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GeorgianaCavendish

Minor celebrations today, I've managed to successfully batch cook for the past couple of weeks. Nothing earth-shattering, just chili, soup and casserole, but it is SO great to have some delicious food practically ready-to-go when I get home from work.
Why didn't I do this years ago??

WannabeFree

Batch cooking gets me through the week .. oh and the slowcooker :rotfl:

Did you get the snow?

Have a lovely day x

GeorgianaCavendish

I'm still thinking about getting a slow cooker, I have this fantasy of waking up to creamy porridge or coming home to a delicious casserole. Of course, in this fantasy someone else does the prep and the washing up :rotfl: So I might continue with my old-school way of doing it and see how I get on.

We did get snow yesterday! :T It looked lovely but has now completely disappeared

WannabeFree

:rotfl: google 'Dump bags' for the slow cooker. Takes batch cooking to a whole new level. I'm not that organised yet but one day!

GeorgianaCavendish

Ooh I will!
Thanks Wannabe, I feel like I'm discovering a whole new world

GeorgianaCavendish

Really enjoying rediscovering all the unread books on my the Kindle ( posted about this last week). I'm reading Wild by Cheryl Strayed at the moment, I was so absorbed by it that I nearly missed my station this morning!

EssexHebridean

Slow cooker is the way forwards for winter cooking in particular! I drag it out on a weekend, prep everything and throw it in, and then switch it on to run overnight (Economy 7 so cheap electric overnight for us!) and leave it to cool, through the following day before portioning up and eating the first batch for that nights meal. Yum! I love having home made ready meals.

Did something similar the weekend just gone with a huge pan of roast veggies and a bit batch of cauli/broccoli/pasta cheese bake - looking forward to some of that tonight now!

Seasidegal58

Echoing EH and the slow cooker. I’m on Economy 7 as well and put it on overnight. It’s so convenient when you’re in work full time - and lush as well!

GeorgianaCavendish

Thanks for the slow cooker votes Is it good for porridge? I think it would be so amazing to wake up to ready made porridge.

I'm really enjoying the fruits of my batch cooking at the weekend though. I've been having baked potatoes with batch-cooked chilli or stew for dinner, stick the potato in the oven for 30 mins and then start heating up the chilli/casserole etc. Even though it isn't a particularly quick cooking time, it is so good to have something that needs minimal attention from me, so I can multi-task with doing a bit of studying or a little bit of housework (or card writing/present wrapping this week). And so delicious and cheap! Excuse me while I have a brief smug-fest

wishingthemortgaheaway

Carry on with your smugfest. It's great tonhear of them. No idea about porridge in the slow cooker, but I guess so, you can do rice pudding (although I've never done it successfully.)