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July 2008 Grocery Challenge
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off to tescos today to spend 2 x notw vouchers (have another saved for tomorrow lol), ahh how i love a new GC:DNovember NSD's - 70
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Just a quickie, hoping for a NSD-its raining so will knit/maybe bake.
Take care all :rotfl:
Edited later to add....just set slow cooker spag bol up, included some pre-cooked lentils to eke it out and it already tastes lovely even before properly cooked. Got loads to so enough for us all tonight, a portion of spag bol into freezer and also enough to add chilli/kidney beans to and make chilli in a couple of days time! Also used the stock from yesterdays slow cooker tomato/pork recipe to make minestrone soup- just added some cannelini beans, cabbage and some baby pasta shells. Yum, that will go with a slice of BM bread for lunch!
Ok, really off this time. :TErmutigung wirkt immer besser als Verurteilung.
Encouragement always works better than judgement.0 -
Morning everyone :hello:
NSD yeasterday - and all going to plan should be the same today.
Doing lots of baking and started sorting freezers out yesterday which I'll finish today then can do some meal planning.
Have tried to find who posted this recipe for soft bread rolls without success - so my apologies to the poster.
Soft bread rolls -makes about 15
Mix in a large bowl
1½ lbs white bread flour
½ lb wholemeal bread flour
you can use all white flour if you want white rolls
2 tsp sugar
2 tsp salt
4 tsp easy-blend yeast
Stir in
½ pint hand-hot milk
½ pint hand-hot water
I generally use milk from the fridge and then top it up with just-boiled water
Knead the dough for about 4 mins, until smooth and elastic.
Cover with a damp cloth and leave to rise for 1½ hours.
Knock back (give it a good thump all over to knock the air out) and knead again a few times.
Shape into rolls about the size of a cricket ball. Place them on greased baking trays (I get 15 on one very large tray, they spread a bit and join together so you have to tear them apart when baked).
Leave covered with the damp cloth for 25 mins.
If you want flattish bap-like rolls then press them down with your floured palm before putting in the oven.
Bake at 210-220 c for 15-20 mins.
If you want the tops to remain soft then cover the tray with a clean dry cloth as soon as they come out of the oven. Allow to cool.
Rolls freeze well.
Just wanted to say that they are really lovely and I make them every other day. I found it difficult to get 15 rolls of equal size without weighing them and I wasn't great with the shaping either - so now when the dough is ready for shaping I leave it in its round shape and cut it in half, then quarters - then those quarters in half and so on until I have 16 rolls. These are fine sizewise and are roughly sort of triangular shape - very rustic!! Saves me shaping them and really speeds up my roll making.
Thanks again to the original poster - I'm going to have to make an effort to note who posts the recipes I copy from here so I can do this properly next time
HTH
Perrywinkle0 -
Well went of the rails in June but hope (please) that I will do much better in July.
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Can yoou please put me down for £250 please.January Grocery 11/3740 -
this post moves fast! Thanks for the welcome! I have my first mrt shop of the month coming today, I have already meal planned for 3 weeks and started the 4th, so I am hoping I may just need a small top up shop for fruit etc rather than doing 2 big shops.Debt free wannabe
Littlewoods - £214.82 (DD set up so 0%)
Very - £100 (0% on BNPL - 1/4/13)
CC - £2600/£3533.53 (0% until 1/6/14)0 -
Perrywinkle - Thank you for the bread roll recipe, I was talking to the OH about making some bread. Do you know how much roughly they cost to make? - just out of interest?Debt free wannabe
Littlewoods - £214.82 (DD set up so 0%)
Very - £100 (0% on BNPL - 1/4/13)
CC - £2600/£3533.53 (0% until 1/6/14)0 -
Greent thanks for recipe sounds great - have cooked chicken left over from roast so i think i will try that am sure it won't be as nice but for this time will have to! Have lots of wine left from dh 40th birthday last month so don't need to buy that and have onions, peppers and garlic! THink could also make salsa as don't have any and have stuff to make guacamole (yum) hm sooo much better than shop bought and you get more of it!
Breadrolls sound great - dd1 is off school today with ear ache (hmm) doesn't sound like she is having a good time with a friend this week and worried about sports day (she is in recpetion) so will have cuddles and chats today before going back tomorrow. She was ill over weekend a little so think bit of both in all fairness to her.
The school thing is so difficult and she has only been there since january - i miss her!!
Well, breadrolls, iced buns and marmite and cheese breadsticks should keep us all busy today as well as it being beautifully sunny already!
have a good day everyone0 -
Yesterday was fairly bad.
Planned to make china chilo, which I always do when fresh peas hit the shops as a seasonal treat. You gently brown some lamb mince in plenty of butter, then add fresh peas, lettuce, spring onion and maybe a pinch of garam masala and leave to cook for ages, serve with rice. But I forgot the lettuce. So I bunged in some fish fingers, tinned potatoes and baked beans for tea, crossing my fingers that the peas would last in the fridge and that the Sainsbury order would include the lettuce I had added on. In the past I would have just gone for a takeaway, but I was determined to stick to a budget. Then the pan with the potatoes boiled over and put out the gas flame and I didn't realise immediately...
So I turned everything off, opened windows, flapped and panicked until OH came home, then turned everything on... Meanwhile DS had decided to go to sleep at 5.30pm, and I didn't want to disturb him but he ended up missing his tea...
In one sense I am looking forward to winter when the weather suits a good old casserole.Always another chapter0 -
Hi Guys,
was meant to have done the large monthly shop yesterday but was too tired after work and am again today so it will have to wait till tomorrow! Good luck to all the newbies!
SFT - I hope that today is a bit better for you hun.
Dink1JanGC £250/£82 far:weight loss 1lb cc250/£86/cm40/£9.50 :A0 -
Sorry, I haven't mastered multiple quotes just yet so please forgive me for not naming in person.
I just wanted to say a very big thank you to everyone's advice about stocking my kitchen with baking essentials. I shall start thinking what I need and do my research.
THANK YOU. :beer:'Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.' :cool:
Proud Mummy to two gorgeous miracles.:j0
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