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

lil_me

Bother Kethry's recipe says brown bread crumbs (got wholemeal bread flour but not brown) and 3 types of alcohol which I don't have, any easier recipes? Maybe with one type of alcohol instead of having to buy 3 (we don't drink, all I have is 3 year old Tia Maria, Archers and Vodka)

JAMIEDODGER

lil me - i should think you could add sultanas...it is just like a giant fairy cake really:D

rhonda_jean

DD&D your apple braid looks delicious. I'm going to try your recipe. Thanks for sharing it. I have a healthy stockpile and with it, and my vegetable and fruit garden, I could live happily without shopping for a few months I need be. I think stockpiling saves quite a bit of money on the grocery budget and it saves all that time that's usually wasted on shopping.

D&DD

:j Hi Rhonda I LOVE your site :T :T Rhondas blog is at http://down---to---earth.blogspot.com/ if you haven't seen it it's FAB!!!
Lots of info for food storage and a host of other interesting stuff on there

lil_me have you tried Delias xmas puds?? They're quite nice..she does a traditional one in her xmas book and little mincemeat souffle puds too :drool: Great in individual pudding dishes,I made these last year and did them in my old fashioned mini china mixing bowls..(50p each from TJ Hughes)

*sorry being thrown off AGAIN* .....back again in a min

Gluten/dairy free xmas pud (traditional heavy one..)
4 oz veggie suet (gf from health food shop)
2 oz doves farm flour
4 oz breadcrumbs (gf bread whizzed down)
2 tspns mixed spice
1lb 2oz sultanas
8 oz soft brown sugar
1 small dessert apple peeled,cored and whizzed down to puree
2 eggs
4 fl oz soy milk

In a large bowl put in suet,flour and breadcrumbs,sugar and spices.Mix throroughly then add dried fruit followed by the apple.Mix the milk with the egg and add slowly stirring into the mix.
Cover bowl and leave to soak for 3 hours...
Pack mixture into a greased bowl and steam for 6 hours...

Easy light gf/cf xmas pud.. (Delia Smith's turned gf)
6 oz doves farm flour
pinch salt
4 oz pure (df marg)
4 oz soft brown sugar
1 med cooking apple peeled,cored,diced..
2 eggs
3 tblspns gf mincemeat
1 tspn lemon juice

Beat sugar and marg, add eggs fold in flour and salt.Add lemon juice,mincemeat and apple.
Spoon into a 2 pint basin and steam for 2 1/2 hours.

Yategirl

mmhhh.. darn.... was telling friend about the choc spread and the fact I was going to try drinking choc instead of cocoa powder... "what about the additives etc?" SO... any thoughts on making the choc spread less bitter but without adding any unwanted "extras"?

Also had a thought about the bun dough - it would be yummy rolled like a swiss roll with cinnamon sugar and rasins in between the layers and then sliced and put in the pan, baked and iced - like cinnamon buns/danish pastries!

D&DD

Yategirl wrote: »

mmhhh.. darn.... was telling friend about the choc spread and the fact I was going to try drinking choc instead of cocoa powder... "what about the additives etc?" SO... any thoughts on making the choc spread less bitter but without adding any unwanted "extras"?

Also had a thought about the bun dough - it would be yummy rolled like a swiss roll with cinnamon sugar and rasins in between the layers and then sliced and put in the pan, baked and iced - like cinnamon buns/danish pastries!

Hi Yategirl try subbing a little of the sugar for icing sugar as its far sweeter;)
Great idea about the rollup there's so many different uses for this dough I never thought of!!:D

Yategirl

D&DD wrote: »

Hi Yategirl try subbing a little of the sugar for icing sugar as its far sweeter;)
Great idea about the rollup there's so many different uses for this dough I never thought of!!:D

I hadn't thought of that,, and as it is so fine it will give a creamier texture to the spread as well.... guess what I am doing tomorrow!! (as well as making more iced buns :rotfl: )

D&DD

Lets just say the tins not quite as full anymore :rotfl: Thanks TWINK the boys loved them :T




Here's my little pudding bowls..just like the old fashioned Greens mixing bowls

Today I did a shop at Mr T's for....
Milk £1.96p
Chicken bogof £3.00
Mince £1.40
Sausages £1.02
Total £7.38p...Not too bad

Breakfast this morning was cereals as everyone was up late..

Lunch was toasted sarnies as I still have quite a few apples to use up!

Dinner was Sausage toad mash and peas Yum

lil_me

How cute are those incy bowls, I want some! Hmm, where on earth is our nearest TJ Hughes is the next thought, might be Middlesbrough fair trek away, will have to look for them tho, ideal for choccy puds too!

Toads here tomorrow, thanks for the reminder, sausages are, you guessed it, still in the freezer....

tooties

Evening everyone,
sorry i havent posted for ages but i have been trying to keep up with the thread, been busy crafting (hoping to make enough of a profit with the crafts to tread myself to a donut maker).
I will be having a baking day tomorrow so its carrott cakes, ginger breads, iced buns, hobnobs and a traybake or two.
hopefully get back to normality next week we have resorted to a few take aways this week due to my crafting and im totally exhausted.
off to bed now
take care everyone
tooties