More butter making, cheap ice cream treats and using up leftovers....

My sister came round with a 4 pint of double cream last night. So today has been a couple of hours of butter making.
 



The buttermilk is in the fridge ready for baking later in the week and it also topped up the regular milk. (buttermilk is full of protein and other goodness.)

 

The 4 pints made over 1.1kilos of butter and plenty of buttermilk.

I wanted to show one of the kids treats they've had all summer. When we can we will get a pack of really nice 'magnum' still ice cream or a Mr. Whippy when out and about. But most of the time the kids wait till they're back home and we do this.

 

The purple box is from aldi, 21 ice cream cones. Its usually around 80p box, this week they have them for 49p on sale to get rid of them, summer being over and all. Normally wed pick a tub of ice cream to fill them with along with chocolate sauce and sprinkles. But I have a few of these Angel delight mixes in at the moment. I think they were between 10p-20p a few months ago at approved food. You add milk and whisk and box it up into he freezer. I add chocolate sauce/chips, raspberry sauce or peanut butter or whatever else to flavour it. 2 packs fill up that box in the background and its been going all summer. Its makes a special treat for the kids, they love it and it doesnt break the food budget. 

 

We had leftover roast dinner for lunch, mostly veg, potatoes, stuffing and I made up some fresh gravy. Dinner tonight I have some leftover roast chicken and HM chicken stock from the carcass. So making a chicken risotto using that and some chopped veggies from the freezer.

 

 

 

 The bagels I made yesterday have been frozen for later in the week while we use up the fresh bread and cinnamon/pesto swirls for snacks with some black grapes.

Carrots being 39p bag at aldi I've decided to make some soup at the weekend. I also want to get some more celery for chopping and freezing at the weekend.