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

NoahsPennilessMummy

Ooooh and am currently building up stocks of flour after reading on here that Asda have increased their prices by almost 50%......the others are bound to follow soon:eek: .

also concerned that pasta and rice will go up too?

anyone else stocking up?

donnajt

i pretend not to be a stockpiler but if you search back thru the thread the pictures of the insides of my cupboards tells a different story...hence the reason i now have over 100 packets of walkers crisps lol!

i generally makes pizza dough and it all gets eaten but for meg's birthday i made up 14 pizza bases, i bagged them all up and stored them nicely in fridge...went shopping...on return put kettle on went to get milk from fridge and pizza bases had risen - the fridge looked like i'd shoved a marshmallow man inside lol - thankfully they remained bagged

i ended up freezing half of them and they have come in really handy...thanks for the tip to cook the base for a few mins before freezing -hadn't thought of that but will def try

have decided to cook chicken in white wine and mushroom sauce tonight with mash me thinks - but might change mind

does anybody watch Delia Cheats??? i want to know what that aubergine recipe is called - it's layers of aubergine with tomato sauce and cheese sprinkled on top - if anybody can put me out of my misery i'd be enternally grateful

back to moving furniture around - not sure why i started rearranging rooms my bloomin back is killing me

dtx

peb

Did not see the Delia recipe but could it be a type of Moussaka?

Another lurker who is really impressed at how well you manage!

Tashja

Hi all

Hope yopu don't mind me posting !!! I am also a stockpiler !!

Luckily I went to Asda on Sunday and bought a load of Flour so just missed the price increase. After reading the thread on here I went yesterday to stock up on rice and pasta - got 2x big bags of pasta and 2 bags f rice.

Had to go to Asda again today to do big shop (CB day !!) and they had sold out of rice and the big bags of pasta !!! I think a few people are panic buying.

Ohhh, I am also an apple braid convert but at the moment the big family fave is Lemon Merangue Cake !!

T xx

NoahsPennilessMummy

i didnt watch Delia but the aubergine recipe sounds like Aubergine Parmigiana to me

falady

hiya,

I think its aubergine parmegiana too.

Ali x

mandy_moo_1

yep, i'm another stockpiler :rolleyes:

i've just been to tesco and bought 12 bags of bread flour before they put the prices up. i would've bought more cos it had a long date on it, but there weren't any more on the shelves :rotfl:

they hardly had any pasta on the shelves, so i couldn't get any. i was hoping to get a load of that as well as we go through loads of it

binsky

This sounds lovely - can you please post the recipe? (I've had a look but can't see it).

Thanks:j

mama67

shaz_mum_of__2 wrote: »

mama67

Hi Masie have you tried T's own fruit and barley its only 64p(ish) not sure if they do peach though? my eldest drinks about 4 bottles a week!!! of the fruits of forest he says its nicer than the branded one?


Shazx

Thanks Sharon, yes I've tried all variations closest was Mr A peach & apricot but even then they knew it wasn't branded variety even after I put it in old bottle to try and fool them.

Mr A had it 3/£2 or often Mr T & Mr S and even Co-op have it bogof so that brings it down to around the 60p/bottle mark.

I don't pay full price they have to make do with cheap orange if we run out.

Tashja

binsky wrote: »

This sounds lovely - can you please post the recipe? (I've had a look but can't see it).

Thanks:j

Yep, here you go !!! Be wared though - the cake is massive and doesn't last 2 seconds with kids and hubbies around.

For the cake
Lemon Zest (I only use a small amount - 1 lemon)
8oz soft butter
8oz caster sugar
3 eggs
9oz SR Flour
6 tbsp mlk

For the Meringue
2 egg whites
4oz caster sugar

For the filling
250g Mascarpone
2 tbsp icing sugar
half a jar of lemon curd (I use the value stuff!)

1 - Mix all the cake ingredients together and split between 2x prepared 20cm cake tins and smooth the tops off.

2 - Make up the meringue using the 2 egg whites and caster sugar. Once the meringue is fluffy pour some on top of each of the cake mixtures in the tin and then place in the oven to cook. 160C / fan 140C or Gas 3 for 35/40 mins or until you can poke it with a scewer and it comes out clean.

3 - While the cake is cooking you can make up the filling. Mix the Masapone and Icing sugar together and then swirl in / mix in the half jar of lemon curd. Keep this in the fridge until you need it.

4 - Once the cakes are cooked and cooled (be very careful getting them out of the tins !!!) you need to make up the cake - the cake should go cake with meringue on top, filling, cake with meringue on top. Be careful at this point because the top cake slips and slides a bit !!

Ok I hope this helps - never posted a recipe like this before Any questions just ask.

I initially got this recipe from Good Food and it is sooooo yummy !!!

T xx