Well here we go...after having our household budget cut by a quarter..i think its about time i started my blog..its something iv'e been meaning to do for along time ..I have always cooked ever since i was a small child at my grandmothers knee..I remember coming in from school and the first thing i smelled was home baked bread, straight from the oven..oven bottom breadcakes, large and flattish with a hole in the middle ( i still dont know the purpose of that hole!)..she usually made them when she had something else in the oven in order not to waste power.usually a casserole or maybe a cake or two..we were never without home baking in our house, and i guess thats how learned.I remember her baking apple and blackberry pies for every kid in our street, after we had been out picking blackberries and scrumping apples which in those times was a major pastime..40 pies she made and no one went without.!The other think she used to make was corned beef hash..one tin of corned beef and a few vegetables would feed a hungry family especially when it was served with yorkshire puds!Yum!its a dish i often make in the winter..but i think our recipe might vary from someone elses recipe as i think its different in other counties!
Well now i am looking to cut our food budget and our general spending budget out of necessity , as things are always tight for us in the winter.I know there are lots of you out there who also have to do the same..trying to feed a family these days is no joke,but i enjoy a challenge!so here goes...
I went out today to do the weekly shop with only £40 this is to feed two of us and the dog and to buy cleaning stuff ect...i planned a menu, to include what i had in the larder and the fridge and freezer .We had a delivery from ROSSPA last week totalling £34
This included 2 large packs of muesli which will do us for breakfast for the next week or so (we eat tons of the stuff!) and also lots of bargain priced fruit, nothing wrong with it at all and about half the price of the supermarket.I also bought several bottles of cleaning stuff, and washing liquid , again half the price of the supermarket.Their stuff varies from week to week but its worth having a look at!
