I first wrote this post back in 2012 when my two were still at school and packed lunches were a big part of our everyday routine.At the time, school dinners where we lived cost £1.95 a day, which felt like a lot when I was paying for two children – especially when one was a very fussy eater and the other didn't have a huge appetite and would much rather rush through lunch to get outside with her friends.We'd worked out by then what would and wouldn't get eaten and I'd got pretty good at keeping the cost of their packed lunches down, so I sat down and worked out exactly what one of our … [Read more...]
Easy Roasted Tomato Soup Recipe….
I wasn't planning on making soup this week, but then I spotted a 7kg tray of tomatoes at our local farm shop for just £5 and I couldn't leave them behind. There was absolutely no chance we'd get through that many tomatoes before they started to turn as there's only me really who eats them so I decided to spend an afternoon roasting them and turning them into soup for the freezer as I love a good soup for lunch when I'm working from home. I've made roasted tomato soup for years, but I've gradually tweaked the way I make it. These days I don't bother quartering the tomatoes … [Read more...]
Overnight Oats – what’s all the fuss about?
For the longest time, I was convinced I wouldn't like overnight oats.The name just made me think of cold, soggy porridge that had been forgotten about in the fridge overnight. It didn't sound remotely appealing and, despite hearing people rave about them for years, I never felt tempted to give them a go.But I needed to get better at breakfast and in order to do that, I needed to be able to just grab something from the fridge and eat it as I knew I just wouldn't bother if it wasn't easy as I've never been a breakfast person. I gave them a try, and I couldn't have been more … [Read more...]
Basic Quiche Recipe – perfect for using up leftovers….
My basic quiche recipe is one that I learned from my Mam years ago. I always used to look forward to her baking days because they were wonderfully predictable. There would almost always be a quiche, a corned beef pie and a cake chosen from her well-thumbed Be-Ro cookbook.I can still picture her standing in the kitchen with that cookbook open on the worktop, deciding which cake to make while the quiche and corned beef pie were already well underway. Looking back, I think those baking days are probably the reason I still love making simple, homemade food now. They're some of my happiest … [Read more...]
What we’re eating the week before Pay Day….
The week before payday is always the week that I try to work my way through the freezer and cupboards to use up some of the things we already have in.Years ago, I started doing it out of necessity because money was often a bit tight by the time we reached the end of the month. Back then, it was a way of stretching the budget until payday arrived. These days, it's much more of a habit than a necessity, but it's one that's stuck as I quite like having a bit of a reset before the big monthly shop. It helps clear out the random bits that have accumulated in the freezer, uses up anything … [Read more...]
I Got a Pie Maker for Free… Sort Of…
One of my friends popped round for a catch up a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time they'd been since we moved house so they got the obligatory tour of the house, ending in the kitchen where we put the kettle on and chatted while we waited for it to boil. She spotted a couple of my kitchen gadgets which got us talking about some of the random gadgets we both own and as we chatted, we both realised that we had a stack of kitchen gadgets each in our kitchens - some of which we use all the time and some are just gathering dust at the back of the cupboards. Somewhere in the … [Read more...]
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