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kazmc

moneyowen wrote: »

Hi EstherH well the way I do it is to boil some potatoes, onion, and carrots together in a saucepan drain and add a tin of corned beef diced, season with pepper, mash and leave to cool
then make up some shortcrust pastry and line a pie tin with half then fill with the corned beef mixture top the pie with the rest of the pastry and brush with egg then bake in the oven. Sometimes instead of making the large pies I make little mini ones in small patty tins my sons love them like this they are handyto put in lunch boxes too.

Ooh that sounds lovely, will be trying that this weekend, thanks for that :T

EstherH

moneyowen wrote: »

Hi EstherH well the way I do it is to boil some potatoes, onion, and carrots together in a saucepan drain and add a tin of corned beef diced, season with pepper, mash and leave to cool
then make up some shortcrust pastry and line a pie tin with half then fill with the corned beef mixture top the pie with the rest of the pastry and brush with egg then bake in the oven. Sometimes instead of making the large pies I make little mini ones in small patty tins my sons love them like this they are handyto put in lunch boxes too.

Thanks Moneyowen, I will try this and the stew. We'll see what the family make of it. Sounds good to me.

I hide things in my wardrobe but they've all found out.

La-Cara

alternatively, instead of hiding your extra portions, could you explain to your husband that if he eats them now then you won't be able to afford to feed him once he is redundant! Maybe if he realises why you're cooking extra then he won't be so greedy!

windowshopper100

Rikki wrote: »

I'm learning so many new ideas and terms thriftlady, from pooping bananas out of their skins to weird recipe labelling. :eek: :rotfl:

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That's a neat trick.

mummysaver

It's taken a fair bit of time but I've now trained all my bunch to ask before they help themselves to anything - nothing like making a meal plan and finding someone has munched through half the week's ingredients!

I now dish up for the freezer at the same time as dishing up dinner, or before I put it on the table for things that are easy to divide, chicken and meat gets swiftly removed from the table and popped into the microwave to cool, then stripped after the washing up is done and bagged and into the freezer!

If I've cooked double I have the container ready and lid and label, for some reason that makes it less likely to get touched!

Also telling someone they've just eating next Tuesday's dinner is a good way of making them think about it!

elona

Best of all is when they helpfuly tell you "I have finished off that cheese for you!!!!"

They actually seem to expect praise rather than a lecture on what the cheese was actually supposed to be FOR!

A couple of years ago I had just got a slow cooker and would put stuff like soup etc in it to cook overnight- I just could not understand how I could be filling the pot a inch or two below the brim and yet it would be much lower a level when I went to remove the cooked food in the morning.

I was on the point of returning the thing to the manufacturers with a few snippy complaints about how the whole point of the slow cooker was that food was not wasted by reducing down etc.

I then found DH eating chicken curry from it at 7a.m.:eek:

He seemed to think the slow cooker is a "magic cooking pot" that is never empty and just replenishes itself with no effort or planning on my part!!!!

If only!!!;)

I now have to say things like "I am putting some of aside for the rest of the family" after he has had three huge bowls full!

He still manages to look disappointed though.