Tuesday, April!!

Pennies!!!! Yay!! As DS says...we shall eat this week!!
Last nights tea was Chow Mein, all shelf and freezer food!

So thats £28.32 earnt. £1.38 spent on 2 kebabs from the butchers.

Tonights tea is mince and tatties. Tatties we grow and mince is in the freezer from a bulk cook a few weeks ago :)

Mmmm apple cinnamon herman! I will get round to posting the recipe...soon! Especially if any of you out there love cinnamon like I do!! Thats deserts for the next few days taken care of:)

Oh..look whats for tea with the mince and tatties!! PSB-tastic!! It should make the plate look fuller a treat!!! And its jolly good for you :D

So, shopping tomorrow.

Well, as it kebabs tomorrow, I want some

 pittas - 49p

lettuce - 45p

Also need rolls for OH x3 1.56

ham for OH - 1.79

carrots - 59p

 eggies - 1.35

milk x2 - 2.00

Total of £8.23 :)

Doggy needs some treaty chews but thats not exactly groceries!
Didn't get any orders today :( At this rate whats left of our celeriac will have to be ploughed in :( Such a waste!
BBSx

Challenge Monday, not quite April!

No, I know it isn't quite april, but I do so like to start things on a monday! It's so much neater!

And thats the mealplan for the month. Main meals anyway. Breakfast is always porridge. With watery milk or milky water, depending on how you look at it!

New vat of easiyo is in the fridge (from the shelves, bought when on offer!) and super cheap jam as a sweetner!
Lunches will be mainly soup, as I love it! And OH should be allowed his ham or he'll moan! Mind, if it won't fit in the budget he'll know about it!!

Treats and cakes will be homemade, but thats not unusual. And as the last of the stored apples...

Are getting past their best, its time for an apple cinnamon herman:) perfect for a sweet treat! And I'll make fudge brownies for DS (honest they aren't for me) at the end of the week! Especially as its then the Easter holidays!

One of the things that will have to go on the storage list is meat. Of every kind. I know this time of year I couldn't have it if it wasn't in the freezer. I make it go as far as possible anyway! Herman sponge, sterted at 4pm......

Herman dough the next morning at 7am!

Knocked bacck and shaped...bloomer you think? Ready to rise...couple of hours later..

OOOhh! I've not used herman to make loaves before, just rolls! So oven to super hot..

Aint they pretty!!! I'm quite happy with them little devils...

Pretty good texture and yummy with butter:) So thats bread taken care of for the next couple of days...unless DS gets peckish!!

BBS x nothing earnt...but nothing spent:D

Overworked greenhouse growing

Can you guess what has come up in this tray? The poor little overworked greenhouse has been catching lots of sunshine :) Lettuces! red one end, green the other! I know, I can never sell very many and these trays hold over 250, but I like to eat a fresh lettuce! Though as yet I've never tried cooking one!

Next there's the pots of salad greens, I love these as they are cut and come again as I seed them quite thickly!

Also strewn some radish seed in the old greenhouse and covered it with some fleece so hopefully I have something to go with my salad leaves! I do like a good radish:)

Peppers and tomatoes too, though Mr snail has been a bit busy overnight...hence the pretty blue pellets!
Also put some rainbow chard in some ickle pots, and a tray of flowers! Yes, I know I can't eat flowers! And funnily enough I'm not much of a gardener! But I do like some colour amongst my veg and herbs!

Chives anyone?? I let them self seed and every year I have to try to find new homes for them!! And yes, that is my old boots in the garden!!

Gah! Chives coming up like weeds! And Mom!! This is what the old greenhouse looks like now!

And its mainly glass...well...ish!
BBS x