The Matrix - Re-Evolution!!

clairewop

Bitsy_Beans wrote: »

So what do they normally have for lunch? Perhaps rather than trying to feed them something different can we feed them similar but for less?

I use normal cooking marg for my twinks hobnobs and works fine for me

Hovel Lady - I only just discovered your thread this morning (needed something to do at 5am this morning!) and I was away on hols when many of the lovely Matrix-ers headed over so can I gatecrash tomorrow? I'll bring jammie dodgers if it helps grease the wheels :rotfl:

some sort of roll/sandwich and loads of carp to go with it, not really healthy at all, crisps, dairylea dunkers, cheese strings some sort of biscuit, a piece of fruit normally gets put in but it usually gets brought home also.

Although they do eat a lot of fruit through the week usually in the evenings so I can't complain, and they have veg with most meals if I have my own way.

Been to asda spent £25 :eek: dh had £10 left, so we bought fruit and veg (having a cooked dinner in a bit with pork chops from the freezer, chicken and sweetcorn filler, tuna and sweetcorn filler, ham and cheese filler, dairylea dunkers, cheese strings, aero yogurts, biscuits, pasta, pasta sauce, rolls, caster sugar, milk, and 2 30p bars of chocolate to go on the flapjacks.

So after dinner I am going to attempt some flapjacks with raisins in them and chocolate. some twinks hob nobs and some scones (if I can find the scone measurements that MG did me on here )

MG would you be able to give me the wholemeal bread roll recipe? I have some brown bread flour here and a packet of yeast, not sure whether there is any olive oil left though. (in measurements not cups though if i can be a pain) I can see then if it is my measurements are wrong.

clairewop

Dustykitten wrote: »

Same as here then 17,15 and 9 but the 9 year old eats an adult portion too:rotfl:

so are we talking lunches, dinners - cheap as possible I am guessing?

Lol you guessed right

Hovel_lady

Bitsy_Beans wrote: »

Hovel Lady - I only just discovered your thread this morning (needed something to do at 5am this morning!) and I was away on hols when many of the lovely Matrix-ers headed over so can I gatecrash tomorrow? I'll bring jammie dodgers if it helps grease the wheels :rotfl:

Umm, oh go on then. Bribery in jammie dodger form always works :rotfl:

Dorastar

Plodding through a long to-do list today - menus planned and shopped for, dd's uniform and my clothes ready for next few days, washing in out in out etc. Now onto some serious school planning, Ofsted are due anytime soon so all t's have to be crossed and all i's dotted in anticipation.

Claire - would definitely go with the 'here's what there is, you decide what you're having' route with ds's lunches - we do the same with dd and she helps menu plan every week and she comes up with a varied lunchbox each day, although not perhaps as adventurous as MGs. She is also now very good at saving things so she can have little treats throughout the week eg we baked gingerbread yesterday and she has planned which days she is having one as snack and lunch and which days she wants one when she gets home. If she helps she also gets the £ out of the trolley as she is saving for a portable dvd player.:money:She and ds were both born on a Saturday and so are supposed to 'work hard for a living' so they might as well get stuck in asap!

Memory_Girl

Her you g Claire - the boys favourite bread now, half white and half wholemeal flour - in proper measurments too LOL

50 / 50 LOAF

1 cup / 112 g wholemeal flour

1 cup / 112 g plain bread flour

1 tsp easy blend yeast

1 tsp salt

1 tsp sugar

1 tsp oil

7.5 fl oz water



Place all the ingredients into the bread maker and run the "dough" cycle.

When the cycle has finished, remove the dough from the bread maker and knock back before placing in a 2lb loaf tin.

Sit the tin in a warm place and allow the dough to rise till it is domed slightly above the edge of the tin.

Bake at 170 for 25 - 30 minutes or until the bread sounds hollow when you tap on the bottom of the loaf.

Cool of a rack - wrap in a tea towel if you prefer a softer crust and the steam will soften it slightly for you. Allow the loaf to cool before you try to cut it as it is very soft when warm.

clairewop

Memory_Girl wrote: »

Her you g Claire - the boys favourite bread now, half white and half wholemeal flour - in proper measurments too LOL

50 / 50 LOAF

1 cup / 112 g wholemeal flour

1 cup / 112 g plain bread flour

1 tsp easy blend yeast

1 tsp salt

1 tsp sugar

1 tsp oil



Place all the ingredients into the bread maker and run the "dough" cycle.

When the cycle has finished, remove the dough from the bread maker and knock back before placing in a 2lb loaf tin.

Sit the tin in a warm place and allow the dough to rise till it is domed slightly above the edge of the tin.

Bake at 170 for 25 - 30 minutes or until the bread sounds hollow when you tap on the bottom of the loaf.

Cool of a rack - wrap in a tea towel if you prefer a softer crust and the steam will soften it slightly for you. Allow the loaf to cool before you try to cut it as it is very soft when warm.

can it be any oil?? I haven't got and white bread flour here, so will try just a brown loaf. ( won't try today as we have brought bread and rolls, will try when they are running down,and see if I can get them to eat HM bread, will be a lot cheaper)

Bitsy_Beans

Personally Claire I'd be inclined to say this is what you're having, eat or you'll starve. I shudder to think of the carp that in Dairylea Dunkers and cheesestrings.

Memory_Girl

That made me chuckle Bitsy - My mum was "eat it or not that's all you are getting" school of household management.

Can only remember going hungry once - LOL

The lunch boxes may "sound" adventurous - but if saw how much was pre-prepared and frozen you would call me Mama Ping!!! in the morning. :rotfl: That's why he always gets raw fruit and veg cos I feel guilty

OMG!!!! Calamity Jane on the telly -"Never Underestimate a Woman's touch" - coincidence or not?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swYl_rFe7Qk

MG

Bitsy_Beans

Memory_Girl wrote: »

That made me chuckle Bitsy - My mum was "eat it or not that's all you are getting" school of household management.

Can only remember going hungry once - LOL

The lunch boxes may "sound" adventurous - but if saw how much was pre-prepared and frozen you would call me Mama Ping!!! in the morning. :rotfl: That's why he always gets raw fruit and veg cos I feel guilty

OMG!!!! Calamity Jane on the telly -"Never Underestimate a Woman's touch" - coincidence or not?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swYl_rFe7Qk

MG

<rushes off to put TV on despite having the film on DVD>
I love that film, Howard Keel <swoons>

My kids get told eat it or you go hungry. They're 3 and nearly 6 and guess what sometimes they've gone hungry. Feel like a terrible mother but I worry it will just encourage faddy eating. It's not like I am asking them to eat tripe <retches>
We have to tread a wee bit more carefully with DS and what he eats as his ASD makes him a bit rigid in what he will eat, we still at times have to feed him otherwise he won't eat it. Lots of chivvying goes on in this house but DD on the other hand is far more adventurous and will try most things, popping my embarrassingly few raspberries off the bush into her mouth without a second thought. DS would run screaming to the hills if I tried to do that with him :rotfl:
Sorry wittered on a bit there

clairewop

My two used to eat everything put in front of them too, DS2 still does, he is a cooked dinner boy, and would choose a cooked dinner over anything else.

DS1 on the other hand is very fussy and would live on sandwiches if he could.