Missy's spend £10 a week on groceries get the house sorted & hit this debt hard diary

missymoo81

I still need the £200 but I have the £18 from eBay so far and I will hopefully get more bids and I have £20 of stuff to take back to the shop so £162 to find! I will do this! I am adament!

Going to have a trawl through the freezer in the hope that some sausages magically appear which means I won't need to buy any. Hmmm wonder if I can make
Seitan sausages?!

redofromstart

Cheese sauce mix seems expensive for what is essentially milk, flour and cheese. Do you want an easy mac cheese recipe - DS1s school one specifically.

missymoo81

redofromstart wrote: »

Cheese sauce mix seems expensive for what is essentially milk, flour and cheese. Do you want an easy mac cheese recipe - DS1s school one specifically.

It's the oxo one, my nan uses it and I think you get 300g for that and you need 4 desert spoonfuls for sauce.... So I thought it would work out good value, mind you I didn't check to see if you needed to add milk or not?!

And yes redo I do!!!!!

redofromstart

It might have powdered milk in it?

Macaroni cheese (from my sons school cookbook)
100g macaroni
100g cheddar, grated
250ml semi skim milk
25g plain flour
25g margarine or butter

Cook the macaroni for 10 minutes until al dente
Put the fat, flour and milk in a saucepan, bring it to a simmer, whisking all the time until it thickens. Add 75g grated cheese.
Drain the macaroni and stir it into the cheese sauce, tip it all into a grill proof dish. Top with the rest of the grated cheese. Put it under a hot grill till the cheese and bubbling and golden brown.

You can add slices of tomato to the top, or crumbled up crispy bacon to the sauce (his favourite), or sweetcorn if you want it to be more of a balanced meal. If you add a little mustard you can reduce the cheese, or if you use a stronger flavoured cheese.

DS makes a double quantity, and eats it over two days but he is a hollow legged teenager. Also if i have the oven on anyway then it gets shoved in for ten minutes rather than mess about with the grill.

missymoo81

redofromstart wrote: »

It might have powdered milk in it?

Macaroni cheese (from my sons school cookbook)
100g macaroni
100g cheddar, grated
250ml semi skim milk
25g plain flour
25g margarine or butter

Cook the macaroni for 10 minutes until al dente
Put the fat, flour and milk in a saucepan, bring it to a simmer, whisking all the time until it thickens. Add 75g grated cheese.
Drain the macaroni and stir it into the cheese sauce, tip it all into a grill proof dish. Top with the rest of the grated cheese. Put it under a hot grill till the cheese and bubbling and golden brown.

You can add slices of tomato to the top, or crumbled up crispy bacon to the sauce (his favourite), or sweetcorn if you want it to be more of a balanced meal. If you add a little mustard you can reduce the cheese, or if you use a stronger flavoured cheese.

DS makes a double quantity, and eats it over two days but he is a hollow legged teenager. Also if i have the oven on anyway then it gets shoved in for ten minutes rather than mess about with the grill.

Thank you I really appreciate you taking the time to post that! I'm wondering if I can halve the cheese and put nutritional yeast in instead.....

Have finally managed to light a fire after 30 minutes of trying!!!! God I am rubbish at it!! But it's done and we won't freeze, the house is really cold today, the wind seems to be blowing in the wrong direction. I think I'll make the Cowboy stew pie for dinner tonight as fancy something hearty.

Hiddenidenity

It is cold today isn't it? I thought it was me being soft :rotfl:

I can't wait to collect the bigger two from school and get our pjs on :rotfl:

missymoo81

Hiddenidenity wrote: »

It is cold today isn't it? I thought it was me being soft :rotfl:

I can't wait to collect the bigger two from school and get our pjs on :rotfl:

That's exactly what we're doing!

missymoo81

Cowboy pie cooking on the woodburner . No sausages needed just used some mince. Have half ordinary and half sweet potato for the mash. Children are outside on the trampoline. After dinner in pyjamas for film and cuddles!

missymoo81

Cowboy pie
Pie filling
1.5 carrots
1 green pepper
1 small sweet potato
Tin beans
Tin tomatoes
Half bag quorn mince
2 small onions
2 small handfuls of mushrooms
Paprika
Onion salt
garlic powder
Cumin

Pie top
1 big sweet potato
4 mes sized White potatoes
Butter and milk for mashing
Cheese for top

Chop and Bung all ingredients in a casserole dish, either slow cook or cook in oven.

Peel top potatoes, simmer when soft mash

When pie mix is soft and carrots are no longer hard. Top casserole dish with mash top with cheese and shove under grill!

Have just made this up so I hope it's nice as its still cooking!

laurenh1

I am definately going to try that. Sounds yummy. We walked into town this morning, stopped on the way for our free side from the kfc app & got Ted a sweetcorn. Then tesco & aldi for thr shop (ill write out later) . I had a small amount left in my weekly budget so got the kids hallowed outfit s and their haircuts and a few boxes of chocs on offer to put up for Xmas. We are film & cuddles tonight too :A