (kids only have a packet of sweets on Fridays - 'treat day')
Kingsmill white sliced bread *
golden nuggets cereal
rice crispies
Ho-hum. It didn't cost me anything - financially that is LOL;)