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

jenagain

Ladies I miss you!! Work has been soooo busy I haven't had a spare moment to think, I've done no baking since Dyl's birthday and I'm having withdrawal symptoms!!

I just popped on quickly bearing gifts as I saw this and thought of you all....
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deal/58592/10-off-when-spending-25-at-lakeland

My mum asked me what I wanted for Christmas the other day and I pointed her in the direction of a Morphy Richards breadmaker I've been eyeing up for a few weeks - fingers crossed

Hope everyone is ok, promise I'll catch up soon xx

jenagain

Forgot to say you can order 5 x £5 gift vouchers for £15, then spend the £25 in store if you have one near you - so you save on the P&P!

JAMIEDODGER

how did you get on with your dehydrator Yategirl? Postie has just delivered mine:D

ravylesley

Yategirl wrote: »

My recipe:

2 cups plain flour
2tsp baking powder
2 tsp sugar
2 cups milk
2 eggs - seperate
2 tsp vanilla essence

Mix all ingredients except the egg whites.
whisk egg whites till softly peaking and then fold into the batter mix. don't overfold.
Use a 4oz ladle and pour a ladle's worth of mix into the hot machine and cook for approx 2 mins then repeat

My recipe is sort of similar but it does contain oil.I will look it out and post it for you later

Lesleyxx

Yategirl

JAMIEDODGER wrote: »

how did you get on with your dehydrator Yategirl? Postie has just delivered mine:D

i have looked at it... but put it back in the box.... I *will* be strong and not touch it till christmas day... despite the fact ds1 and I are desperate to have a go!!! Pls note ds1 wants my chrissie pressie too... he told me yesterday that he likes to eat healthy food What do you think of yours?

Thanks Lesley

What do you all give your children to drink?? ds2 likes milk, tea, hot chocolate and juice (real or squash).. ds1 drinks very little and prefers juice (as in the real stuff) which is fine but I don't find it very good for school and he won't touch water.... He does like elderflower cordial and I am thinking of home-made lemonade/ginger beer but it does have a lot of sugar in it... any ideas would be good...

right... am off to bake... we are completely out of niceties!!!! :rolleyes:

JAMIEDODGER

YG - I am drying strawberrys/bananas/apples and mushrooms in there today, as a first trial to see how they go....

will update later:)

mummysaver

Afternoon, only just read the last few posts and now I want a waffle maker, kids were trying to persaude me ages ago, but wouldn't pay loads of money for one, now guess where I'm going to be on Monday!

Will have to catch up later, need to make cheese sauce for lasagne and put it together with leftover bol sauce that's defrosted, else there'll be no dinner for the kids before I got to work! Breadmaker is still the best thing ever, it'll be beeping in a mo, oh how I love it!

Yategirl, got some bits for dd3's cookery set in tesco, they even had a tiny roasting tin for 63p, will be good for tray bakes! Thanks for all your help.

Storecupboards look about to pop with all the stock piling I'm doing at the mo, still it'll be worth it when I start saving money after Christmas when we're broke! Thanks to everyone on here for all the advice and sharing what they do.

Have to come back later to catch up, might've missed a necessary gadget that I just have to have!

JAMIEDODGER

mummysaver wrote: »

Have to come back later to catch up, might've missed a necessary gadget that I just have to have!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

D&DD

Sorry for going AWOL for a couple of days got a bit overrun this end..yes peeps it does happen...often:rotfl:

Had so much catching up to do on so many things I decided to just go hell for leather and do it all in one go,sitting here now with a heatpad on my shoulder due to cleaning overload :eek:

Just going to sort the kids out with baths and the usual 'stuff' then I'll be back later to catch up *I'll get my reading goggles ready looks like I've missed loads!!!*

pssst * http://www.recipe-source.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?search_string=waffles&imageField.x=12&imageField.y=18

just a few waffle recipes...

Yategirl

argh Dee!!! now I will have to buy that waffle maker on Monday!!! :laugh:

made vanilla muffins today and cinnamon/mixed spice (as I have run out of ginger!) cookie biscuits then hm potato bake ready to go in the oven as I ran out the door this afternoon... worked perfectly... it and the sausages were cooked just right as I ran back in at 6pm!

How is everyone doing?