It's STILL tough and not getting better - so how are we coping?

kezlou

morning has broken and the suns shining!!!!!!!
The cats have escaped but its all good.

Morning, well i slept all night yay! No itchiness, no struggling to lay with the cast. Instead i woke up this morning going ow i can't get, i woke up flat on my stomach. My OH shook his head at me and laughed.

The skin is all dry and where the cast has been so going to put some olive oil on it then go in the bath. I didn't go in last night as my OH had to go rescue his mates off the climbing wall.

Guess what i can walk without a crutch in the house :j:j:j, it may only be a metre between the kettle and the table but i'm a happy bunny.
Might go bramble picking later, if i'm feeling up to it.

Thanks for the link northwest will try that later

gailey_2

Ahh feeling fed up this morning.

Trying to tidy but kids being demanding.
hubbys out with mil.

sounds mad started hubby dinner this morning trying to beat the takeaway with greek kebab.

Got 1 chicken breast marinating in fridge
made a salad from cabbage from garden and roasted chillid/peppers
made a chilli sauce
Havent got a cucumber for yougurt dip so will just be natural yogurt, mint and garlic

All i need to do now is bake the chicken and make the flatbread.
Wondering if flatbread could be made from plain flour as low on bread flour im sure I sawe it on beat the takeaway on good food where he has budget and used flour in cupboard to make a flatbread, never made one before.

Knowing hubby he will still prefer the van but least im trying.

Thanks for buttermuilk recipie if I think I can mange it wiull defrost drumsticks and do kfc chicken tommorow or maybe homemade pizza.

run out of chillis, eggs and vinigar now and could really do with some so might have to go back to shops despite not wanting too.

Today will make loaf of bread, flapjacks, gingerbread men and another crumble for freezer hopefully one I sort out mess.Wish baby would stop taking nappy off and going on floor.

So trying to be organised not sure if I will achieve will see,

kezlou

gaily i also use plain flour to make flat bread, nanns, chappati's, flocacia, bread buns and loaves. Makes no real difference in taste. I also for a fact this is what restaurants and takeawys use as i used to work in them. So plain four all the way for me.

chappatis are basically plain flour, enough cold water to bind, bit of salt, mix together. Roll out the bread and place in a frying pan lightly sprinkled with oil. Keep turning to make sure both sides are done.
They cooked when the sides have brown flecked bits on them. I make them quite a lot and now i have bought a tawa a traditional indian/pakistani bread fryer. Cost £8 very big, cast iron and its brilliant.

flipperOSN

Hi Gailey - do you have a recipe for your chilli sauce? We had pittas with felafel last weekend and some proper chilli sauce would have been great. We ended up with sweet chilli which we had in the fridge with was okay but not as good.

Primrose

katiegizmo - so pleased about your good news. All of us who've been in your situation will know what a huge relief you must be experiencing. And now you're coming out the other side, even the worry of it all has proved a positive thing if you're changing tactics in terms of the way you live and plan for the future. Good luck and hope all goes well for you.

Christina_F

Took the dog for a long walk this mornign as the weather is lovely and sunny. Thought I might look for free fruit - but no success. Cant find any plum trees and the blackberries are still not ready. Am impatient as I so want to make some bramblejelly!

kezlou

Not sure if anyone wants to know but i've just posted some recipes up on the august grocery challenge.

The recipes are for vegetable samoas's and onion bhaji's.

katholicos

Just popping in to say i did another video so the results of my yoghurt making can be seen, ie, whether it worked or not. LOL!

Here is a link to the vid.

Hope it helps.

katiegizmo

Primrose wrote: »

katiegizmo - so pleased about your good news. All of us who've been in your situation will know what a huge relief you must be experiencing. And now you're coming out the other side, even the worry of it all has proved a positive thing if you're changing tactics in terms of the way you live and plan for the future. Good luck and hope all goes well for you.

Thanks Primrose! I feel like a different person, I'm remembering what it's like not to be tense (well not as tense anyway!)

I've already battled with OH about keeping frugal - he's been off to B&Q or Homebase this morning and bought a load of cement and polyfiller etc, man things. While we do need it, we dont urgently need it so I would have rather waited and shopped around or found some vouchers etc... plus he put it on the credit card and I wanted to use cash this month...:mad: I'm aware of the fact that he hasnt actually got any money in his account yet, it could be a disasterous job and not work out, so I don't want to spend any money we haven't got yet!

On a lighter note, he made me happy as he's just told me that next door's blackberry bush which encroaches over to our front garden and wasn't fruiting last year is now fruiting! yay, more blackberries!!:T

thank s for the recipes Kezlou, I'm going to try the vegetable samosas i think.... yummmmmm!

crickett1234

Hello peeps!

Have had my head down in numbers all blinking day so far and my head is spinning. I have another 4.5 to 5 hours of it this afternoon and then I am doing a supermarket run for the week's food. I am not sure which supermarket to use this week. I am balancing speed round the shop with price. I am thinking Mr T might get my business, or Mr M if I fancy a change of scenery. Will decide when I leave work I think.

Right, back to the number crunching...!