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Blackcats

I like the bread and butter pudding suggestion - yes please from me!
my suggestions were rice pudding or pancakes.

rtandon27

Perhaps a rumble crumble if you have any frozen fruit lurking? We usually have some combination of berries in the freezer and a sad apple or two in the fruit bowl. OH has custard with his!

Greying_Pilgrim

Thank you kayannie and Blackcats for you suggestions.

kayannie - definitely DH and I love bread & butter pud (and bread pudding for that matter), not too sure if LG has ever tried it 🤔 I don't have any white bread (which makes the best pud imho), that'll learn me for turning my nose up at white bread offerings at the waste food diversion scheme! 😂 And whilst I'm sure it could be made in the SC, rather than the oven, I'm not sure I have a dish that would work in a bain marie set up. A choice for a day when I've got the oven on perhaps, although, mmmmmmm yummy!

Blackcats - DH loves rice pudding, I can't stand it, and I think LG has had it (not for eons tho), and I'm not sure if they are in their love/loathe period with it. But a good suggestion - and another pud that I always overlook and shouldn't - as DH does like it. And I know it can be cooked on the stove-top, but DH does like oven baked - although having said that, he'd have the tinned stuff too………..

I think I'm going to have to go for steamed pud - in the SC. I do have some chocolate chips and some cocoa, so could do a choc steamed sponge 🤔 Had I given it much more thought, instead of concentrating on the weather boogering up today's plans, I could have got the Christmas pud out of the freezer, and we could have had that. In essence, it is choc/orange steamed pud…….

I will have a go at custard - HM doesn't cost much money, and I just either make it too thin, or too thick - it's (usually) edible, just not very attractive. DH has been brung up proper and is used to eating slices of gravy or covering disasters in either gravy or custard, or both…… 🤣

The weather here is pants. One minute the sun is shining, the next it is pouring with rain. I really thought the forecast was wildly wrong, as the drain cover went from sopping wet to bone dry, but it soon turned sopping wet again, and that has been on repeat throughout the morning. It is currently lashing down and blowing a hoolie.

I have been prepping and pricing out my shopping list, seeing what I need, what I would like, and notionally how much of a hole it's going to put in my remaining budget. At the moment, there are still a few pennies left, but then I've not got much on my list either 🙄 I have made some zanzibar spice mix for the soup tonight. In digging through the freezer I spotted the trays of black eyed beans I'd soaked/cooked, so I will use a box to make Tanzanian Black eye bean and coconut soup, as I have everything in for it - and now have made up the spice mix. Whilst I was about it, I also made up a jar of 'basic' curry powder, so that I can curry something at the drop of a hat.

Thanks for proffering suggestions, always appreciated, and I often 'salt ideas away' for another time.

Greying X

redofromstart

What about a self saucing pudding? Lots of SC recipes online that are cocoa based. 'Lemon Magic Pudding' was a staple of my childhood - not had that for years. The Mary Berry version here is cooked in a bain marie so it should work.

Greying_Pilgrim

Thanks redo - a recipe I have never attempted. And you're right, it would take dessert away from 'steamed pudding again' wouldn't it? I shall salt that suggestion away for another time - thank you.

I came back on to say, that I really, really do appreciate folk proffering suggestions/ideas as I do always read, mull over, and think about what you've written. And whilst I don't want to put the oven on to make a bread and butter pudding, and I haven't - as such - got the right ingredients, I got to thinking,….. and remembered in that rootling through the freezer just now, I spotted some Tiramisu hot X buns that I got YS'd from m&$ at Easter. Now, I've thought about it - and although I could make a B&B pudding with these, I'm not going to. iirc - we had some………. red velvet cake??? hot X buns from there at the same time, and they have 'stuff' inside them, which isn't the end of the world, but not quite as easy as just slicing up a teacake or a conventional hot X bun. So we'll have them just as buns - which is no hardship - but there are two things that came to mind, in having ready your comments.

Firstly I looked at what we had differently. I was looking at these as more of an 'elevenses' item - perhaps in the holidays, but they will make a perfectly satisfactory 'sweet treat' on a Tuesday evening, after a filling bowl of soup. And secondly, I'm awfully glad I was mulling them over, and went to fish them out of the freezer, as when I was looking at 'what we had' in terms of drawing up the shopping list, I turned the freezer off, to avoid it beeping at me whilst I looked. Dear Reader, I forgot to pop the appliance back on when I'd finished 😱 And so going back to it to grab the Tiramisu buns, made me realise, and I flicked the switch back on.

THANK YOU

Greying X

badmemory

Why make bread & butter pudding with white bread? I am sure over the years I have had it with brown & 50/50. Although I do like it with marmalade. Whatever floats your boat really.

Greying_Pilgrim

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82004496#Comment_82004496

I just prefer white bread in B&B pudding - I think it soaks the milk/egg mixture up. We eat more or less exclusively wholemeal for sandwiches/toast etc. I just prefer white bread for puds - probably because my mum always made it with white sliced. We do have marmalade in the house - not much, but we've still the little jars LG got in a tombola, last year 🤣 currently still in date, so not an issue.

Greying X

rtandon27

Yesterday OH brought back some apple crumble from the hospice daycentre - and gleefully said - you won't have to worry about dessert - and it even has custard on it. 😱 I left it all for him & had a mini-bag of crisps instead - lol 🤣

Greying_Pilgrim

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82004597#Comment_82004597

Aww - but 🤣 too. Crisps, mmmmmmmmmm 😍

Greying X

Blackcats

tiramisu hot x buns sound yummy and that in turn reminded me that we have 2 frozen bramley apple hot x buns from the same supermarket which have been extricated from the freezer and are just about to go on our rain dodging walk. What a great source on inspiration to each other us MSE'rs are