Shopping and cake

First things first, there must be cake in my life!

So I used half a pack of aldi carrots to make carrot cake! Well I made 3, 2 to put in the freezer! 

Carrots..

 Squadge..

Cakes!!!

25p sultanas

32p carrots

45p marg

36p eggs

39p sugar

15p flour

20p golden syrup

£2.12 for 3 cakes

70p a cake.

Although I will have to hide the other 2 from OH!

He just saw them and went 'OOOh cake'!

I used to make this cake alot when dad was here as he'd have one and we'd chomp through two! And it came from a 1990 cookbook...

This was the last time I was excrutiatingly skint! And we grow carrots...and its twin book?

Yep, tinned tomatoes are cheap too! And I believe they were knocked down in sainsbobs, which was at the time our only supermarket!

So we have :

Carrots 59p
lettuce 45p
cucumber 39p
tomatoes 39p
more tomatoes 59p
cabbage 45p
another 15 eggs £1.35
rolls 79p
milk 95p
oats 75p
mozarella 44p
cheese 1.49
Total £8.63 plus 70p for the first cake,

£9.33

And you know what happens when you make plans? Murphy comes along and messes them up.

Last night a friend turned up for strimmer parts and gave me a little gammon which he had frozen and thawed and figured it was smoked which he hates.

So now I have to add £2.99 for a hamlet I didn't have to buy:D

So, £12.32. So tonight we had ham, coleslaw,

 potato salad, and salad. Yum!!

But I need to add 40p for mayo...£12.72

 

And this is the book I bought with some of my birthday money!! MMM free potatoes, cooked in many new and interesting ways!!

So this weeks new and interesting LBTL menu is...

Breakfasts - porridge

Lunches - soup and HM sourdough bread or rolls and cheese

Teas - ham and salad - yum and gone

Omelette made with ham and potatoes

Potato and ham gratin

Scone pizza and wedges

Egg and chips :D

Add flour 45p and lard 39p

£13.56

Phew...people and their kindness putting me off my swing!

BBS x

I want a cup of coffee!! Can't have one..its not in the budget!!