Saving Money With Homemade Convenience Mixes

jay-jay

Thanks thriftlady, will try them tonight. I know they can be served with syrup or with a breakfast but does anyone have any other tasty suggestions.

Thank you

blue-kat

what are old-stylers top HM mixes?

I'm 'energy poor' due ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and try to prep food ahead when I have a carer to help, so cooking effort is minimised at dinner time. No weighing, or reaching heavy ingredients from cupboards, less washing up...

I've made up the Nigella pancake mix - went down well with the family.
I'll try to make a WF (wheat free) pancake mix so I can have some too.

I used to make a pint of pancake batter, but it often went off if I had a few bad days and wasn't able to fry them. So pre-weighed mixes seem the way to go.

Any recommendations for choc chip cookie or choc cake mixes ? I was wondering about just multiplying the dry ingredients in the Bero recipes x 4, and bagging them up in divided portions.

taking the prep ahead idea one stage further, is it possible to make up baking recipes with grated butter and keep them in the freezer? then just use from the freezer adding milk + eggs as per recipe?

TIA

DdraigGoch

Yes, it's possible to do the grated butter trick, but don't leave it too long as the butter may go "reesty"/off a bit if it's there for over a couple of months.

Thanks for the reminder - I'll try and do that too.

Do have a go at some of the mixes for savoury items - they really can help.

DG

Olliebeak

halloweenqueen wrote: »

Thanks for your post Queenie!
I also go on www.hillbillyhousewife.com there are rice mixes etc that you can make and store in ziplock bags under the recipe section and they are fab!
I'm really pleased with the booklet, I like to have a day where I bag everything up, little DD helps, so the kitchen is in a mess once! as well as having several packets of food.

Just been reading through this thread and came across this posting from March last year.

That hillbillyhousewife site is great - loved her ideas for the home-made cup-a-soups. Very low-calorie for anybody trying to lose weight :T .

I'm going back in there for a really good nosey around :j .

DdraigGoch

Hope this helps:

http://busycooks.about.com/od/homemademixes/a/homemademixes.htm

It's a huge reference library of, obviously, American mixes - some of them are a little "exotic" for me, but some of them sound interesting. I've only just discovered this and hope it is of some interest to others.

DG

moanymoany

I'm just looking through the University of Maine ebook and it's very good. However there is a recipe for 'international coffee mix', it is a combination of coffee and chocolate.

It reminded me of my visit to the USA, Seattle. I was in a cafe and bought a capuccino from a machine. It tasted very strange and I tracked it down to its having chocolate in it. The machine made chocolate and coffee drinks. I went to the counter and, very apologetically, told them their machine was mixing up chocolate and coffee. Turns out that for this place at least, capuccino was coffee with chocolate in it - not just sprinkled on top. She was very kind - like most of the people I met there - and gave the strange foreigner a cup of chocolate.

Bye the bye, the Hillbilly Housewife has links to ebook cookery books that are very interesting. There is one for African Americans and one for Spanish.

moanymoany

DdraigGoch wrote: »

Hope this helps:

http://busycooks.about.com/od/homemademixes/a/homemademixes.htm

It's a huge reference library of, obviously, American mixes - some of them are a little "exotic" for me, but some of them sound interesting. I've only just discovered this and hope it is of some interest to others.

DG

It's worth spending an hour just exploring the About site. Whatever you do, whatever you are interested in, whatever languages you are learning, crafts and hobbies, it is all there. I love it.

Old_Meanie

Can anyone educate me about American cup measures? The thing that puts me off these mixes is I do not know what a cup is. To make it more confusing from what I have read cups seem to vary according to which ingredient you use so a cup of flour and a cup of milk are not the same thing. What weight is a cup of rice?

Thanks

soblivion

Hello everyone in here, just popping my head in when I saw old meanie's request, hope this link will help some.
http://www.recipes4us.co.uk/us_cups_to_weight.htm

Old_Meanie wrote: »

Can anyone educate me about American cup measures? The thing that puts me off these mixes is I do not know what a cup is. To make it more confusing from what I have read cups seem to vary according to which ingredient you use so a cup of flour and a cup of milk are not the same thing. What weight is a cup of rice?

Thanks

MrsTinks

Or be as sad as me and just buy a set of US measuring jugs *slinks off in shame at being so lazy*