Budget food/living

Come on! It's like saying that Latvians are not Russians.

They're not, the same as McDonald's is not Burger King.

Oh, I get you, the fries are more limp.

Eat Daal. Makes your balls big and is cheap as fuck.

BOGOF philly cream cheese. 2 x 300g for £2.00.
win.

metal picture of Jaqui giggling and saying 'fill a delphiah!' in a high pitched voice.

:)

"mental".

no a copper plate engraving actually.

now tucking into liver and bacon

bread was going stale so served on top of toast rather than using pasta which can wait

amazing how far offal goes, and it was still slightly pink in the middle - not the overcooked grey, dry horrible school dinner experience

there is enough to stretch this to tomorrow's lunch as well

am looking forward to some slow cooked winter stews

just remembered one of my old tricks - make a vegetable stew and instead of mash potato, use butter beans to make a light puree, possibly with a hint of garlic and olive oil - it means there is a hefty dose of protein, plus it acts as the sop to the stew's juices

i know, i love it but its a weird one

in london they seem to charge silly prices as oxtail is now a trendy food

so few butchers seem to stock it, so it tends to be ridiculous organic places charging top dollar for it

it should be cheap as chips, especially as quite a lot of fat needs to be skimmed off during the cooking

With a bit of luck a decent butcher with his feet on the ground can still get them in at cost

slowly casseroled with onions, junpier berries, bay leaf, red currant jelly and red wine

served with curly kale and a root veg mash

in london they seem to charge silly prices as oxtail is now a trendy food

I buy it in Forest Gate. It's cheap and people over here use it for soup-like stews with red kidney beans, dumplings and yam.

The next good thing is sliced neck of lamb.
Also with yam, dasheen, green banana, dumplings and with some instant cock soup added to the mix, fresh thyme.

^ making me hungry.. especially DJS liver talk.. I love liver.

I'm being particularly stingy at the moment. I've cut out all meat from my diet and I've stopped eating bread as it's so damn expensive.
All food shopping is done at Lidl, most household/living items are from Wilkinsons (or also Lidl)

..instant cock soup added to the mix..

good idea, chariots for protein

^ making me hungry.. especially DJS liver talk.. I love liver.

I love liver too, but my wife overcooks it (it's a racialist thing - you don't eat blue, rare, raw things in ze tropics). I fry some onions, then roll it in flour and pepper, quickly seal it on the frying pan on both sides, then salt and it's on my plate.

You can buy oxtail in Brixton for fuck-all... Everywhere sells it...

Fegato alla salvia is one of my fave dishes, calve's liver ain't cheap tho'...

slowly casseroled with onions, junpier berries, bay leaf, red currant jelly and red wine

served with curly kale and a root veg mash

serving sugestion - did you read that bit on the lid ?

nope, just a great winter feast, there are some combo's that work so well

er... so I've a question.
Large amounts of my weekly expenditure is fresh fruit.
I don't think I could survive without it- where is cheapest?