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

Kaz2904

I only need 2 sets because DS is the only one who wets. He was too lazy to get out of bed so we put him back in a nappy one night and DD ridiculed him. He's never wet since!
DD is occaisionally ill. If both beds get used in one night they go into their sleeping bags or come in with us.

lil_me

jcr16, just being nosey, how do you cook and what do you serve with your gammon joint? I have one to use and usually they end up being cooked and used for sandwiches here, would like to make more of a meal of it.

Been shopping, I have spent quite a lot but in my defence most of it is on non food, enough bog rolls to last until after Xmas, washing powder, other cleaning stuff etc etc, got the other things I need, yes I need 3 bags of sugar, same of flour, because I get twitchy if I have any less in. Didn't buy anything for the freezer so that is still going well.

JAMIEDODGER

its been manic here the last few days. my friends little baby boy 6 weeks old has been taken into hospital with bronchitis and i have had her daughter here. i dont mind as she plays really well with my dd.

today i have cleared out the large understairs cupboard and that was a task and a half:D

i have made some bread, mushroom soup and donuts.

lunch was egg mayo sarnies...yum, i did the eggs in the new steamer and they came out perfectly! i think im gonna realy like this new gadget!!

tomorrow i have ironing uniforms to do, making cakes for lunchboxes this week, more bread and maybe make some more lemon curd.

the car went today, to the scrappys, they came and collected it, i got £25. it was quite a sad affair, i did love that ole tank!

lil_me

Jamie fingers crossed your friend's little one is better soon, must be very worrying for her. Hugs for the having to part with the car, I got rid of my first car last year and was horrible, I couldn't watch him drive it away.

Yategirl

Jamie [hugs] for your friend's baby.. hope he is better soon and !!{hugs}} for you and saying goodbye to your car... I remember my car going when I became a sahm... twas a sad day

Been a yeuchy day.... we are all tired and need time out from the stresses of everyday life.. and today we seem to have taken it out on each other on a good note ds1 and I gutted his room, got rid of the rubbish and it is currently tidy and ready for the christmas influx.... but how long it will stay tidy for I do not know(!) Am going to do ds2's room this week. I have made some jammy iced buns for tea but we gave in to our tiredness and got some chips to go with lo chicken... instead of the bubble and squeak we should have had... feel a bit guilty about that as I have spent so much money on christmas stuff and haircuts this week... not good....

Have also been having a read good read of Rhonda's blog - not been right back to the start before and twas a good fascinating read. Also enjoyed today's storecupboard posts - thanks Rhonda I am going to sort my storecupboard items out this week (I have a box or two under my bed!!!).

Ok... quick query to you like-minded people I have been sorting ds2's clothes and have a pile of too small stuff... some I can pass on via freecycle but some I don't feel is good enough to pass on so I will convert into cleaning cloths (recycles the clothes into something else and saves me money on buying cleaning stuff.... I will be buying dishcloth cotton though as I need some new proper dishcloths ) but what other "alternatives" do you recycle (as in apart from glass/tin/paper)??

kethry

Yategirl wrote: »

what other "alternatives" do you recycle (as in apart from glass/tin/paper)??

depends on how you define "recycle". i suppose some of what i do is strictly "reuse", not recycle, but .. *shrug*. i garden, so i try to think of things to go in the garden. Loo rolls, for example i keep and plant seeds in them, the loo roll rots down and the roots just grow through them (they do, when planted, push up wierd mushrooms. i wouldn't eat em!). mushroom trays, those plastic things that mushrooms come in are great as seed trays. I've a whole stack of those! tetrapacks and milk bottles can be used as seedtrays too. tetrapacks can be sent back to the manufacturer for recycling proper. material i hang onto.. never know when you can make something else out of it. ditto cardboard boxes and bubblewrap, in case i need to post stuff. jam jars i use for bottling. christmas cards and paper i reuse as well. ditto birthday cards. lol (not the whole card, i just cut bits out to use as part of a whole new card). beansprout's blog has some good ideas with regard to things like reuse and recycling, if you want more tips.

HTH

keth
xx

morwenna

Yategirl wrote: »

Jamie [hugs] for your friend's baby.. hope he is better soon and !!{hugs}}
I can pass on via freecycle but some I don't feel is good enough to pass on so I will convert into cleaning cloths (recycles the clothes into something else and saves me money on buying cleaning stuff.... I will be buying dishcloth cotton though as I need some new proper dishcloths ) but what other "alternatives" do you recycle (as in apart from glass/tin/paper)??

I hope Jamies friend's son is okay too! anything that can't be recycled or freecycled goes to charity shops unless it can be a wiper/duster/future costume/or useful here x

D&DD

Jamie hope your friends little one is on the mend soon,it's awful when they have something as nasty as that so young..Make sure they give her medicine syringes for the medicine at home as its a nightmare otherwise getting stuff down them when poorly as we all know!

This weather is awful hope everyone is dry and safe from the worst of it..I have spent allllllllll day holed up in the nice toasty warm kitchen..that said me feet are now killing me!!!!

Today I have made...
12 soft rolls (6 with sesame seeds)
12 crusty rolls
1 x sultana bread
2 x small plum jams (plums were going over in fridge)
6 x iced buns
1 x small apple braid
4 x portions chicken curry
4 x portions thai green curry
4 x portions cajun chicken
2 x cheese and potato pies
6 x jam tarts
1 x plum and apple pie
1 x shepherds pie
4 x portions chilli
6 x portions spag bol....

a good day!!!!

Even managed to get the washing up to date too so feeling pretty pleased tonight although everything hurts :rotfl:

Boys had cereal mixes this morning (all the dregs and bits left in boxes) plus some toast..DS3 had strawberries and toast...

Lunch was bacon sarnies and ds3 had some cooked chicken and bread

Dinner was sausages and mash with peas and carrots

Mollymop5

JAMIEDODGER wrote: »

morning:D

ok so i just caved and bought a dehydrator on ebay. its brand new 46.50 with delivery, british plug. im a happy bunny.

I emailed the company in a previous posting (with the 3 pin plug) and they said all british orders were sent with uk plug and that the picture had been from a german catalogue. Just incase anyone is interested.Not sure what page the link was on though.

Jeeves1983

A while ago a link was posted on here about a site where you could type in all the ingredients you had in your cupboard and it would give you a list of recipes to try. Anybody know what the site is called? I have fish to use as im going on a diet and i need some low fat healthy cod recipes.