Well after the last entry, my car died! And I got a speeding ticket! Then on my birthday (Tuesday) my daughters car got stolen. We've gone from 3 vehicles between us to one! So she's got the Bongo for work and I have no car, no phone and no money! Aarggh! But I'm not bothered as they say! It just means that things will get better and then I'll be more appreciative of stuff. We all a need a bit of deprivation sometimes and I'm living on old packets of food left in the back of the cupboard because it is that bad. It is! But I can eat meals for 20p a day and that is good and makes me feel proud of myself. Todays meal is spicey carrot and orange soup with jamaican dumplings. I bought reduced kilo of carrots for 35p and had an onion and a bit of leftover orange juice from friends visit. I bunged in some chilli powder and a manky celery stick I had laying around and it's all good. I could even produce a recipe book on it "How to eat healthily on £5 a week" or somesuch. The jamican dumplings are easy and delicious. Self-raising flour mixed into a dough with water and then rolled into flat balls and slowly fried for about 10 mins on both sides. Cut in half and spread butter on like rolls. Lovely and they cost 5p per person to make. So this food will last me 3 days and I can freeze some if I get bored with it. Last night I had 2 potatoes which I cooked as wedges in the oven with oil for about 30 mins and made a rather nice cheese and tinned tomato omelette - all good (cost = 75p).

 

I wonder what the cheapest meal could be? It's got to be the dumplings with a nettle soup. I'd need an onion and some salt and that should do it (sounds nasty though and where's the protein?). Ok nettle soup with lentils (yuk). But it is edible and would cost only 15p! Bargain!

 

Now kitchen is flooding! Blimey - must go.

 

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