Useful and Pretty

 

Last week after having my hair cut I had a little mooch about the village, and in the charity shop I spotted this.  Immediately I thought of it's many potential uses.  Freezing small quantities of all sorts of things, or as it was such a hot, hot day my initial reaction was 'wow GIANT ice cubes'.

 

Over the weekend I settled on this for it's first job.  A carton of smoothie juice on offer in Asda and fits in perfectly with our foray into juicing and all things healthy.

 

I just love daisy shaped things, and it being almost my favourite shade of green only goes towards helping me love it more.

 

So many pictures of my daisy shaped container - there you all knew I was mad!!

 

They turned out very well and are just large enough to cool you down and eat before they drip all over you.

 

 

Lovely find and it only cost me £1.

 

As my smoothie mix was just £1 too it meant that I had seven nice healthy ice lollies for about 70p (there was enough for a glassful left in the carton).  You can't beat a 10p ice lolly on a hot day.

 

Breakfast this morning is another juice, and I have just spotted it matches the bowl my plant is standing in, this is turning into a very 'green' post.

 

I'm really enjoying the juice drinking, and the break from cooking is a welcome one in this heat.  Although Lovely Hubby is struggling not eating any solid foods and yesterday caved in and ate a banana before he went to bed.

 

We have decided instead of our 'chuck it all in and see what it turns out like' approach, we will now adopt a 'following a juice recipe' one and see if we like some specific juices.  Carrot, Apple and Ginger has been recommended so that is one I am going to whizz up later.  The one we have in the jug today, and is this lovely green colour contains -

 

Cabbage

Orange

Spinach

Pineapple

Beetroot

and

Courgette,

 

... and it tastes delicious.

 

As we have a lot of courgettes coming through at the moment I have a feeling that virtually every juice will contain at least one of the little beauties.

 

Sue xx

 

The £2 House Keeping Challenge - Officially Over

 

We went shopping towards the end of last week and it officially ended the £2 House Keeping Challenge, we could not keep below the £26 that I had left in the house keeping tin and manage to afford all that we needed for our next Challenge.  This little lot came to just below £35.

 

This one is the first Challenge totally started by Lovely Hubby and one that I'm more than happy to join in with.

 

He watched a programme the other week called Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead, and was totally inspired especially by the lorry driver Phil's story.  He decided then and there to give this ago and asked me to order a Juicer that night.  I did, and what we are about to do may go down in our family folklore.

 

Here's a link to the programme if you would like to watch it, it is available for only TWO MORE DAYS, although you can buy it on Dvd on Amazon now.

 

Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead

 

 

His new toy arrived on Thursday and already it has made us litres and litres of vegetable and fruit juice.  In fact all that's left in the fridge from all those fruits and vegetables in the top picture are a few sad ends of things.  It's dangerous to stand still in this house at the moment in case you get grabbed and juiced.

 

Only joking of course. 

 

The juice that's being churned out by this magnificent machine is really good and I must say I'm really enjoying being the official taster.  Lovely Hubby doesn't like to stick to recipes and up to now he has just been pushing whatever comes to hand through the machine.  If the juice tastes a bit too 'leeky' he'll add an apple, if it tastes too fruity he'll add some cabbage leaves from the Veggie Patch.  He just keeps adding and adding until it tastes really good.  When all the flasks and jugs are filled I have to get him to stop.

 

I'm off to the shops again today to get more supplies, although I think I may have to hide them until all the current jugs and flasks are empty.

 

Sue xx