On Yellow Stickers and Crafting

Elena Mayıs 30, 2022

Firstly, a big welcome to my new follower, Marlene Jones, thanks for clicking :)

Well, I promised to show you my bargain YS'd items. As I was shopping on Monday I spotted these by the self serve salad counter....

A big 1kg bag of moist grated carrot and 400g of chopped green peppers. I couldn't believe the price of 19p each and the use-by date was 2 days away. I didn't want to be greedy so I just had one of each. There were also bags of chopped white cabbage but I could only think 'coleslaw' which OH refuses to eat so I left those alone. Anyway I have put the peppers straight into the freezer and will use them to add to quiches, omelettes and frittata. Yesterday, I weighed 2 ordinary carrots which came in at just under 200g to give me an idea of the quantity of the grated stuff to use. 200g of it along with 85g rinsed red lentils, an onion, 1litre of veg stock (using 1 good quality stock cube plus salt & pepper) were simmered together for 15 minutes or so. The resulting soup will give us around 6 portions some of which will be frozen for later. The rest of the carrot has been split into 4 freezer bags (200g in each one) and frozen. I am thinking veg soup, carrot cake etc.

Does anyone have any more suggestions how I can use it please? And what would you have done with the bag of chopped white cabbage? Careful now... :)

Crafting

Marlene, from Simple Living has expressed an interest in seeing more of my craft projects so I thought I might share what I did yesterday, some simple but effective new baby cards....

....and a wedding congratulations card. I'm afraid the light has distorted the colour on this one but the card blank and the embossed layer are both bright white and the heart is a peachy lemon colour. All are easy to make once you have the layout clear in your head.....