Great idea, and thanks heaps lizzle - this is the easy way for us, we don't even have to think of our own challenges!
I'm in, but I have to admit to cheating: we live on a lifestyle block and have a chest freezer that would be big enough to hide several bodies. So we've got a couple of pigs, 10 chickens (which we buy in bulk), about one and a half lambs, and the remnants of half a cow in there. My DH doesn't think he's eaten dinner if he hasn't had any meat, but I've recently gotten him to agree to one vegetarian meal a week (yay). We always cook enough for DH to take leftovers for lunch the next day.
Tonight is roast chook and spuds with a green salad (leafy stuff from the neighbours' patch, we're watering it while they're away; must get my own patch up and running this year).
For the rest of the week: I have some freshly caught and smoked fish in the fridge that's begging to be made into a curried fish pie; I have lots of mince to use up, I'm thinking maybe a lasagne, easy to hide layers of veges in there; a pork stir fry with hokkien noodles; I've got some frozen spinach in the freezer as well so a saag gosht in the crockpot appeals; there's a couple of tins of crab meat that have been hiding in the pantry for months waiting to be made into crab cakes, so I better get onto them, they'd be nice with potato wedges and some of the runner beans we brought back from the in-laws bach, and I think I might go hunting on the healthy food guide website for an inspiring veggie meal with the ingredients I've got.
Another new year's resolution of mine was to only have dessert once a week (money saver and good for the waistline!) so I've got a recipe for lemon self saucing pudding in the crockpot that I want to try out (got free lemons too). I know self saucing pudding is a winter thing but I'm the sort of person that needs to try recipes ASAP once I collect them!
MONEY CHALLENGE - week one
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