Live Below the Line-Day 3

Day 3 in the Live Below the Line Make Do and Mend House (You should be saying this in your head in a Geordie accent like the bloke from Big Brother..)

Breakfast

• Porridge as per Day 1– made with 50:50 milk and water, raisins and sliced banana-44p
• Milk for the Smalls-20p

Snacks

• Handful of raisins-15p
• Bananas x 1-4p
• Apple x 1-12p
• Quarter tin of pineapple chunks-5p
• 1 x Sunshine Bun with a scrape of jam and butter-6p
• Milk for the Smalls-20p
• Hobnobs x2-12p

Lunch

• Soup (27p) and 3 rolls with butter (15p)-42p
• Hobnobs x2-12p

Dinner

• Carrot, cumin and kidney bean burgers-another fab recipe from A Girl Called Jack-I made a double batch as my mother in law came over for tea-this worked out at 66p, and I got 9 burgers from it, so 7p each! There was one left over for hubby to have in a roll for his lunch tomorrow, so cost for today was 59p
• Served with a ‘dollop’ of yesterday’s tomato sauce on top-about 1/3 of what was left over-22p
• Homemade oven baked potato and carrot chips-35p

And then inspired by some recipe cards I was sent today by Oxfam with suggestions for Live Below The Line meals,

I whipped up a crumble..!

• Rhubarb and apple crumble-stewed rhubarb and a chopped up partially gnawed apple, topped with crumble (100g flour, 50g butter, 50g sugar and 50g porridge oats)-40p, and then a dollop of yoghurt on top of each bowlful-18p

Total: £3.54

All was going well today until SmallSmall, for reasons known only to 2 year olds, had a meltdown at teatime and didn’t eat very much. He had calmed down in time for pudding (funny that..) and had some of that, but then demanded a “tees rawl” (cheese roll) on the way up to the bath. I have two Small people who have never slept very well, so I am loathe to give them any additional excuses to wake up in the middle of the night, and therefore I like to send them to bed with full tummies. So I duly went to get a “tees rawl” but I have to admit that with each slice of cheese I was slicing off, I was mentally calculating whether that would leave us enough for the next two days meals…

I reckon a “tees rawl” must be about 20p, so the grand total for Day 3 is £3.74