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

mummysaver

Mollymop5 wrote: »

Dear Santa,

I have been a very good girl. Please can I have
1) A breadmaker
2) A doughnut maker
3) A slow cooker
4) A food dehydrator
5)....................................................





Have I missed anything out?
Please help as it's getting late for posting

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Good afternoon! This did make me laugh! I've just got my new breadmaker, meant to be a pressie but it's here and I wasn't waiting till Christmas Day for it! Got a new slow cooker, £22 ish, reduced, in Argos for 6.5l one, to replace the one oh melted the lead on! Got a doughnut maker for £10 in Tesco for ds for Christmas, we did have one a few years ago but it died of overuse and I didn't want to spend a lot on a new one - friend got me a popcorn maker instead, cos it meant the kids could make it themselves then, but that's finally died of overuse too! So now I have a dehydrator on my list on its own, didn't even know I wanted one before reading this thread :rolleyes: . Thanks to whoever pointed out that you can dehydrate tinned and frozen stuff too, might try tinned strawberries if I get one, quite fancy those as a snack, and fresh ones are too expensive at the mo to dehydrate I think!

You haven't put a laminator on your list, have you got one already?! They're also fab for kids parties, get them to colour a picture whilst everyone is arriving then laminate it for them to take home at the end, they can use them as placemats at tea as well! Always been successful at my kids' parties, well nobody's complained anyway!:p

kethry

Yategirl wrote: »

: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 think a lot of modern houses have these problems. I tell you, i wouldn't have a modern house (built 1990s+) if you paid me.. this one was built in 1975 and its bad enough.. the ones built in the last 10 years are small, pokey, and must have terrible storage problems..

i think i know where i get my linen cupboard obsession from. i went to a boarding school, and there, they had a huge walk in closet with fixed deep shelves, floor to ceiling, just for sheets (boarding school = lot of sheets). It was warm in there. smelled gorgeous. all neat and tidy. the fold part facing you, so it was just stacks of sheets.. you could lock the door behind you. I loved it in there. it was a refuge from all the bad stuff. ah. happy memories. i want a linen cupboard!!! *threatens to throw herself on the floor and throw a temper tantrum worthy of a five year old and like that woman in the adverts* the funny thing is, after i've muttered about neat and tidy, you'd think i'm one of these Monica types who has a place for everything and the house is all perfectly tidy and clean and stuff.. and its not. not by a long shot. lol. wish it was!

right. i'm off to clean the bathroom floor.. _pale_

keth
xx

mummysaver

Got dd3 off school today, drippy nose and hacking cough, lovely! Bless her though, she's watching schools programs and now practising her writing. She's already done a picture on an old bit of perspex with some glass paints she found in the cupboard, just wrapped it up for mil for Christmas - it really is the thought that counts in this case!

Aside from her being poorly, the day is going well, aside from finding that one of the kitchen windows had blown off in the night, thankfully wasn't broken though, and a chap is coming round later to tell me how much it'll cost to repair the window frame so that it can be put back! Oh and we lost a fence panel and post, might have to persaude (read bribe here) ds to help me replace it over the weekend, oh is rubbish at stuff like that! Almost impossible to get someone to just come and replace one fence panel and one post! Haven't noticed anything else falling apart but we haven't reached the end of the day yet, so who knows!

Did a huge order from Mr T's last night, so that I can have a proper stock cupboard of spares, well it'll be put in boxes under the stairs! Think I'll be getting a delivery van to myself, bought multiple tins of toms and beans and huge amounts of rice and pasta and flour, all the staples, but should last for a while, and if I keep replacing as I use it, we'll never go hungry! I'm sure last time I ordered stuff that all the discounts were shown, how confusing is it at the end now? Went for the cheapest delivery, luckily it was at the one time that I can guarentee someone will be here, and best of all I shall be at work, bet I trip over it when i get home though! The excuse will be that they didn't know how I wanted my spares organised, i can hear them now!

Good news is that dd3's bike has arrived, bless the child, she chose the cheapest one we found, it was her favourite, and old style babe! Bad news is that I still can't find out what is going on with ds's present! ds found my list that I'd make yesterday for dd3's baking set, when she walked into the office he pretended it was an old bit of paper he was shredding, just to stop her reading it, well it was like the hounds of hell were unleashed, turned out I'd written on the back of one of her drawing that she HAD NOT FINISHED!

Yategirl

pmsl!!! I am a Monica.. in my dreams... I try and strive towards it (I am a virgo so if you believe in horoscopes.. then it is in my nature!).. but am thwarted at every step.... I like clutter too... I like my home to look lived in... but I want it TIDY!!!!!!!!!! why don't my family understand that??!!!!! Our house was built in the 60's... we have an understair cupboard that we cannot get into due to it's shape... we have a so called airing cupboard.... but a new boiler was put in by previous people.... right in the most silly place.... we have a garage that would be huge... but the previous people altered it (apparently to get a car parking space outside but if you park *any* small car there.. you can't get out the doors - believe me... we tried!!)..... We are making changes and trying to make it work for us... but progress is oh so slow.............

We looked at house built in the late 90's when buying this one - 2-3 bedrooms supposedly... but the 2nd or 3rd bedroom couldn't even fit a single bed in.... WHY?!!!

Yategirl

oops..... that is like the hundreds of preschool painting that I try and sneak in the paper bin.... but if ds2 finds out.. omg WWIII!!!

Hope the window can be fixed cheaply and that dd is better soon

mummysaver

Hi Kethry, I had a friend years ago whose parents had a huge rambling old house, I had linen cupboard envy even back then! We lived in a tiny council house, and I swear that in my memory their linen cupboard was bigger than our kitchen! All our linen is stuffed into the airing cupboard, along with pj's, you take your life in your hands when you open the door! One of my friends, no idea why she was looking in there, asked why I had so much linen - couldn't really explain that in my imagination I had a big linen cupboard to fill! I'm so glad that I'm not the only person in the world who has these weird obsessions!

I'll stop now as I seem to be monopolising this thread with my inane wanderings, and I really must clean out the kitchen before the man arrives to give me the quote, don't want him to see how we really live! Need to sort out the hm soup for the kids dinner, their favourite for some reason, and we're gonna have some of the french bread I baked earlier from the dough made yesterday - they look good, especially done in the french bread trays. Now where's my mop?

mummysaver

Yategirl wrote: »

oops..... that is like the hundreds of preschool painting that I try and sneak in the paper bin.... but if ds2 finds out.. omg WWIII!!!

Hope the window can be fixed cheaply and that dd is better soon

Uh oh, it's me again! I bought all mine folders for their pics, if they want them they can keep them safe in there, and they can keep the ones they do for me safe in there too! It kind of works, so long as I keep reminding them! But it does give me a reason to chuck out all the bits left lying around, they should have put them away!

Kaz2904

Ah art work! The beauty of having an open fire is that we need stuff to light it with and the kids happily donate their treasures to it so that they can see the flames roaring away!

lightisfading

So this is where you've been hiding, keth

I've just made a 'storecupboard' chilli my normal way (tomatoes, beans, onions, veggiemince, seasonings) and for some reason its come out really bland.. AFAIK i haven't done anything different... anyone think of a way to make it taste 'fuller' IYSWIM, without just blasting it with chilli powder?

Thinking about making some HM peanut butter cups for the OH - he's canadian and thus loves the Reeses ones. I have dark chocolate that I'd rather not eat myself (diet), and about 1/3 jar of smooth natural PB... hmmm

taurusgb

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?



keth
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LOL seconded Kethry - doubly seconded !!:T