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

natzini

D&DD, when we had our old slowcooker (it died a death, we now have a Tefal 4-in-1 jobbie) and cooked our chicken, it was white

Having a rotten day today as everything flipping depends on the car, I have loads to do though so am not going to let it get to me much, I'm going to try and blag a lift to work for the next few days.

So Yategirl, you're not alone in feeling rotten today, am sending you hugs!

purpleivy

wendyl1967 wrote: »

I store lots of stuff under the stairs on shelves so I am quite lucky that way.

A friend of mine has very little storage in her house but she has an easily removable bath panel where she stores lots of toiletries and tins that do not mind steamy conditions. It made me laugh when I first heard! But it comes in handy

I've just had new kitchen which, even though fab, marvellous, spacious etc STILL doesn't have enough room to keep all my kitchen stuff in, I kept worrying there wouldn't be, but people just laughed!

I used to keep my large collection of baking tins behind the plinths (at the bottom of the units) which was in nice short pieces to remove easily. Only prob was I couldn't remember what I had put where. The plinths in the new kitchen are too long and cumbersome for that.

Trying to do what the original poster did and run down some of my 'supplies', but not easy, I get my delicious malted bread flour from a mill in 16kg bags, takes some storing!

Yategirl

My IL's have "doors" as a bath panel so that they can store cleaning stuff and toiletries underneath - I think it is a brilliant idea... unfortunatley our bath is "shaped" so we can't do that(!) But we did leave our kitchen plinths loose and I store cartons of milk or juice or bottle of oil etc under the cupboards, plus I have a box underanother one with my dishcloths, bird food under another one and my gymball (which I really ought to get rid of as it has been there untouched for 2 years ) under another one.

PI - where do you get your large sacks of bread flour from?

purpleivy

Hi

I used to get my breadflour, various blends from Claybrooke Mill, who did mail order. I had a lot of hassle, cos I refused to order less than the max amount that would come in a parcel, shared with friends, had all the hassle of collecting money and delivering it round,Really didn't work. What I like was their blends for breadmaking, with different seeds and flours.

Unlike 'granary -is a regd. trade mark LOL!- their flours don't have hard 'bits' in, only seeds and things that are crunchy, but don't break your teeth.

After a while I realised that it couldn't be that difficult, blended wholemeal and white and added my own seeds. Still not satisfied, as the malted flour was missing. Went out with my family (SIL lives in E Yorkshire) and popped in at the garden centre. Mum collected her bag of wholemeal and I saw there was a malted flour. Been hooked ever since. WHen I get down to the last however much someone gets me a bag. Then Mum and dad bring it when they come. A 16kg bag costs less than £9. It's really good and I put seeds in or not, depending on what I have. I can't remember the name... something like Bradburns at Driffield.

purpleivy

EB Bradshaw and Sons Ltd

Bell Mills, Skerne Road, Driffield, YO25 6XL
Monday to Friday 8am - 5pm
Telephone: 01377 235163

Flour millers, white, brown, wholemeal and malted.

Also sells at neighbouring Bell Mills Garden Centre.

Yategirl

thanks PI. unfortunately a bit far for me to go but gives me the inspiration to search round a bit down here.. i've only lived down here for 7 years but I still don't know my way round....

tooties

Evening all,
just wondered if i could share my freezer inventory with you all in the hope that you can help me menu plan.

chicken and ham kievs X2
Steak mince 1lbs X6
Haggis X2
Tubs of broth X2 family size
Bacon packs X5
Pizza x2 large
Sausages One pack of 16, 3 packets of 8 and one bag containing 10
Packet of pre packed ham
1 large joint of brisket of beef
1 large bag carrots
4 X portions of cooked turkey
2 X portions of cooked ham
1 tub of turkey gravy
3X loaves bread
1 family sized portion of spag bol without the spag lol
1 portion of cauliflower cheese
24 beef burgers
4 minced beef and onion pies
500 g blueberries (Make muffins with these)
1 tub vanilla icecream
2 garlic breads
1 bag onion rings
6 hm blueberry muffins
2X boxes crjispy pancakes
1 large chicken
1 large bag chicken portions
1 bag sausage rolls
2 blocks puff pastry
4 pieces of haddock
8 yorkshire puddings
oddments of frozen veggies in stray bags


any ideas folks,
please tell me my freezer contents are normal........

by the way we are mum, dad and 3 teenage sons.
thanks in advance
tooties

purpleivy

ooooh! I love pot roasted brisket of beef. Leftovers can either be made into a cottage pie or sliced up for sandwiches.

rosieben

only thing that leaps out at me really is the pastry, turkey, ham = a pie!!

mince - spag bol, shepherds pie, lasagne, savoury mince?

sausages - sausage toad, sausage casserole, sausage and onions, bangers, mash and beans, cowboy hotpot

inventive thing with bacon? quiche, egg and bacon pie, maybe do chicken breast wrapped in bacon?

haggis, neeps and tatties - its Burns Night soon, yum!!!

and I second the pot roast with shepherds pie or rissoles from leftovers

tooties

Thank you all, some great ideas there, i now have 2 weeks worth of menu's planned and according to my inventory there is still loads of stuff going to be left....
have made a quuiche lorraine this morning its in the oven as i type, even made the pastry myself and i havent done that in over 10 years, hope it tastes ok as we are having it for tea tonight.
thanks again
regards
tooties