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A dirty Sunday
Phew, busy day today. I decided the bedroom was well overdue a thorough clean. Vacuumed all inside the sliding door wardrobe. My goodness, where on earth does all that crud and dust come from. I keep my numerous shoes in boxes in an effort to keep them dust free and...
Cheese and potato salad with coleslaw – No Power Plan
As we have no power on this, the No Power Plan, to refrigerate, wrap the cheese in a damp tea towel to keep it as fresh as possible, and keep it in as cool a place as you can. I have changed this so have no pictures, they will follow 250g Cheshire cheese, Asda...
Haslet & crudités, No Power Meal Plan
As we have no power on this, the no power plan, to refrigerate, have this meat product on the first day. I have changed this so have no pictures, they will follow 200g haslet, Asda 250g/75p 200g carrots, Asda 2kg/£1.18, 12p Half a tin of value sweet corn, drained, 35p...
Now we’re talking! An extremely yummy quinoa burger version, and some raspberry muffins
Tea this evening was one of the Quinoa and Chickpea burgers from yesterday. I got some wholemeal rolls from the local Spar, on our way back from a day out. Definitely not frugal, £1.50 for 4! I made some hoummous using a tin of chickpeas, the remains of a jar of...
Protein packed Quinoa burgers, 32p for a 2 burger portion
I have been thinking about using quinoa for ages, and have had a packet in the cupboard, also for ages, but never got round to using it. SW has a recipe for the ‘the best ever veggie burgers’ using quinoa, so I thought I would have a go.
Hotdog & Blackeye Bean Salad Bowl, 41p – No Power Meal Plan
This is dinner on 2 days on the No Power Meal Plan. Use this same amount on both days, using the tin of blackeye beans on one day and the kidney beans on the other. Serves 2 half a tin hotdogs, Asda 49p, 25p 30ml oil, Asda £1.25/litre, 4p 100g carrot, Asda £1.18/2kg,...
Balls, Bums and Wedding Pics
Well Wimbledon is finished for another year. I have seen some exciting tennis and been on the edge of my seat lots of times. I love this tournament and watch as much of it as I can. It's strange tho, I don't watch tennis at any other time, it's just Wimbledon that...
No Power Plan sandwiches
Hummus and carrot sandwich. My girls loved these in their school lunch boxes!
Bircher Muesli, from 24p
This lovely Bircher muesli is from Rose Elliot’s book, Vegetarian Cookery, which I’ve had for ever. I use lots of recipes from it and it was one of my standby books when we were both vegetarian. The muesli is wonderfully delicious. Rose recommends having it with...
Home made muesli, 9p
Had a lovely day yesterday afternoon. The U3A budget cookery group came round and we did some puddings. We started off with Delia’s Chocolate Roulade, then Oaty Apple Crumble, Easy Cheesecakes and Chocolate Ice Cream. With a detour via making garlicky Boursin using...
Lots of pink, bees and raspberry ice cream or mousse, 31p
Picked lots and lots of raspberries and loganberries from the canes in the garden this afternoon, they’re doing really well. Lots more to come yet. So, you know what I’m going to say now don’t you! Yes, I made some raspberry ice cream! It thickened up so nicely in the...
Another successful experiment. Mandarin ice cream, 17p
Although I have four extremely large tins of mandarins, I opened a much smaller one yesterday to try mandarin flavour ice cream. I had the second pot of double cream to use, but no more yogort. So I thought I’d try it with just cream to see what the difference was....