Curry

 I didn't have many home-made batch-made meals left  in the freezer and ate the last box of curry last week so gathered up a lot of veg and a pack of quorn pieces, tins of coconut milk and korma paste and cooked up a nice big pan full.

Not sure of the total cost as the tins and korma paste had been in the cupboard a while but it's probably around £9.  Divided into 12 portions.

The hardest bit of making this was sorting the right  lids to match the freezer boxes!

Two Jumble Sales

 For the first time in a week the sun shone on Saturday and I popped 15 minutes away to a Jumble Sale. 

There was a long queue ready for door opening, as usual - but look - Blue Sky!

and it's a tiny village hall but very well used. The Jumble sale is a fundraiser for the hall.

It's a squash inside when everyone is in and requires much shuffling about. This year I only  found  one  thing to buy- a  Mason Cash pudding basin for £1 (no books sadly, last year I found a Kristin Hannah that I'd not read).. The bowl is a replacement for one that came back from BiL's after Christmas with a huge crack. He said it was OK when he washed it up!

It says 'God save the cream' with a crown! 

There was time to go home get lunch and then out again for the Scout Jumble Sale in Eye Town Hall. The queue to get in was even longer than the one at Thornham and the squash inside so big that after a while they were operating a one in one out system.

I found a book I'd not seen before  to add to my Suffolk book shelf for 50p  and spent £1on the tombola where  I won a bottle of Coffee Liqueur which sounds disgusting....I'll have to find someone to give it to!

It was nice to get out and about after several grey, wet days at home. Sadly the sun hasn't been seen again since and the forecast is just as dull. The jumble sales, exercise group and a quick dash out for a shop were the only trips out all week and I realised I'd not had any sort of proper conversation with anyone for 6 days!.

 The weather makes it difficult to get up the enthusiasm for anything..... except reading!. 

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When Life Gives You Lemons...............

..........................I didn't make lemonade.

 Early last week I had a prickly throat and thought it was a cold coming - so had a look in the freezer for lemon slices to make a hot lemon/ honey drink but there were none. The prickly throat didn't develop into anything thankfully, but I still put lemons on the shopping list. 

Aldi don't sell lemons individually - I don't think many supermarkets do nowadays - so it had to be a pack of 4 Wonky Lemons but I didn't want to slice and freeze all four so rustled up a couple of lemon drizzle loaves. 

I've just looked to see who does sell individual lemons and Tesco do for 35p each but the Aldi pack of 4 are 89p so 22p each which is quite a saving - as long as they all get used. According to ads on TV the average family wastes £1,000 worth of food each year. Selling things in large packs is probably one of the reasons.

The top wasted foods (supposedly) are potatoes, milk, bread and cheese.......Cheese? who on earth throws out cheese? ....that really should be a criminal offence!

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