eating fresh air for dinner

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By kerry

Re: eating fresh air for dinner
Mon 17 Mar 2008 12:48

Hiya Lisa,
well, there are a few things you ca do depending on your time and energy limitations and your willingness to spend more than 5 seconds in the kitchen lol...
I bought a breadmaker- ok so you have to pay around £40 for initial outlay and obviously buy flour etc, but it saves a lot in the long run, with bread so bloody expensive (unless youre happy to eat asdas/tescos/somerfields etc etc own cheapest brand of cardboard)
then i bought a slicer- again this was £30 in argos (altho they did a cheaper one it didnt look as good quality)- this means i get about 18/20 slices of bread out of one loaf which has cost pennies to make.

then i thought hey ive got this slicer, surely it can do more than bread, so i started buying cheap gammon joints (about £3 in tescos) and cooking them and slicing them up thinly as ham...
its like the posh ham thats well expensive but its cheap as chips!
you can do this with any meat really (as long as its boneless lol, if its on special, then just freeze it)

also its cheaper to make up your own stuff; i try to make my own pies, quiches, cakes and biscuits etc as A) you know wots in em and B) they work out cheaper and healthier than shop bought.
you can buy a turkey leg for about £1 (they used to be 60p)
and make a couple of meals e.g a pie with maybe some mushrooms and also maybe a curry.
make up your own sauces too, they r healthier and cheaper.

eg- sausage cassorole:
water, cornflour to thicken and then add whatever you like, onions, chopped carrots, peas, peppers a bit of apple maybe... etc. (oh and sausages of course lol)
sometimes i buy cuppa soups and use them as a base for the sauce. theyre cheap as ninepence too.
and my kids all love it!
works out cheaper and healthier than buying a jar for £1.50 with all sorts of unknown additives and gunk in it.

I dont get much time to do all these things what with uni and life in general so sometimes i do a batch of stuff and then freeze it, which saves time when youre in a rush and u know what youre eating and that it aint all processed crap!

either this or go on a size zero diet and it wont cost you anything at all lol.
or even better become an MP and then youll get a £400 weekly shopping allowance (without having to show your receipts) and a nice new £10,000 kitchen to cook it all in, in your second luxury home!

kerry

By Tricia

Re: eating fresh air for dinner
Mon 17 Mar 2008 12:52

Hello Lisa

I went and did a shop at the weekend which I usually do once a fortnight mostly because my son prefers smart price fish fingers and sausages from ASDA. They alomost had to call an ambulance when I went to pay for the goods as I could not believe the increase in the cost of food within two weeks and am talking not 1p here and there but 5p to 10p incease here and there which all add up

I am on a low fat diet and have found if I do my own home made soup I take three ham stock cubes add some frozen turnip which was 39p a packet until Iast week has gone up to 49p a packet, chop a load of onions in it add carrots and any other veggies I have lying around. I then boil it for ever and if I have some bacon pieces which I get 2lbs for 99p smoked pieces add a lovely taste to it. Oh and not forgetting lots of pepper to season it with

Your message has raised a smile to me as this morning I called to my local carers centre (I am a trustee there) and talking to one of the staff told her I would love to loose lots of weight by next year and my ambition is to go to a charity shop and buy an outfit as they never have my size in or if they do there is not much to chose from. One of the workers said oh why don't you put a couple of pounds away each week and you will have some money saved up. I thought it was so funny that she did not have a clue on how little us carers have left to live on. I told her that I am on carers allowance and by the time I pay bills including the £140 per month gas and electric and the mortgage along with all the other add on bills which seem to accumulate through out life. I am lucky if I have enough to feed us on never mind saving a couple of pounds per week.

I really thinking that next years carers week theme should be how do carers manage on sweat shop income!

By kerry

Re: eating fresh air for dinner
Mon 17 Mar 2008 13:06

Oh I agree tricia
one of my lecturers was generally asking the class if we thought they (the lecturers) had problems lke stress, etc, having to mark all out essays blah blah....
I said well yes of course, you do but at the end of the day you get shitloads of money, we dont, in fact we are actually paying you shitloads of money so i dont actually have aniota of sympathy for you!
he said oh no we dont earn loads of money, we hardly get whats called a decent wage blah blah blah...
I had to laugh- hes on about £40,000 plus a yr (at least)
I didnt say it cos i couldnt be bothered but i felt like saying try managin on £2,400 per year matey!
and thats for working 24/7 a lot of the time, not bloody 25/30 hrs pw.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

hes a nice bloke though really, bless him, hes just got his head too far up his academic arse i guess and doesnt live in the real world.

kerry

By loopy

Re: eating fresh air for dinner
Mon 17 Mar 2008 13:33

oh well, i could always sell my body (JOKE!), i dont think there would be any takers though!!!!!

By Alice

Re: eating fresh air for dinner
Mon 17 Mar 2008 16:45

Hi Loopy

When I am hard up I make cheese and potato pie, sausage and beans,

Mash some potato also mash in some grated red cheese, put in an oven proof dish top with sliced tomato, bake in oven gas no5 for 20/25 mins, serve with sausages and baked beans, lovely and filling. In posh restaurants the pie would be called cheddar mash.

Have you tried Gypsy bread? beat an egg with some milk, coat some white bread slices with the mix and fry for a couple of minutes, you can either eat it as it is or do what I do and put some jam on. You could have that sort of thing for breakfast, tea or whatever.

By kerry

Re: eating fresh air for dinner
Mon 17 Mar 2008 20:57

ha yeah i tried selling my bod once lisa down the dilly...
I got £4.10.
the bloke says to me 'what tight bugger gave you 10p' I said 'all of em'

the old ones are the good 'uns eh! (and im defo one of the old ones lol)

kerry