Family of 5 'shop from home'food storage challenge...

Kaz2904

Well I can't sleep so I decided to get up and put my chicken in the slow cooker. I've never done it like this before. I then plan to tackle this lot....

Bum. I can't get the photo on here. Let's just say that my 3 seater sofa is now buried under a mountain of clean laundry which needs to be sorted ironed and folded. Urgh.
I loathe and detest laundry sorting. I would happily iron all day if someone else would sort and put it away for me:D .
So can someone kind explain to me how to post a picture on here?
TTFN, Kaz.

Kaz2904

Well I've broken the back of it now! Just stopping for a bit of a break.
I think I'm going to have a go at the dough plait thing as we have no sweet stuff in the house. My tesco have got doughnut makers in for £10 so I've decided that I'm going to get one.
I figure that if I use it to make doughnuts just once a week then I will save my biscuit fund in 2 months. It also means that I will not be feeding the kids [EMAIL="!!!!"]!!!![/EMAIL] food!
The chicken is cooking away nicely, I've done a load of washing and my coat and jeans are in the TD.

chardonnay_2

rhonda, your recycling sounds different to ours. most councils in the uk only recycle certain types of waste, anything else the onus is on the individual to take to recycling centres and even then not every item is recycled. our council definitely doesn't have a hard rubbish throwout - in fact anything you can't take to a rcycling centre has to be a special arranged pickup for a 10 pound charge. we have a two week household waste, a two week paper and cardboard, and a two week garden waste in the summer pickup. some councils are better or worse than others depending on the area

rhonda_jean

chardonnay, it's a pity you don't have something like our hard rubbish pick up. We are told when the free pick up will happen and everyone puts out things on the kerb they don't want. It can be any big item. When all the items are out waiting, gleaners travel around taking what they might use. The rest is taken to the tip.

cheerfulness4

We used to have that here in my area, too. Unfortunately that was about two years ago and nothing since. It was fun because lots of stuff was taken and recycled among neighbours before the lorries arrived to take the things away.

tooties

taurusgb wrote: »

A) Yes of course!:rotfl:
Certainly not :eek:
C) mine has a fan in the base and trays that stack on top, and it just hums away drying as it goes. Takes varying times depending on what you are drying but almost everything I have done has been a success.:j
D) Vegetables, fruit, herbs, flowers, even tinned or frozen food can be dehydrated...my DS2 wont touch tinned pears but when I found I Had 4 tins just about to go out of date and dehyrated them (figured I had nothing much to lose) he loved them:T
E) Well, you can rehydrate them as use as you would any other time (don't throw away the water you use to rehydrate though - use it up) or you can eat as snacks (such as dried fruit) Or you could do as I've just done (with advice and help from the ever helpful D&DD and dry various veg, then process to a powder and voila! HM stock powder!

Thank you very much it seems thats another item added to my christmas wish list
regards
tooties

Kaz2904

So I finished the ironing and went back to bed at 5.00!
I'm now shattered but as DS has preschool this morning I might go back to bed for a bit longer.
The chicken's cooked and I experimented earlier and was able to just pull out the leg bone. DH said it looked horrible so he won't be in my way when I strip it.
Now how do I make soup from the lovely stock?
I want this chicken to do 4 meals at least so any ideas you can think of please would be grand.
I've got fajitas so there's one meal. Chicken pie is another. Chicken korma. I've not got any rice I don't think so the last meal will have to be pasta. Although if I'm doing soup too then it'll be 5 meals at least won't it!!!
Oh- I'll need rice for korma won't I?
'Goes off to check cupboards again'
Ok, no rice but I do have cous cous. Any ideas peeps? Off to bed again- I'm pooped!

kethry

rhonda_jean wrote: »

kethry, thank you for your continued support of my blog, not just here, but at other places too. Any old cupboard can be painted and made into a linen cupboard. Check out your hard rubbish throw out next time the council has one. You find some excellent things sitting on the footpath waiting to be taken to the tip. The chicks should hatch out in 14 days. I'll make sure I take a photo so you can see them.

Rhonda - as someone else said, we don't really do hard rubbish throwouts in the UK, and round here (rough neighbourhood), anything left to the curb for more than an hour or so gets nicked, vandalised, ruined and left in pieces for someone else to clean up. however, we do have charity shops and second hand shops, and i'm keeping my eye out for a suitable cupboard. I also need a chest of drawers and a better wardrobe, the flat i live in is very small and so every piece of furniture has to work to the maximum for the floorspace it occupies. Unfortunately the wardrobe and dressing table we currently have don't do that, which adds to the problem we have with not just linen, but clothes as well. so i'm hoping to find one of those units that combines wardrobe and drawers, or cupboard and drawers, even if it means i have to sand and repaint and replace the handles or something.

and yes please, photos of the chicks would be wonderful!

keth
xx

JAMIEDODGER

morning all:wave:

just popped into town, picked up the meat and some fruit for the weekend.

i also bought a steamer in robert dyas....£9.99! a tefal one.

thats one thing off my kitchen appliance list:D

hope everyone is good??

Kaz - yes def go back to bed and try and get some more sleep while you can!!

Yategirl

kethry wrote: »

To be honest, Rhonda Jean.. never mind the kitchen envy. I have linen cupboard envy. And garden envy. And hen envy. and sewing room envy.. in fact it got so bad the other night, i was talking to a friend and i was wailing.. "she has a linen cupboard! And i wantttt a linen cupboard!! I want neatly folded clean gorgeous smelling sheets and covers and stuff so i can open the door and see it all and go ahhh!" .. ahem. can you tell i'm just a little bit OCD?

:rotfl: I'm in fits Kethry!!! this is ME!!! I discovered Rhonda Jean's blog a few weeks back along with some other inspirational sites and I am SO envious!!! What is worse... dh and my RL friends just dont "get it"... I'm so glad it is not just me!! I have a linen chest of drawers... but it isn't ideal... but we live in a modern style house with no storage space and we struggle to fit us all in with all our stuff!!

I've just spent a fortune at the shops... major :eek: this was just top-up bits for the gifts we have - stocking fillers, something for ds1, bits for parents... am in a major state of shock :eek:

Kaz... don't tell me Tesco have doughnut makers for £10.. I can't spend any more... sob!! but dh has asked me to make some doughnuts... argh what do I do! lol!