What's for dinner?
Oct 22nd 2009, 4:18 am
#31
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Re: What's for dinner?
Oh as for dinner - I have two small dinners. A small bean and mushroom and avocado salad before the gym. Some rabbit leaves in there too.
When I get home I will have chicken and a salad of olives, tomatoes, feta, cucumber, onions, garlic and capsicums. Somewhere between a med salad, a greek salad and just whatever else I find in the fridge.
But not the manky scrap bag in the fridge. I make sure I don't fish around in that.
When I get home I will have chicken and a salad of olives, tomatoes, feta, cucumber, onions, garlic and capsicums. Somewhere between a med salad, a greek salad and just whatever else I find in the fridge.
But not the manky scrap bag in the fridge. I make sure I don't fish around in that.
Oct 22nd 2009, 7:29 pm
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Re: What's for dinner?
Now might be a good time to wean him off those or make your own chicken in breadcrumbs and take on board more sneaky ways to bulk out meals with extra veggies, such as adding grated carrot to mince dishes.
If you read the food labels here, most ready made or processed meat products fall to the lowest common denominator i.e, LAMB scraps and are IMO best avoided. Pork 'fllavoured' sausages and beefburgers are usually blended with lamb and thus gives a very unusual flavour. I don't mind lamb if it's meant to be lamb, but it hacks me off when a burger that is supposed to be beef, has lamb featured high up in the contents list. The only way to go is to make your own.
If you read the food labels here, most ready made or processed meat products fall to the lowest common denominator i.e, LAMB scraps and are IMO best avoided. Pork 'fllavoured' sausages and beefburgers are usually blended with lamb and thus gives a very unusual flavour. I don't mind lamb if it's meant to be lamb, but it hacks me off when a burger that is supposed to be beef, has lamb featured high up in the contents list. The only way to go is to make your own.
Oct 22nd 2009, 7:31 pm
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Re: What's for dinner?
Well he won't eat another suasage once he has tasted our rubbish ones here. I bought one or two packs to compare taste but there is no comparison to the UK ones. Still sausages I can easily do without!! And before you all start.... I have not tasted Doug's sausages as I am in the South Island LOL !!!
Guess we all will have made sacrifices for our dreams
Oct 22nd 2009, 7:48 pm
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Re: What's for dinner?
We usually get the Tegel chicken and cheese sausages, thin virtually non-existent skin (hate thick plastic skin!). OH and kids also like venison sausages but I find them too strong a taste.
I've had a hell of a week - very stressful - and have not made it food shopping so living off if its. We'd run out of meat in the freezer, all I had was a tin of Home Brand tuna left in the pantry, 4 sheets of lasagne, 1/4 onion, a jar of Home Brand pasta sauce and a can of Home Brand sweetcorn. So tuna pasta it was! There wasn't enough mixture to cover the top layer of lasagne sheets and I didn't have enough milk to make a cheese sauce. I had two crusts of bread which I put in the food processor with a dash of milk, a bit of grated cheese, a tin of cheap toms and some Tuscan seasonings and spread that over the top.
I found 2 burger baps in the freezer and made some garlic butter and put in the last of the Tuscan seasoning and popped them in the oven for the last 5 mins so we had 1/2 a bap each.
It was actually all very tasty and filling.
I've had a hell of a week - very stressful - and have not made it food shopping so living off if its. We'd run out of meat in the freezer, all I had was a tin of Home Brand tuna left in the pantry, 4 sheets of lasagne, 1/4 onion, a jar of Home Brand pasta sauce and a can of Home Brand sweetcorn. So tuna pasta it was! There wasn't enough mixture to cover the top layer of lasagne sheets and I didn't have enough milk to make a cheese sauce. I had two crusts of bread which I put in the food processor with a dash of milk, a bit of grated cheese, a tin of cheap toms and some Tuscan seasonings and spread that over the top.
I found 2 burger baps in the freezer and made some garlic butter and put in the last of the Tuscan seasoning and popped them in the oven for the last 5 mins so we had 1/2 a bap each.
It was actually all very tasty and filling.
Oct 22nd 2009, 8:26 pm
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Re: What's for dinner?
We usually get the Tegel chicken and cheese sausages, thin virtually non-existent skin (hate thick plastic skin!). OH and kids also like venison sausages but I find them too strong a taste.
I've had a hell of a week - very stressful - and have not made it food shopping so living off if its. We'd run out of meat in the freezer, all I had was a tin of Home Brand tuna left in the pantry, 4 sheets of lasagne, 1/4 onion, a jar of Home Brand pasta sauce and a can of Home Brand sweetcorn. So tuna pasta it was! There wasn't enough mixture to cover the top layer of lasagne sheets and I didn't have enough milk to make a cheese sauce. I had two crusts of bread which I put in the food processor with a dash of milk, a bit of grated cheese, a tin of cheap toms and some Tuscan seasonings and spread that over the top.
I found 2 burger baps in the freezer and made some garlic butter and put in the last of the Tuscan seasoning and popped them in the oven for the last 5 mins so we had 1/2 a bap each.
It was actually all very tasty and filling.
I've had a hell of a week - very stressful - and have not made it food shopping so living off if its. We'd run out of meat in the freezer, all I had was a tin of Home Brand tuna left in the pantry, 4 sheets of lasagne, 1/4 onion, a jar of Home Brand pasta sauce and a can of Home Brand sweetcorn. So tuna pasta it was! There wasn't enough mixture to cover the top layer of lasagne sheets and I didn't have enough milk to make a cheese sauce. I had two crusts of bread which I put in the food processor with a dash of milk, a bit of grated cheese, a tin of cheap toms and some Tuscan seasonings and spread that over the top.
I found 2 burger baps in the freezer and made some garlic butter and put in the last of the Tuscan seasoning and popped them in the oven for the last 5 mins so we had 1/2 a bap each.
It was actually all very tasty and filling.
that actually sounds really nice, i am quite jealous now as we had fish and mushy peas last night but the tuna pasta dish sounds good
Oct 22nd 2009, 11:53 pm
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Re: What's for dinner?
Aha ... we have a dog who scoffs all the dinner leftovers, & veg peelings, egg shells etc go in the worm farm. Even with 2 adults and 2 children we only put out a black rubbish bag once a fortnight!
Oct 23rd 2009, 12:13 am
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Re: What's for dinner?
but then I am like your dog, had Tuesday's dinner for lunch today.......
you serve it, I'll eat it, even when under the influence of lurgie......
Oct 23rd 2009, 1:32 am
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Re: What's for dinner?
See that's the problem. We are manic little recyclers and will take out boxes of stuff each Thursday.
So we don't have a lot of rubbish and I am loathe to pay $2.50 for a rubbish bag. The rubbish we do is stinky stuff.
I am one step away from dropping it at mums each week. But I don't think that's a good plan.
So we don't have a lot of rubbish and I am loathe to pay $2.50 for a rubbish bag. The rubbish we do is stinky stuff.
I am one step away from dropping it at mums each week. But I don't think that's a good plan.
Oct 23rd 2009, 2:13 am
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Re: What's for dinner?
Yes, Pak n Save, but New World and the Warehouse do too. I don't pay either and take my own bags. Lots of people use the cardboard boxes or do it the way you suggest and just throw the loose shopping straight from the trolley into the back of the car. I couldn't be bothered with all that, as it must be ten times harder to unload when you get home. A re-usable shopping bag costs $1.39 or $2.00 for the cool bag type and they last forever.
It sums up nicely the lengths some people will go to here to save a dollar.
It sums up nicely the lengths some people will go to here to save a dollar.
Oct 24th 2009, 5:56 am
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Oct 26th 2009, 8:37 am
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Re: What's for dinner?
Today's menu was cold boiled bacon, jacket potatoes, salad and homemade coleslaw - will be pretty much the same for lunch and possibly dinner tomorrow.
Made a lemon cake yesterday, so that was our pud.
Oct 26th 2009, 10:05 pm
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Re: What's for dinner?
I love threads like this! I made a lasagne the other day, so made enough for two and froze one so that's tonight's dinner. I pad mine out with garted carrot, pumpkin and occassionally courgette if I can sneak it in without the kids kicking off. Makes the mince go further and has the added benefit of getting some sneaky veggies into the kids!
I made a lasagne the other day, so made enough for two and froze one so that's tonight's dinner. I pad mine out with garted carrot, pumpkin and occassionally courgette if I can sneak it in without the kids kicking off. Makes the mince go further and has the added benefit of getting some sneaky veggies into the kids!
Oct 27th 2009, 4:10 am
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Re: What's for dinner?
I love threads like this! I made a lasagne the other day, so made enough for two and froze one so that's tonight's dinner. I pad mine out with garted carrot, pumpkin and occassionally courgette if I can sneak it in without the kids kicking off. Makes the mince go further and has the added benefit of getting some sneaky veggies into the kids!
I made a lasagne the other day, so made enough for two and froze one so that's tonight's dinner. I pad mine out with garted carrot, pumpkin and occassionally courgette if I can sneak it in without the kids kicking off. Makes the mince go further and has the added benefit of getting some sneaky veggies into the kids!there's a great veggie lasagne where you just slice up and boil up the veges first and then layer that - our kids have eaten it with lots of ketchup. MarkII is learning to eat his greens but MkIII often turns his nose up at everything.
Off to make the salad now
Oct 27th 2009, 4:49 am
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Re: What's for dinner?
Phyl x
