50p a day til christmas, healthily?!-Weezl's next challenge (part 2)

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Woo hoo Im back lol

First things first... Has anyone seen the electric jam pan thingy in lakeland?

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/tefal!REG-electric-jam-maker/F/keyword/jam+pan/product/12613

only I have just seen them in the supermarket here on sale at €50 / £40 when they are £79.99 in lakeland :eek: .... Im sooooo tempted to get my mum one for a combined birthday/xmas pressy -she always made the best jam -but she has no need for big volumes anymore... as she will only give it away, which is lovely -but not saving her money... hmm what do folks think? Mind she wouldn't be able to have it until we go back to visit hmmmmm





Yep I've got one and they are great.They do 1kg of fruit at a time and you can make jellies with them and dont have the hassle of the dripping bag or bowl which my kids always tip over:mad: For Forty quid its got to be a bargain and I'm sure you mum will love it

Lesleyxx

Hi everyone
Wonder if anyone could help me decypher a scribbled fudge recipe. It says tin of condensed milk (but no size of tin ) then 150mls milk underneath. Does this mean milk as well as condensed milk or is 150mls the size of the tin.? Cant read my own scrawl now so hope someone can put me right. Thanks.:o

phizzimum wrote: »

got some cooked beef leftover from weekend and I'm not sure what to do with it tonight. I cooked it in the slowcooker on Sat (served with veg and yorkshires), then used some for a curry yesterday. who can give me some ideas for the third meal?

I was thinking of cottage pie - but DD6 doesn't like mash - so maybe topping it with thinly slice potatoes? or else, some kind of pasta sauce (probably including lentils, lol!)

Mum used to do "Minced bake Italienne" (probably not Italian at all ) It's basically a mince bolognaise mix (but with quite a thick tomato sauce - have done it with lentil/mince/padded veggies). Put it in a casserole dish. Then a thick white sauce poured on top and then 3 slices of white bread buttered(marged) on one side and cut into 9 squares per slice and put buttered side up onthe top of the white sauce.

Bake until the bread is golden.

The bread goes part crunchy, part soggy (where it's in the sauce). It's kind of cross between shep pie and lasagna but with no pasta

Getting worried about the budget I need to try and stick to

I reckon that in order to keep our spending within the Benefits Agencies "permitted" level once my redundancy goes through, and after paying all our regular bills, I can't afford more than £2.50 per person per day -- and that includes all household bits (washing powder to bin bags to light bulbs) and hygiene product (loo rolls to shampoo), but doesn't leave us anything for bus fares if hubby and I want to go out (he has a disabled bus pass so would only have to pay for me), nothing for either of us to go out anywhere that needs money, nothing for his beer or any cigs, nothing for birthday or Christmas pressies, and nothing for any house or car repairs. So I really need to get it below that £2.50 figure, as even pennies a day below that will soon add up towards some of the other bits.

Just finished updating my 'accounts' for this month, and am now going to have to go over it trying to find anywhere I can trim back. The only household bits I've picked up are some dishcloths, a couple of muffin trays, a bag of 16 loo rolls, and half a dozen cheap energy efficient lightbulbs. There's no personal hygiene products in the total at all (have a small stockpile already). Also hardly any meat, as I've been using from the freezer.

At £2.50 each per day, that would give me £112.50 to the end of tonight -- and I've managed to spend just over £86

If I include the mini oven I got from Aldi, then my total goes up to just over a rather shocking £104 !!!!!

Thanks Ravylesley

I have had a chat with mum -I knew she had hung her nose over the jam maker in lakeland when she went to look at the remoska (that she now has and is in love with lol)... When I mentioned it and the price -her voice went up an octave..so i know she is interested lol..
So hubby is taking me back to get her one on wednesday... and we will take it her back when we next go home -and then i will bring my jam pan and thermometer back (i left them with mum to use when we moved away).....
Its a bonus -as we will give it her as a birthday/xmas pressie -once we have finished arguing over her not having it without paying for it hehe

Well we have had liver, onions n carrots with mash, cabbage an nobby greens nomnomnom -im stuffed..
We didn't bother doing the asian supermarket today -so i think i will get hubby to take me on wednesday on our way back from fetching mums jammy pan ......
Feeling really happy now im getting the stock sorted for winter..hopefully soon we should be sorted -and able to cope with whatever the weather throws at us ...famous last words
right back to my knitting... have just found a site with some lovely wool at sensible prices ...woohooo i may be gone some time lol