Hello Dear Reader,
Yesterday, we had a tiny free range roast chicken and there wasn't enough left to make another meal for us both tonight. I did have plenty of veggies and cooked for a couple of days. I made a pasta bake for DB.
This will feed him tonight and for his lunches for the week.
I used:
1 Polish sausage - 99p in Lidl
1/4 bag of pasta - 5p
Leftover veggies - 20p
Cheese sauces - tbsp butter spread 5p, 1tbsp of cornflour, 2p, 1/2 litre UHT milk 25p, 50g of cheese - half in the sauce and half on top. Blend and microwave until thickened- take out and stir every minute. 40p
Total £1.71 and has five portions. - 34p per portion.
My frittata has four eggs 60p 100g of ham 35p - left over veggies - 20p and serves four. £1.15.
There's something about January that make me even more budget conscious. It might seem piffling to count pennies in the way we do but it really adds up. We don't eat this cheaply every day but by having low budget days means I can balance the books each month. A pasta bake or a frittata is a go to staple that reheats well. Both will keep well in the fridge for a few days, can be popped into a lunch box and pinged in a work microwave.
Now, here's to the rest of January of general thriftiness. I've got a kitchen to save up for and I'm going to do the sums to work out if homemade curtains, with the cost of fabric, are cheaper than shop bought. I will of course check charity shops and online auctions. We're also studying French at home and online and I've got plenty of sewing to catch up on.
I don't know about you but I love challenge and finding ways of getting there.
Until tomorrow,
Love Froogs xxxxx