My Frugal Tasks

I havent been able to meal plan because my laptop is broken and this has all my food inventory and meal plans on there! It feels strange to me as I like knowing what Ill be cooking for dinner. Instead I've been making dinner based around what I have in the fridge that needs to be used which has been working out really well. I have done lots of cooking and gotten ahead with food because food is life!

-Picked up some free vegetables, eggs, potted parsley, basil, bacon and cake from the community centre. This was amazing! I dried some of the herbs and potted the rest of the plants in the garden.

-Made some pizzas for lunch using a tin of tomatoes, pita bread, red onion, bacon, mushrooms and cheese. The ingredients were free minus the tinned tomatoes and cheese.

-I cooked a roast pork for dinner along with roasted vegetables and extra butternut pumpkins which needed to be used.

-With the extra leftover roast pumpkin I made a large batch of pumpkin soup.

-The roast pork was stretched to make 3 meals for 4 people. The other meal I made was shredded pork and salad wraps. After this there was still a small amount of pork left so I added onion, garlic, cumin, paprika and some overripe tomatoes to a pot with some tomato paste, a tin of butter beans and the diced pork. This made enough for 4 bowls full with a side cornbread which I'd planned to make but I'd run out of cornmeal so made garlic flat bread instead.

-I cut the fat from the raw bacon and cooked it in a pan until crisp then poured the oil into a jar which I keep in the fridge. I do this with all excess meat fat and use it in place of oil when cooking onions etc. It adds a lovely flavour to the food and is free!

-Did heaps of washing on 

-Bleached and dyed my hair using supplies I buy in bulk.

-Received my neem oil in the mail from eBay, which was cheaper than buying at Bunnings. Neem is an effective natural insecticide and can be used topically when diluted correctly as well as made into a spray to use on fruit trees and vegetable plants. 

-I made a large tray of apple crumble cake with free apples that needed to be used up. It was stewed apples on the bottom, a vanilla cake batter poured over the top and then a mixture of flour, oats, butter and small bit of sugar sprinkled over the top and baked. This was delicious and I gave half to a neighbour.

-I bought some vodka on sale and made some more vanilla extract.

-I found some Easter items on clearance for 20c a pack.

-I made some luminaries for the courtyard using empty milk bottles. They look good and throw out a nice glow with tealight candles inside.