things i made today

I have made some sunflower cookies to use up the sunflower seeds. The recipe i used is found here (link) also going to make more chicken balls the boys really liked them.

The verdict from cody on the cookies is they are yummy. He ate 4 in a row after his nap hahaha!

Also made something simple for dinner for boys(what kid doesn't love tomato sauce??)My boys loved this (look at charlie in the photo on right)

Animal pasta

1 pack animal pasta we use a gluten free one

1 can of condensed tomato soup

a few shakes of italian mixed herbs

dash pepper

cook pasta drain,then stir soup through pasta add herbs and pepper mix well then serve.

Shopping this week-will i stay under budget?~weeks 3 ~

*This page will be edited as I shop and end of the week i'll add my weekly total to this page (here)
Sunday: $11.73
Monday: $175.03
Tuesday: $89.65
Total:$276.41

Menu Planning time

Things to go in the freezer to join my growing stock pile of Gluten Free(GF) foods:

Fusion Risotto cakes

corn & tuna fritters

pizzas

pasta sauce

chicken nuggets

fish fingers

*these meals are all from the destitute gourmet stunning food for small change cookbook* I just adapted some things for GF things like rice crumbs for breadcrumbs, GF bread for bread,GF flour for normal flour (not a real hard thing to work out).

Also plan to have some chips in the freezer made the way the failsafe cookbook suggests. I'm planning to use sweet potato,normal white potato and carrot for the chips.

Once I figure out the logistics of GF pasta making I hope to get some pasta into our stockpile.

I have all these cookbooks and i barely refer to them ,mostly as some cookbooks require so many ingriedents or the methods are confusing.

I have 3 or4 jamie oliver ones, 2 destitute gourmet, 3 baby relates cook books ,1 pasta one, 2 cake ones,1 failsafe cookbook,1 deceptively delicous cookbook.I have my favourites that i have used and the ones i use alot. I could rehome a few but then i think,i might need it one day lol.So,my bookshelf of cookbooks grows.right now I'm looking atgetting more destitute gourmet books,some allergy friendly ones and some freezer friendly ones (recommened your favourites please!!!)

the 8 week challenge

**This will be edited after my weekly shoppings totaled up**
My challenge is to reduce my spending each week even more :-)
Week 1: spent: $236.49 Under budget by: $13.51
Week2: Spent: $199.54 Under budget by: $50.42
Week 3: spent:$276.41 Over budget by: $26.41
*started the simple savings $21 challenge week4(aiming for $37.50)*
Week 4:spent: $79.19 Under normal budget by: $170.81 Over challenge budget by:$41.69
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Shopping this week-will i stay under budget?

this will be edited as I shop (i tend to shop over a few days)
Monday's total= $82.63
Wednesday=$153.86
Grand total=$236.49....I'm $13.51 under budget yay.