Nothing leftover and a message to you.

Dear reader,

I'm having a lazy Sunday. I got up at 5am and promptly went back to bed until 1030. I don't lie in often but do enjoy is occasionally.

I did a load of washing and becuase the weather is awful here I lit the log burner and there are two racks drying in front.

We both had the sweet and sour pork I made last week with some frozen special friend rice I saw in the reduced section at Asda some weeks ago and had stashed in the freezer. A quick microwave lunch for us both.
I sat and watched a bit of the Jamie Oliver programme on how to cook and save money. Not many tips and tricks for those of us who do this anyway but a few nice ideas.
He did a fish curry with some frozen fish, vegetables and frozen cauliflower with some tikka curry paste. Looked very good indeed but was £2.68 a portion with rice. Not exactly frugal food but not bad. I was surprised that frozen white fish is a third cheaper than fresh and cauliflower is three times cheaper frozen than fresh. He also did some crispy pork tacos using leftover pork meat from a roast and a chicken salad from a whole chicken dinner leftovers. I think we all make great meals out of leftovers. I'm not sure they should even be called leftovers! Seconds, we call them here!

I try really hard not to waste any food and limp veg, lettuce, spinach-anything, goes into a soup. Ends of bread are made into croutons or crunchy toppings, meat is either sliced and used in sandwiches, curried or added to a tomato sauce for lasagnes. I reuse sandwich bags for the odd half an onion and cheese is purchased in large blocks, grated, portioned and frozen. It freezes brilliantly. Old fruit is sliced and frozen and used in cold drinks. Old apples, Pears and stoned fruit are cooked and then frozen for crumbles or compote on porridge. Nuts and dried fruit are bought in bulk then portioned for snacks at work and for adding to homemade flapjacks. Extra is made at dinner times for lunches the next day and any excess of vegetables are chooped, blanched and frozen. Milk and cream, if not used in time are frozen and bread is purchased in reduced section and again, frozen.
I'm sure lots of you do the same or have other ideas and suggestions, I would love to hear from you.

I've had a short blogging break as most of us do and am trying to get writing again. It's usually about food or what I have done that day or money saving stuff. I had hoped for a good read with a cuppa today but I find that a lot of the blogs that I used to really enjoy are no longer written.
Obvioulsy there maybe all sorts of reasons why not. After all we don't really know about some of our blogging friends, there could be a tragedy or someone health maybe suffering or they may have been trolled and don't want to blog anymore and that's perfectly understandable but for all of you who, perhaps like me sometimes, just can't be arsed, please do me a favour, drop a really quick blog line down and post it, it would be lovely to hear from you, Mabel and Maisey, Miss Piggy Bank, Frugal up North, closet clearing, frugal Tasmania, a frugal wife, bonnie of Clyde and many others. Just let us know you are doing ok. Xxx