'supporting each other through really tough times'

fuddle

Good food recipe. I did wonder. I daren't work out the increases cheaps. I suspect were on par though.

Menu plan:

Jacket potato, cheese and beans
Nut roast/meatloaf Sunday lunch
Chicken soup (darn, will have to be chicken Sunday lunch, need the leftovers lol) ginger pud and custard
Shepherds pie, yorkshires and gravy
Irish stew and dumplings
Sausages in buns with onions, jam roly poly and custard
Cooked breakfast, with chips for brunch kind of feel meal

Pooky

I'm having a "use it up" month here, I need emptier cupboards to start my kitchen work. I also want as much "stuff" out of the freezer too so I can replace with portions of stuff I can ping once my hob and oven come out. I've got a halogen and two SCs plus the microwave (got a camping stove but don't want to rely on it), I do have a BBq with side pan burner and plenty of gas but that's weather reliant.

I'm thinking portions of mash, soup, cheese sauces, pasta sauces, part cooked potatoes for roasties/wedgies to go in the halogen etc.... Anything else you can think of?

I'm guessing I'll be without hob and oven for around a month, so need to plan ahead.

My goodness it's chilly here tonight....brrrrrrrrrrr.

stiltwalker

fuddle wrote: »

Chicken soup (darn, will have to be chicken Sunday lunch, need the leftovers lol)

Unless - have you had chance to find a butchers near the new place yet? If so you may well be able to buy chicken wings cheap, even tesco do about 1kg for £2.63 and you can make the stock with those and pull the meat off. If you brown them a little in a pan you get more of a rich flavour. If you also add some veg to the stock pot you should get enough stock for 2 soups even if you don't get enough meat and a proper chicken stock will make something like leek and potato soup into a really amazing soup.

fuddle

stiltwalker wrote: »

Unless - have you had chance to find a butchers near the new place yet? If so you may well be able to buy chicken wings cheap, even tesco do about 1kg for £2.63 and you can make the stock with those and pull the meat off. If you brown them a little in a pan you get more of a rich flavour. If you also add some veg to the stock pot you should get enough stock for 2 soups even if you don't get enough meat and a proper chicken stock will make something like leek and potato soup into a really amazing soup.

Oh I love that! Thank you

Cheapskate

fuddle - I only worked out a few price increases cos I got scared! :eek::rotfl: My menu plan has striking similarities to yours - good Northern comfort food!

My butcher will sell the rag ends of bacon for about £1, still plenty meat on if you pare it carefully, I get about 3/4 pound to make into soup or stew. He has had more customers this week, including new ones, since the hoo-ha with processed meat hit the headlines- first time meat-related news has been good for little butchers like him.

A xo

Mrs_Veg_Plot

Just popping in to congratulate uniexgirl on the new job.

ginnyknit

I discovered if I left a stale chunk of bread or a muffin on the work surface in a dish and left it near the stove for a few days it dried out nicely for breadcrumbs and I just grate a bit off as I need it. Or you can keep it in the freezer and grate it frozen.

I got a huge pack of dried white beans from AF today and am going to soak them all, cook them and bag them off for the freezer to add to my stews to bulk up and use less meat. Cake and custard will have to fill us up from now on. the trouble is Oh doesnt eat much nowadays so must have food that will tempt him to eat so I cant mess about too much. However good old cake and custard usually hits the spot. My pennies are annoyed at me pinching them so hard. i think its about time the 2 house cats got a bloomin job, they are lazy ungrateful scroungers :rotfl:

Wanted to make the no knead bread but forgot last night and am trying to work out when to make it so i will be awake to cook it. Hubs thinks Im mad cos I keep asking what time will it be in 18 hours.

MadelinesMum

Hi all, hope everyone is well. My little boy has been ill and off school for a few days. He went back yesterday but I think it was too soon and he's been ill again today. He looks so skinny and ill that I'm taking him back to the GP tomorrow.

My 16 yr old has an interview for 6th form on Friday, so good luck Sammy!
She lost her beloved guinea pig, Fuzzy Peg this morning and we're all feeling sad- I think 5 years was an OK innings though

All I seem to do is school / nursery runs and hospital / gp appointments. I always seem to be wishing for the weekend, lol. x

Popperwell

I'm repeating what I said earlier. No problem with the Hairy Bikers as such but what they is a cheap meal per portion, in the new series unless I can adapt and strectch it out still seems quite costly. They did soufle and said it cost £2.50 per person and it served four. That's £10 so unless I spend that and count it as four meals over a period of time I could have quite a few meals and not just one course.

Been looking at some Bird's Eye fish on offer in Mr T's(normally £3.99)now £2.99 That would give two meals(padded out with veg)one has leek and lemon sauce, the other I forget...

Now on the other hand as I have leeks and lemons...if I buy some plain cod(cheaper)and find a way to use what I have in the house for my own sauce...I could probably bring that down to 50p a portion.

Now if they were showing how to do that kind of cooking in these difficult times I'd think we are getting somewhere.

Anyone think if they are back on the normal food, they'll forget about the series that they did where they lost weight or do you think they'll keep it up?

The_Dragon

Having finally seen the Hairy Bikers I think the premise is that you can do dinner party food on a budget - it isn't your every day food.