Hellloooo ..
Cannot believe how long it has been since I last posted on here...How time flies!
Not alot has been happening in our Household.. We had a terrible festive period due to us all coming down with the flu 3 days before Xmas day!! Sooo glad I didn't go mad with buying food as it would have been wasted as we just weren't eating Jack has been of school all last week due to Chicken pox!! So not really managed to get a great deal done I was hoping to sort all the loft out (New year and good clean out and all that...) but NO.. Never mind at least his on the mend and should be going back to school next week
Hubby has decided to get in to the world of Bee keeping ... Which means.. Honey on tap!.. Oooh I'm soooo excited! hopefully he should be able to make a few pennies out of it too!
I'm still trying hard to save money as and when I can although with prices rising etc it is very difficult BUT in a funny kind of way I am enjoying it! I love bargain hunting in the reduced aisle of the supermarket every night because I cannot afford full price.. I nipped into Tesco yesterday afternoon and picked up a few bargains and today was the challenge to see how many meals I could get out of the yellow labelled goodies......Thought I would share a few pictures...
So this along with a few fridge items that needed to be used up was what I had to work with.
Thought I would start on the Tomato's first, chopped in half, added some pepper, garlic & a drizzle of Olive oil, then these were ready to roast.
30min later... Mmmmm the smell was divine!
All blitzed up and made into a pasta sauce ready to be potted up and froze
Then I turned my attention to the chopped pork, Hubby loves stew so thought I would treat him :)
Meat, veg & stock all added now time to switch it on.
Celeriac gratin, made with 1 celeriac a300ml tub of cream &150ml milk
Very naughty but Ooooh sooo nice ;)
Next was cooked pork I had in the fridge from Wednesday's tea, ideal Mid-week curry
Waiting to go in the oven to be slow cooked and thickened up
Next I used half the pack of Beef, some mushroom and beef stock and made the filling for a pie.
All ready for its yummy shortcrust blanket to be made and put on.
Celeriac & Celery soup
I also made a Beef Casserole and a pork, mushroom and cider pie... sorry about no pictures.. Totally forgot!
Taaaaaaaaaaa Darrrrrrrr
Pretty damn chuffed with myself as I managed to make
1 pork & Mushroom pie
1 Beef and mushroom pie
1pork & Veg stew (2 dinners)
a Celeriac gratin (2 dinners)
1 Pork & Mushroom curry
1 Celeriac & celery soup (1 dinner & 1 lunch)
1 beef casserole
1 tub of tomato pasta sauce
And
a portion of Mashed swede to go with tomorrows dinner...all for under £4
Still got some Mushrooms left in the fridge so tomorrow I shall be doing a Mushroom soup
So after that mammoth cooking session the meals have all been added to my already fully stocked freezer
From Tuesday Next week I have set myself a target of £10 to live on for the week this will be used for buying fresh fruit, veg, bread and milk, so I will be relying on my freezer to feed us for the next couple of weeks.
Its soooo cold tonight we have decided to camp out in the living room, it saves putting the heating on to warm the top of the house up.. so going to get my Jim jams on and snuggle up with my darling hubby... :0) x
