Anyone else snowed in and sick of eating out of the freezer already?

Elliesmum

lozzy88 wrote: »

Am not snowed in but I fell down the stairs a week ago and have torn the ligaments in my ankle so am hobbling about, and I have a nearly 4 week old baby, a 15 month old and a 4 year old, just getting in to the car is a hassel, so I sent my oh to the shops to get something in for tea.

He came back with tea cakes, hob nobs, pop, bread, milk, 1 steak and some babywipes

Mmmm milk sandwiches anyone?

:rotfl: - awww poor you. EM x

thriftwizard

Coleslaw's nice enough at times like this, but I'm loving my home-made kimchi just now - crunchy vegetables preserved with spices (especially garlic, chilli & ginger) in salted water. Very easy to make, very tasty, very good for you (our Korean friends eat it with every meal, including breakfast, & swear by it for good health) & a brilliant standby for times like this - gives you that crispy fresh vegetable fix without needing much in the way of storage. The closest things we can buy easily are pickled red cabbage - too vinegary for me! - and sauerkraut - too bland. Not quite the recipe I use (which is from Sandor Ellix Katz's book Wild Fermentation) but there's a similar one at the bottom of this page. I use plain green cabbage, a daikon radish is usually called a mooli over here (but ordinary radishes work perfectly well too) and for those of us in the South, scallions are spring onions; young leeks work too. I've never used fish sauce but think I might have to find some & try it!

slimthinker

PixieDust wrote: »

chocolate, every time.

I like salad but it's not worth the bother of preparing it, and I avoid people at all costs at the best of times!!

We've been snowed in and I am LOVING it! Kids home, hunny home, everybody where they are safe and all together

I agree with Pixie here...Quite gutted the kids school was reopened today the house is soooooooo quiet...:(

gailey_2

We living off freezer until pay day

ran out fresh fruit and veg apart from onions.

yes can get monotonus.

we have some frozen veg.

zzzLazyDaisy

Gluten free bread and other GF goodies.

lostinrates

We are not snowed in this year.

Fresh fruit is a pain inthese sort of time, but tbh I haven't bought any since last week and we still have plenty. (used last bananas this morning, but oranges, grapefruits and apples left and fine...they last a while so its worth stocking up on more durable fruit before a snow warning)

Cold Salads I don't eat when it's very cold. We have plenty of frozen veg, though the fresh veg stocks are low, ( unexpected for dh to remain home this week when I shopped last week). Vegetarian meals, even if carby, feel great on days like this.

snowleopard61

Living in a suburban/semi-urban area the conditions would have to be very extreme before I was literally snowed in, but of the OP's options it would have to be chocolate (if by people you assume people in general, human contact, rather than nearest and dearest - even then I'm fine as long as I know they're safe and well; they don't necessarily have to be with me). I'm very solitary by nature and can happily go for days at a time without seeing a soul as long as I have enough text messages just to be assured that my (young adult) children and my bf are OK. Salad I tend to eat only when it's the obvious thing to serve with a meal, e.g. with a lasagne or pasta bake. For my own part I prefer hot vegetables of virtually any variety.

I try to eat a sensible diet with plenty of fruit and veg, but can't imagine actually craving any if circumstances prevented me from having them (except just possibly bananas) - unless it was weeks or months. If I didn't have to think of my health or waistline, I could live forever on cups of tea and buttered toast!:D

flubberyzing

I've been indoors since Friday evening and it's now Tuesday lunch time... Haven't stepped outside in all that time. I've been quite alright food-wise, but now am just starting to run low on a few bits, so I'm going out shortly!
The car is going to take some quite considerable de-icing!

Bit nervous, because I had a bad fall 16 months ago, fracturing my tailbone. It has never fully recovered, so I don't want to fall onto that if I can help it!

Fruball

lozzy88 wrote: »

Am not snowed in but I fell down the stairs a week ago and have torn the ligaments in my ankle so am hobbling about, and I have a nearly 4 week old baby, a 15 month old and a 4 year old, just getting in to the car is a hassel, so I sent my oh to the shops to get something in for tea.

He came back with tea cakes, hob nobs, pop, bread, milk, 1 steak and some babywipes

Mmmm milk sandwiches anyone?

:eek: at the torn ligaments. I did that when I was a teenager and I remember the pain. Poor you.... AND with babies too look after too

:cool: to the dozey OH! What was he thinking!.... 1 steak?!!! I hope you sent him straight back out with a list?! lol (or made him a milk sandwich!)

Lozzy88

Haha a list was shoved under his nose, he is usually really savvy with what we have in, what meals can be made as I don't cook very often or very well so its left to him, I think he was having a off day!