A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

Kimsmum

Well it is snowing here, so cold.
So I am wrapped in fleeces with hot water bottle nice and cosy waiting for strickly results.
Stay warm everyone:)

prepareathome

7_week_wonder wrote: »

Preparedathome, I was looking at your blog this morning, which is lovely: any chance of that bakewell tart recipe?

Thank you although I hang my head in shame as not been near it after starting so well, well a week, was thinking of it yesterday and must catch up as am being good food wise and making everything from scratch apart for breakfast bars - hubby likes them and at moment we are buying MR S Basics Oat and Raisin 6 for 99p and I know I can make them for far less.

Will dig out the book, not that its far away, in kitchen with all other books, and post the recipe - be warned the quantities given make a massive tart, it took us a week to eat it and hubby is not one for small portions. Its something I have noticed with all wartime recipes the portions are massive, I guess it was all to do with filling you up well as no food to eat between meals.

I will also try and post on blog all the recipes I use. Its just this past week or so has been a sleepy on for me, I get these periods when all I do is sleep - eg last night went to sleep at 11.30pm and only woke up properly at 5.30pm this evening, so never saw daylight at all today which i hate, and this is how I have been for nearly 2 weeks now so gets me so behind with everything. Sometimes I am lucky and wake up during the day so can get out of the house. I know it would hit,, as does every winter hence me getting so much of my stocking up and preps for Christmas done handy, as things stand at the moment if we couldn't go shopping for a couple of month apart from milk and marg/butter we could manage, although meals would be less than usual size mainly as not enough veg and potatoes but still could cope. Bread thankfully son got me the sacks (16kgs) of unbleached white and wholemeal flour, but yeast might not be enough, sorry as I am writing this I am thinking of what else we might need.

So I need still to buy to be comfortable

Yeast
Potatoes,
Vegetables - to be frozen
Marg/Butter - to be frozen

Prices certainly are going up, was playing around with getting a Christmas delivery from Mr S so have booked a slot, 21st latest I can get just in case I sleep and cannot get out shopping again and went to the basics potatoes, now I bought 5 tins on Thursday at 20p a tin, on-line yesterday they had gone up to 29p a tin, there were a few other things I had bought on Thursday and some of those had gone up in price as well, just cannot at this moment remember what they were. Not sure if I will get the delivery and what I will get, but at least have until the 20th to add and remove things or cancel the order.

Right going to continue catching up on posts then will do some work on blog and when I can get downstairs will get book and post the recipe here.

mardatha

We had snow this morning and none since so its sitting at 2" just now. Has frozen over and is all crisp and crunchy and the wind is coming rIght off the polar icecap! LOL

ginnyknit

GQ may well apply for that flat, the luxury of living on one level would be nice and a constant source of tinned toms and FB pies would be great. Dont knock it, my sil's greatest fear is that we would move onto her fancy schmancy estate in the days when our car was furnished with odd doors and bonnet a la Onslow and Daisy - the look on her face once when we pulled into the driveway of the empty house next to theirs was a picture :rotfl:. It would be so nice to live near someone who understood my obsession ...sorry hobby of pennypinching!

Mardatha we seem to have the backend of your arctic blast - well my backend is certainly chilly and my socks are too short!

My tiny DGS has an addiction to fresh raspberries, or so it seems, his little radar must have recognised them when I got my whoopsies in Mr A today. I put all the shopping on the worksurface and a little hand popped up, felt around until he felt the crinkly top of the raspberries, then slid them towards himself :rotfl: He is knee high to a grasshopper but could reach them alright. Sadly no meat in the whoopsie section.

Off to Mums on Wednesday to relieve her of her latest 'revolutionary pillow' which doesnt help her sleep. Still it means I have new pillows on all beds and some chopped up for cushions. Also in her career as a mercenary for the salvation army she is getting me lots of butttons as the shop is too huge for them to bother with such stuff and THROW them away:eek:

Right off to tuck up the guinea pigs and rabbit.

CRANKY40

I have a store cupboard because I have a seven year old, two cats, and I don't like snow. My sister lives in Cork and my dad lives in London so there's nobody to foist the child onto while I go ploughing through the snow to fetch supplies, so come autumn I switch my milk man deliveries back on (somehow he usually gets here) and stock up on pasta and other useful stuff. I've made my own jam and chutney this year and we have home made pasta sauce in the freezer. We make our own cakes from scratch most of the time and I have a breadmaker. We can do biscuits too - Twink hobnobs and shortbread, yum yum.

I am lucky enough to have a strange old house that has a pantry. We did take out the original shelves so we could put the washing machine and tumble drier in there, but then once that was done my friend put some new shelves in there. Very handy it is too.

GreyQueen the first time our oldest cat saw snow she loved it. She skipped around flinging paw fulls of it it the air and having a lovely time. Then she tried to squat down, and the look on her face was priceless. One was most certainly not amused, but it made us laugh.

modern_millie_2

Hi all, hope you're all keeping warm - cold and wet all day here. Too nasty to go for a walk, so bought a Telegraph an went to Lidl to stock up - was down to one tube of tomato puree! All tinned up now and copious supplies of own brand crackers, OH's fav, snappily named Snacky Cracky!

Just watched an interesting programme with Robert Peston, BBC2, about how the West got into the financial crisis, and comparing us to China. Showed a Chinese family who looked quite OS. Second part next week, looking at where we go from here - think I will be watching.

Onions -Could try rinsing them before chopping - I find this helps a bit.

lilac_lady

Very icy tonight, but no snow yet. I broke my retirement rule of no supermarket shopping at the week-end and braved Mr M's in case really bad weather appears.

I try not to supermarket shop at week-ends because those of you who work all week (like I used to do) have enough to contend with apart from us retirees who can shop anytime. (theoretically)

kidcat

Lilac-lady thats so thoughtful and lovely. I avoid supermarkets if possible at weekends due to the crowds.

CRANKY40

No snow here yet...but we do have hail and thunder and lightning. My sister has given Ebeneezer (our dad) step by step instructions for accepting his Asda delivery on Wednesday. Can't wait to find out what he can do to make it go wrong. He'll probably say there's too much stuff and it's cluttering the place up. This is after all the man who told us to stop sending pictures of his grandchildren as he'd taken all the photos off the walls as they made the flat look untidy. He's never met my son, so I just ignore that instruction also.....

Edited to add that my friend has just been laid off from a shipping firm over in Liverpool. I feel for her - she's young and has only just gone back to work after surviving maternity leave on basic maternity pay.

prepareathome

Cuts by firms seem to be all over here in Merseyside, but same everywhere, your poor friend and a young family as well ( point her in our direction - forum) and just before Christmas, worse any time of year but now it always seems so much worse and weather ;eeks - dogs wanted to go out but changed their minds when they looked out on the downpour from the safely of just inside the back door, although coming down so hard was bouncing inside the house, so the backed away hastily as they are all elderly now I tend to give in to them not wanting to go out when its wet, cold they adore but pouring rain now is something they hate now.