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

D&DD

Hi Jeeves this one might help for now http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/
I know the one you mean but can't think of the sitename Will have a look round the thread for you

sarah1975uk

Jeeves1983 wrote: »

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.

When you find out what that site is called let me know lol what a great idea, i get bored of the same ole food sometimes and would like to learn new things on a tight budget lol :rotfl:

sarah1975uk

D&DD wrote: »

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

Your making me feel very inadequate .... can i come and stay at yours for a month so you can teach me your brilliant ways and skills What a wonder woman xxx

D&DD

Aha remembered it is it
www.cookingbynumbers.com
Thats the one I use when stuck or this one
http://www.recipematcher.com/ its a new one not played with it much just yet

Sarah lol I just had a rather good day today..if you had seen the state of the place on Thursday..:eek: :eek: and I hadn't hardly baked all week*double :eek: :eek: *

sarah1975uk

D&DD wrote: »

Aha remembered it is it
www.cookingbynumbers.com
Thats the one I use when stuck or this one
http://www.recipematcher.com/ its a new one not played with it much just yet

Sarah lol I just had a rather good day today..if you had seen the state of the place on Thursday..:eek: :eek: and I hadn't hardly baked all week*double :eek: :eek: *

Ill say it again honey your a wonder woman lol where the hell do you get your energy from? I do try my best to cook from scratch money and time permitting of course work full time 3 kids under 10 etc etc, i do find that its not always the cheapest option. Did cookery at school but so wish i was more of a mumsy mum and cooked all the time from fresh i do enjoy it but get frustrated lol ALL I NEED IS PATIENCE LOL xx

sarah1975uk

oh my god that web site is brilliant xx thanks again dd xx

D&DD

I don't know who'll be more excited on christmas day...DS3 or his Dad :rotfl:

lil_me

My bets are on his Dad, if he's anything like my partner. Bet your DS will be over the moon with it too, great find! Doesn't shoot things does it? :eek: I remember a lovely grandparent bought my sons one that fired stuff one year, needless to say the 'lost' the bullets! Poor dog was scared stiff.

Saying that my partners remote control car collection stands at 16 I think this week :rolleyes:

morwenna

lil_me wrote: »

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

I do Nigella's ham in coke...(yes lil_me I am a bit of a Nigella fan...) serve hot with roasts and cauliflower cheese. I don't know what anyone else thinks, but cheese sauce and ham is yum

sammy_kaye18

Hi All

Sorry for my absense lately but we are having a real time of it here lately with this weather.

Dee i did get your message this morning and you know if you look on the bbc website it shows you a picture of a landslide in port talbot well I can see it from my kitchen window - there has also been two on main roads out of my village which leaves only one way in and out which is the steepest most dangerous hill in the wet/icy conditions we've had and that is Ynysygwas Road which i just read is closed so we are stuck in here!!!!!! :eek: We have been badly hit this year - my friend lives a the top of the hill in Ynysygwas and shes offered us a safe haven if it gets too bad down here, plus my mother in law lives on the hill on the other side of our village so we can stay there if need be. We seem ok at the minute because we are on enough of a slope that water runs away but its filling up the main road fast.

I dont think its raining at the minute but it rained all of last night so i dont know how outside is looking just yet. but when the rain comes boy does it come hard and fast!

Houses are suffering damage - the roofs of the block of flats behind us are having to be redone as they've lost tiles and ours is due to be scaffolded next week but they can only get so far before rain brings them back in again and the work takes forever. Have had to tie my washing line round the pole because it was being undo by the wind and was a safety hazard becasue it was whippign round and could have really hurt someone. plus my gates broken because the wind slammed it shut (the locks ok but faulty) and it slammed back and bust the top hinge so bf has managed to get it shut and locked totally, not before one of the slats came off it though so has a huge hole in for dog to escape out of.

We have a big tree outside our living room window which is worrying me a bit as you can hear it cracking in the wind which is kind of scary but luckily bens bedroom window is far enough away that (touch wood!) if it does fall it wont get his room, plus we are bottom floor flat so upstairs will warn us first i expect.

Bfs bike has lost its cover on more than a few occassions so is now held down with rocks but it has to be checked every morning. and the garden has been wrecked by rain and wind, friends trampoline ended up 4 houses away yesterday which was fun trying to return it. Another friend has had a tree go through her back window and flooded one side fo the hosue making it inhabitable too so her and her 3 kids had to get out of their to stay with her mate.

The school run is horrendous, i either have to walk ben down a main road which is flooded so we end up drenched before we are even at the school so always have to take spare change of clothes, or we walk throuh the park part way but that has been flooded lately. Plus the river running through the village is not too far form my house, my sister in law lives practically right next to it and she has said it is very high but not quite high enough yet to burst.

Plus we are all ill, me and ben are suffering from some virus , bad cough, blocked nose etc btu ben has it worse at the minute and mines just starting but it near on impossible to get an appointment in the doctors because one is on call to elderly people adn the other is bogged down in appointments.

i am slightly relieved in that we have the shop right next door to us so if we need anything we can get it easily although the trucks didnt get through last week so as of friday we'd had no milk or bread in there - thankfully we had frozen ones and my mil has a freezer specifically for bread and milk and i have my store cupboard with bread flour etc - thank god (so this is really a lifesaving thread!).

Im hoping ill be able to make it to tesco on monday though whilst bens in school (hes refusing to stay off so dosing him up with calpol and cough medicine) so i can stock up on a few bits provided there hasnt been more mud slides and i can get out.

well ive got to attempt to get clothes dry (was given a second airer a few months ago - cant believe i was going to bin it especially now!!) and then i have to go to work in the shop for 7 hours, im hoping i will see a few faces i recognise because im getting worried about some of the older regulars in the village - havent seen them in a few days when i normally see them everyday. think if the trucks get through today i mgiht grab a few 2 pint things fo milk and a loaf of bread and go check on them. I hate worrying and it will bug me all night if i dont see them.

right best be off, clothes to dry and want to go through my store cupboard and see exactly what i havein there incase this continues all over chrismtas i want to know we are fed. powdered milk seems a top one at the minute though and some coffee mate so im not using too much in my teas/coffee

take care all and stay safe

Sam
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