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Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Helloooo, I've spent a lovely couple of hours sitting in the garden reading cookery books in preparation for menu planning :T

Did a tactical shop in W@itrose and combining vouchers and discounts etc saved almost £40 :T

I may have bought 6 chickens (3/£10) (apologies too all readers who buy chucks who have walked the fields ) - 2 are in the freezer whole, 1 is spatch cocked, all wings are marinated in piri piri sauce and wrapped, the legs are in a smoky BBQ sauce, the breasts are cut in half and bagged into enough for three meals. All now in the freezer.

Remaining chicken carcasses have been turned into stock and left to cool, will remove the fat tomorrow then bag/freeze. Finally, the chicken bits from the stock will make a chicken pie for Monday night :T

It's been pretty hot whilst we were away and we didn't fancy much cooking so are in catch up now. Good to have Mr T in the kitchen. Yesterday he made roast garlic and chilli focaccia plus, using an old mix I had in the cupboard , a roasted tomato ciabatta

Washing dried on the line and NO ironing :T

HM scones from the freezer for afternoon tea with HM apricot jam, thanks to an MSE chum :T

Finally, SW pulled pork with salad for dinner this evening :T

Back to chilling with cookery books now.

Best wishes, Tilly x

slowlyfading

That all sounds so good :drool:

rainbowcattail

Hi Tilly
I've just finished your diary (after a couple of weeks) & just wanted to de-lurk to say hope Mr T gets some good news soon, fingers crossed. Your diary is really inspirational & I have now sorted my freezer, done more batch cooking and am gonna try making bread tomorrow - so thank you

Hope you have a lovely rest of the weekend

brizzledfw

Great to have you back Tilly

tattycath

slowlyfading wrote: »

That all sounds so good :drool:

Totally agree with this.

v1ckyt

That all sounds very nom nom nom...

gallygirl

I don't remember making you scones or jam

Off to look up SW pulled pork but sounds rude to me

sweetdaisy

Sorry it's belated - welcome back from your holiday Tilly. Glad you had a nice time and things look positive for Mr Tilly .

Secret_Saving_Squirrel

I do admire your meal planning. One day when I grow up, I will do the same. When I stop having a kit kat for breakfast because that is all there is, etc.....

Enjoy the day,

Squirrel

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

brizzledfw wrote: »

Great to have you back Tilly

Can you PM your details and I'll ask Mr T to post wet suit tomorrow

Secret_Saving_Squirrel wrote: »

I do admire your meal planning. One day when I grow up, I will do the same. When I stop having a kit kat for breakfast because that is all there is, etc.....

Enjoy the day,

Squirrel

I've truly had a fantastic day. The kids are making cakes at the moment as we have friends coming for afternoon tea.

I may sound a bit mad with my monthly menu plan but I find coming home from work and having to decide what to make is too frustrating and I'm tired by then. Lets just call me eccentric :rotfl:

gallygirl wrote: »

I don't remember making you scones or jam

Off to look up SW pulled pork but sounds rude to me

I promise it's not rude and was definitely delish x

Thanks to everyone for the welcome back posts - I really missed this mad virtual community, where we understand each other

Best wishes Tilly x x x