NST March: Marching to a different beat

greent · 18 March 2018 at 8:54PM

Haha! I have a DD who loved school's chocolate crunch with pink custard

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misstara · 18 March 2018 at 9:14PM

apple_muncher wrote: »

If I have used rice to blind bake some pastry, can it then be cooked and eaten as normal rice, or have I ruined it for anything other than any further blind baking I might do in the next decade...?

Not sure about rice but I usually use lentils for blind baking and then used to make lentil soup which tasted fine.

Spends on Friday at the cinema and then a food shop. Yesterday I spent an absolute fortune socialising

as me and OH went out with friends to watch the rugby, for a meal and for drinks. Today thankfully has been a NSD, now at 10/18

LavenderBee · 18 March 2018 at 9:37PM

Thank you greent for the pink custard recipe - oddly enough I was thinking about pink custard the other day (I have no idea why, possibly a daydream about school dinners!). If I can find some strawberry essence I'm gonna make it

Apple muncher - I've no idea but I have a small plastic box which I keep some black beans in that I use for blind baking, along with a sheet of that foil backed parchment paper. I've been carrying it round with me for years, it probably only comes out 4-5 times but I feel smug every time I see a box of baking beans in a shop for £5.

Updated budgets:
NSDs - 9/18
Groceries - 121.13/200
Personal spends - 49.78/110
Diesel - 58.89/120

Spends today on a birthday present for a relative, and visited Lidl for their weekend deals. I bought 1.8kg of grated cheese for £5.96 and 800g of dried apricots (my favourite at the moment) for £1.96. Also £8 from a delayed item from a order placed with gift cards, was over the balance but decided to keep the item (bizarrely, a pair of maternity shorts, was almost too cold to try them on today!).

Tomorrow will be another spendy day, hospital parking at £3

I have decided to count my medical appointment parking spends. I would never normally pay for parking, I'd always park far away and walk but I just can't do it at the moment. But either way, it's just not me!

apple_muncher · 18 March 2018 at 9:51PM

Thank you for the blind baking comments and ideas.

Today I am grateful for a day inside, for having one of yesterday's rugby matches to watch (when I woke at 6.30, why?), for making a half-decent lemon bakewell, for the beauty of the falling snow, for getting another kettlebell workout done, for dd finishing off her homework, for my crafting, for the central heating and fleece blankets.

bizzie · 19 March 2018 at 12:44AM

Ventured out to L1dl to pick up above mentioned apricots to find not one packet left on the shelf.
Has anyone worked out if there is a pattern to their offers?
As I was out decided to pick up some items from my (never-ending) list instead.

f0xh0les · 19 March 2018 at 8:24AM

mothernerd wrote: »

Think strawberry blancmange would work - there is a company that still makes it, in a pack of 5 different flavours. Method is same as when making custard from powder.

I am soooo tempted by that packet all the time, sadly the two pink ones (strawb and rasp) are coloured by carmine, (they renamed after people realised what cochineal was) so not suitable for us. If I could find a way to pass on the red ones, I would still be left with 3 I could eat. But don't really want to sidle up to mums at the school gates with a 'psst, fancy a packet of white powder?' :rotfl:
That and the having to explain to people what blancmange is.
It was bad enough when they said you make soup? like they did in the war?.

List made, got an after school meeting so will check the YS aisle on the way home - got a great haul yesterday. Less than £5 for hummus,4 avocados, grapes, 2x 6 hot cross buns, mushrooms, 2 packs of posh mushrooms, pak choi, bread,3 x rocket, salad and spinach. Spinach was straight in the freezer. Will re-emerge for saag aloo later this week.

Meal plans roughly sorted, need lunchbox tat and a new pair of shoes for DS4 who has lost them all except one pair of bright red mock-converse. Hoping some will turn up at clearing cloakroom at Easter.

5 school days til Easter hols!

f0xh0les · 19 March 2018 at 8:27AM

greent wrote: »

5 tbsp cornflour
3 tbsp sugar
a few drops pink food colour
1/2 tsp strawberry extract/essence
500ml rice/coconut/oat Milk etc

Oh well done you! Pink custard on the menu!

f0xh0les · 19 March 2018 at 8:34AM

The rice will be fine, it will just have a nuttier taste and you might need a little more water and a little longer cooking time. I reuse rice, and dried chickpeas But last week I found a box of unused baking beans in the c.s for £1 so I bought them, because I knew it would tickle dh as he is such a 'Blue Peter' cook. No way would I have paid £5 for them!

lauradora · 19 March 2018 at 10:01AM

Good morning all

just checking in nothing to report.

NSD 5/15
Spreadsheet all up to date

Hoping to get some meal planning done today

Have a good day everyone xxx

Toni'sfriend · 19 March 2018 at 10:10AM

NSD No 13. I really must brave the cold. It's good for not spending money but I need some fresh air.
Ironed just what needed ironing. folded the rest and put it all away. Amazing the amount of time (and I suspect money) this new regime of washing and ironing is saving me.
Used some sausages from the freezer to make a sausage casserole for tea tonight.
I used to love pink custard and the banana flavoured stuff as well but I think ours came from a packet. Mum wasn't the world's best cook. Speaking of which, I must go check through the freezers (yes there is still food there) and make a meal plan for this week.

NST March: Marching to a different beat

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