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

ravylesley

Careful Dee you are in danger of loving the cooker more than you love your hubby

Glad its arrived safe

Lesleyxx

lollyred1

well am sending dp into loft today to start sorting things to sell, i have so much craft stuff up there and no time to use it so going to sell and use that money to pay off bills etc. Did big shop with asda the other day as kept waking up in night worrying had no food in store cupboards- but now keep going and looking lovingly at it all( DP thinks im crazy)
I go back to work on the 21st so batch cooking baby food so dp doesnt have to worry about that. Just so so busy but still cant drag myself away from computer:o

D&DD

ravylesley wrote: »

Careful Dee you are in danger of loving the cooker more than you love your hubby

Glad its arrived safe

Lesleyxx

:rotfl: :rotfl:
True lol was looking forward to it arriving more than him...how bad is that ??:o *He knows I love him really*

D&DD

lollyred1 wrote: »

well am sending dp into loft today to start sorting things to sell, i have so much craft stuff up there and no time to use it so going to sell and use that money to pay off bills etc. Did big shop with asda the other day as kept waking up in night worrying had no food in store cupboards- but now keep going and looking lovingly at it all( DP thinks im crazy)
I go back to work on the 21st so batch cooking baby food so dp doesnt have to worry about that. Just so so busy but still cant drag myself away from computer:o

Well done Lolly (I'm the same with my cupboards)
I used to do a cookup for the boys when they were babies,huge pots of chicken dinners,mincey dinners,beef ones all whizzed down and frozen.Saves so much time and money! I used to freeze them in the spare tops I accumalated from my avent bottles,just the right size for a portion at first

cheerfulness4

Is it all installed Dee? :j I'm excited and its not even mine. :rolleyes:

Yesterday my doughnut maker arrived. :j :j :j I know I'm way behind the rest of you getting one, but I had to wait until I'd made enough vouchers on my survey sites.

It's got two instruction books in but no recipe book. They mucked up.
I'm sure on here there was a recipe put on kindly by someone. Will rummage in a mo.

Will I be able to stop at one do you think or will 3 leap down my throat?:cool:
Shall have to have willpower of steel and freeze some for planned treats, I think.

Maisie_M

Oh D&DD I bet you are sooooo excited with your new cooker. I had one of those in my last two houses first one was one of the four door ones like you have and the second had one huge oven and then a smaller over - both were fantastic and even when you think you wont use six rings its amazing how many time you do - especially if you are doing a cook up for the freezer:D and the ovens make traditional english brekkies and full works roast a breeze.
Now its my turn to be jealous as I miss mine so much!!

Am about to start baking with the little one and rainbow cakes and a banana bread are on the to do list as I have some banana's that are now over ripe.

However I need to pick your brains folks. I also have some potatoes that need to be used up and wondered if anyone has a recipie for Cheese and potatoe pie/bake and also a confirmation that it will freeze. Am going to do some cheddar mash to freeze but thought the cheese and potato bake would be a good alternative and make it quick and easy for when I am working.

I am doing really well on this using up business cause pre joining this thread and the GC challenge I would have binned the potatoes and banana's!!!!

Many thanks folks.

D&DD

cheerfulness4 wrote: »

Is it all installed Dee? :j I'm excited and its not even mine. :rolleyes:

Yesterday my doughnut maker arrived. :j :j :j I know I'm way behind the rest of you getting one, but I had to wait until I'd made enough vouchers on my survey sites.

It's got two instruction books in but no recipe book. They mucked up.
I'm sure on here there was a recipe put on kindly by someone. Will rummage in a mo.

Will I be able to stop at one do you think or will 3 leap down my throat?:cool:
Shall have to have willpower of steel and freeze some for planned treats, I think.

Yep paid for the installation with what I saved with a 5% voucher on here and quidco It was delivered at 8.15 and all set up by 9 :j
My boiler has now conked out so waiting for the repairman...thankfully we're in HA so it won't cost anything..it sounds like a washing machine on a spin cycle :eek: (the boiler not the cooker..)

I'm sure I posted the doughnut recipe will find it in a mo for you

Maisie I just mash the tatties with bit of milk,dollop of butter then chuck in the cheese and stir til it melts.(you can add a bit of crumbled cooked bacon to mmmmm) Put into a dish and sprinkle with more cheese then freeze.You can cook from frozen too If you haven't a spare dish to freeze it in do it in an old marg tub and pop it out when frozen solid,saves on freezer space.


Doughnuts recipe is here http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=6808528&postcount=219

PS I bet none make it to the freezer!!!!!

cheerfulness4

D&DD wrote: »

Doughnuts recipe is here http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=6808528&postcount=219

PS I bet none make it to the freezer!!!!!

Well that all depends on how many lots I make.

Thanks for the link, Dee. And I'm still shocked that you've had it installed for 4 hours and your still not baking away merrily. :eek: You need it on to warm the house. :rolleyes:

jcr16

woooohhhhoooooo I'm so excited for you Dee.

i been trying this morning to work out if i can get on ein my kitchen. hubby said i can have one. but the only way i can is if i loose 3 cupboards. I'm not sure if i can afford to loose the cupboard space at mo.

i'm having a mega hard time of thinsgs at mo with my house. as this house ahas never been a house i would choose to live in. but 4 years ago it suited our need's. we could easily afford it and with 1 child it was huge. Bedrooms are 17ft by 11 and 15 by 12 so goosd sizes. we always planned to have a 2 story extention, which would make our house a 4 good size bed house or 4 and a smaller box room. with big kitchen and utlity etc. I am really exctied about the prospect's. we have a massive garden. think the gardener saide is was 200 meter square or something like that.

Anyway we are the ponly private house in our little corner the others are council. everyone is really nice. but old lady next door died last year and they have moved a really young couple in. OMg the garden is appauling. every window i look out all i can see is a garden full of rubbish, it blows into are garden. if it is sunny all i can smell is dog poo as they don't clean the dog pen.

there dog keeps escaping into our gerden. and my son was running in our garden and fell over in dog poo. i am trying to stay positive and keep thinking they will move soon .But it just makes me feel so unsettled i just wanna move. but we can't afford to move anywhere at mo. and espesh with me being preg. my kids go to the local school 2 mins walk away and it is an amazing school. in the summer when we sat at our dinning table having our family meal, they had a bbq and everyone was in their garden staring into our kitchen watching us eat.
we love our house and have so many idea's. hubby is building me a rasing veg plot with green house and planning to give me a little potting shed next to it. plus he said he gonna put a radiator out in the brick built shed so i can keep my homemade wine at a regular temp etc.

i not saying their bad people next door. but the state of the house, is depressing. nearly everyone that visit me comments and say omg that is awful i fell for u living next to it.

sorry to waffle on and not be talking about food. but at mo. i am throwing myself into so much cooking and baking so i don't have to think about thing. but by doing so i keep thinking about the new kitchen we had planned . then i start thinking do i want it , if we have to carry on living next to what we are. so it a bit of a viscious circle if that makes sence.

maybe it the pregnancy making me put all things out of perspective

kethry

jcr16 wrote: »

Anyway we are the ponly private house in our little corner the others are council. everyone is really nice. but old lady next door died last year and they have moved a really young couple in. OMg the garden is appauling. every window i look out all i can see is a garden full of rubbish, it blows into are garden. if it is sunny all i can smell is dog poo as they don't clean the dog pen.

I don't think you're getting things out of perspective, hon. If anything, you're going the other way: if my child came in covered in dog poo i'd be screaming blue bloody murder, and i *have* a dog!!

I don't know where you are but i do know this: given its a council property you can complain about their garden, particularly if the fence is not looked after and their dog is getting out. i think if you actually tell the council that your children are at risk healthwise because of the dog poop then you'll get things moving pretty quick (if only because, if they don't do anything and you go to the papers it makes them look extremely bad). Even if they only sort out fencing so that the dog can no longer get into your garden, and gives you a bit of privacy from next door, that would be an improvement i think. If you're careful to complain about the state of the *fencing* rather than the actual people it shouldn't cause problems.

In addition, if you want to grow veg in the garden, then you really do have to get the fencing sorted out because .. well. you wouldn't want to eat veg that have been grown in dog poop, would you?

good luck with it!

keth
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